The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
Vermont News.

The forest area of Vermont is 10000
acres
THE Rutland shirt factory paid its en-
ployes for September $500 in gold.
A SOCIETY for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals is forming in Burlington.
A BALD eagle, within easy gun range,
was seen flying over Brattleboro the otler
day.
Ex-SPEAKER MARTIN of Brattleboro has
been called to take the stump in New
Jersey.
The officers Of the Burlington street car
company are experimenting in electricity
as motive power.
BISHOP BIssELL, of the Episcopal diocese
OF Vermont is gaining in health and ex-
poets to be able to go out soon.
THE Weldon House, st. Adams, has been
closed for repairs and when reopened it
Will only be for summer travel
THE Vermont grand division of Sons of
Temperance will hold its annual session at
Bellows Falls, October % and 90.
THE following have been designated as
new money order post-oflices. Hartford,
Proctor PrOctorsville and Quechee.
WILLIAM THURsToN of Braintree has been
fined, by the United States court at Rut-
land, 800 and costs for sending obscene
matter through the mails.
1. AND j. G. Dow's wooden mill at Hines
burgh was burned last Saturday afternoon.
Little of the stock was saved Loss about
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The annual meetings of the Champlain
Valley Agricultural Association and the
Vermont State Agricultural Society will be
held in Burlington, October %.
The date of holding the annual conven-
ton of Daughters of Rebekah, |. o. o. F.,
has been changed from November to No
vember 9, because of the presidential cleo
ton.
AT a meeting of the Champlain Poultry
Association it has been voted to offer pre-
miums amounting to S4C0 at their exhibit
ton to be held in Burlington, December
11-13.
A. c. CONNER of Manchester Depot has
bought the mountain property Of Burritt
Brothers, consisting of several hundred
acres of timber land, saw-mil, etc. Con-
sideration, 200
AT Vergennes, the machinery for the new
phosphate mandatory is in and the bust
ness will soon be pushed. The concern will
employ about twenty hands. Rutland par
ties are the managers.
THE trustees of Vermont Academy at
Saxton's River have elected these officers:
President Levi X. Fuller; vice-president,
Guy G. Noble; secretary, Rev. Charles A.
Reese; treasurer, w. G. Wiley
A LARGE two-story brick house, sheds and
barn, owned by Jonathan Smith of South
Newbury, were burned Thursday night.
The fire caught in the barn, which was filled
with hay and grain. Loss $1,000; insured
for $1,000.
on Monday night burglars rifled the Of
fees of Skinner & Brown and Chandler,
French & Co., at Barton Landing. The
safe of the latter firm was demolished. The
thieves left over 500 on the Office floor
The loss is small.
THE state Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union has gained 21.S per cent in
mo nh ars hn nQs at hanan in
debt, but now has money in its treasury.
over one thousand children have been
added to the Loyal Legion.
AT the close of the hearing at Rutland on
the case of Calvin NJ Inman, charged with
killing Patrick Sennott at Poultney, the
court held him for murder in the first de-
gree, without bail. He will be tried at the
March term of Rutland county court.
II is stated that States Attorney Platt of
Rutland county has in salaries, moieties,
court fees and divorce cases, received SlO-
600 in the two-years term just closed. The
liquor fines collected amounted to nearly
$1,000, and yet the Rutland suckers con-
tnue to moisten their gillS.
IT is reported, on apparently good au-
thority, that a railroad is to be built from
Greenwich, n. Y, to Rutland. 1t is to run
between the Delaware and Hudson and the
Bennington and Rutland, opening up new
section, rich in slate and marble. A branch
to Whitehall is also contemplated
THE Central Vermont has summarily dis
charged nine of its conductors, some of
them the Oldest on the road. Among them
were Josiah Bowtell of Bellows Falls, who
has been a conductor for thirty-nine years,
III. III. Howe thirty-six years, and Samuel
Bowtell, twenty-eight years. No reasons
are assigned.
The safe of Riddle Brothers at johnson
was blown open last Friday night, and
about S35 in money was stolen besides notes
4 a.
were found strewn along the road. The
same night the safe in the Hyde Park rail-
way station was blown open, but a few
! tickets were all the reward the burglar, had
! for their exertions.
Hon. ALBERT n. SWAIN, who for many
years published that excellent paper the
! Bellows Falls Times, is now out OF the
! harness and is travelling with his wife
! through the West. 1t may be added, in this
connection, that Mr.. Brown, his successor,
has hard task before him to keep up the
! former excellence of the paper, but he at
| least approXimates it,
SHROPSHIRE sheep are growing popular
with sheepmen in Addison county. Mr..
! Reuben Parker has superior flock. Charles
| l.. Jackson of Addison received four lambs
! of great promise from northern New York
| this week. of this blood. A seven-months-
old buck weighed lbs pounds; the others
about five and one-half months old, weighed
from 100 to 115 pounds. They took first
premiums at three fairs recently held.
THE third annual reunion of the Third
Vermont Volunteers, held at st. Johnsbury
last week, was quite successful, both in
point of numbers and enjoyment. Ex-
Governor Pngree, a former colonel of the
regiment, presided. The time was fully
occupied in that to an old soldier, most
pleasing manner-calling up "reminiscences
of the past. Lieutenant-Colonel w. II.
Hubbard of Lyndonville was elected pres-
dent; Captain A. f. Pierce, ce-president
and Captain Montgomery of st. Johnsbury,
secretary. campfire was held in the
evening, at which the principal address
was made by Comrade Skinner of Barton.
The next meeting is to be held at White
River Junction.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Central Vermont railroad was held
in st. Adams on Wednesday. The direct
ors elected are John Gregory Smith of st.
Adams, James Il. Langdon of Montpelier,
E. G. Smith of st. Adams, Joseph Hickson
of Montreal, b. p Cheney of Boston, w.
II. II. Bingham of Stowe and Robert
Wright of Montreal. The Consolidated
Railroad OF Vermont elected the same
hoard with the exception of Mr.. Wright, in