The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-29
Weekly News Summary.

Four school children have died in East
Middlebury of diphtheria lately.
Ex-GovERNoR SMITH and family are now
stopping at Old Point Comfort, Va.
THE limit of the cost of the public building
at st. Adams is increased to $4,000.
A LARGE quantity of liquor has been seized
at Johonnott's drugstore in Winoosk.
GENERAL STEPHEN THOMAS will deliver
the Memorial day address at North Troy.
RUTLAND has organized an opera company,
of which Professor Mietzke is conductor.
FRANK PLUMLEy of Mortified will talk
to the Mddlebury republican club March Z.
A LODGE of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Conductors is soon to be started at Bellows
Falls.
A sIXTEEN-YEAR-oLD boy was picked up
dead drunk on the road near Rutland the
other day.
LUDLow's liquor agency is in trouble, on
the ground of alleged collision with the
liquor-dealers.
IT is said that there are more cases of
diphtheria in Brattleboro at present than
before for twenty years
THE recent announcement in the Free Press
concerning the insolvency of Judge Russell
of North Hero was incorrect.
SOUTHERN VERMONT is troubled by an
epidemic of measles, which in some places
has caused the closing of schools.
GENERAL HENRY has been renominated
for Mayor by Burlington republicans and
III. S. Peck is named for city judge.
The sales of liquor by the Chittenden
county agents during the past year amounted
to SS,01539. Lots of sickness up there.
A VERY fine quality of black and variegated
marble has been discovered on the farm of
j. A. Corliss, north of Highgate Springs.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAM A. RUSSELL
of Massachusetts has made the new public
library of Bellows Falls the generous gift of
81 900 in cash.
THE store-house of the Fair Haven Marble
and Marbleized Slate Company at Fair
Haven was damaged $1,000 by fire. In
sured for $1,000.
The banks in Rutland have taken uniform
action regarding Canadian money and have
decided not to receive money of the Do
minion of any denomination.
M. w. HEFFLIN's house and two barns, in
Williston village, were burned recently.
Nearly all the contents were saved. Loss
about 5000; insurance $500.
A BLOCK of slate was blasted at Fair
Haven which is the largest ever known in
the section. 1t was sixty feet long, forty
wide and twenty thick, weighing $50 tons.
BRISTOL has delightful climate. There
are no sudden changes. 1t is either one
kind of weather or another, though several
kinds are sometimes thrown into one day. -
Bristol Herald.
AT directors meeting of the E. &. T.
Fairbanks Co. at st. Johnsbury statement
from the treasurer showed better standing
of the company than for some time past. A
dividend was voted.
COLONEL C. S. FORBES was in New York
last week attending the meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Republican Ma
tional League as proxy for Hon. G.. c. Noble,
who has gone to Florida.
The janitor of City Hall, Burlington, by
mistake put out flag at half-mast on the
I'D. He was afterwards convinced that
Washington's death was hardly recent
enough to warrant such action.
ISAAC GIBSON of Rutland was terribly
crushed by a falling tree February 90. The
upper part of the tree caught him, tearing
off one ear bruising his head badly and
rendering him insensible from the shock.
Mr.. B. G. PUTNAM a well-known citizen
of Danvers, Mass, who died February 20,
was born in Washington, VT, sixty-eight
years ago, and he resided in Windham and
Chelsea also. Two children survive him.
CoMRADE CALVIN l.. NORTON of Hines
burgh, late of Company f, Sixth Vermont
Regiment, who died at the Vermont Soldiers
Home February q, arrived at the Home
February 10 very much exhausted and
feeble with heart trouble and consumption.
VALUABLE horse, owned by Charles
Hinkley, in running away took to the rail-
road at Bellows Falls, and an incoming
train struck it, picking both horse and
sleigh upon the front end of the engine and
bringing them to the station in that posi-
ton. Although living, the horse was ruined.
JUDGE VEAzEY of Rutland will deliver
the Memorial day address at Weybridge,
acknowledgement Fuller of Brattleboro
at Fair Haven, Colonel Albert Clarke of
Rutland at West Randolph, Hon. William
P. Dillingham; of Waterbury at Barre and
Mr. Frank Bradford of Bennington at Reads
boro.
PROFESSOR Mason of the Troy Polytechnic
Institute says an elementary knowledge of
geology would convince any one of the fact
that no true coal will ever be found either
in Vermont or New York. He says that
Ignite or peat may be found. He attributes
the matter mistaken for coal to be either
black tourmaline, impure graphite or black
slate.
Mr.. GEORGE HOWE of Brattleboro, who
died at Vernon the Goth instant, was born
there July 4, 1924, and was graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1S47. Mr. Howe
was United States attorney for Vermont
under the first administration of President
Lincoln and was state senator in 1874, as
well as delegate to the republican national
convention of 1876. He leaves a widow and
one son.
THE latest development in relation to the
Barlow bank failure in st. Adams is the ac-
ton OF the directors of the Merchants Bank
of st. Johnsbury, who have voted to pay
the 1000 assessments in the case and thus
stop litigation so far as their bank is con-
cerned. This sum was set aside by the
bank two years ago when litigation was first
begun and it is likely that the other banks
will follow their example.
BRISTOL, twelve miles from Vergennes
in the mountains, cannot he reached by Or
binary means in less than four hours, which
generally involves repeated overturns and
the frequent unhtching and embarrassing
of the team. Only the tops of the fences
are visible across the broad interval reach
ing from the lake to the mountains, and the
fields, the lake and the river are the high
ways of travel. LAUNDERING generally is
suspended There are from four to six feet
of snow in the woods.
THE sale of the Ely copper mines was
ratified Friday, at White River Junction
by payment of $4,000 to the receiver by
Otto X. Krouse of New York city, he hav-
ing taken an assignment of the purchase at
the auction January II, Mr.. Krouse has
never been in the mining business, and the
business will probably be in charge of
Francis Cain. If the mines are worked
to their full capacity they will give employ
ment to about 700 hands The payroll was
formerly $4,000 month