The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-01
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


graduates since it was founded.
SEVERAL schools in North Pawlet have
been closed on account of measles.
WILLIAM JAMIEsoN's barn and it's con-
tents in Stannard were burned January "a
REV. w. L. KELLEY of Lyndon has re-
ceived a call to the Barton Congregational
church.
FULLER c. SMITH of vergennes has bought
out the Office of the Vermont Sentry at st.
Adams.
Epson G. STARK of the Willard Manu-
featuring Company of st. Adams died
Monday.
Ex-GovERNoR SMITH and family and Gen
eral George r. Childs have gone to Florida,
to be absent two months.
j. e. HARRIS has been appointed to do
local work for the Burlington Clipper and
will have charge of the office.
THE twenty-frst annual encampment of
the Grand Army, department of Vermont,
is in session at st. Johnsbury.
THE Orange County Agricultural Society
has reelected General William II, Gilmore
of Farlee president for the ensuing year.
REV. G w. PRATT of Saratoga Springs,
n. Y, has been called to the rectorship of
st. James Episcopal church at Arlington.
SOME $4,000 have been subscribed by the
citizens of Windsor for the organization of
a new company for the manufacture of ma
chinery.
THE National Bank of Rutland settled its
litigation with w. II. Page, administrator,
ct al, which nets the bank $4,000 Its
affairs are to be closed.
DURING the year ending December 81,
1887, the total value of merchandise brought
into the customs district of Vermont for
consumption was S5,259,711.
THE graduates from the three normal
schools of the state for the term just closed
number twenty siX-Randolph three; Cas-
Teton, five; Johnson, eighteen.
ALL the persons injured on the derailed
express train at Bakers Mills, on the Rut-
land & Washington railway recently, are
doing fairly well, and no fatal results are
anticipated.
THE New York express due in st. Adams
Monday morning was deraled at Essex
Junction by the breaking of a wheel on the
tender, all cars leaving the track. No seri-
GUS damage resulted.
JAMES III. LIVINGSTON of Bennington, ed
itor of the Bennington County Reformer,
was arrested last week, charged with
adultery. He was bailed in $1,000 for ap-
pearance before the grand jury in June.
AT a meeting of representatives of the
Vermont Horse-breeders' Association it was
decided to hold the next annual exhibition
at Rutland the last three days in August.
Nine purses for foals of past five years and
four classes were arranged.
IT is stated that at the meeting of the Or
leans County Historical Society an early
gazetteer of Vermont was exhibited that was
owned by the man who entered the fort at
Ticonderoga, when it was captured, imme-
diately behind Ethan Allen.
A LETTER from Hiram Sails at Pasadena,
Cal, states that coal is from $50 to S25 a ton
there, and the hotel guests are obliged to
furnish their own fuel. During the recent
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obliged to wear overcoats to their meals
Free Press.
DIPHTHERIA has been fatally prevalent in
the surrounding towns for several weeks
past, but there have been no cases in the
village. Scarlet fever however has got into
town, but there have been no fatal cases.
Measles have broken out in one section of
the village Middlebury Cor
A BosToN manufacturer of raspberry Jam
was in town recently and purchased two
barrels of worthless berries, spoiled in dry
ing, simply for the seeds, which, he said,
would save him buying grass-seed to use in
the manufacture of artificial jam. The bo-
gus PRODUCTS made of tomatoes (from which
the seeds are eXtracted), sweetened with
glucose, favored and colored with raspberry
extract, and the counterfeit completed with
the addition of quantity of cheap grass
seed. "-Norh Troy Palladium.
The severe storm does not seem to have in
terfered with the attendance of pedagogues
at the meetings of the State Teachers Asso-
citation at Brandon. Over two hundred
were present. Resolutions were introduced
at the business meeting Saturday for petit
tion to the legislature that tariff on school
books be removed, and that attendance at
the meetings of the state association may
be possible without loss of time. The reso-
lutons were accepted These officers were
chosen President, 4. A. Bishop of Mont
pelier; vice-presidents, II. o. Wheeler of
Burlington, s. O. Brainard of Middlebury,
E. l.. Temple of Rutland, G.. II. Merrill of
Brattleboro, E. n. Howe of Bennington NJ.
o. Perkins of Windsor Edward Conant of
Randolph, G. w, Henders of Craftsbury, G:
A. Bunker of Peacham, F. e. Parlin of
Bakersfield, A. II. Campbell of Johnson, G.
G. Brill of Mortified, w. n. Phelps of
South Hero. S. NJ. Jenne of Island Pond
executive committee, w. III. Sanderson of
Woodstock, j. A DeBoer of Montpelier, f.
III. butcher of Brandon; secretary, l.. b.
Folsom; treasurer, H. o. Wheeler; CORE
spondent of journal Of Education. E. II.
butcher.
In General.
FIRE in Pttsburg did 1895, 900 worth of
damage
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY, the eminent bot
anist, is dead.
A REGULAR January thaw is prevailing
all over the Northwest.
IHE decline IN the knights OF Labor in
Canada goes steadily on.
MANY loggers in the Wisconsin woods
have been frozen to death.
THE celebration of the centenary of New
South Wales is in progress.
AN affianced couple were drowned while
skating near Bowman's, Penn.
IT is asserted that Russia has $4,000 men
on the Austro-German frontier.
LIGHT shocks of earthnuake wara fa1t n
several towns in Rhode Island Sunday,
AN Ohio man has been arrested for 8
crime committed thirty-three years ago.
The English court has decided American
divorces binding in the mother country.
THE Orleans princes have been refused
permission to serve in the Russian Imperia
Guard.
IT is now believed that nearly seventy lives
We're lost in the Wellington (B. O. coliery
explosion.
The betrothal of the crown prince o
Italy and Princess Henrietta Of Belgium il
announced
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. is afflicted with
serious epidemic of diphtheria and membra
neous Group.
A BANK at Auburn, n. Y, has beef
wrecked by gambling cashier, Charlie