The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

In Hortonville, a small hamlet of Rutland
county, 1,275 barrels of cider were made and
sold last fall.
THE president has pardoned Edwin S.
Magoon, convicted of violating internal
revenue laws.
A. f. NICHOLS has been appointed clerk
of the Caledonia county court in place of
the late A. e. Rankin.
THE trustees of the Vermont Soldiers
Home will hold their next meeting at st.
Johnsbury on January 81
AT Putney slate quarry cavern has
recently occurred which will cost several
thousand dollars to clear up.
G. c. FRosT's store and Blake's dwelling
at Saxton's River were burned Sunday.
Loss $500; partially insured.
ST. JoHNsBURY will raise 5000 to pay the
expenses of the Grand Army encampment,
$500 of which will be for the banquet.
ELDEN BAKER, formerly of st. Adams
and an excellent tuba player, is now en-
gagged with Gilmore's band at New York.
The next school of instruction for the Of
ficers of the National Guard of Vermont
will be held in st. Adams early in the
spring.
THE will of the late James f. Coleman of
Boston leaves $1,000 to Mrs. Jennie M.
Tyler, wife of Judge James NJ Tyler of
Bratteboro.
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ment-house in st. Adams was damaged to
the extent of several hundred dollars by
fire Sunday.
FIRE in the brass foundry connected with
the railroad shops at st. Adams recently
caused total loss of $500 on old patterns,
building and tools.
EFFORTS will undoubtedly be made this
year to have the next reunion of the Four
teenth Vermont Regiment held at the battle
field of Gettysburg.
PATENTS have been granted to Vermont
ers as follows: Abel A. Pierce, st. Johns
bury water-heater: James Wooley, Rut-
land, snow-plOw and car.
CHARLES H., brother of w. Y. w. and e.
II. Ripley of Rutland, was drowned in the
China Sea December 4, he being on his way
back from Japan to China.
The broad lake closed Saturday, except a
narrow strip, which closed Sunday-seven
days before the average date for the past
years, which is January 30.
AT the annual meeting of the New En-
gland Methodist Society at Boston on the
10th Hon. Paul Dillingham; of Waterbury
was elected vice-president for Vermont.
E. & T. FAIRBANKS e. Co. of St. Johns
bury recently sold five pairs of oxen for ship
ment to market weighing respectively
4,03O, 4,225, 1900, $3.50 and 400 pounds.
THREE two and two four-horse teams
loaded Win ' erBenneS repuD1CanS visited
Bristol on Thursday evening to assist in the
formation of a republican club in that town.
CAPTAIN AINswoRTH assistant surgeon of
the United States Army, who is a Pomfret
boy, has been ordered to duty in charge of
the pension department of the war office
at Washington.
DANIEL d. YOUNG, aged twenty, employed
in the pulp-mils at Bellows Falls, was fa-
tally injured on the 10Th by being caught
ND nd q ia al i,,f, cl,aft
He leaves widow.
sold the property of Hiram Bellows on an
execution in favor of c. w. Writers, re-
ceiver of the First National Bank of st. AL
bans, realizing thereby S4,310.
THE building at st. Johnsbury contain
ing the Boston & Lowell round-house and
repair-shop was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday night, together with the locomo-
tives Morrisville Bennington, Essex and
LamOille. The loss on the four locomotives
will amount to at least $4,000.
IT has been definitely settled that the
next session of the Vermont Conference
will be held at West Randolph, and the date
is, as previously announced by us, April
18th to 10th, The conference will be held
on a self-Supporting basis-thatis, the men,
bers thereof will pay their own bills.
Ex-Governor PROCTOR, who returned
from Washington yesterday, brings the well
come intelligence of Senator Morril's con-
vaescence. Hei is still confined to his house,
but not to his bed, is gaining strength
daily and hopes to return to the senate in
a few days.-Rmldnd Herdld, January 20.
PRINCIPAL O. p. CoNANT of the st. Adams
high school has resigned, to accept position
with CHM & Co.. the school-book publishers
and Mr.. Alvin f. Pease, graduate of Brown
University and for the past four years su.
perintendent of schools in Pawtucket, r. l..
has been engaged to succeed him.
The third annual exhibition of the Con-
necticut River Valley Poultry and Pet-stocB
Association was held in Bellows Falls Jan
excess of last year and the exhibition the
largest ever held in that region. Over S35(
were awarded in special premiums.
RECEIVER RICH of the st. Adams Trus
Company has lost no time in taking ad
vantage of the recent supreme court de
cison in behalf of the general creditors, u
and is paying depositors another ten per
cent dividend. This makes an aggregate o
fifty-two and one-half per cent paid thus fal
by the Trust Company.
THE directors of Vermont Bank hav,
given their cashier a six-dolar gold ring il
recognition of his fifty-one years of homes
service. How glad that cashier must be
now that he never scOoped the bank vaul
and skipped to Canada. Everything, in
Guiding great trophies of gratitude, comes t.
him who waits.-SprinQfeld Union.
ONE of the rarest industries of this coun
try is carried on very extensively in Nortl
Bennington-the manufacture of glas
lenses and stereoscopes. The chief demand
is from parties who canvass from house T.
house, Offering set of views and a scope
for ST. Many thousands are exported
Last years product of the three. factorie
will approximate 1900 microscopes.
THE Franklin county supreme court ha
passed upon the alleged preferred claim
ant " among the creditors Of the defunct 81
Adams Trust Company for the second tim
and decided no such condition of affair
exist as warrant discriminating, in the pay
ment of dividends, in favor of any class
creditors claiming preference by virtue c
provision of one section of the company
charter. The same question has been d,
cided in the same way before
Mrs. RoLINDA HELEN SMITH, an actress
whose stage name is Helen MOwat, has b,
gun suit for divorce from Hal Clarendo
Smith, an actor in Minnie Palmer's con
pany. The charge is infidelity and failur
to support Mrs. Smith is a niece of Vic,
chancellor Mowat of Toronto and CRANE
daughter of ex-Mayor Mowat of that cit,
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith formerly resided
Sheldon Springs this state. In 1884 the
visited Montpelier with a" snide dramat
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