The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-15
Weekly News Summary.


HON. JOHN Is. HOLLENBECK OF burlington
has passed his ninety-sixth birthday.
LEONARD FISH of Ira has bought the
famous stallion Aristos for 81 600
CONSIDERABLE damage was done to prop
erty in Fair Haven by the recent storm.
BENNINGTON COUNTY SUPREME COURT has
done all its business in one days session.
JOHN GooDRICH's dwelling in Norwich
was burned the 18th. Loss about 200; in
sured.
EDWIN s. MErGs prominent citizen of
Swanton, died Friday after lingering
illness.
FIFTEEN persons have just been received
into a new relation to the Brattleboro Meth
odist church
CONGRESSMAN CIRCUIT will continue to re-
side at Barton, and not remove to Kirby, as
has been stated.
MYRoN PUTNAM of Cambridge succeeds
w. w. White as landlord of the Franklin
House, st. Adams.
A RUTLAND young man borrowed two
baskets of coal and paid about SIS for them
by order of the court.
ESSEX JUNCTION hotels were on the 9th
relieved of 100 gallons of strong drink, be-
sides quanty of lager.
ANDREW WHITE was severely beaten by
Otis Davis and III. ID. Parker at Stamford,
and his skull fractured.
WARREN GIBBS has been engaged by Hurl-
but Post, G.. A. r., to deliver the Memorial
day address in st. Adams.
IT is estimated that timber sufficient to
produce 100000 feet of lumber will be cut
in Walden during the winter.
AT West Rutland Michael Burns was
badly hurt by the explosion of a dynamite
cartridge and may lose his sight
SENATOR MORRILL, has introduced a bill
in the senate to provide for the erection of
public building at st. Albans to cost $780,
600.
THE commissioned officers of the Vermont
militia are to hold their meeting this year
for instruction and drill at st. Adams Feb
ruary % and %.
THERE are several cases of diphtheria in
the southern part of Alburgh. The select
men have quarantined the families which
have the disease
A LYNX five feet long and eighteen inches
high has Just been killed on Lake Bomoseen.
He was a starved-looking specimen, whom
hunger had made bold.
AT a temperance meeting held in the
Methodist church at West Burke and adj
dressed by the pastor and others, ia per-
sons signed the pledge.
CHARLES FENEFF's head came in contact
with a buzz saw at Winooski and was
terribly gashed He is fifty years old and
his recovery is not expected.
FRANKLIN BLAIsDELL of Hartford hanged
himself Friday while at home alone. Tenn
porary alteration of mind caused by family
troubles is the alleged cause.
A ST. JoHNsBURY firm have twenty oxen,
twenty horses and 142 men in Victory
woods drawing lumber, and have already
pulled out over 100000 feet.
The many friends throughout the state of
Hon. A. n. Swain and Mrs. Swain of Bel
lows Falls will regret to hear that the latter
is dangerously i'll and apoplexy is feared.
FAIR HAVEN woman who was nvesti-
eating the secrets of Rutland's lookup in
Village Hall suddenly found herself locked
in, and had to call policeman to let her out
THE First Congregational church at Ben
nington Center has given call to Rev. NJ.
L. Severance, principal of Burr and Burton
Seminary, Manchester, to become its pastor,
and he has accepted.
WHEN the remains of Benjamin Wesson
were taken from Windsor to South Reading,
after thirteen years burial, they were found
to be completely petriied and weighed
nearly seven hundred pounds.
EDITOR II. M. BURT, formerly of Brattle-
boro has sailed for England, and is to write
newspaper letters from there in the interest
protection. He has been hired to do this
work by the Home Market Club.
PATENTS have been issued to Vermonters
as follows: r.. l.. Barney, Swanton, for a
stone sawing-machine; Higgins & James,
st. Johnsbury, for an electric arc lamp;
w. w. Hutchins, Newport, for a gasoline
can.
B. M. ADsrT, a special post-office in
spector, who has had more or less to do with
department affairs in southern Vermont,
has been dismissed from the service for
fraudulent practices and blackmail and
for compromising with erring officials
Free Press.
AT meeting of the Rutland & Wood
stock Railroad Company the following di-
rectors were elected: lockwood Barrett,
j. w. Cramton, W. G. Dunton, l.. G.. Kings
ley, d. w. Taylor, w. G. French and f. n.
Billings. r. Barrett was elected president,
l.. G. Kingsley clerk, and r. Barrett, j.
w. Cramton and w. G. French executive
committee.
THE following named gentlemen have
been elected trustees for Vermont of the
New England Agricultural Society: j. b.
Dinsmore of Westminster, John W. Cram
ton of Rutland, Henry G. Cleveland of Cow
entry, A. G. Finlen of Bellows Falls, A. E.
Perkins OF Ponfret l.. S. Drew of Burling-
ton, George Hammond of Middlebury, F.
l.. Houghton of Putney, George w. Hooker
of Brattleboro, ID. S. Pratt of Brattleboro.
THREE Brattleboro section hands-Scott
Ingalls, and ,Clark-were crossing the trestle
just north of Fayetteville on the narrow
guage road recently at high rate of speed
when the wheel of their hand-car broke.
Frank Clark, after being run over, fell fifty
feet from the trestle and was buried in a
deep snowdrft He was picked up un-
conscious, and has remained in that condi-
ton most of the time since. 1t is thought
he may recover. His companions chung to
the trestle and were not seriously injured.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE has appointed Messrs.
Jonathan Ross of st. Johnsbury, Henry o.
Wheeler of Burlington, Albert n. Swain of
Rockingham and Edward III. butcher of
Brandon members of the committee which,
with the state superintendent of education, is
to report to the governor before the meeting
OF the legislature of 1888 its views as to the
advisability of disseminating the present
normal school system after August, 1890
and establishing instead one state normal
school; also as to the practicablity of hay
ing normal school instruction course in
one of the graded schools in each county Of
the state
In General.
ITALIAN troops will be withdrawn from
Egypt.
Mr.. BLAINE is in Florence and recover
ing from cold.
ANOTHER rival of the Standard Oil Com
pany is in the field.
THERE were 1870 deaths from smallpox il
Havana last month.
LITTLE corn is for sale owing to tn,
drOuth of last summer.