The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-30
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.


partially burned on Saturday evening.
MINISTER PHELPS was given an informal
reception by his friends in Burlington.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION village has not
had a fire alarm in twenty-one months
THE St. Adams Board of Trade is prepar-
ing to celebrate the centennial of the town
July 4.
THE grand list of st. Adams for 1883
amounts to $50, 1917 %, an increase of S43S.T
over the list of 1887.
IT took over six hundred yards of Wilton
and Administer Carpeting for the new
steamer Chateaugay"
SILAs NJ. WAITE of Brattleboro is acting
as agent of an investment company in
f., Omaha, where he is settled with his family
THE Presbyterian church of ST. Johns
bury has extended call to Rev. S. j.
Grove. Mr.. Groves last settlement was in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
THE Warner Home, St. Adams, receives
S75 as its share of the net proceeds of the
opera entertainments under the direction OF
the Sherlock Sisters.
GEORGE w. KELLY of Burlington has
been appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms
by Colonel Bright, the sergeant-at-arms of
the democratic national convention.
Two Barnard men recently killed a black
snake five feet long and about as large
around as the small end of common tum-
killed in that town.
CONSIDERABLE interest centers about a
breach of promise suit brought by Emily III.
Cheney against DR.. II. S. Calderwood of st.
Johnsbury for 81 900 damages. Calderwood
is married and threatens to retaliate with
charge of blackmail.
w. r. PILLING of Keesevlle, n. Y, blew
out the gas and went to bed at Hotel Bur
lington on Wednesday night, May %. He
was found dead the next morning. The
doctors said he died of heart disease, aggra-
waited by escaping gas
AT the sale of Jersey cattle at American
Institute Hall, New York, E. A. Darling of
Vermont paid $500 for "Albert's Lilley,"
COW. "Minette Pogis," a COW, was sold to
the Green Mountain Stock Farm Company
of West Randolph for S400
THE methods of the Rutland Electric
Light Company have been severely criti-
cised by an expert who has been making
tests of the plant. He finds considerable
looseness about the management and I'M
less certain changes are made liability to
disaster.
FOREST fires are raging in the vicinity of
Hazen's Mills Victory, threatening the
destruction of the entire settlement. Satur-
day about twenty families vacated their
dwellings and all their live stock was
driven out A force of eighty or more men
is fighting the fire.
Miss MARIE HOWE of Brattleboro has
made remarkable and distinguished sue
cess in opera at Berlin. The critics rank
Miss Howe far ahead of Nevada and Van
Zandt. She was called out twelve times by
the audience after the last act and had to
repeat many numbers. She is nineteen
years old.
THE committee on the revision of the pre-
MUM list for the state fair has completed
its labors and about $1,000 will be devoted
to this purpose. Among the additional at
fractions will be two balloon ascensions, on
the second and fourth days of the fair, when
the aeronaut will leap from the balloon in a
parachute at distance of one mile from
the ground.
PHILo HoRsKIN of Franklin died suddenly
May q. Mr.. Horskin was born in 1920 and
was one of family of nine children. He
had served his town as lister several years
at different times; was elected justice in
1860, in which office he had been continued
ever since. He represented the town in the
state legislature in 1861 and 1869 and had
held the office of overseer of the poor con-
tinuously since 1869.
AT the convention of state boards of health
in Cincinnati DIR. j. H. Hamilton of Rich
ford was elected one of the national COM
mittee on state medicine. The Vermont
board offered this question: What legal
authority ought state boards of health to
possess in the absence of local boards?" 1t
was decided that local boards should have
power to erect quarantine stations, and that
if they did not the state boards could com
pei them to.
THE Rutland musical festival closed Fri
day with very successful performance of
Max Bruch's Arminius," with Hattie j.
Clapper, contralto Whitney Woodbridge,
tenor Herr Emil Steger of the German
Opera Company, New York, baritone. That
afternoon there was fine symphony con-
cert. Spohr's Conservation of Tones was
nv ar,i,
chestra. Emma Juch was enthusiastically
recalled many times. Herr Leopold Lych-
tenberg violin virtuOso, won uprOarious APP
plause and scored a real triumph The
festival was the most successful financially,
largest attended and the best unsteady
ever given in Vermont.
DIR. L. G. BUTLER, one Of the best-known
physicians of the state, died at Essex May
18th, aged sixty-eight years He was prom
inent in Masonic circles and at the time of
his death was state supervisor OF the insane
and a member of the board of pension eX-
aminers. Dr. Buffers mind had literary
cast and he was much engaged all through
his life in literary work. He was for time
associate editor of the Medical and Surgical
Reporter at Philadelphia. Among his pub
lished papers and addresses are the follow
ing: New Remedial Agents" Hygiene
of the Farm" " Locality of Consumption
in Vermont" Intoxication by Alcohol "
" History of the Town of Essex Sol
diers' Memorial Record, Historical Ad-
dresses " at the centennial celebration OF
the settlement of Essex. In politics he was
democrat and at one time, about 1854
was the principal writer on the Burlington
Sentinel. He always wrote more or less for
the state papers, but especially for the
democratic journals.
In General.
JAPAN is building thirty-four new rail
roads.
FEARS are entertained of revolution in
Hayti.
The emperor of Germany continues tC
improve in health
A MASONIC silver crown is to be presented
to Jefferson Davis.
FIRE at Fall River, Mass, destroyed $50,
600 worth of cotton.
FRENCH and Italians protest agains
Italy's foreign policy.
MATTHEW ARNOLD leaves all his property
to his wife. 1t amounts to only $4,000.
AN electric railway is in successful opera
ton in Naugatuck valley, Connecticut.
THE town of Argonia, Kansas, was en-
tirely destroyed by cyclone last week.
pownEpIy has threatened to avnosa tb,