The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-12
Summary of News.

SIN IONS Ol iudhhHElNAhS POui"iO WIZ
shipped from Richmond.
HARRY f. MORSE has been appointed
postmaster at South Cabot.
SPHERE SHANGRAw of Montgomery lately
hanged himself in his barn.
THE project of establishing farmers
club at st. Adams is being agitated.
A YOUNG man named Tillotson was lately
drowned in the mill pond at East Concord.
John VARNUM, a prominent business man
of Peacham is reported to have decamped
because of business troubles
ELIAS PALMER of Hinesburgh converted
all his property into money and then eloped
with the wife of his brother Oscar.
THE medical college has larger number
of students than ever before. There are
now over fifty, and more are expected.
FRANK NOLAN, workman on the Ben
nington monument fell recently distance
of seventy feet, but escaped with few
bruises.
RICHARD RICHARDS of Bloomington claims
to be III years old. If he even approxi-
mates that age, his memory is probably
defective.
THE postmaster-general has ordered the
establishment of the free-delivery system at
st. Adams, to take effect on the first of
June next
JOHN GILMORE was instantly killed by
falling tree while working in the woods
near montgomery TIC leaves a Ntup" anu
eleven children
THE Vermont division of the Boston e.
Maine railway, better known as the La
noble Valley road is being relaid with
heavy steel rails.
REV GILES +. MONTGOMERY, a noted mis-
sonary to Turkey for the past twenty-five
years, recently died there, leaving a wife
and three children.
THE trustees of the bondholders of the
Vast inland Marble Eompanv hav asked
leave to sell the property. The mortgage
on it is for 100000.
THE bennington battle monument has
now reached the height of 100 feet. Work
is now suspended upon it, but will be re-
sumed in the spring.
THE funeral services of the late Colonel
George A. Merrill were held at st. Johnsbury
on Thanksgiving dav and his remains were
inferred in the cemetery there
THE project of connecting Rutland and
Woodstock by railway is being revived, and
there is fair prospect that the road may be
pushed through another season.
Miss KATE GILLETTE of East Randolph
has written Mayor O. Brien of Boston an ex-
tended letter thanking him for the gift of
gold watch, as narrated last week.
For the convenience of its employees the
Vermont Marble Company at Proctor has
decided to establish a savings department
in connection with its main Office in that
town.
THE court calendars for Windham county
show the names of twenty-four practicing
lawyers. The docket for the March term
has eighty-five entries and the chancery
docket seven.
NINETEEN persons have been drowned in
Passumpsic river, against ST. Johnsbury,
since 1S50-an average OF one person in two
years. A score or more have been rescued
in half-drowned condition
HORACE r. PLUMLEY, who was pardoned
by the legislature after an imprisonment of
twenty years, was released from contine-
ment last Thursday and started Immediately
for his home in Rutland county
SINCE the opening of the lumber season
the usual number of accidents from falling
trees and misdirected axes is reported.
Michael Casey of Hinesburgh was fatally
injured last week by falling limb.
A FREIGHT brakeman named Charles
Wood fell between the cars at Enosburgh
Falls Saturday afternoon and had an arm
crushed close to the shoulder. He was
taken to st. Adams, where the limb was
amputated.
CHAUNCEY WARNER, who has many times
been benefactor of the st. Adams hospital,
has lately given it $1,000, to be expended in
the rebuilding of it. G. d. Watson has
been appointed trustee in place of f. G..
Smith, resigned.
The Cdledonidn. dpr0pOS of the late in
junction upon the trustees of st. Johnsbury
village in the matter of electric lights. calls
attention to a similar scheme several years
ago by which the village was saddled with
debt of $4,000
VERMONT soldiers, particularly those of
the Second Vermont, will be panied TO
learn of the death Of General Ayers at Fort
Hamilton New York harbor, last week, at
the age of siXty-two years, after an illness
of several months.
THE governor has appointed DR.. w
Scott Webb of Burlington as inspector of
rifle practice under the new law lately
passed. He is brother of General AleXan-
der Webb. whose brigade bore the brunt of
Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made on
Thursday night to burn the house of Henry
Miner of Vergennes. The flames were seen
by passer-by before they had made much
Roadway and promptly extinguished. The
identity of the woud-be incendiary is I'M
known.
WHILE the family of j. C. Leslie of St.
Adams were occupying their sitting-room
after tea on Saturday evening sneak-thief
opened the front door, entered the unighted
hall and helped himself to Mr.. Lesles hat,
overcoat and undercoat, which hung upon
the rack
A DEER weighing about four hundred
pounds was lately found drowned in pond
near John A. McLam's house in Ryegate.
IHOupH uter are noW lulle plenty dlOnB lnt
main Green Mountain range, it has not
been supposed there were many so far east
as Ryegate
GEORGE II. NILES of Brattleboro has in
vented new dynamo with a capacity to
run eight incandescent lights. 1t has some
novel features, one being slow current,
obviating all danger, while one light can be
shut off without affecting the others on the
same circuit
THE railroad commissioners were in Rut-
land on Saturday taking testimony in the
case of Solomon Latrimouille, who was
killed at the railroad yard in that place
Tuesday, November 81 The report in the
case will be formulated at the meeting of
the board in Montpelier.
MRS. AIKENs, whose severe accident at
the railway station in Newport was lately
chroncled, is rapidly recovering. She re-
members going into the dressing-room of
the car, but can not tell how she came to be
upon the platform or thrown from the car.
All in all, it is curious affair.
THE post-office controversy at st. Johns
bury has at last been settled. The post
master has received official orders from
General Dickinson stating that the office
will remain in its present quarters. 1t is
the general opinion that an appropriation