The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21
Weekly News Summary.

NEWPORT has a new weekly paper, called
the Sentinel.
WITHIN few years past st. Adams has
lost ten doctors by death.
Ex-GovERNoR PROCTOR gives $500 to the
Mcclure Library in Pittsford.
JOHN CHAsE's store was destroyed by fire
at Jay last week and Reuben Chase, eighty
years old, persisted in the flames.
THE corporation taxes for 1887 are esti-
mated at over 1898, Gan increase of
about $4,000 during the past year
BY reason of severe illness in his family
Editor Swain of Bellows Falls has resigned
his position on the Normal School com
mission.
Roscoe ALLEN, aged seventeen, while
walking on the track at Hyde Park was
struck by freight train and died the same
evening.
LAST week Tuesday was the day for the
assemblage of the county courts in three
counties. Owing to the blockade none
could meet.
REV ORLANDO CUNNINGHAM, aged seventy
three, and DIR. Henry f. Grain, aged seventy
FIVE, widely-known residents of Rutland,
died suddenly Friday.
MANY instances of suffering, and in some
cases death, as the result of the snow
blockade and the absence of physicians, are
constantly coming to light.
REV. w. r. LAIRD, pastor of the st.
Johnsbury Presbyterian church, has re-
ceived unanimous call to the Presbyterian
church of New Castle, Penn
MICHAEL CLEARY, aged thirty-seven and
unmarried, was run over by locomotive at
Center Rutland Friday His head was cut
off and his body badly mangled.
MARTIN NEENAN, aged twenty-six years,
and son of Thomas Neenan of st. Adams,
was killed Saturday on the line of the Old
Colony road by falling under freight-train.
CONDUCTOR CLIFFORD of a passenger
train which was stalled near Cavendish on
the 18th fought his way through deep snow
three miles to get medicine for sick child
who was on his train.
THE long-expected new edition of the
Vermont Supreme Court Reports annotated
edition. will be published this year, and
subscribers will receive their first volume
in April and others in rapid succession
DR. HORACE p. HALL, for many years in
medical practice in st. Adams, died sud
denly of heart disease on the evening of
March II, on his return home from visiting
patients. He was tifty-eight years of age
THE state customs officers have adopted a
uniform. They are dressed in suits OF dark
blue cloth. with brass buttons bearing the
words, " United States Customs District of
Vermont" When off duty they are trans
formed into civilians by rubber snap-cloths
placed over the buttons.
Mrs. L. p. POLAND, widow of the late
Judge Poland, died of pneumonia at st.
Johnsbury, March II, after a weeks illness.
Her sister, Mrs. Robinson of Somerville,
Mass, who was visiting Mrs. Poland, was
taken sick with pneumonia at the same
time and also died on the 10Th.
MAJOR n. II. RANDLETT, mail agent on
the Boston and st. Adams route, while at
tempting to board his train at Essex juno
ton on the 18th made a msstep and fell
hatwppn ha nl1tfOrm
the car rolling him along, bruising his legs
and body, but fortunately breaking no
bones.
THE St. Johnsbury papers are delighted
with the system of warming cars with steam
from the locomotive which has been adopted
on the lake road" When locomotive
gets killed." and can furnish no steam, as
has happened in snow blockades this winter,
and the mercury registers at zero or below,
what then?
COLONEL STEPHEN NJ. PINGREE of Hart
ford will deliver the Memorial day address
at Hinesburgh Rev. n. d. Parsons of Put
ney at Burlington, Comrade G. NJ. Rus
McGettrick of St. Adams at Cambridge,
Colonel Mansuf of Island Pond at Glover
and Rev. Edward Halves of Burlington at
Richmond.
A HANDSOME banner, bearing the state s
coat-of-arms on blue silk ground, trimmed
with yellow fringe and border of the same
color and mounted on black-walnut
standard, has been ordered made by Gov
ernor Ormsbee and will hang in the new
pension building at Washington. The re-
quest was made by the chief of the eastern
division that the governors of New England
and the Middle States each furnish one
AMONG the towns making appropriations
for Memorial day are the following: St
Johnsbury, $50; st. Adams, Bellows Falls
and Hartford, 500 each; Middlebury, SIS
Fairfax. Fair Haven, Montpelier, Bethel
Arlington, Waterbury, Poultney, Brattle-
boro, Brandon and Wells River, $50 each
Woodstock and Barnet, $35 each and
Franklin, Swanton, Essex, Jericho, Cam
bridge, Plainfeld, Hardwick, Lyndon, Dan.
vile, Putney, Richmond and Troy, S25 each
WHEN the night express south (No. 81
arrived at Essex junction from St. Adams
last week Tuesday night, Baggage master
Fl. c. Rollo was missing, and it was be
lieved he had fallen from the train some
where along the route. After an engine
had been sent out to search the road for his
remains " and everybody who knew of il
had had a great scare, Rolo was found al
his home in st, Adams. He had "got left >
and did not 60 out with his train. Parties
who said they saw him standing in his cal
at Milton on that evening were considerably
nonpussed.
JUDGE f. c. PALMER, formerly of Bur,
lingtOn, who died suddenly in Jacksonville
Fla, recently, was son of Hon. william
A. Palmer of Danville, who was the four
teenth governor of Vermont, He graduated
at the University of Vermont in 1850
studied law in Burlington, was admitted tC
Chittenden county bar in 1858 and repre-
scented Burlington in the legislature of thai
year. He married Elizabeth Hockey
adopted daughter of the late Charles Russell
He went to Minnesota, where he was Judge
of the superior court and subsequently o
the circuit court. He leaves son, Charles
r. Palmer of Burlington.
In General.
NORTHERN GERMANY is showed under
FREsHET is imminent all over New
Jersey.
GENERAL BoULANGER has been deprived
of his command.
THIRTY Hungarian villages have beer
ruined by floods.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Harrison
vile, West Virginia
THE New York banks show heavy los
in surplus OF reserve.
THE marriage of Prince Oscar of Sweder
took place last week.
AN earthquake in two Chinese province
destroyed 10000 lives.