The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
Summary Of News.


acknowledgement has appointed
Wheeler postmaster at South Crafts
j. HADLEY of East Fairfield has been
ed patent for a device for heating
Burroughs.
IIE farm buildings near Ludlow owned
Lewis Wakefield were burned Monday
ght. Loss unknown.
1CoLoNEL GEORGE w. HOOKER of Brat
leboro announces that he is not in the field
for the Vermont collectOrship.
JAMES REED of Rutland fell from the roof
Of "a two-story house on which he was work
ing, Friday afternoon, and was fatally in
jured.
ARrEMus PRoUrY, one of Burlington's
Oldest residents. died suddenly ut Newport
last week Thursday from a shock of par
alysis.
Ex GOVERNOR PRocroR intends to spend
the greater portion of the winter in Cali
forna, and will leave his Vermont home in
few days
THE temporary trestle over the Passump-
sic river at East Barnet was moved out of
line about six inches by the ice and high
water last week.
MCMAHON of St. Albans defeated Dufur
of Marlboro in a wrestlng-match at st.
Adams last week Tuesday, winning two
out of three falls.
A SENSATIONAL breach of promise case is
Emily Cheney rs. DIR. II. $. CalderwoOd-
for 81 600 damages.
Il. H. WALCoTT of Winchendon, Mass,
for the past three years associate editor of
the st. Johnsbury CdiedonjdH, has severed
his connection with that paper.
The new Masonic hall at Newport is rap
idly nearing completion and it is hoped it
will be ready for dedication in two or three
weeks. Great preparations are TO be made
for the event.
As Jewett p. Cain of Rutland was out
riding, last Saturday afternoon, his horse be-
came frightened and ran away. Mr.. Cain
was thrown out of the carriage and severely
bruised and cut.
Mrs. ELLoRY CHAMBERLAIN of st. Johns
bury, while making preparations, last week
Thursday, to give birthday party to her
son, was suddenly taken i'll and died in a
few hours from neuralgia of the heart.
MEETINGS of the State Board of Agricul-
ture will be held during January as fol-
lows: Coventry, January and 3; st. Johns
bury, January and I; Norwich, January
and 9; Bloomfield, January 10 and II.
r. r. HATHAWAY of North Hero will at
tend the inauguration of President Harr-
son at Washington at the expense of r. II.
Barney of Swanton. Verify the ways of
the democratic election are bitter and hard.
j. E. RICE, a Rutland young man, went
hunting Friday on Pine hill and in attempts
ing to cross the pond ON the ice fell through
when he had reached the middle of the pond,
and it took his two companions nearly forty
minutes to rescue him,
CAPTAIN GEORGE w. BURLEsoN will de
liver the Memorial day address in st. AL
bans. Colonel H. K Fuller of Brattleboro at
West Randolph, DIR. H. w. Blackstone of
Troy at North Troy and Rev ID. K. Lowell
of Rutland at Bennington.
DIR. THOMAS GoODwILLIE, a well-known
physician of Vernon, died Saturday. He
fOrfV-plplt old. "A graduate of
Dartmouth College, class of '63, and of the
Dartmouth Medical School, &c. and repre-
sented his town in the late legislature.
FIRE broke out last week Thursday in a
brick block in Rutland owned by G. l..
Lang The damage to building and stock
is estimated at $500; covered by insurance.
Two ladies We're imprisoned on the third
floor and We're nearly suffocated when res
cued by the tiremen
DR. JOHN H. FRENCH died at Rochester,
n. Y, Sunday morning, aged siXty-four
years. He was a noted educator and at
schools in Vermont. He was also at diff
ferent periods principal of the state normal
school at Indiana, Penn, and assisted in
the Albany normal school.
THE trial of John keenan, and James
Gunshannon, indicted for the murder of
John Gunshannon on July 16, was begun in
Bennington county court last week Thurs
day. The respondents are somewhat the
worse for wear, keenan, having but one leg
and Gunshannon only one arm. James
CandOn, the principal witness, has but one
eye.
THE Christmas poultry train over the
Central Vermont carried 3l3 tons and
36l pounds of poultry to the downtown.
try markets. The Thanksgiving train
carried some 42O tons. There is always a
little less shipped at Christmas-time than
at Thanksgiving, but the Christmas ship.
ments this year were almost double those
of last season.
JOHN Young, employed in a Rutland
marble quarry, met with serious accident
on Saturday morning. n huge block OF
marble was about to be raised and Young
was using an iron bar, when it broke, one
piece striking him on the right side of the
head. An ugly wound was cut several
inches long and the skull was exposed tc
view He was taken up insensible, but is
now improving and no serious results are
apprehended
GOVERNOR DILLINGHAM has appointed
Hon. Levi X. Fuller of Brattleboro and
General T. S. Peck of Burlington commits
sioners on the part of Vermont to make ar
rangements for a proper representation
from this state at the centennial celebra
ton of the Inauguration of George Wash
ton as president of the United States. The
governor and staff have been invited to be
present at the celebration, which occurs il
New York April 80, 1889.
AL lHe duHudl ineeunH Oh Ine vernon
Board of Trade, held at Burlington las
week Friday, the present board of officers
and overseers were reelected: President
George Hammond of Middlcbury; vice
president, G. III. Nichols of Essex; treasurer
T. NJ. Deal of st. Adams; secretary, G. j
Ferguson. Measures were taken for th'
erection of cold-storage building and thu
formation of stock company to buy ant
hold butter and cheese next season.
AMONG the appointments on the staff o
Commander-n-chiefW Warner of the Gran,
Army, dated December 3, 1888, was that o
William G. Schroeder Of Burlington, who ha
been appointed assistant inspector-genera
for Vermont. The following comrades TO
Vermont have been appointed aides-de
camp: w Cummings st. Adams; G. 4
Graves, Bennington; u NJ. Mansur, Islam,
Pond; w. H. II. Slack Springfield, and A
j. Stone, Montpelier. Colonel George w
Hooker is reappointed on the Grant me
mortal committee.
MIDDLE BRANCH GRANGE, East Bethel
elected the following officers December Is
Master, III. w Dutton; overseer, G. +
Whitney. lecturer. l.. q. Whitney. treas