The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Weekly News Summary.



SHERIFF BARTON of Chttenden county is
sick with pneumonia.
THE Park Guard of Bennington is in
process of reorganization.
THE Connecticut river was eighteen feet
above lowwater mark on Sunday.
The Peoples journal, the Rutland labor
organ, has suspended publication.
BOATS began making regular trips between
Burlington and Plattsburgh last week.
REV. CHARLES CLARK has accepted a call
to the Advent church in North Sherburne.
REV. b. NJ. T1LLorsoN, Universalist, has
changed from Woodstock to st. Johnsbury.
THE sugar exchange at Brattleboro re-
ceved 1000 to 5000 pounds day last week.
A MOVEMENT is on foot for the organiza-
ton at Middlebury of a mounted republican
campaign club.
JAMES MORGAN of West Castleton has
braueous Group.
THE soap-stone interest at Perkinsville is
soon to begin operations on a larger scale
than ever before.
REV. w. j. JOHNSON and family left st.
Adams for their new home in Mapleton,
Iowa, last week.
THOMAS TINN1EN, aged seventy, COM
mitted suicide at Middlebury Sunday be-
cause of poverty.
COLLECTOR SMALLEy, who has been i'll at
Senator Morrill's residence in Washington,
is now convalescent.
The Bellows Falls Dramatic Association
is preparing for reproduction of Pima
fore on grand scale.
ELISHA MAY has been appointed United
States commissioner at st. Johnsbury, vice
a. f. Rankin, deceased.
MICHAEL CANNON, Sr., a West Rutland
farmer, while temporarily insane COM
United suicide by hanging.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to have
the New England delegates to the Chicago
convention 90 in one party.
Mrs. MARTHA HARRINGToN's dwelling
house at Quechee was burned the other
night. Loss $500; insured.
REV. G. w. II. CLARK of st. Adams has
gone to Derry, n. H., where he is to have
charge of Methodist church.
The broad lake opened this year just six
days earlier than last year. having re-
manned closed ninety-two days
REV. B. S. ADAMS has resigned the pas
torate of the Congregational church at
Westford and has been called to Grafton.
The latest gossip connected with the
name of Minister Phelps is that he is to
succeed Mr. Bayard as secretary of state.
A MIDDLETowN SPRINGS firm recently
shipped to Africa rice threshing-machine
THE Vermont Construction Company of
St Adams has just contracted to build
two bridges in Connecticut to cost $4,000.
IT is expected that the trial trip of the
Chateaugay" the new steel steamer on
Lake Champlain will be made about May 20.
A NEW post-otiice has been established at
Greensboro Four Corners, Orleans county,
and Wilbert Edwards has been appointed
postmaster.
The two-year-old son of A. J. Howieson
of Stowe took dose of morphine Sunday
by mistake and died after being uncon-
scious nine hours.
The dweling-house and barn of Henry
Hawley in Panton We're burned the 9th.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000. Mr.. Hawley
was badly burned.
The trustees of the Home for Aged
Women at Burlington expect to locate in
the Louise Howard house. They have
raised about 81 800.
FRANK PLUMLEY, Esq, of Mortified gave
a very able and interesting address before
the republican club of Williston last week
Wednesday evening.
REV. DR.. ATWOOD, president of the st.
Lawrence University at Canton, n. Y, has
returned to Burlington to take charge of
the parish of Rev. l.. G.. Ware.
HOMER AND HORACE BLAKE, young men
from Georgia, were committed to Jail in de-
e.,
Adams Friday for sheep-stealing
SEVERAL dealers in the ardent at Rutland
were disagreeably surprised last week ty
ofiicers OF the law, who raided their prem
Uses and seized quite quantity of liquor
SEVERAL highways in Colchester and Mil
ton are impossible from high water, and
mails and passengers have to be carried by
on the Burlington & Lamoile road at JEFF
fersonville.
In runaway accident at Bristol on the
10Th ult. Rev. d. Bosworth and wife were
thrown from carriage and both of them
badly hurt. Mr.. Bosworth's injuries NAV
prove to be very serious.
EDWARD DREW, aged thirty-two son of
Jerry Drew of Newport, confined in the
county Jail awaiting trial for larceny, made
an unsuccessful attempt to take his own
life in the Jail the other day.
THE following patents were issued to Yer
monters April "a: A. III. Carpenter, West
Waterford, for feathering paddle-wheels: F.
Fairbanks st. Johnsbury, for feed water
heaters; w. NJ Scott, Cambridge, heating
railroad cars.
IT is stated that the maple sugar crop in
the state proves to be fully up to the average
and the northumberland improvements
IN It's manufacture have greatly improved
the quality The yield is estimated at
100000 pounds, including 100000 gallons
of syrup
AN epidemic has broken out among the
sheep in SALISBURY that threatens serious
loss to wool-growers The sheep that are
in the best condition are the earliest vic
Tins. The first sign is weakness of the
limbs. The animals stagger around and
soon lose entire use of their limbs. They
then bloat rapidly and die quickly.
The Brattleboro musical festival chorus
is working away at the music of Gounod's
Messe Sollonnelle" and Memberships
" Hear My Prayer" The following artists
have been decided upon to assist at the fes-
tival: Miss Ella Earle of New York, So
prano; Miss Hattie McLane of Boston, con-
tralto; Mr.. George j. Parker of Boston.
tenor; Mr. William l.. Whitney of Boston
bass also the Lotus Glee Club of Boston
SEWARD j, AINswoRTH of Rutland was
tried at Wallingford recently for violating
the prohibitory law and fined S5l5 on forty
five counts. He was supposed to be an up
right young man, was member of the
Congregational church and once superin-
tendent of the Sunday He had a part
ner, who has escaped. The liquor was sold
or given away in Ainsworth's house, and the
majority of customers We're boys ranging
in age from fourteen to eighteen years.
" ED. PORE of Lincoln was riding over the
road towards Bristol when he came to large