The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
Summary of News.
Vermont.

people are petitioning for divorce in the
Rutland county court
SEVERAL liquor dealers were tried at Bur
lington, Thursday, and two of the number
were convicted and fined.
CHARLES Cook had his hand cut off by
circular saw at II. A. Haes chair factory
in Arlington, last Friday.
THE Central Vermont railroad is fitting,
as rapidly rs possible, its passenger cars
with Sewall's steam-heating device.
g. b. COOK of St. Adams won the broad
jump at the Dartmouth fall meeting, maxi
ing nine feet one and one-half inches.
S1LAs H. SoULE of Fairfield has been Of
fered 81 200 for the stallion Meteor, which
took second premium at the state fair.
DAVID G. BILLINGS Of Rutland was found
dead i'm his bed last Friday evening. Apo
plexy is the supposed cause of his death.
THE United States circuit court opened at
Rutland last Saturday. The grand jury
reported nine true bills and one not found.
Two divorces were granted Tuesday in
the county court at Rutland on account of
intolerable severity on the part of the hus-
band.
LEONARD Brown was instantly killed at
East Dover by the bursting of a stone in IA
grist-mll. Several others had narrow es-
Capes
EX-GovERNOR PROCTOR has offered to give
ten acres of land on Pine Hill for perna-
nent encampment ground for the state
militia.
Ed. DECKER of Swanton has challenged
DOYLE of Marlboro to wreStle, collar and
elbow for $50 IA side, match to take place in
Marlboro.
HIRAM f. STEVENS. formerly of St. AL
bans, has been nominated for member of
the Minnesota assembly by the republicans
of St. Paul.
COLONEL SILAs GURNEY has returned to
the fremont House, Boston, from Stowe,
where he has conducted the Mt. Mansfield
House during the season
THE Fairbanks Scale Company recently
filled an order for $500 scales to go to
Russia and $500 to 90 to China. The COM
pany makes 5000 week.
BY order of Rutland county court, the
bar-room of the Berwick House in Rutland
has been declared nuisance and it has
been closed by the police.
YOUNG John Ross, while out shooting in
Brdport, accidentally discharged the con-
tents of his gun into one of his legs, and is
now in critical condition.
SAMUEL STANNARD of st. Adams, brother
of the late General George j. Stannard,
died at his home last Saturday, at the age
of about seventy-two years.
COLONEL FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS has for
twenty-five years been superintendent of
the Sunday-school of the North Congrega-
tional church, ST. Johnsbury.
THE prolonged ran-storm has prevented
the farmers from harvesting their grain,
and their losses are large, particularly in
Caledonia and Essex counties.
A HOUSE, shed and barn occupied by Mer-
rift A. Davis and owned by j. w. Bliss,
were burned at Bradford last Thursday
night. Value, 81 900; insured for $500.
THE angry Brdgewater father who tried to
overtalle an clipping daughter consoled him
self with the remark, She only followed
her mothers example when she married
me-
MAJOR MERRITT BARBER, assistant adju-
tant-general L. S. A., who has been visit
ing his native town of Pownal, has re-
turned to his post at Vancouver, Washing
ton Territory.
BETWEEN Maquam and Swanton, the other
day, it is said, "A partridge flew under the
train in such way as to have its head cut
off by the wheels. This is not a fish story
it is a fowl one.
CHARLES MARTIN, former well-known
resident of Brattleboro, who worked at the
Estey shops and was member of the Estey
Guard, dropped dead on the streets of
Chicago few days ago.
+. NJ. BARsTow, son of Ex-Governor Bar
stow, late superintendent of the Rouses
Point breakwater, has been appointed as
sistant engineer and surveyor in the en-
SlnetT once III burlington.
So sanity St. Johnsbury sees snakes.
The CdiedonidR is authority for the state
ment that IA snake one foot in length passed
through the pipes and out of the faucet in
tenement house there the other day.
THE barn of w. j. Fisher of North Fays-
ton was burned last week and the contents,
consisting of a pair of very large and fine
oxen, with hog, sheep, calf, about twenty
tons of hay and several machines, were de-
stroyed.
TALENT runs in families and blood will
tell" Mrs. Z. ID. l.. Steele, daughter of the
poetess, Mrs. Julia c. II. Dorr, bids fair to
become talented artist. The 1rt 1uc-
ti0Heer contains pretty study of ferns,
from her pencil.
Hoy JOHN b. HALL of Bennington, son
of the late Ex-Governor Hiland Hall, died
at the residence of his brother at Spring
field, Mass, Monday night Mr.. Hall was
tifty-three years of age and had been county
clerk for twenty years
G. NJ. INMAN, the Poultney farmer, who
shot his neighbor Patrick Sennott last Mon
day, claims that the shooting was justitiable,
as Sennott was trespassing on his premises
and threatened him with violence. He says
that he warned Sennott twice before firing.
SUITS have been brought in the United
States courts against Bowker, Torrey & Co.,
to recover the penalty of $1,000 for each of
the lahorers imported into this country
from Carrara, Italy. These men are marble
cutters, and some of them went to Rutland,
causing unfavorable comment among the
marble workers there.
THE store of X. A. Paul at East Berk-
shire was entered Sunday morning and the
safe blown open. little over one hun
dred dollars in money and five hundred
dollars worth of checks were taken. The
latter were afterward found. The explo-
sion shattered all the glass in the building.
Registered letters and postage stamps We're
left undisturbed.
THE twenty-first annual convention of
the Vermont State Spiritualist Association
will be held at the hotel at Waterbury, Oc-
tober 10, 20, n, 1888. Speakers engaged and
expected are Joseph ID. Stiles, Weymouth,
Mass, Hon. A. f. Stanley, Leicester, VT,
Mrs. Abbie b. Crossett, Waterbury, Mrs
Fannie Davis Smith, Brandon, Mrs. Emma
l.. Paul, Morrisville, Mrs. Sarah a. Wiley,
Rockingham Mrs. A p. Brown, st. Johns
bury, Lucius Colburn, Bennington. Board
at the Waterbury Hotel, 81 per day. Round
trip tickets over the railroads for fare one
way; half fare over the Stowe and Morris
vile stage.
In General.
THE president has approved the sundry
civil appropriation bill
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