The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

ROYAL HALL and wife of Townshend cele-
brated their golden wedding last week
A PEAcHAM lumberman was struck by a
falling tree and had his skull fractured.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE will appoint Friday
April g. as the day of fasting and prayer.
THE recent storm prevented wedding at
Pawlet the bridegroom being snow-bound
A LINCOLN man boasts of cat that is
nineteen years old and playful as kitten
THE st. Johnsbury toboggan chute sold
for $50, yielding the stockholders of the club
81 each.
GEORGE II. BIGELow of Burlington is
steadily failing, with but faint hope that he
will ever rally.
Hon. FREDERICK Billings and family of
Woodstock will spend the spring months
in South Carolina,
SOUTH HERO INDUCED in musical con-
vention last week, with j. II. Engels Of
Brandon as pianist
A sNow-PLow on the narrow guage line
jumped the track near Jamaica and went
down the bank into the river.
THE Fall Mountain Paper Company's pulp
mill was burned recently at Bellows Falls
Loss $1,000; insurance $1,000.
A RUTLAND girl sank into four feet of
snow and water. She would have drowned
if assistance had not been near.
RICHMOND republicans elected A. G..
Mobiles, John l.. Mason and II. l.. Jones
delegates to the state convention.
JESSIE, daughter of L. W. Hawley of
Brattleboro, fell upon fence, striking her
chin and almost bting'o her tongue.
f. T. JocELYN, a native of Putney and
inventor of improvements in firearms, died
in New New York the Odd, aged sixty.
VERMONT dentists held their annual meet
ing in St. Johnsbury last week. r. W.
~ hat ,1an axxyag oil tn1 mr. nnf
A BILL was introduced in the senate last
week to authorize the construction of high
way bridge between North Hero and Grand
Isle.
DURING the summer season the steamer
Maquam ~ will run between Maquam and
Burlington, using the Central Vermont dock
at the latter place.
THE last issue of the Springfield Reporter
comes to us printed on green paper in honor
of Ireland's patron saint. However, there
is nothing green about the editor.
HENRY ScorT's Westinghouse in Ludlow
was burned recently. 1t was built in 1905
and was the oldest house in town. Insured
for 81 600, which will cover the loss.
f. NJ. BALL of Bellows Falls died in San
Francisco. He graduated last June from
Wesleyan University and was professor in
st. Augustine College at Benca, Cal.
THE Mt. Mansfield House at Stowe is to
be the coming season under the manage
ment of Colonel Silas Quincy, many years
proprietor of the fremont House, Boston.
PATENTS to VerInonters To f. A. Owen
and j. A. Harvey, Burlington, for machine
for extracting oil from wood: to G.. j. Ward
well and A. Landon, Rutland, self-coupling
car-link.
REV. THOMAS BURGESS has resigned the
rectorship of ST. Lukes church. st. Adams,
to take effect April %. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Burgess has accepted call to the
rectorship of the Episcopal church at larry
town, n. Y.
BEGINNING this week, the Central Ver-
mont railroad will use the official classified
ton for local freight. 1t is claimed that
this new departure will be of great benefit
to the shipper, as it will give lower rates on
many articles.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE has appointed Princ-
pal II. NJ. Willard of the Vermont Academy
at SaXtons River a member of the COM
mission to investigate and report upon the
Normal School question in place of Hon.
A. n. Swain of Bellows Falls, resigned
REV. I. p. FROST of st. Johnsbury will
deliver the Memorial day address at Hard
wick; DIR. A. H. Chesmore of Huntington
at Johnson; Colonel John r. Thompson of
Washington, ID. c., at St. Johnsbury; II. G.
Bates of St. Johnsbury at Newport; Colonel
George 7. Childs of st. Adams at Wood
stock.
YOUNG man who went into the town
clerks Office the other day to look over the
births was more than astonished to find his
own name under the head of " females"
He had hitherto regarded himself as of the
masculine gender, but the records were
against him and he went home a sadder but
wiser wo(man).-.T. Adams Messenger.
B. A. HALL who came from Seattle, w.
T., some months ago and married respect
able young woman of Georgia, was arrested
Saturday night and lodged in Jail at st. AL
bans on the charge of bigamy. He has wife
and children in Seattle. He claims that he
was divorced from his wife there, but an aft
davit of the court clerk at Seattle shows that
while his petition for a divorce had been en-
tered on the docket no decree was given.
SUMMARY of the corporation taxes for
1887: Received from railroads, S64,7SS; car
companies, S3,226; steamboat companies,
81 ,222; telephone, $500; telegraph, 1917
express, SIG; savings banks, S3S 800; trust
companies, S9,3i3: home insurance COM
panies, 81 $3.50; foreign fire insurance, 81 GA
foreign life insurance, S9769. Total tax
collected from corporations, S239, 0f.2S. In
the year 1886 the total was 500, 49, thus
showing an increase of SIS, 345.5j. The 1885,
figures were S20O,6S5; 1884, sos, 22l. The
year 1888 was the first of the law, and the
income was S196,678. The increase since
the first year is over $40, 900.
THE funeral of Ex-Governor Horace Fair.
banks took place at St. Johnsbury the 22d
and was attended by a large number Of
people. Many prominent men were pres
ent, including Governor Ormsbee and staff
Ex-Governor Farnham, representatives Of
the New York, Boston and Montreal
branches of the Fairbanks Scale Company
and others. Impressive services We're held
in the North Congregational church, o.
which Mr.. Fairbanks was acting deacon
The church, richly decorated with flowers
was crowded, the employees of the Fairbanks
scale works attending in body. Rev. G
NJ. Lamson delivered warm and eloquent
tribute to the memory of his parishionei
and friend.
THE Vermont maple sugar exchange or
ganized at Brattleboro, its future head
quarters, last week, with these officers
President Alpha Messer of Rochester; vice
president, Colonel George W. Hooker o
Brattleboro; secretary, c. A. Flint of Mont
pelier; treasurer, George S. Dowley of Brat
tleboro general manager, f. w. Harlow o
BrattlebOro directors, Colonel George w
Hooker and James l.. Martin of Brattleboro
Alpha Messer of Rochester, j. G.. Newton
of Dummerston. G. ii. Campbell and l.. A
Flint of Westminster, p. Chandler Of viii
mington, General William Wells OF Bur
lington, w. l.. Park of Lyndon. The CAPT
tai stock of the association was fixed a
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