The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-17
Summary of News.

Vermont.
THERE are four vacant scholarships at
Norwich University.
THE Bennington battle monument is now
one hundred ninety feet high.
A. II. CARPENTER of Waterford has been
granted patent for windmill.
THE total amount of duties assessed at
the port of st. Adams for the month ending
June 30, 1889, was S73,407.95.
A GERMAN peddler named Burnstin of
Burlington, hung himself in Con Sheehans
barn at West Milton last week.
A NEW tale mine is being developed in
Chttenden, eight miles from Rutland. Ex-
perts pronounce the mine valuable.
SENATOR EDMUNDs and General Wells ar
rived in Burlington on Saturday from their
Canadian fishing trip in good health.
CARNEGIE BROTHERS of Pittsburgh, Penn.
have taken possession of the iron mine at
South Wallingford, twelve miles from Rut-
land.
FRIDAY morning Fitzgerald & Co.. mill
at Avery Gore was destroyed by fire from
the engine-room. Loss $500; partly in
sured.
GEORGE LARocK, aged fifteen, Working
for Edison Ufford of Fairfax, committed sui
eide by hanging, last Friday, in a fit of de-
spondency
ISRAEL WOOD, one Of the oldest residents
of Brattleboro, died last Saturday, at the
age of lightweight years. He leaves
widow and five children.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR, accom-
panied by his son, f. d. Proctor, and Pri-
vate Secretary Partridge, departed for
Washington last Saturday.
Mrs. HALEY, aged sixteen, a recently mar
ried woman of Guilford, took fatal dose of
Paris green Thursday. She had been liv-
ing at the house of f. T. Burdick.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont &
Boston Telegraph Company will be held at
the Junction house, White River Junction,
Wednesday, July "a, at IL; 30 A. NJ.
THE opening of the Sauveur School of
Languages at the University of Vermont,
Burlington, was well attended last week
Most of the students came from out of the
state.
THE Fair Haven Marketing Slate Com
pany recently quarried the slae and manu-
featured therefrom 100 feet of twelve-inch
tile, and put it down in Topeka. Kansas, in
side of thirty days.
BARTON WORKS of st. Johnsbury was
nearly killed by a steer in a pasture in
Concord last week Wednesday. He was
found unconscious on top of a rock. One
leg was badly crushed.
LAST week Friday the house and barn
owned and occupied by John Gibson, at
Samsonville, were completely destroyed by
fire Nearly the entire contents of the
buildings were destroyed. Loss $500.
JUSTIN f. MACKENZIE, a generous citizen
of Woodstock, has presented that village
with bronze fountain, which has been
placed in the public square. 1t was made
by the j. s. Mott iron works of New York.
ALBERT L. PILLsBURY, the well-known
Boston lawyer and republican leader, was
married last week Tuesday, at Newbury to
Mrs. Louisa +. Wheeler, the widow of Pro-
lessor Wheeler classmate of Mr.. Pillsbury
at Harvard.
LIEUTENANT-CoLoNELC G. c. KINsMAN of
Rutland recently sent in his resignation as
Northumberland of the Vermont National
Guard, which position he has filed for sew
eral years but he has been prevailed upon
to withdraw it,
A SUPPOSED incendiary fire at Readsboro,
last week, consumed e. j. Bullock's store
building and contents, his tenement-house,
the town hall, tinshop, two dwelling
houses and two barns. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
MoRRIsvILLE is anticipating increased
business activity in view of the establish
ment there of Stafford & Websters large
tanning business from Stowe, process PEE
culiar to that firm enabling them to turn
out certain kind of tanned skin
A LITTLE over four months ago Charles
Hadlock, station agent at East Thetford,
aDscOnueu, MS railroad, express anu tele-
graph accounts being short $1,000. He was
arrested in Kansas City, few days ago, and
was lodged in Jail at Chelsea last Friday.
IN the course OF enforcing the immigra-
| ton law Mr.. Stephen Foster, for the last
fifteen years cashier Of the National Bank
at Derby Line, who resides at Rock Island,
just across the line in Canada, has been no.
titled to change either his business or his
| place of residence.
ST. AGNES HALL, at Bellows Falls, which
| for twenty years has been run as a boarding
and day school for young women, was closed
permanently last week Miss Hapgood
opened the school in 1869, and for fifteen
| years it enjoyed popularity and success, bat
for the past five years the number of stu
dents had gradually decreased, and the prin-
| cipal has considered ii unwise to renew the
| lease.
The Vermont Gettysburg monument COM
mission met at the Van Ness house, Bur-
| lington, last Monday. Colonel Clarke re-
ported that the contractors had fulfilled the
terms of their contract faithfully, and that
the monument is the finest one yet erected
on the battle-ground. The dedication will
take place October next, when liberal ex-
cursion rates will be made by the railroad
companies,
c. ID. WHITMAN, the active manager OF
the Vermont Maple Sugar Exchange at
Brattleboro, has made his footings of the
seasons business, and finds that up to July
| the sales amounted TO l,225 gallons of
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