The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
Summary Of News.


Medical Society is in session at Brattleboro.
"DAN1EL LAMBERT" the greatest sire OF
trotters that Vermont ever produced, is
dead.
FRANK EMERY of Ira has been sentenced |
to eight years in state prison for horse
stealing.
THE republicans of Island Pond are to
hold caucus to nominate candidate for |
postmaster.
THE Vermont Marble Company of Rut- |
land will build thirty-gang mill upon the |
site of the one recently burned.
AT Richford the other evening, son of
William Wilson had hand blown OIL by |
the discharge of mammoth hre-cracker.
j. L. WNCHELL of Fair Haven has inn
ported from England pair of full blooded
English blood-hounds, for which he paid
81 600 each.
THE Western Union Telegraph Company
has strung a second wire from White River
Junction to Lyndonville for the use Of the
Passumpsic road.
MRS BAKER of Richford went into her
dining-room the other day, and found a
snake under the table An application of
hot water ended its existence.
SEVEN out of herd of twelve cattle at
Bennington have died recently of anthra-
eide. Precautions have been taken to pre-
vent the spreading of the disease.
HoYT s; Co. of New York have purchased
of David Towslee of Pownal the right for
twenty-five years to mine iron ore on his
farm. The supply is said to be almost mex
haustble.
G. n. HooLE has been appointed post
master at Felchvlle, George A. Bruce at
South SALISBURY, Rufus NJ. Pray at South
Woodbury. and Gaylord Ferrill at Under
hill Center.
JOHN A., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph f.
Morse of East Poultney, whom his parents
supposed dead as they had not heard from
him for thirty-five years, put in an appear
ance last week.
GEORGE S. SIMoNDs, a native of Peru has
given ten acres of land and S25, 900 to estab-
lish the Simonds Collegiate Institute at
Bellvile, Kansas 1t is to be under the
charge of the Presbyterian church
THE centennial convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal churches of Vermont will
be held at Arlington in June, 1890. The
first convention of the diocese of Vermont
was held there 100 years ago next June.
SIMEON IDE of Claremont, n. H., who had
been connected with several different news
papers in Vermont and New Hampshire, as
editor and publisher, died in Roxbury
Mass, June %, in the ninety-ffth year of
his age.
CHARLES II. CLARK of st. Adams, master
bridge-builder for the Central Vermont rail-
road, has been appointed by Governor Dill
lingham to furnish plans and specifications
for the new bridge connecting Grand Isle
and North Hero.
GENERAL orders have been issued through
the office of Adjutant and Inspector-general
I. S. Peck, by the order of Governor Dill
bingham, ordering the state National Guard
into camp at West Randolph on August
20, to remain five days, for instruction and
review, and Brigadier-general W. l.. Green
leaf has been assigned to duty at the camp
as post commander. Brigadier-general Will
lam H. Gilmore, quartermaster-general,
nna -
and payment of troops.
Hon. FREDERICK BILLINGS of Woodstock
has sent check for $4,000 to President
Buckham of the University of Vermont for
the purchase of books for the library This
completes a total of 100000 which Mr..
Billings has given to the institution John
II. Converse and DR.. Edward III. Williams
of the Baldwin locomotive works have no.
titled the trustees of their intention to erect
two residences, to cost 0,000, for profess
sors of the institution. Miss Maria LOOMS
OF Burlington has given $4,000 to the Ii
brary and Charles p Marsh has donated a
large law library.
Domestic.
A wATER-sPoUT broke over Altoona,
Penn, one evening last week, doing great
damage.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has signed
the nti-bucket-shop bill recently passed by
the legislature.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND was not in
jured by the carriage accident at Buzzard s
Bay, as reported.
The sixteenth annual session of the
Chautauqua Assembly opened at Chau-
tauqua Lake July 3.
A WILLOWS, Cal, farmer on the 22d of
June planted his second crop Of corn from
seed grown this year.
A TRAIN on the Southwestern road was
wrecked near Geneva, Ga, July 2. Six
persons were injured
THE Goodyear Rubber Company, Provi-
dence, X. L., has made an assignment under
S71 900 in attachments.
SECRETARY BLAINE has gone to his cot.
tage at Bar Harbor, Maine, where he ex-
poets to remain until September.
NEIL BURGESS, the actor, who was badly
burned last week by the explosion of a gas
machine, is in critical condition.
A son of General w. 7. Sherman re
Gently received prestly orders at the hand,
OF Archbishop Ryan in Philadelphia.
BANK and treasury notes to the amount
of several thousand dollars We're destroyed
in the recent railroad wreck in Virginia.
He'll ID. MILLER, cashier of the Malta
National Bank, Malta, Ohio is missing
and his accounts are reported $50, 900 short
On July Sd the Massachusetts, Rifle Team
won its third consecutive victory in Eng
land, shooting against the London Riff
Brigade.
FOUR incendiary fires occurred in Dan
bury, Conn, early one morning last week
The police are hunting the ire-bugs but 81
far without success.
The business part of the town of Ellens
burg, Washington territory, was burne
last week Thursday night The loss is est
mated to be 100000.
THE rumored war between the Nicaragua
and Costa Rican governments, reported las
week, has been denied by the Nicaragua
minister at Washington.
Young FERNANDO WOOD, grandson of eI
Mayor Wood of New York, has bee
drowned in Nicaragua, where he was al
sistant engineer on the canal
CHICAGO bucket-shops have gained poiI
on the Board of Trade, the court decidin
that the board could not withhold its quot
tons, as they were public property.
THE New England Chautauqua Sunda,
school Assembly at Lakeview, Sout
birmingham, Mass, opens its tenth annu
session July l6 and will close July 26.
THOMAS BARRETT was fatally Stable,
last week, in New York, by two fruit-ven'