The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-04
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

EuEN WATERMAN, the oldest resident of
RoXbury, is dead, at the age of eighty-four
years.
NEARLY all the Fair Haven mills are run
ming night and day, and the marble business
is good.
TIE Windsor county court convened
at Woodstock yesterday, Judge Taft
presiding.
LESTER RICE, an old resident of Milton,
died last Saturday at the age of seventy
eight years.
THE annual encampment of the state
Grand Army will be held at Rutland early
in February.
THE golden wedding of d. w, Cushing of
East Burke was celebrated on Wednesday
of last week.
THE will of the late Hon. Farley Starr
contains a bequest of $4,000 cash to the
Universalst church at Bennington.
REV. w. Il. BUcK1NGHAM has resigned
the rectorship Of Trinity parish, Rutland +,
the same to take effect at an early date
DIR. w. SEWARD WEBB of Shelburne
Farms has given 81 900 toward the compile
ton of Bishop Hopkins Hall at Rock Point
near Burlington.
HOLLIS ATWOOD and Newell Hasxins of
Lincoln, arrested for counterfeting, had
preliminary examinations and were held in
$500 each last week
". y. Fits N 70. nave several men anu
teams at work preparing to build new
lime kiln of eight hundred barrels capacity
Al West Wardsboro.
Two boys were arrested at Chester on
Wednesday of last week for breaking into
a jewery-store at Putney and stealing goods
to the amount OF 900.
THE organization of a Young Mems Chris
tian Association in Bennington is an as
sured fact. The sum of 81 200 has already
han t,la sg tha =
THERE is a strike at the Merino mill at
Winooski, but the management has offered
to take discharged men back, and 1t is be-
lieved that the trouble will be ended this
week
LAST weeks storm caused great devasta-
ton at Castleton. Fences were laid fiat
chimneys demolished, trees blown down,
and in several instances doors of barns were
blown off
JOHN SIMPSON, who recently died at
Greensboro, was n man of great force of
character He al long been prominent in
the affairs of his town and in the politics of
the county.
In family named Knowles, living at
Middlebury, the father, mother and two
daughters have died of typhoid fever within
two months; and son is now i'll with the
same disease.
LUTHER NJ. BATES, an aged and highly re-
spected citizen Of Essex, died at the resi-
dence of his son, Clark w Bates, in that
town on Tuesday, November Dc, and was
buried Wednesday.
COLONEL A. S. TRACY of Middlebury and
Marcus d. Scott of Wolcott have been ap-
pointed deputy-collectors and inspectors of
customs, vice Thomas Keefe and George
M. Beardsley, resigned.
THE Undergraduate, the students maya
zine at Middlebury College, suggests the
formation of an intercollegiate athletic
association by Middlebury, the University
of Vermont and Norwich University.
TWELVE acres of valuable property stu
ated on the Hack farm, in the town of Bran
don, has been sold to New York parties for
S12,500. This is very valuable tract of
blue marble, considered the best in the
state.
NJ. SowLEs, president of the First Ma
tional Bank OF Plattsburgh, has put
memorial window in the Methodist church
at Swanton in memory of his father
the late William Sowles, who died at that
place.
GEORGE NJ WARD, formerly secretary of
the Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor, gave an address on Wednesday
evening of last week at the dedication #
the Young Mems Christian Association
building at Burlington.
Mrs. HERBERT PRATT of Middletown died
at the home of her father, Henry Ballard,
in Wells, recently, Of typhoid fever. AL
though only seventeen years OF age, she
leaves a husband few months her senior
and an infant nine months old.
KATIE GILLETTE of East Randolph, whose
note, found by the mayor of Boston in his
Thanksgiving turkey year ago, brought
her an elegant gold watch redeemed her
promise then made by sending fine tur-
key to Hon. Hugh O'Brien, Boston.
DR.. A. j. HYDE, a former resident of st.
Johnsbury, died at Oakland, Cal, Novem-
Der g. DR.. Hyde was native of Albany,
Vt, and afterward resided at st. Johns
bury, where he engaged in the practice of
medicine He went to California in 1873
STATES ATTORNEY EDWARD DANA of Rut-
land caused the arrest of Special Prosecutor
John ID. Spellman on last week Friday for
intoxication on the evening of November
%. Spellman was arraigned before Justice
Wayne Bailey, when he pleaded not guilty.
WILLIAM E. STRICKLAND, general man.
ager of the Legal and Commercial Union of
New York (whose business is the collecting
of debts), attempted to swindle f. G. Paff of
Ludlow and Fred Pollard of Proctorsville
out OF $75 each last week, but was detected.
THE Howe Scale Company has just made
a large shipment Of scales to Rosario, Ar
gentine Republic, South America. So great
is the demand from the Central American
States that they will establish houses at
Rosario, and in Brazil, probably at Rio
Janeiro.
COLONEL WILLIAM BRINsMAID of Burling-
ton died on Wednesday of last week, aged
sixty-eight years. He was engaged in the
jewelry business for many years. Mr..
Brinsmaid was a prominent Mason, and
was on the staff of Governor Peck from
1874 to 1876.
The Congregational church at Woodstock,
which is being extensively enlarged and
repaired, will probably be finished in two
months. A fine large new organ is now
being put in position. The improvements
are made at Hon. Frederick Billings ex-
pense, and will cost about $4,000.
FAILING to agree with the Sullivan Rail-
road Company in the purchase or lease of
its line the Central Vermont has begun
survey on the Vermont side of the Connecti-
cut, from Windsor to Bellows Falls, dis
lance of twenty miles. The road will prob
ably go through Springfield village,
The town of Derby is said to have an in
teresting history. +. A. Stewart, the presi-
dent of the Orleans County Historical So
ciety, says that the material available at the
present time will be forgotten in a few
years, and the work will probably be begun,
II sufficient encouragement for the outlay is
given.
TUE sninnera of tha Valentine mills and