The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-09
Summary OF News.
vermont.

Vermont.
EX. PRESIDENT HAYES is visiting relatives
in West Brattleboro and Newfane.
On account ofth continued wet weather
the Orwell fair has been indefinitely post
poned.
THE Chittenden county Sunday-school
convention opened at Burlington last week
Wednesday.
THR annual inspection and parade of the
Winooski fire department occurred Thurs
day Of last week.
THE Vermont State Spirtuaist conven-
ton opened a three days meeting at Wells
River, Friday of last week.
CLARA +. CONVERSE, many years teacher
at Vermont Academy, Bellows Falls, sails
this week for Japan as missionary
THE annual meeting of the Addison
County Conference Of Congregational
churches was held at Weybrdge last week
Thursday.
THE following postmasters have been APP
pointed; John A Perkins of Bakersfield N.
f. Dunshee of Bristol and w. p. Townsend
of Chelsea.
THE first exhibition OF the Northern Gale
DOMAIN Fair Association was held at Lyn-
donville Thursday of last week, and sur
passed all expectations.
MAJOR G. H. FORBES of Brandon in an
interview in the R,ttidnd Ucrdid, defends
charges of unfair rerating in his own case.
TIE toll bridge at Bellows Falls narrowly
escaued being washed away, Monday. A
larg0 portion of the abutment on the west
end id into the stream. The bridge is i'm
pass hle.
tt third annual fair of the Valley Asso.
ciati which closed Thursday of last week
At tleboro, was the most successful ever
held lere. The attendance was nearly TO-
GOO ii last day.
II Bennington wooden mills have been
running for some time in several depart
meuts The old name has been dropped
and the company is to be known as the
Holden Manufacturing Company.
Domestic.
FIRE in restaurant at Winona, Miss,
Sunday burned four men to death
THE storm in the Gulf of Mexico has
caused a total of thrty-four wrecks.
A GREAT deal of suffering from cold
weather is reported from Johnstown, Penn.
THE great biennial conclave of Knights
Templar at Washington is in progress this
week.
THERE was a great peat fire near Geneva,
Mimi, last week, involving a loss of about
100000
NAMES Gettysburg monuments were pre-
sented the battlefield association on Thurs
day Of last week
a LAy school for women was opened at
New YorA Yesterday. Fourteen young
ladies haze rterod.
DIR. BH. D ~. the bogus diploma man.
has been II ed and is now CO mined in
Jail AZ Con, II Y. IL.
1'HF nroNiltory amendment to Con-
ne2ticJ ; constitution was defeated Mon
day BY a vote of about three to one.
THE delegates to the international con-
gress we visited in the past week West
Point, Boston, Lowell and Lawrence.
THE engineer and fireman, charged with
criminal responsibility in the Rock Island
train disaster, have been balled in $4,000
each.
GENERAL HARTRANvT of Pennsylvania
refuses 70 allow the use of his name in con-
nection with the commissionership of pen
sions
THE boiler Of the steamer Corina ex-
ploded when opposite Port Huron, La, last
week Thursday morning. causing the loss
of the steamer aud forty lives.
Mrs. j. p, LoRD, wife OF the deputy
sheriff NJ Little Fails MINI. released John
Mitchell, n prisoner. on Thursday of last
week and then eloped with him
Al I'll" session OF the Episcopal conven-
ton ut New York, Monday, Oregon was adj
mitted ~ u diocese and missionary. Bishop
Morris was elected bishop of the diocese.
PORTRAITS of Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan were presented the military academy
at West Point on Thursday of last week.
General Horace Porter made the presenta-
ton address. The delegates to the inter-
national congress witnessed the ceremonies.
In the first session Of the superior civil
court at Boston, Monday, the case of Tewks-
bury as. The Central Vermont Railroad
Company was taken from the jury and con-
tinued. This was suit by passenger in
jured in the accident at Hartford, in 1887, to
recover $4,000 for personal injuries. The
jury had just returned from a view of the
disaster, and it is understood that the con-
tinuance is made with the understanding
between counsel that a compromise will be
made to the advantage of the company.
Foreign.
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY reports all quiet at
Samoa.
THE German emperor and empress will
leave for Athens on October 81. They will
sojourn one week at Constantinople.
AN internal machine was discovered near
the royal palace at Genoa, last week
Wednesday. The discovery was made just
in time to avert disaster.
Two thousand tramway and omnibus
employees of London held a meeting at two
o'clock last week Friday morning and
formed union to obtain shorter hours and
the redress of number of grievances. A
manifest appealing Tor aunefentS was issued
Lord Roseberry presided.
ELECTIONS in the French districts in
which there was no choice at the general
elections occurred Sunday. Returns from
153 districts show the election of 10S repub.
licans and As anti-republcans According
to the latest estimates the new chamber o
deputies will have 365 republican and oil
opposition members.
Personal.