The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-16
Summary of NeMS.'

| Vermont.
ST. JoHNsBURY ACADEMY opens the win
ter term with 22G students.
Four divorces were granted at the last
term OF Che Caledonia county court.
| ST.. JoHNsBURY's current expenses for
I999 were nearly $1,000 greater than those
OF the previous year
THE State Agricultural Society has fixed
! its annual fair for September 3 TO & at How
ard Park, Burlington.
HE village of Richford has voted to put
IN system OF water-works costing $4,000
Work will be begun in the spring.
| DURING the past year the Brattleboro
Jelly Company used Is 1888 bushels of apples
ana made twenty-five tons of jelly.
A, GUnFoRD boy has curiosity in the
shape OF young grasshopper which was
! hatched out in the open fields last week
WHILE Joseph Spaulding of Quechee was
chopping in the woods a tree fell on him,
breaking his hip and injuring him internally.
THE ffteen-year-old son of the Methodist
clergyman at Richford is missing and a re-
ward of $50 has been offered for his appre-
hension.
CAPTAIN CoFFEY, manager of the Soldiers
Home, has been appointed by General
Greenleaf provost marshal of the First
Regiment.
julius HARRISON and Frank Geenan
skating on the river at Hydeville The
bodies were recovered.
CHARLES FORBES of Sutton has obtained
patent on a device for oling axles He
sold out to Chicago parties for 5000. re-
serving large per cent royalty.
p. H. TiERNEY of Ludlow caught pick
erel through the ice from Tyson pond which
measured Tour feet long and weighed
twenty-five and oue-third pounds
-
Saturday of this week to take action on
voting Sj0OOO tax to aid in the construc-
ton OF the Mount Mansfield railroad
Mrs CAsTLEBuRGH of Swanton recently
struck Well-known merchant while trad
ing in his store, and the jury last week
found her guilty of assault and battery
A NEW venture in journalism to be known
as Jdndcd H1oger, is soon to be started at
Jamaica by IL. Il. Mundell. Everybody
will take it during the watermelon season
The inmates of the Brattleboro asvlum
saw snakes last week. nest of twenty
snakes OF assorted sizes, together with sew
erai red lizards, was unearthed on the
asylum farm.
CHARLES NJ. CLARK, who has been the
station agent of the Central Vermont at
kouse's Point for many years, was arrested
last week tuesday for misappropriating the
company's funds.
REV. C. f. MORSE of st. Johnsbury has
been awarded the first prize, valued at
500, as the most successful New England
cauvasser of the Peoples Cyclopedia. hav-
ing sold four hundred sets during the past
year.
THE Lyons & Bradley iron mine at South
Wallinpford has nro0reased / foo Zoo, TO-
the mountain side ASSAYS show tiftv ner
cent of manganese and five per cent ofirnn.
pronounced by Carnegie's expert the hest
in the country.
e. TT U,pprs of Eo;n 11o,.o,, :. .,..
oman at Ronsnn t an ilaNen Is ABOUT 10
Vpin az nro nHsol idrge Siaoe quarry The
found and of snperior yaime 70 az, naaeny
is snccessfn1 othars IN ~ ,ai H,ilS IIaIlS
will he onenad ." '"0 noo'hoou
~
NEW VI w. FERRY OF Rutland closed his
pasSora5e al SI fauls Unlversaiist church
% ,,',,d.ofy ~ ma. mas accepueu tne posltlon
90 81, genera, ageno i4r introducing the Iandon
Inherent states '"' ''Hoo' ooarus III the
un1is+ 80 aa,,,.,
nh IN. VI cahuiuates lor district attor-
includes seven namesEHon IT r. P Pa,eauy ~
ST. .Jobnsbnrv a a Hall "a ana c Smt "
Noble of ST. AIbans r. 7, Wetar u auS NJ
Kittredge Haskins of Brattleboro. G. w.
Wing of Montpelier and p. X. Kendall of
Rutland.
ID. w. EDGERLY, the special examiner of
the pension office at Montpelier, has had
vicinity, some of them having been in his
hanuS ior over year. rms condition of
anairs ueihanus the assistance of another
fTii in,.es,i,,at; t res auout week Tor
arc constanfIv hain rofaraI az" Nv lieW ones
tion '"s eioi'eu ioi eAaiilina-
THE executive committee of the Vermont
Republican League met AT Burlinpton last
week Thursday and elected the following
delegates to the national convantion az
n
Baltimore, February 2S: Ex-Governor j. G.
Smith of st. Adams, General j. G. Me
Cullough of Bennington, Colonel l.. X.
Fuller of Brattleboro and l.. Bart Cross of
nlont PeIIeI. Eolonei d. d. Estey was elected
presIuent Ill piace OF Ex-Governor Proctor,
resigned n..
nohes".
sion sro,n tba ha .,iaV S th hrtnur VIII re-
I eeno,,,o,;,a Er',;., 20 '"o pio'herhoou Oh
''o ~, i-nsineers'
WALKER BLAINE broke both bones of his |
WasIin 1E my az Ea;itEn.ins from CAP al
" 0,' y" ',uas
ON tuesday OF last week legislative as
semblies met IN California, Kansas, Colo
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