The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23
Summary of News.
Vermont.

L E SlIlkt aiming VIC SlOHt-tubutlo az NilV
West Dummerston quarries still continues.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JEDurHAN FULLER of West
Rutland have celebrated their golden we'd
ding.
THE steam saw-mill of II. e. Lewis at
Richford is to be turned into a bobbin
factory,
THERE were 260 cases on the Franklin
county court calendar and forty-seven on the
new entry docket.
THE state asylum managers are adding
dormer windows to the roof of the Marsh
building at Brattleboro.
FIVE schools were closed in the town of
Georgia recently on account of the teachers
having illegal certificates.
AARON FARNUM, native of Waterford,
died last week Thursday at Cambridge,
Mass, aged eghty-nine years.
THE Congregational church at Westford
will be rededcated the 3lst and Rev Mr.
MacColl will deliver the sermon.
THE shops of the Boston & Maine railroad
(Passumpsic division) at Lyndonville are to
be lighted with 1lS incandescent lights.
l.. Il. LAMsoN of Brattleboro has bought
the Richmond grist-mll property at Algiers
and will continue the business with his SON
A HANDSOME golden eagle was trapped in
Franklin a few days since The eagle
measures from tip to tip of wings eight and
one-half feet.
THE social event of the season at Burling
ton was the reception and banquet of the
Lake Champlain Yacht Club on Friday
evening of last week.
Mrs. GEoPGE II. KENDALL, alias Williams,
alias Marden, was remanded to Windham
county Jail last week Friday in default of
81 900, on a charge Of forgery of an indorse
ment on check.
EX-PREsIDENT JAMES T. FAY, of the vii
lage of Rutland, will represent the Vermont
work iOuuppu "a tho prnnnrnl aggnnhlN Df the
Knights of Labor, which convenes at At
lanta, Georgia, November II.
DR. w. S. WEBB of Shelburne is adding
several notable horses to his stud this
autumn He bought the famous Kentucky
stallion, Almont Wilkes, a short time ago,
and has recently added ten trotting mares.
WORK on the Poultney water-works is be-
ing rapidly pushed, and the contractors eX-
pect to have water running into the village
in less than two weeks. The matter has
been source of agitation for over ten years.
A LARGELY-sIGNED petition has been sent
to authorities at Washington, praying for
the appointment of w. b. Randall as post
master at SALISBURY. 1t is understood that
Congressman Stewart favors the appoint
ment.
ROBERT HosKINGsoN'S houses and barn at
Summit Station were burned on Tuesday
afternoon of last week, with their contents.
The fire was caused by sparks from
passing locomotive. Loss $500; insurance
$1,000.
THE funeral of Edward H. Woodbridge,
who died in hospital at New York from
fatal assault in the street, took place at
Vergennes last week Wednesday. Mr.,
Woodbridge was the son of Hon. f, f,
Woodbridge.
THE American House at Richford has been
sold to Messrs. Jones Bliss of Bradford
the sum total of the purchase, including
real estate and personal property, amount
ing to about $4,000. The new owners
leased the property to Mr.. l.. G.. Greene,
who took possession of the house last week.
SUBSTANTIAL subscriptions have been
made in aid of the Natural History Society
recently formed at Brattleboro. The library
trustees have voted $500 to the society and
offer ample room in the library building for
the display of the exhibits, for which hand
some and suitable cabinets are now being
made.
II is understood that settlement has
been effected with the injured Hunt boys OF
New Haven by the railroad officials, by
which they receive S4 800 and the railroad
pays the medical charges. Mrs. Allen of
West Ferrisburgh has not been settled with
yet for the loss Of her husband by the same
accident
FRED LAwEAR, a young man residing at
Lyndonville, entered the house of G. A.
Severance on Thursday of last week in the
absence of the family and stole So. Friday
morning he got out of town on freight
train, but was arrested at st. Johnsbury,
brought back, put under $500 bonds and
committed to Jail.
The famous case of the state against
George Dryer and others of Hghgate for
an alleged disturbance of the peace and as
sault upon Roman Catholic priest on the
morning of the 4th of July, in which the de-
PENDANTS We're put under bonds to appear
before the grand jury by Justice Hall of st.
Adams has resulted, after long hearing
before the grand jury, in which no defense
was offered, in dismissal of the whole case.
THE surviving veterans of the Sixteenth
Vermont Volunteers have decided to erect
regimental monument on the Gettysburg
battlefield. This memorial will mark the
spot where the Sixteenth, under command
of WheelOck Ii. Veazey, made the brilliant
charge on the flank OF Wilcox's Brigade i'm
mediatey following the movement on
Pckett's division made by Stannard' s
Brigade, of which the Sixteenth formed a
part
The quarterly report of Superintendent
Coffey on the Soldiers Home shows that
there were sixty-two inmates September 30.
No deaths have taken place during the
period and several have been admitted.
The farm has produced ten tons of hay and
six hundred bushels of vegetables of
various kinds The money given the home
by Sergeant Minor of the Ninth Vermont
the library.
The report made to the United States
treasury department by the collector OF
customs for the district of Vermont of the
business of the district for the quarter end
ing September 80 shows the following
figures: Domestic merchandise exported
to Canada, S40l 40; free goods imported
and entered for consumption, S349,3l0; duti.
able merchandise entered for consumption
value 81 ,009,3S1, duties $204 1882 %; entered
for warehouse and immediate transporta
ton, value S347 ,74, duties S76,770; entered
for transportation and expectation to foreign
countries, value $371 1888, duties S97, 24S93.
II. p. KELLOGG of Chicago, formerly o.
Benson, who, with his wife has been visit
ing friends at Rutland, was struck by the
outgoing train on the Delaware x Hudson
road at fifteen minutes past eleven Thurs
day morning. He was walking on the Cen
trail Vermont railroad track when first
seen, but on noticing the hog train on tn,
track before him he stepped off that track
on to the Delaware & Hudson track just a,
the passenger train was passing that point
H. was thrown to the outside of the rail
the front Wbeal nj tba angina naqgiuO OVai