The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

Windsor county.
A LETTER mailed at Montgomery March
was twenty days in travelling to its desti-
nation in Burlington
THE State Board of Health will hold its
next quarterly meeting at the Van Ness
house in Burlington April II.
VERMONT parties have arranged for a site
to build a tannery at Gadsden, Ala, to cost
$4,000 and to employ one hundred hands.
The annual exhibition of the Vermont
Merino strengthening Association was
held at Middlebury last week Tuesday and
Wednesday,
SOME of the friends of Secretary Proctor
in different parts of the state propose to ten
der him a dinner at an early day, to be fixed
by him, at Rutland.
VERMONT is ahead of every other state in
the production of butter the annual product
averaging seven hundred eleven pounds to
each farm, while New York produces four
hundred siXty-four pounds to each farm.
WILLIAM MERRITT and Mrs. Clara Won
Dell, who eloped from st. Adams about two
years ago, have been arrested in Lowell,
Mass Both of the parties were married
at the time of the elopement and left large
families.
BURGLARS attempted to rob the safe in
Bangs and Lyman's store at North Ben
niDgton on Tuesday night of last week One
charge of powder cracked the safe. While
were disturbed and left.
AT the annual village meeting held last
Wednesday st. Adams made appropria-
tons amounting to about $4,000 and ac-
cepted the provision of the act of the last
legislature allowing the village to refund its
outstanding notes and bonds.
The Wilbur Opera Company advertised
sacred concert " in Burlington Sunday
evening, March 81, but after being inter
viewed by committee of forty leading citi-
zens appointed by five churches the man
ayers Cancelled the engagement.
DIR. w. SEWARD WEBB is having con-
structed at Whining on, Del, splendid
steam yacht, for use on Lake Champlain, at
cost of 100000. DR.. Webb has spent
over $40 900 reitting his old yacht Sap
pho" but he wanted something better and
capable of faster time.
AN associated press dispatch of April
announces the suicide of Isabel Majors,
aged thirty-three, at st. Johnsbury, Thurs
day evening. Her home was at Hartford
but she had been i'll at Keene, n. H., during
the winter, and came to st. Johnsbury
Wednesday evening respondent
LESLIE MORRISON and Fred Lezott of
Winooski engaged in drunken brawl on
Monday night of last week. Lezott was
stabbed seven times in the back, head and
neck and at last accounts was lying in a
critical condition. Morrison has been bound
CARNEGIE BROTHERS g. Co. of Pittsburg
Penn, have purchased an interest in the
Wallingford iron mines in the town of Wal
lingford, sixteen miles from Rutland. These
mines are extensive and are full of the best
manganese, Just suited for the manufacture
of Bessemer steel. The mines are to be i'm
mediately developed.
BARNEY WING of Colchester had narrow
escape from drowning recently. He started
to go to Burlington and lost his way on the
"Slum pike" near the Williston line,
bringing up at last in Muddy brook" His
cries for help attracted two young men, who
fshed him out and worked over him till
consciousness returned.
The railroad commissioners find that the
accident at White River junction on the
Passumpsic, March S-when freight train
ran into the turn-table by reason of an open
switch, resulting in the death of the fire.
man, Lewis Harris-was caused by the care
lessness of the switchman, Richard Farrell.
The commissioners partially exculpate Far
rell from the fact that he had several trains
to attend to at once.
THE mail route between Woodstock and
Bridgewater, a distance of six miles, cost
the government for the past four years only
four cents for daily mail service, and for
the ensuing four years one cent is to pay for
the same service. If warrants are drawn
quarterly, they will call for only one
sixteenth of cent each, and the contractor
will have to wait four years, or until he has
received sixteen warrants, before he can
draw his cash.
THE monument which the state will erect
on the battlefield of Gettysburg is all cut
and ready to be shipped from Dummerston,
where it was quarried. The work is of
light granite, save the dark die, and the
whole is highly polished. 1t is to be sur
mounted by full-sized bronze statue of
General Stannard, the work of Carl Gerhardt
ofHartford, Conn. The entire height of the
monument is siXty-one feet, and each face
will have an inscription. General STAN
nard's figure will be heroic in size. The
face is shaded by a broad felt hat, the empty
sleeve is pinned across the breast, the left
leg is slightly advanced and the left hand
rests on the sword-hilt. The monument
will be dedicated about September l.
Domestic.
MARY ANDERSON sailed for Liverpool last
Wednesday.
THE guns on the United States men-of-
war lost at Samoa will be raised and put on
other vessels.
ALEXANDER McCUE, assistant United
States treasurer, died last week Tuesday at
Brooklyn, n. Y.
CREGIER, democrat, was elected mayor of
Chicago over Roche, republican, by ten
thousand majority.
The baseball season opened last Thurs
day in Boston with two games between the
regulars and picked team.
EXTENSIVE prairie fires swept over South.
western Minnesota and Dakota, last week
and burned out several towns.
MRS. MARGARET KINLEN burned herself
and three children to death, last week, by
building fire under the bed and setting fire
to the house.
The refusal of the United States senate tC
pass resolutions Of regret at the death Of
John Bright is in England attributed tC
Irish opposition.
SETTLERS on the Des Moines river lands
in Iowa made armed resistance against evic
ton, and drove off the United States marsh
ais and their men.
The proceedings of the Tennessee house o.
representatives were enlivened last Wednes
day by couple of. pugilistic encounters be
tween rival members
CLARA ToTTEN obtained verdict of S15
900 damages against Cassius III. Read of the
Hoffman house, New York city, for breacl
of promise of marriage.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE may have to ge
along without a head for another year
President Bartlett, now in California, il
thinking of going to Japan.
JUDGE PATTERSON has made ex-Presiden