The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-17
Summary OF News.
Vermont.

bans.
A BILL was introduced in the house re-
Gently bv Congressman Stewart to establish
amiitary post at Essex junction.
RUFUs SCOTT, owner OF the well-known
"SCott farm " in DummerstOn, died Of heart
failure December o. He was over eighty
years old
WRITs of attachment have been served on
the stock of NJ. w. Getchell, grocer, of Pas
sum sic, in behalf of Boston and Portland
creditors.
IRA F. DAVIS of EuoSburgh has been ad.
mitted to bail for appearance in the United
States court on charge of sending dun
on a postal card.
THE characterization Register is to be re-
moved from Braltleboro about January.
The Office will be in Boston, aud the paper
will be printed in Holyoke, Mass.
The Brush Electric Company of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has begun suit against the
Marble City Electric Light and Power Com
pany of Rutland for an infringement of
patent.
b. +. KELLEY, the new sheriff of Frank
lin county, who has assumed at st. Adams
the duties of his office, has made himself un-
popular among the fraternity of tramps by
providing wood yard, where they are set
at work.
The Springfield Republicans Washington
correspondent says that Thomas Gale is the
only applicant for the Newport post-office
and that no papers have been received by
General Grout regarding the West Ran
dolph Office
THE grand jury of the Windsor county
court, at Woodstock, on last week Thursday
returned an Indictment against Lyman G.
Clark, charged with the murder of his
mother in-law, Miriam Marston, at White
River Junction, November %. He will be
tried in May.
THE statement is made that the French
H.. Nl,,
forming organizations with a view of OBJ
tanning many of the abandoned farms of the
state and also of New Hampshire. 1t is
stated that committees have been sent to
several localities TO buy farms.
d. S CoNANr of North Thetford is a mem
Der of The committee on finance of the class
day committee OF the senior class of Dart
mouth College, e. w. Tewksbury of West
Randolph a member of the committee on
printing, and ID. g. Richardson of Water
bury member of the comintte on music.
The Montpelier district of the Vermont
Branch Of the Woman's Auxiliary to the
Board of Missions opened its annual meet
ing Tuesday evening of last week at st.
Johnsbury, with sermon by Rev. Mr..
Webster Of Ashland, N. H., and closed
Wednesday evening. The principal speaker
was Miss Sibvl Carter of New York.
THE Congregational Club of Western YER
mont met at Middlebury on Tuesday of
Problems of Congregationalsm " was
opened by Rev. g. H. Merrill, and Rev.
Norman Seaver read a paper on Cardinal
Newman. Resolutions of respect to the
memory of the late Rev. E. p Wild were
adopted.
The first meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture was held at Swanton on Tues.
day and Wednesday of last week. 1t was
addressed by Professor w. w. Cooke of
Burlington on " The Advantages of Cream
cries" The second meeting was held at
Enosburgh on Thursday and Friday, and
was addressed by Professor Cooke and Hon.
William Chaplin of Middlesex.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES N.
TYNER has requested Postmaster Chids OF
BrattlebOro to forward to the dead letter
office number of circulars sent out by
Hancock Grand Army post Of Montreal,
attorney general decla es to be in violation
OF the lottery law" These circulars have
been sent throughout the state.
THE census Office, in bulletin upon the
subj 4ct of marble production in the United
States, says that the demand for marble in
this country is FIR the most part supplied
by the state of Vermont. There are twelve
states in which marble is produced, but
Vermont furnishes more than all the other
states combined. There are now 1903 quar-.
ries in operation, and the total value of the
annual output is S3,4S8,0O0. or this amount
Vermont produced So, l69,5S0 and Massa-
chuSetts SS50O0 OF the capital employed
S9,346 1888 is in Vermont, 81, 1873 ,628 is in
Georgia, and 81, 036 ,461 in New York
Domestic.
The will of the late August Belmont
gives nothing to charitable purposes
j. l.. NJ. IRBY has been elected United
States senator TO succeed Wade Hampton Of
South Carolina.
DURING a wedding in the city of Henry,
Friday thipy4l thaA
wraps of the guests and the more valuable
wedding presents.
AT Pttsburg, Penn, on last week Thurs
day, $4,000 worth of oeomargarine was
seized because the stamps had been
Scra ched rom the kegs.
THE trouble between the New England
Granite Company and the quarrymen at
Concord, N. H., has been satisfactorily
adjusted and the strike is off.
Mrs OELwING, twenty eight years of age,
Jumped from North G rnan Lloyd steamer
on the 9th instant and was drowned She
was on her way to Chicago to meet her hus-
band.
THE womans Christian Temperance
Union Of Salem, Mass, have protested
to Postmaster general Wanamaker against
the licensing of liquor-saloon under the
Salem pOst-otfice.
CHARLES JOPLIN shot and killed John
II Her, his wife, daughter, a doctor and a
man whose name Is not known, anu then
committed suicide at Fort Smith, Ark. 1t
is said that Joplin had been the cause of
Miss Millers troubles
AssEMBLYMAN-ELECT MULvANEY of the
fifth New York district has been indie ed by
the grand jury on charge of elecioneerng
within one hundred feet of the polls at the
late election. Professor Guttheil of Co
lumbia College is the complainant
Two robbers, wearing diamonds and silk
hats, entered Chicago street-car Friday
night and held up Elijah West, aged seventy
years. They succeede in getting gold
watch and some money from him. The car
was crowded with people at the time.
THE annual meeting of the New England
Association of Trotting Horse Breeders was
held ON Wednesday of last week at Boston.
The treasurrr's report showed a balance OF
So The two vce-presidents elected
from Vermont were w. s. Bailey of East
Hardwick aud IL. T. Cults OF Orwell
THE annual meeting of the National AS
ISOLATION of Trotting Horse Breeders was
held at New York on last week Wednes-
day. The following officers were elected