The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-29
Summary OF News.

THERE is talk of draining the big pond in
Woodford and stocking it with trout.
THE twenty-eighth annualIreunion of Yer
mont officers will be held at Newport, VT,
on Friday, August a.
THE little child of Napoleon Gordon of
| Richford was drowned in the Missisquoi
river on last week Monday
NEW saddles and brides have been or
dered for the Fuller Battery of Brattleboro
| for the centennial celebration in August.
AN infant was cremated in Orange, which
seems very strange to the people thereabout,
where there is plenty of room for burying-
ground.
MANLY SMITH of Plainfield lost three
COWS, recently, by the stable-tioor giving
away, which left them hanging in the
stanchions.
DEACON MOSES JOHNSON of Barnet owns
an old arithmetic, dating back to the reign
of Edward VI, the unfortunate boy king
who reigned in 1547.
Mrs. CUSTER, widow of the general, has
been invited as the guest of Custer Grand
Army post of Bennington, to attend the
celebration in August.
The new bell presented to the Methodist
church in Morrisville by Hon. Weld Terrill
of Middlefield, Conn, was put in place in
the church tower last Thursday.
Ex-Governor j. GREGORY SMITH re-
sumed the active presidency of the Central
Vermont railroad last week Monday. He
has much improved in health lately.
GEORGE G. BROOKS sixteen years of age,
| charged with stealing horse from Fred
| Stanton in Danville was sentenced at st.
Johnsbury to the Reform School for five
| years.
AN unusual incident occurring at Mr.. A.
| L. Bailey's, in St. Johnsbury, the other
night, was the appearance of four blossoms
on nigbt-blooming cereus, all of which
opened at the same instant.
COLONEL A. A. HALL of st. Adams has
gone to Denver to make arrangements for
accommodations of Vermont knights Tenn
plar attending the grand triennial conclave,
to be held there in August, 1892.
EDITH SARGENT of Rutland, by mistake
drank teacupful of water in the bottom of
which were twenty-seven two-grain NOR
phine pills The girl was unconscious for
several hours, but finally revived.
Hon. II. G. IDE of St. Johnsbury, who
was made the representative of this govern
ment in the international commission to
settle the Samoan difficulties, has been
chosen chairman of the commission.
The largest fish ever taken from Lake
| Bomoseen was recently captured by John
Coffee. 1t measured thirty-four inches
around the largest place, was forty inches
long and weighed over forty-fve pounds.
FRANK STILES of Bethel cut off one of the
attempted to kill the ANIMAL when it bit
him severely on the wrist. He had the
wound cauterized to guard against hydro
phobia.
THE adjourned term of Orange county
supreme court was held last week Tuesday
and Wednesday at Chelsea, Hons. Russell
S. Taft, John w. Rowell, Henry r. Start
and Laforrest S. Thompson, associate
judges, being in attendance.
SECRETARY PROCTOR informs Col. Hooker,
president of the Vermont Association of
Road aud Trotting Horse Breeders, that he
will, in company with Secretary Rusk, at
tend the seventh annual meeting at White
River Junction, August % to %
AT the annual meeting of the trustees of
the Vermont Soldiers Home, held at Ben
nington last Wednesday, the following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Hugh Henry of Chester; secre-
tary, c. G. Kinsman of Rutland; treasurer,
j. G. Stearns of Bradford.
IT has been decided in view of the many
celebrations occurring this summer which
might interfere with the proposed regimen
tai reunion of the Twelfth Vermont Volun-
teers, to postpone the latter until next year.
1t will probably be held October 4, 1892,
which will be thirty years from the muster
ing in of the regiment.
The fifth annual reunion of the Veterans
| Association of Grand Isle, Franklin and
Chittenden counties was held at Missisquoi
Park, Highgate Springs, last Thursday.
The more noted speakers were Department
Commander D. l.. Morgan of Rutland, F.
W. McGettrck of St. Adams, and Hon.
Henry Ballard of Burlington.
THE fifth annual summer exhibition of
the Eastern Vermont Association of Road
and Trotting Horse Breeders will be held
August II, u and IS at the refitted Mem
phremagog Driving Park, Newport. There
are nine stakes, amounting to over $1,000,
and eleven premiums, somewhat less in
amount, to be competed for.
THE summer meeting of the Rutland
Driving Park Association which occurs
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Au-
gust 4, and g. on the fair grounds prom
ses to surpass any racing event held in
Rutland for many years. There is total
of 1875 entries. The premiums amount to
50, 100, and the stakes to 1858, making a
total of So, 053.
GOVERNOR PAGE has appointed commit
tee of fifty, headed by Senators Edmunds
and Morrill,, to cooperate with the local
committee and the governor and staff at
Bennington, to look after the arrival of dis
tinguished guests from without the state,
and to see that they do not lack that courte-
GUS attention about which there was so
much complaint at the celebration in 1871
The literary exercises to take place at the
Bennington celebration are as follows: In
troductory remarks by the president of the
day, Judge Wheelock G. Veazey, United
States Interstate commissioner; prayer,
Rev. Charles Parkhurst, editor ZioR'S Her
aid, Boston; address of welcome Governor
Carroll S. Page of Vermont; address and
formal transfer of the monument to the
state of Vermont by Ex-Governor b. f.
Prescott of New Hampshire, president OF
the association; acceptance on behalf of the
state by Governor Page; music; centennial
oration Hon. Edward j. Phelps of Bur,
lington, VT; remarks by President Harri-
son; music, benedicton.
Domestic.
THE congress of Venezuela has refused to
negotiate reciprocity treaty with Secretary
Blaine.
THE number of postoffices in the country
on June 80, 1891, was 64,39l-a gain of 9, DOC
during the year.
TOBACCO manufacturers say that the Nc.
Kinley tariff has decreased the importation
of Cuban cigars 100000 a month.
A CABLE line is to be built between the
city of Washington and the historic spots
Arlington Cemetery and Mount Vernon.
FOUR Chicago pastors took part personally