The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-10
Summary Of News

A NUMBER of dogs at st. Johnsbury have
been poisoned recently
BRATrLEBoRo has an evening school,
which meets two evenings each week.
DEspEMoNA widow of the late Jacob
Estey of Brattleboro, died on Monday after
noon.
BURLINGTON has become a first-class post
office, and the salary of the postmaster Will
be $4,000.
The shirt factory of Finn, Wallerstein b
Co. of Rutland is soon to be removed to AL
bany, N. Y.
The Memphremagog house at Newport
was raided the other day, and large amount
of liquor was seized.
THE twenty-ninth annual convention Of
| Congregational churches of Vermont began
at Brattleboro yesterday
THE engine and boiler for the copper mine
at Wolcott are being put into position, and
the water will be pumped out
THE Orleans county conference of Congre-
gational ministers was held at Newport on
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
Mrs LILLE FELcH of Royalton cele
| brated her ninety-sixth birthday on last
week Wednesday. She was born at En-
field, N. II.
JOHN DEWEY Fay who died at East Ches-
| ter N. Y, last week. was the grandson of
Colonel Joseph Fay, the first secretary Of
state of Vermont
BY the premature discharge of shotgun,
George Nutting, fifteen years of age, was
fatally injured last week. The charge took
effect in the abdomen.
| AT a special meeting of the town Of
Lyndon, on last week Tuesday, an addi-
tional appropriation of $500 for the Fourth
of July celebration was voted.
THE University of Vermont purchased
last week of the Mary Fletcher hospital,
| for $1,000, seventeen acres of land north of
the Williston road and twenty-three acres
south of it.
WH1TINGHAM has sold the highway be-
tween there and Reads boro to the Whining
| ton railroad company, which will use it for
roadbed. The town will probably build a
new highway.
RICHARD WILLIAMS, foreman in the
Warren slate company's quarry at Gran
vile, near Poultney, fell on last week Fri
day distance of seventy-five feet and re-
ceived fatal injuries.
THE Central Vermont Railroad company
is said to have in contemplation scheme of
reorganization by which the present man
agement will retire, and younger men take
their places, and the various leased lines
will be consolidated under one management.
THE fifteenth annual meeting of the Sons
of Vermont in Chicago was held on Tuesday
of last week at the Grand Pacific hotel.
| The subject of an excursion to Bennington
at the time of the celebration in August was
discussed and referred to the executive COM
mittee.
THE judges of the Pimlico, Md, trottng
races, on Saturday, expelled George f. Da-
| Wis of St. Johnsbury, owner of the horse
Tom Hamilton, II. f. Brewster, also of St.
| Johnsbury, and William Achutf, drivers.
| The horse also was expelled. The judges
say the men were engaged in a fraud con-
nected with the Pimlico stake. The eXpul-
| sion prevents the men and the horse from
trotting on any national association track.
The state Baptist Sunday-school conven-
tiOn held in Burlington last week, was well
attended. 1t began on Tuesday evening.
| These officers were elected on Wednesday:
President, Rev. u. Marten of Bennington
vice-president, Rev. II. NJ. Douglass of
Putney; secretary, Rev. G. I. Raymond of
! Montpelier; assistant secretary, III. III. Hack
ley; treasurer, ID. M. White of Rutland; di-
rectors, L. w. Hawley of Brattleboro, j. E.
Tison of Rutland, A. B. Cushman of W est
Randolph, Rev. l.. S. Johnson of st. Adams,
G.. A. Powell of Rchford. The convention
closed on Thursday, after large number of
interesting addresses had been made
THE trustees of the Stannard memorial
! fund and the members of Stannard post,
| G. A. r., have decided to unveil the bronze
statue of General Stannard in Lake View
cemetery at Burlington on the Goth of June.
| 1t is expected that number of his old
regiment, the Second Vermont, and also of
the Ninth Vermont, of which he was
colonel, will be present. Colonel G. G..
Benedict has been asked to make a brief
address, and General w. L. Greenleaf to
act as marshal upon the occasion. Grand
Army posts and Sons of Veterans who wish
to take part in this ceremony, as organiza-
tons, will communicate with General
Greenleaf for positions in line.
Domestic.
DIR. BENSON j. LOSING, the well-known
historian and one of the best known citi-
liens of Duchess county, New York, died on
last week Wednesday.
SECRETARY FOSTER has sent a circular
letter to the steamship companies which
bring immigrants to this country, calling
! their attention to the laws on the subject
and warning them against violations.
THE directors of the Union Theological
Seminary on last week Friday voted that
the veto of the general assembly in Dr.
Briggs case was illegal. DR.. Briggs will
thus continue professor for another year.
DAVID HoTALING, aged fifteen, of North
Adams, Mass, was accidentally shot at his
| home on last week Thursday morning by a
companion while playing policemen and
burglars" The bullet enteted the boy s
neck, killing him instantly.
JUDGE JOSIAH G. ABBOTT died at Welles-
ley, Mass. on last week Tuesday, aged
SeVenty-SlX. lie was prominent lawyer,
a member OF the superior court, and since
early life had been an acknowledged leader
of the democratic party in Massachusetts,
THE monument erected at Jackson, Miss,
in honor of the Confederate dead of Misss-
sippi was unveiled on last week Wednesday
Mrs. Margaret Davis Hynes, daughter OF
Jefferson Davis, formally unveiled it, and
Governor Lowry gave an address on " The
Life and Character of Jefferson Davis"
A tah to tha J.,
from Portsmouth, n, H., says that Isaac b
Sawtelle, now confined in the Concord state
prison, convicted of fratricde, has put or
record with the governor and council the
story of how his brother Hiram was killed
In brief, Isaac admits that he was present
when his brother was shot in Lebanon, Me.
but says the killing was done by an agent
Of DR., Charles Blood.