The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-30
Summary OF News.



seat 1900 persons.
THE Northern Caledonia fair at Lyndon.
vile last week was very successful.
COLONEL A. f. WALKER and family have
left Rutland for Chicago for the winter.
SECRETARY PRoCToR has given 81 900 to
Derby Academy, where he was a student
in his youth.
Two stores at Gaysville were entered 10y
burglars last week Wednesday night, and
about $50 was taken from one.
ONE of the asylum patients at Brattleboro
escaped recently and was captured after
several hours hunt as he was about to take
the train.
THE annual parade, inspection and sports
of the Burlington fire department occurred
on Thursday of last week. The affair was
very successful.
PROBABLY the rarest stamp in existence
has just been sold in London for $3.50. 1t is
an American five cent stamp issued at
Brattleboro, this state, in 1870
THE new Grand Army hall at Hinesburgh
was dedicated on Tuesday evening of last
week. Among the speakers were ex-Lieu-
tenant-Governor U. A. Woodbury..
Two suspicious characters detected steal.
ing grain at Somerset, attacked f. ID. Chase
and stabbed him just below the heart.
They then went through his pockets and
fled.
JEFFREY A. RANDALL died at his home in
IltlSlOTu ON lueSuHV OF ldSt week, al tne
age of eighty-seven years He was a rep
resentative in the legislature in 1858 and
1859.
H. H. MASON of Springfield has received
an order for sixty pairs of oXbows to be
shipped to Egypt. These goods are re-
ported as having large sale in foreign
countries.
THE Vermont Bible Society will hold its
annual meeting at Enosburgh Falls, Octo-
Der IA. At the anniversary exercises in the
evening Rev. Dr. II. A. Starks of Burling-
ton will give the address.
COLONEL X. w. MORSE of West Randolph
has resigned his position as commander of
the Vermont division of the Sons of Vete-
rams and it is understood that he is to en-
gage in business in Canada.
OTIS BULLARD, aged eighty-four died at
the residence of his nephew, DIR. G. b. Bull
lard of st. Johnsbury, on September 10. He
had spent most of his life in Massachusetts,
and was in the Boston custom house under
President Pierce.
AT the corporation meeting in Bellows
Falls, last week Friday night, after gen
eral condemnation of the water commits
sioners, the people voted that the commits
sioners shall put on meters wherever water
is used for other than domestic purposes.
REV. MICHAEL MULLANY, pastor of ST.
Mary's Catholic church at Granville, n. Y, a
few miles from Poultney dropped dead while
saying early mass last week Sunday morn
ing. rheumatism of the heart was the
cause of death. He was fifty-seven years of
age.
A. A. NILES of ST. Johnsbury was driving
a yoke of oxen when thunder storm
came up. A number of his cows were COM
ing to the barn single file, when lightning
struck and killed the last one, somewhat
affecting Mr.. Niles, who was about twenty
rods distant.
EDWIN HARRINGTON died at Bethel on the
23d instant. He had for many years done
very large and successful business in the
manufacture of machinery at Philadelphia
Penn. He had within a few years built
beautiful house at Bethel, not far from his
birthplace in Stockbridge.
I. II. CHUBB, the fish-rod manufacturer
of Post Mills, has purchased the water
power and buildings owned by j. b. Pechett
in Bradford and will build in the spring
factory for the manufacture of baseball
tennis and other sporting goods. Twenty
TO thirty men will be employed at the out
set.
APOLLO LODGE, knights of Pythias, of
St. Johnsbury, entertained Major-genera
James X. Carnahan of indianapolis, Iud.,
Brigadier-general E. T. Durann of New
Haven, Conn, and Major f. W. Mckinley
of Manchester n. H., of the uniform rank
of the order, on Friday of last week. There
was banquet in the evening.
REV. /. S. JOHNSON concluded his labors
with the st. Adams Baptist church on Sum
day. and leaves for Connecticut to engage
in farming with a view to building up his
health. He has been in the ministry for
twenty-six years. The church voted to ex-
tend call to Rev. ID. E. Croft of New Bed
ford, Mass, a native of Enosburgh, this
state, and he has accepted.
In the cemetery at Royalton are lying in
row four generations of men-father son
grandson and great, grandson, each of whom
bore the name OF Ebenezer Dewey, and all
lived to be more than eighty years old. In
the cemetery at Bennington Center are four
governors of Vermont lying adjacent to
each other-Moses Robinson, Isaac Tiche-
nor, John S. Robinson and Hiland Hall.
THE Vermont Fish and Game League,
whose headquarters are in Rutland, has
done excellent work the past season. Over
500 in fines and costs has been taken out
OF vioators OF the game laws and the moral
erect OF the prosecutions has been strong.
the leagues principal effort is to make
people understand what the laws are, aud
in this direction it has accomplished much.
COLONEL U. A. WOODBURY. has decided to
build large addition to the Van Ness
House, extending the west wing to the
westward about seventy-tive feet. This cx-
tension will be six stories high, including
two stories below the Office floor, and will
contain in all seventy rooms. The dining
room also is to be enlarged. Colonel Wood
bury intends to form a stock company to
purchase the Van Ness, but lie intends to
retain large interest
A GREAT stir has been caused in Pittsford
by shooting affair that took place last
week Friday night. Carlos Hitchcock,
aged seventy, recently went there with
young bride, said to be a Detroit woman,
and Friday night, according to local custom,
he was treated to noisy serenade by
crowd of men and boys. Three shots were
fired into the crowd by some one one of
them striking a man in the leg Hitchcock
was arrested, but he protested his inno-
cence and it could not be proved that he
had any firearms. He was discharged. and
he now threatens to prosecute if he can get
the names of the serenaders.
Domestic.
1T is expected that compromise will be
made in the Hopkins Searles will case,
which is being tried at Salem, Mass.
THE Farmers League of New York met
at Albany last week Friday night and de-
cided to make no nominations for state Of
ficers.
REV. DIR. S. ID. BURCHARD, of "rum, Ro-
manism and rebellion fame, died at Sara
toga, N. Y, on Friday afternoon of last
week.