The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-07
Summary Of News.

IHE hlCnIOIu lOunuTy lndue TtCeully llS
FIRST casting, which was successful.
THE Stowell Manufacturing Company at
Putney has shut down for one or two weeks.
HARTLAND has issued call for $1,000 of
its outstanding bonds, which leaves only
$4,000 unpaid
A PETITION to the postmaster-general is
being circulated for free delivery of mails
in SaxtOn's River.
WALDO f. WILLIAMS of Sunderland, while
out fox.hunting recently, shot bay lynx,
receiving a $40 bounty.
A MEETING of the stockholders of the Yer
mont Maple Sugar Exchange will be held at
Bratteboro January 49,
The Addison County Agricultural Society
has been admitted to membership in the
National Trotting Association.
JAMES Il. BALDWIN, formerly car i'm
spector on the Central Vermont, died last
week of consumption at Rutland
MOSES HAYWARD of West Concord cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday on last week
Tuesday. He was born in Bedford, Mass.
THE annual school of the officers of the
state militia will probably be held in the
Brattleboro armory some time in February
THE Franklin County Farmers League
met at ST. Adams yesterday, and was adj
dressed by Rev. j. X. Fuller of Barton
Landing.
THE Addison county teachers institute
will be held at the town hall in Bristol, be-
ginning January - and continuing through
the 18th and 18th.
The shaft to commemorate the landing of
Leonard Calvert on the soil of Maryland,
for which the legislature of that state
appropriated $1,000, will be of Vermont
granite.
THE Montreal express due at Newport at
ten o'clock last week Monday evening was
derailed near North Troy. No one was in
jured. The train was not righted until
eight o'clock the next morning.
The annual report of the chief engineer
of the Rutland fire department gives the
number of fires for the year at twenty-three,
with total loss of less than $1,000, show
ing the efficiency of the fire department.
E. l.. WATERMAN of Brattleboro has been
appointed master to hear claims against the
assets of the old Vermont Copper Mining
Company at Vershire, in the hands of a re-
ceiver, under the authority of the Orange
county court
A FINE bell was placed in the tower OF the
Poulney Methodist church on last week
Thursday. 1t was presented to the society
by Mrs. George Bliss in memory of her hus-
band. who practiced medicine in Poultney
for over forty years.
BURGLARS broke open the mail car of the
narrow gauge train at South Londonderry,
last week Monday, taking therefrom small
sum of money and stamps, after which they
took from the railroad station several tickets
and some $50 in money.
DECEMBER was the coolest month in st.
Johnsbury in many years. The mercury
never went above the freezing point during
the month and once touched twenty-eight
below zero. The last twelve mornings of
the month the mercury averaged fourteen
degrees below zero.
The Office of stamp deputy for Vermont
in the internal revenue department, which
has been filed by Il. N. Whitney of the
Burlington Clipper, has been abolished and
a similar Office will be established at Bel
lows Falls George A Weston of Bellows
Falls has been appointed in Mr.. Whitney's
place.
The annual reunion of the Chicago Sons
of Vermont will be in the nature of a cele-
bration of the centennial anniversary of the
admittance of Vermont into the Union.
The exercises will include the usual ban
quet at the Auditorium hotel commencing
at seven o'clock on the evening of January
10, to be followed by an Grafton by Congress-
man-elect H. ii. Powers, brief speeches by
Colonel Aldace Il. Walker, Governor Fifer
of Illinois, and others, closing with dancing
by the young people. John NJ. Southworth
is president of the society, and G.. e. Foss
lately of ST. Adams, is the secretary.
The adjourned annual meeting of the
Vermont Board of Trade was held at Bur
lington on last week Friday. The treasurer
v.
Secretary G. j. Ferguson in his annual re-
port showed that there had been a filling
off in the sales on the board, but the dis
cussion following disclosed the fact that the
aggregate sales including those made pri-
vately on the floor, were large. The old di-
rectors were reelected, as follows: l.. ii.
Talcott of Williston, G. l.. Mcmahon of
Stowe, A. ID. Evarts of Vergennes, r. NJ.
Deal of st. Adams, E. j. Toof of Franklin.
THE Vermont Farmers League will meet
at ST. Adams, beginning the session on the
evening OF the 10Th instant and continuing
through the 10th Among the speakers
will be Professor j. Il. Dodge, the statsti-
clan, who will represent the agricultural
department. The Vermont Dairymen's As
sociation meets on the 18th, 14th and 10th,
at the same place, and the programme of
the meeting can be Obtained from K. L. Bass
of West Randolph. The railroads will sell
half-fare tickets, good through the 18th, and
the hotels offer very low rates. 1t is hoped
that there will be a large gathering of
farmers at these meetings. Governor Hoard
of Wisconsin will speak on the afternoon of
the l4th, on The Dairy Temperament, and
on that evening, which will be governors
night there will be ten-minute speeches
by Governor Hoard, Governor Page, Lieu
nant-governOr Fletcher ex-Lieutenant-
governor Woodbury., Ex-Governor Barstow
and Ex-Governor Holbrook. The dairy ex-
hibits, machinery, etc, are expected to be
very Interesting
The lease of the Rutland railroad, which
has been referred to in previous issues, was
executed at Burlington on last week
Wednesday, the papers in the case being
signed by President j. Gregory Smith on
the part of the Central and President Per-
cival w. Clement of the Rutland railroad.
BY the terms of the lease the lessees will
pay an annual rental of $3i5 900 and taxes,
the Rutland railroad to furnish 100000 at
five per cent interest for improvements and
additions to rolling stock. Interest pay
ments, however, are to be made only on
such portion of the sum as is actually ex-
pended by the lessees The Central Yer
mont has the option of buying at any time
controlling interest in the stock of the
Rutland road and thereby becoming the
actual owners of the road. In addition to
these terms the Central Vermont secures an
important traffic arrangement with the Della
ware q Hudson by which large amount of
freight traffic is secured which heretofore
has reached New England points by other
water and rail routes. The negotiations on
the part of the Central have been carried on
by Vice-president e. G. Smith.
Domestic.
A SEVERE blizzard occurred in Kansas
and other Western States last week.