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

College began last Sunday.
A LARGE barn belonging to Warren But
terrified in Weathersfeld was much injured
by cyclone on Friday last. Damage,
81, 900.
On June % the Universalists closed a
grove meeting held for three days at Will
| loughby Lake. A similar meeting is to be
held at the same place on the first Sunday
in August.
| AT the special meeting of st. Johnsbury
| the voters sustained the trustees in the con-
test brought about by DR.. g. b. Billiard re-
garding telegraph poles erected in front OF
| his residence.
| COMMENCEMENT at the University of Yer
| mont occurred on last week Wednesday.
Among the distinguished men present were
| Governor Page, Senator Morrill,, Hon. Il.
! j. Phelps, Senator Edmunds and ex-senator
| Evarts
In the long.contested Vermont copper
mine suit Judge Rowell, with the consent
of the parties, has made decree allowing
| the payment to Goddard and Cain, credit
ors, ten per cent of their claims, amounting
! to S44, 600, the other claims aggregating
! $4,000, to be settled by another agreement
or more litigation.
THE annual encampment of the National
! Guard of Vermont will be held at Benning-
| ton, from August IL to the 21st inclusive.
| Pay will be allowed to officers and enlisted
! men for the time of actual encampment.
/ General William l.. Greeneaf has been as
| signed as post commander, and Quarter
master-general William III. Gilmore will
arrange for the transportation and payment
! of the troops
Hon. ASA OWEN Adds, a Justice of the
| supreme court of Vermont for eight years
from 1857, died at Washington on last week
| Wednesday, and was buried at st. Adams
on Saturday. After retiring from the bench
he was consul at Nice for five years, and
member of the commission to settle the
claims of southerners against the govern
ment and also a member of the French and
| American claims commission. lie had
lived in Washington many years, and leaves
a family.
AT the close of the maple sugar season of
! 1891 Commissioner Mason of the United
States internal revenue department de-
cided to make an official experimental test
of number of samples of Vermont sugar,
and at his request Deputy Collector G. S.
Forbes secured eight samples of maple
sugar made in Franklin county and for
warded them to Washington. The sugar
was tested by the polariscope by a govern
d. Gillian, Fletcher, cake, S5.S per cent;
| William Buck, Fairfax, cake, $50 per cent;
j. Horrican, Fairfield, cake, S2.7 per cent;
A. S. Olmstead, Fairfield, tub, 67.5 per cent;
p. Wells, Fairfax, cake, S2.4 per cent; b.
Rankin, Georgia, tub, S2.4 per cent; E.
Wilcox, Fletcher tub 931 per cent Will
lam Gaynor, Fletcher, cake, S2.7 per cent.
THE annual encampment of Vermont
Sons of Veterans was held at st. Johnsbury
on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
J There were about POO members present.
! The address of Colonel Bxby OF Chelsea
showed that there are now 1869 members
and fifty-seven camps in the state. This is
an increase of 4Q5 members and nineteen
camps in the past year. A parade was held
Wednesday afternoon. 1t was voted to par
| tcpate in the Bennington celebration.
| Officers were elected on Thursday as fol-
lows: Colonel, X. w. Morse of West Ran
dolph Northumberland, IL. S. Foster of
Burlington major w. II. Beadle of Dandy
division council, II. o. Bixby of Chelsea,
w. H. Boyd of Montreal, j. B. Ripley of
st. Johnsbury; delegate to national en-
campment, E. T. L. Benedict of Poultney;
delegate at.large, f. G.. West of St. Johns
bury. The first annual meeting of the
Ladies' Aid Society was held at the same
time, with about 200 members present, ard
these officers were elected: President, S.
Ada Hall of Chelsea; vice-president, Dora
! Austin of Burlington; trustees, Alice Will
Jams of Middlebury, Mrs. Ellis of Burling-
ton and Mrs. Clark of st. Johnsbury; dele
gate, Cora Francis of Burlington; delegate
| at-large, Mrs. Bonett of st. Johnsbury.
| Thursday evening the officers of both or
CARNATIONS were installed, and campfire
was held.
Domestic.
Iowa democrats renomnated Governor
| Boies on last week Thursday, and adopted
a free-slver coinage plank.
JUDGE BARTLETT of the Kings county,
n. Y, supreme court has given decision
dissolving the sugar trust and appointing
the trust companies as receivers.
A FLOOD in Cherokee Valley Iowa, last
week, drowned eight persons and caused a
loss estimated at S2,000,000. The damage
all through that section was great.
IT is rumored that an attack was made
upon the Lac and Fox Indian agency of
Wichita, Kan, on the night of the Goth by
armed desperadoes, and that Indian traders
sustained heavy losses through robbery.
JUDGE HALL of the Connecticut superior
court decided last week that Governor
| Bulkely is de facto governor and will re-
main such until his title has been over
thrown by contest, or quo warranto pro-
ceedings.
The state comptroller of California has
been advised by counsel not to pay the
100000 appropriated by the legislature for
California's exhibit at the worlds fair, on
the ground that the appropriation is un-
constitutional
IN the boat-races at New London, Conn,
last week, Columbia won the freshman race
over Yale and Harvard, Cornell won over
Pennsylvania and Columbia, making a new
record, 14274, and Harvard won from Yale
| by eleven lengths, DarNaruS victory was
the first for many years.
BY direction of the judge, the jury at New
York acquitted all the directors but the
president of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad of responsibility for the
tunnel accident. The case of President
Clark was then given to the jury, and ver-
dict of " not guilty was returned.
Foreign.
THE Canadian government has decided
to abolish the duty on raw sugar, thus fol
lowing the example of the United States.
Mrs. JACOB SCoNDUE of Springfield
Ohio. while Visiting with her father.in. Jaw