The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12
Summary OF News.


crete paving has been done at MorrlSville
this season.
CAPTAIN o. U. PERc1vAL of Glover, man
seventy years old, moved one-fourth of an
acre of grass in forty-fve minutes.
THE electric-light plant in Springfield
was put into operation Thursday evening
for the first time. 1t proved a grand
success.
AFTER issuing eighty-two numbers, the
Brattleboro Eyening Times suspended pub
LEGATION with an editorial obituary headed
Busted"
THE trial of Alpheus Chaquette charged
with the murder of Frederick Collette in
Ferrisburgh, last August, is now in progress
at Middlebury.
Miss MABEL McDUFFEE of Bradford sails
for Europe this week, where she will join
Miss G. T.. Strickland from the same place,
and remain year.
EDWARD A. SHUTTLEwoRTH, a graduate of
Norwich University, class '9l, has been
commissioned second lieutenant in the
Eleventh Infantry, U. S. A.
REV. DIR. JOHN HOPKINS WORCESTER of
Chicago, son of Rev. DR.. Worcester of
Burlington, has been elected professor
of systematic theology in Union Theological
Seminary, New York city.
A MAN from Holland, who is mentally off,
held up three teams at Derby Line and de-
manded money. The scream of a lady &C.
him and he took to his heels.
BISHOP DE GoEsBRIAND of Burlington
celebrated his seventy-ffth birthday on
Tuesday He was born in st. Urban,
France, August 4, 1876 and became bishop
of the diocese of Vermont in 1858.
THE Home Publishing Company is a new
Burlington concern. 1t will publish the
Vermont and New Hampshire Registers,
Self Helm and Home ,StudU, and a medi-
nu1 inr1r ,nl ff. hn
PRESIDENT HARRISON has promised the
managers of the Horse Breeders Associa-
ton to stop off at White River junction two
or three hours in order to attend the annual
meeting on The afternoon of the 9th
A BURLINGTON woman refused to con-
tribute to the support of her pastor, because
he sometimes practices law while engaged
in the ministry. She holds that no man
can be good Christian and practice law.
THE annual meeting of the NIssisquo
Valley Camp-meeting Association COM
mences August 20. About half-fare rates
over the Central Vermont railroad and the
st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad.
THE Franklin County Creamery Associ-
alton is making 10000 pounds of butter a
day, using the milk of 1900 cows. About
700 farmers are patrons The managers
hope soon to reach the full capacity of
10000 pounds day.
MONEY is being raised at Barton to buy
large flag to be placed on the school build
ing. The building is to be repaired and
new heating apparatus put in. Clarence
H Wiley of Barton Landing has been en-
gagged as principal of the academy.
ELLIS G. HALLIDAY, aged eighty-one, com
mitted suicide at farmhouse in Bethel
early Monday morning, by placing a shot
gun at his breast and discharging it with a
stick. He was Respondent because of ill
health. He leaves wife and two children.
THE new chapel of the Troy Conference
Academy at Poultney presents very at
tractiVe exterior appearance, the basement
being of rock-faced Rutland blue marble,
and the two stories above of brick, with
marble trimmings. The whole cost is
$4,000.
The North Congregational church of st.
Johnsbury has received a legacy of $500
from the late Miss Mary Smith, and So, 900
by the will of Ex-Governor Horace Fair
banks The income of both legacies will
be used for the relief of the poor in that
church.
THE little Morgan mare which so bravely
carried the chaplain of the First Vermont
Cavalry through the war, is dead. She had
been retired from duty some eight months
and her death probably ends the column of
horses that served in the war of the rebel
lion. Peace to her ashes.
The body of Captain Johnny Jackson.
Chimney Point, in Lake Champlain several
days ago, was found last Friday, floating
near that point. Mrs. Lang, his daughter
says that his trunk on board the schooner
was found broken open and looted of all its
contents except the captains pension
papers.
AT a meeting of citizens last Thursday,
articles OF association were entered into for
a corporation to be known as the Bethel
Shoe Company. Over $4,000 of the stock
has already been subscribed for, and the
work of selecting a site and erecting build
ings will be pushed at once. 1t is expected
10 erect plant with a capacity for seventy
to ninety hands.
VERGENNEs is the third Oldest city in the
United States, having been chartered in
l7SS. Hartford and New Haven Conn,
We're chartered in 1874. Vergennes is prob
ably the smallest and most quiet city in the
country, having a population of 1773 and
covering only 1000 acres. Nevertheless it
mas mayor, city council, a board of alder
men and all other officers pertaining to a
full-tedged city
Domestic.
CONGRESSMAN LODGE will preside over
the republican state convention in Boston,
September l6.
Two battalions of cavalry have been or
dered to drive cattle from the Cherokee
A SEVERE hail and thunder-storm caus-
ing considerable damage, passed over Man
chester, n. H., last Friday
BELvA LOCKWOOD was the first woman to
ride bicycle in Washington. She was
ridiculed and jeered by the multitude.
SO great has been the production of
whiskey in Kentucky that there is now
surplus of 100000 gallons on hand.
THE government, on recommendation of
Agent Cole, will pay each of 423 Cnur
d'Alene Indians 81 100 for coded lands.
ANOTHER terrible railroad accident oc-
CURED near Syracuse, n. Y, last Thursday.
Ten were killed and over forty injured
DIsTRICT-ATToRNEY NIcoLL has had in
dicted all the New York newspapers that
published accounts of the executions at
Sing Sing.
PURE water is so scarce in Chicago that
capitalists are about to invest 81 600, 600 in
piping water from a Wisconsin spring to be
sold in that city.
PROFESSOR KARL p. HARRINGTON of Wes-
leyan University Of Connecticut has been
elected Professor of Latin in the University
Of North Carolina.
The death of the Hon. Bayless Hanna,
ministar the ArUantina RanubI;o H.