The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-22
Summary OF News.

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A CITIZENS ALLIANCE CLUB has been or
ganized at Fair Haven with sixty members.
The number OF city people coming to Yer
| mont to spend the summer Is reported to be
the largest for years.
The second session of the Orleans county
summer school will be held at Barton
Landing from August to H..
POSTMASTER PIERCE of Brandon was
stricken with apoplexy last week Tuesday.
| His case is critical, and his chances OF re"
covery are slim.
j. w. HOBART has retired from the gen.
eral management of the Central Vermont
railroad, after forty-three years service
with the company.
GOVERNOR PAGE, while attending the
commencement exercises at Poultney, pre-
scented the principal of the school with 800
to aid in building new chapel
THE census bureau has recently issued a
bulletin concerning paupers in almshouses.
| The number for the whole country in 1890
was 73,045, and of these Vermont has 543.
RUTLAND county court opens September
| g. Judge l.. III. Thompson presiding. There
are 292 cases on the docket, many of which
were continued from the last term of court.
A WEALTHY New York firm has purchased
| the old lime kiln at Highgate Springs, and
it will be rebuilt. The stratum of lime
stone in that section is of rich quality and
very plentiful.
| j. II. MACoMBER has been appointed by
! Governor Page county examiner of schools
| for Lamoille county, to fill the vacancy
caused by the removal of j. W. Redmond
to North Troy
Mrs. ELEANOR W1NsLow of West Wood
stock is in her ninety-third year, lives with
her son Seneca, is hale and hearty, and
makes calls on neighbors and friends about
the hamlet on pleasant days.
CHIEF VEAzEY came to
Rutland last Thursday, and was given
royal reception by the Grand Army men.
He will remain in Rutland until the first of
August, when he starts for Detroit
NELSON WETHERBY of Peru, former
resident of Dandy, committed suicide re-
| Gently by taking large dose of morphine,
while visiting relatives in Dandy Corners.
He leaves a wife and three children.
PATRICK HAcKETT, aged about forty-fve,
was crushed under a 3,500-pound casting at
G. W. Osgood & Sons foundry at Bellows
Falls, Tuesday morning, July IA, and died
from the effects of his injuries an hour later.
DEPUTY COLLECTOR WooD of st. Adams
arrested four Cinnamon, last Thursday,
who were thought to have entered this
country in violation of the Chinese exclu-
sion act. They were proved offenders and
given free pass to Canada.
GEORGE W. CAHooN of Lyndonville, a
well-known lawyer of eastern Vermont,
ness, aged sixty years He was descend
ant of one of the original settlers in the
town, and his father, George c.. was a men,
Der Of congress.
f. A. BARRows of Castleton attended the
Barnum Il Bailey circus at Rutland, July 9,
and some of the light-fngered gentry re-
lieved him OF diamond pin and pocket
book containing $500. DR.. Woodhouse of
Rutland also had his pockets picked of a
small amount of money
THE Vermont Horse Breeders Associa-
ton met at White River Junction, last week
Tuesday, to complete arrangements for the
meeting and horse-trot to be held at Bill
lings Park the last week in August. This
will be one of the greatest meetings of
horsemen ever assembled in Vermont
The Ninth Vermont Veteran Association
will hold its fourth annual reunion at
Bennington, Tuesday, August IS, 1891, at
the tent of General Peck, at half-past two
P. NJ. All comrades are requested to be
present. All railroads within the state will
sell round-trip tickets at reduced rates.
WILL THOMPSON, an employee of Skillings,
Whitney & Barnes, was seriously injured at
Burlington last Friday. While he was
running moulding machine stick flew
back, striking him just below the eye, pene-
trating the ball of his eye. He was at once
taken to the Mary Fletcher hospital, where
he was attended by DR.. L. M. Bingham.
THE graduating exercises of the Medical
College at Burlington occurred last week
Monday evening. Hon. E. j. Phelps and
Judge Shaw were present, and President
Buckham presided. Rev. ID. j. O'Sullivan
was orator. Sixty-nine candidates received
diplomas. OF these thirteen were residents
of Vermont, and eight of foreign countries.
Seven only were college graduates.
EDWIN KTTTREDGE of Bethel recently dug
up copper coin on his premises that is
quite curiosity. On one side the lettering
| ia distinct and roads NarIOnuf En-.
SUM Republica," with the figure of pillow,
mountains and rising sun, and bears date of
1916. The lettering on the reverse side is
indistinct. 1t is thought to be one Of few
pieces of money that were coined in Brat
tleboro in colonial days.
Domestic.
CHICAGO claims 600 increase in popu-
lation in the last year.
HAMsToNEs two inches long were driven
through barn doors in South Dakota on
July u.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the
planting of a colony Of Russian Jews in
New Jersey
JUDGE WHEELocK G.. VEAzEY of Yer
mont has resigned as trustee of Dart
mouth College.
THE National Editorial Association, rep
resented by five hundred delegates, met al
st. Paul, July Ia.
A HARNESS that looks luminous in the
dark has been invented. 1t is intended to
prevent collisions at night.
THE New England Chautauqua assembly
began its annual summer session at Soutl
birmingham, Mass, last week Wednesday
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL of Ohio was re-
nominated for governor by the democratic
convention at Cleveland last week Wednes
day.
GEN. Booth of the Salvation Army pro
poses to buy land in the western part of the
United States, to found colony similar tt
that which he has established in England.
A MOST horrible murder occurred in Han
over, N. H., last Saturday night. Miss
Christie Warden was disgraced and shot by
Frank Almy. The murderer has not beer
arrested as yet.
REV. SAMUEL SMALL, the evangelist, has
returned to journalism He has accepted
! the managing editorship of new evening
y paper, the Atlanta Herald, to be devoted in
part to prohibition.
A SWANSEA, Mass, man has applied for g
pension, on the ground that he lost his voice
reading war news to the farmers who useG
to meet nights in the village grocery. Hi,