The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-07
Summary of Weps.
Vermont.

Vermont.
Mr.. AND Mrs. john HUTCHINSON Of Rut-
land celebrated their golden wedding last
week.
A FINE portrait of the late Hon Luke +,
Poland has been hung in the Worthwhile
public library.
Mr.. AND MRS II. G. HUBBARD OF Rutland
were seriously hurt, last week, by being
thrown from wagon.
Miss LIZZIE JOHNSON of Rutland was
badly ,scalded, last week, by upsettng a
kettle of boiling water.
ROBERT GORDON HARDIR, Vermont
artist, Is to paint Senator Proctor's portrait
for the war department.
GARDNER UPHAM of Windham will be
ninety.fve years old next spring, and is one
OF the liveliest men in the county.
LUcIEN HOWE, the well-known musician
of Brattleboro, and his brother Fred have
gone to the Bermudas, to spend the winter.
j. L. COLLINS of Chester, brakeman ON
the Fitchburg railroad, was instantly killed
at Miller's Falls, Mass, last Wednesday
night, while making flying switch.
DIR. JOHN ID. HANRAHAN will be Rut-
lands new postmaster by general consent
of both parties, it is said, IL change is to
be made at the end OF Mr.. Fields commits
sion. s.aads xs7& = 90. Rsgs nSSssn
A SINGULAR funeral took place at South
Barton, last week Tuesday, when four chill
dren of Melvin Drown, all of whom had
died OF diphtheria, were buried in one
grave.
ALEXANDER YOUNG OF Alburgh cut his
throat last Wednesday, at the residence of
his brother-in.law near Clarenceville, p. @.
lie had long been afflicted with an incur
able spinal disease S4Sssssga-' @SyE
JOHN DULLAHAN, T. II. Rooney C NJ
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w. McGarhan and @. w PapineaH, firemen
on the Central Vermont railroad have been
promoted to be engineers
FRED NWHITNEY has sold the Burlington
Clipper to A. Armagnac, and the latter has
taken possession. Mr.. Armagnac has been
principal of the Vergennes high school the
past year, and is New Yorker.
DIR. H. d. HoLroN of Brattleboro who
has been sojourning in the City of Mexico.
represented Vermont at the convention
held last week in New Orleans to promote
the building of the Nicaragua canal.
WILLIAM FOSTER and William Cilley OF
burlington were taken to Windsor, last
Friday-the former to serve five wears for
murderous assault on Robert Redmond
and Cilley to serve four years for house.
stealing.
EDWARD JONES, in Owens slate quarry at
Granville, on the line of the Rutland &c
burlington railroad, was fatally injured last
Saturday. While at work in the pit of the
quarry heavy stone fell from the grapple,
and. falling long distance, struck Jones
on the head. He died in few minutes "a
PENSIONS have been granted to the fol-
lowing Nermonters: Original, Orange Hog
ley. Timothy Haley, Peter Stone, Mary
Gethell. Fanny j. Martin, minor OF p.
King Myron III. LongwOrthy, August Pare;
increase, John Kennedy additional, Jona-
than Sargent; reissue Edmund E. Sisco.
w. A. RICHARDSON has been doing some
extensive swndling in Vermont, acting as
agent for the Western Milling Company of
Boston, concern which does not exist.
His latest reported victim is Fl. w. Heath
station agent for the Passumpsic railroad
at Piermont, n. H., twelve miles below
Bradford Heath dropped S207.
THE new opera-house at Bennington is to
ne dedicated December 10, and Governor
Fuller will make the dedicatory speech
His staff will appear in full uniform,
Alter the dedication Madame Janauschek
and her company will play Macbeth"
The opera-house will have cost, when fin
lshed, about $4,000. 1t is leased to Bond &
Tiffany for about $500 a year, which is
three per cent on the investment. The
house is beauty.
DR.. EUGENE s. WESTON, "the gentleman
from Newfane," did yeoman service in the
late legislature and made the principal argu-
ments against the removal of the county
seat from Newfane TO Brattleboro Upon
his return home his fellow citizens met him
at the train, illuminated the houses in the
village, rung the bells, and fred guns all
the evening. A drum corps paraded the
streets and the demonstration came to an
end with a serenade at the doctors home.
DR.. j. n. JENNIE of st. Alhans has Just
been appointed adjunct professor of ma
terra medica in the medical department of
the University of Vermont. Dr. Jenne is
forty nd q of
the medical department in the class of 1881
lie has been president of the state medical
society and member of the board of con-
sulting surgeons at the Fletcher hospital
He is brigade surgeon of the Vermont
National Guard and is a popular man as
well as a successful physician.
THE famous Foster will case was probably
ended in Franklin county court, at ST. AL
bans, last Wednesday. After the validity
of the will had been fought over and set
tied another fight ensued when the law
yers' bills came in. The auditors filed their
report, which has been sustained by the
county court in the announcement of
Judge Thompson. Judgments were rem
dered as follows: Harrington & Post,
S1,9S7. rs; E. c. Smith, S2,230.12 and Bal.
lard Il Burleson, S2,922.S5 The reports
of the auditors in the individual cases are
nearly the same.
AN attempt to burgarize the drug store
OF e. III. Armstrong & Co. of Castleton was
frustrated last Saturday night by Miss Mol
lie Hackett, who occupied a tenement over
the store. She was awakened by the noise
made by the thieves, and opening window
in the rear of the building, cried out to know
who was there. Receiving no reply, she
fired shot from a revolver, when a man
jumped from hatchway and ran around a
corner; not, however, until she had fired
another shot at him.
Miss LILLE WHITE of Rutland county is
the latest heroine of a turkey romance.
Jared Leonard of Providence, r. l., a mar
ketman's teamster, the day before Thanks
giving found in a turkey a note from Miss
White. The epistle made known her ambi-
ton to wed nice young man who is not
afraid of work" and as that hit Jared's case
he telegraphed to Lille and found her in
actual existence. He has now come to YER
mont and If he carries out his purpose,
there will soon he anOthar Uaddin0 in ono