The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-20
Summary OF News.


NEhMONI HAS SlNly-SlA WOlneH pOSuinuS-
! ters.
THE new store of Breakwood Bros at
Gallups Mills, in Victory, was burned last
| week.
HARDIN G.. MOORE of Montgomery was
jailed at st. Albans last week, for abusing
his wife.
A CHILD of John Bashaw of westfeld
wandered away from home, fell into cul-
vert and was killed
NATHANIEL SHEETS of St. Adams lost the
sight of his left eye, last week, by piece of
hot iron flying from bolt he was rivetng.
HENRY PRATT, an engineer in the service
of the Central Vermont railroad for thirty
one years, died at Rutland last week Mon
day.
FORTY. FIVE thousand fish were shipped
from the state hatchery at Roxbury, last
week, to Randolph, Rutland and Lanes
boro.
JAMES A. LOWELL of Brandon became in
sane, drove his family out of doors, and
then broke up the furniture. He's in the
asylum now"
THE late Horace Sheldon OF Rutland some
time before his decease made will dispos-
ing of his large estate, but the document
| cannot now be found.
THE property of the Blue Mountain Gran.
lite Company at South Ryegate has been
sold to Alex Cochran of Groton for So 100.
1t cost $4,000 originally.
Hon CHARLRs E. BENTON, clerk of the
Essex county supreme court, was stricken
with paralysis, last Wednesday, in the court
room and his recovery is doubtful.
THE Calvinist Baptists will build $780,
600 church at Ludlow this spring. The
Black River Wooden Company is to put up
a 100000 factory as soon as the weather
will permit.
MICHAEL KALLAHER and Miss Julia
MulIiu alOppd from ST A lhapa last xvaaly
and went to Boston to get married. The
bride is said to have a face like a lot of
fishing tackle
THIS is the season OF the year when sugar
houses go up in smoke. The sugar houses
of II. j. Walker and John Carlton Of Lon
dOnderry were destroyed, with their con-
tents, last week.
JOSEPH LITTLE of Rutland objected to his
wife receiving attentions from a neighbor,
and went for said neighbor with knife
Carving was prevented by an opportune ar
rival of the police
VERMoNTERs who have lately received
pensions are: Original-Mary Lee Kellogg;
increase-Freeman Gauthier, Augustus l..
Breed, Stephen d. Roberts, Philander L.
Wetherell, Dana Fuller, James s. Moody.
VERMONT had, June 30, 1889, 523 post
offices. The number March 3, 1892, was an
increase of %, making five per cent gain.
The population of the state is 332, 452, max
ing one post-office for each 600 of the in
habitants.
THE LyndOnville journal is authority for
the statement that Rev. j. s. Nichaud of
Bennington has been appointed Bishop of
Burlington for Vermont in place of Bishop
DeGoesbriand, who retires account of
intirm health.
JOHN HIBBARD of st. Adams, brakeman
on the Central Vermont railroad, was run
over while coupling cars at Essex last
10 1aft inin
badly that it had to be amputated, and he
sustained internal injuries.
Domestic.
NORTHERN New YORK had two earth
quake shocks early last week Tuesday
morning.
WILLIAM MURRAY has resigned as super
intendent of New York police, and Chief
Inspector Byrnes has been appointed.
THE mills of the Moosic Powder Com
pany, near Scranton, Pa, blew up last
Wednesday. Seven men were instantly
killed
AT noon, last Friday, the big Sisseton
reservation in South Dakota was opened to
the thousands of home-seekers. Wild
scenes attended the scramble for sites.
THE diplomatic differences between the
United States and Italy, growing out of the
massacre at New Orleans last year, have
been amicably adjusted, and S21 900 indem-
been paid.
KING MHBMoRA of Butartari is at present
visiting in San Francisco. He eats peanuts
on the streets, rides in the cable cars, wears
one suspender, and goes to bed with his
boots on. King Mhbmora is nothing if not
democratic.
A DARING train robbery was committed,
last Thursday night, on the Illinois Central
railroad within seventy-seven miles of New
Orleans Three men held up train crew,
went through the express and mail cars,
and escaped.
THE press Of New York and strong public
sentiment has secured the repeal of the
speedway law recently passed by the legis-
lature. The law provided for race course
through Central Park, and Immediately upon
its passage howl went mp. Governor
Flower will not dare refuse to sign the re-
peal bill
MISS MAUDE WILLIAMS could have had
husband from among fifty thrifty young
farmers around New Boston, ILL.,, but she
chose instead a full-blooded Winnebago
Indian who had been peddling a patent
medicine with number of his tribe. She
says he has not a single bad habit. The
couple will continue with the Indian band.