The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERESTING RESUME or
CURRENT EVENTS.
Barre.

NOV n u OONblI VI w dltIDuTy preached
for the Congregationaists last Sunday.
An excursion of Baptists from Weirs.
N. H., visited the quarries last Wednesday.
Leon j. Counter will make balloon ascen-
sions at Morrisville next Friday and Satur-
day.
The republican caucus to elect delegates
TO the county convention was held last
evening
James Morrison was severely injured last
Thursday by the premature explosion Of
blast at East Barre.
Intelligence has been received that John
Christie is quite low with consumption at
Aberdeen, Scotland.
Miss Ida Siegel arrived in Barre last
week from Bremen, Germany, She il a
guest of Harry Siegel.
The prizes to he competed for at the bicv-
Gle meet, August 4, can be seen at the store
of McWhorter Hyde.
Riding bicycles on the sidewalks or dump
ing rubbish into the cutters has at last been
prohibited by the bailiffs.
Several granite quarries were idle few
days last week. owing to a scarcity of coal
caused by the miners strike.
Alexander Milne was in New York last
week setting large monument shipped
there by Littleiohn & Milne.
The meetings of the Retail Merchants
Association will hereafter be held the third
hOuudy evening OF eACn month.
The democrats Of Barre will hold eau
Gus at the opera house this evening to elect
delegates to the county convention,
The ninth annual picnic under the aus
pices Of Clan Gordon will be held at the
| trotting park on Saturday, August H.
Work has been commenced on the Thomp-
son memorial building at Goddard Semin-
airy by w. F. Bradford, the contractor.
Hugh Mason is charged with the larceny
of $40 from an Italian, and has been bound
over to the grand jury in the sum of 5000.
Fl. c. Leonard drew a stone from the
| quarry OF the Vermont Granite Company
last Monday that weighed twenty-six tons
and took eighteen horses to haul it.
William Grant of Thwingville was fined
| $40 and costs last week for exposing poison
on his premises, causing the death of sew
eral hens belonging to his neighbors.
E. r. Haase of Brandon has drawn a
souvenir of Barre, by Nickerson & Cox,
which will soon be ready for delivery.
DR.. j. Henry Jackson and family have
been at Old Orchard Beach for the past ten
! days, The doctor is expected in Barre to-
day, but his family will remain several
weeks longer.
Arturo Bernaceo, who was fined S1O51
last week Tor lntoxication. was rearrested
on Friday for an assault with deadly weap-
ons, fined 81 and put unGer bonds of 500 to
| keep the peace in future.
The excursion to Weirs, n. H., last Thurs
day. under the auspices of the local Ep-
worth League, was largely attended. 1t
was intensely hot on the train, but the day
was thoroughly enjoyed.
Hon. w, L. Burnap of Burlington and
Hon. G. n. Dale of Island Pond have been
appointed referees in the suit of Crockett
against the town of Barre, for damages sus-
tanned because of defective highway.
The draft of city charter for Barre has
already been made, and there is no doubt
| but what the next legislature will be asked
to grant the Granite City the right to be-
come such corporation in fact as we'll as
| in name.
The Congregational society has appointed
DIR. j. Henry Jaok son, Alexander Gordon
| and William Dunbar as a comieittaa 10 co
cure another pastor for the vacancy soon 10
be caused by the departure of Rev. g. W
| Longren.
r. S. Currier is circulating paper among
the young mel OF the town, asking for 81
each from them to purchase uniforms for
the newly organized Barre Cornet Band.
and thus far has met with a very generous
response.
j. S. Mccoy, president of the American
Pneumatic Tool Company of New York, has
retained j. w. Gordon as counsel in snifs
pending against local manufacturers who
are using granite tools manufactured by the
hldIA COMPANY
j. Z. Walsh the champion bicycle rider
of the state, collided with G. d. Wheeler
and Will Reynolds while siding on tbe
track at the trotting park last Friday. All
the wheels were badly danaged and
Wheeler was slightly injured.
The fact that the supreme cour. has sus-
tanned the injunction brought BY II. q
Camp and others against the village of
! Barre, to prevent burials of the dead Ger.
tain portions of Barre cemetery, with AZ
cessitate the purchase of additional lano fer
that purpose in the near future.
The Lane Manufacturing Company Of
Montpelier has during the past week ben
putting in the pulleys and shafting for tie
electric power generator and motor latey
ordered by Mari & Gordon. The electrical
part of the work is in charge of George A
mon of Almon & Sargent Boston. Tie
generator will be ready for use next weef.
g. o. Boyce is bondsman for Martin
Mansfield, formerly of Roxbury, who was
arraigned in Burlington last Monda,
charged with selling liquor without gcv-
eminent license. He was indicted at the
May term of United States circuit court,
skipped and was arrested last week at
Springfield, Mass. He pleaded not guilty.
Joseph Maf1ini, lad employed in the
clothing store of Wilfred Jacques, was lok-
ingly asked, one evening last week, by an
Italian shoemaker named Joseph Broggi,
what he should do If some one should come
| lntO tn6 suOre when ne WAS dloho anu tNAIoh
the contents of the money drawer, Snatch
ing a revolver from a drawer, the boy gave a
practical illustration of what he would do
by pointing it at Broggi and pulling, the
trigger After surgeon had extracted the
ball from the heshy part of Broggi's right
arm, the lad was arrested by Constable
Buchanan. Judge Jackman gave him some
good advice and discharged him.
Mrs. G. j. Bailey returned last week
from Chelsea, Mass, where she has been
visiting for some time. 80 Miss Carrie
Enright of Pepperville, Mass, is the guest
OF Mrs. W. f. Shepherd. - James May,
James Ingram and Mrs, Mary johnson and
children sail to-day from New York for
Glasgow on the White Star steamer "Teu-
tonic" - Miss G. c.. Bloomey has
charge of the store of Miss III. j. Goodrich
during her absence on vacation -
Mrs. Victor Richardson is sojourning at the
beach. G.. l. Jackson has returned
from Saratoga, n. Y, where he has been
for the past two weeks 80 Misses Nora
and Mabel Calef and Miss Rebecca SAM
ders of Providence, r. l., were guests
Mrs. A. p. Braley last week. - Rev.
j. Sutherland of Mortified preached at the'
Mission of the Good Shepherd last Sunday
- Homer Flint is clerk in the post
| office,