The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-27

Mount Hermon is not intending to
have football team this season.
Landlord Hous captured a man
crawling through 8rattleboro House
w!ncow Saturday evening, but it was
a granite cutter, drunk and hungry,
and he escaped besore an officer reach
ed three
While we were sweltering here in
the hottest weather of the season Sat
urday and Sunday, out in Utah and
Wyoming they were enjoying a snow
storm so heavy that two boys persisted
in the drifts.
General j. M. S chotield retires this
week Sunday from the command of the
U. $. army, having reached the age
of limit of GA and will devote his remain
ing years 10 literary work. He will
be succeeded by Gen. Nelson A. Miles
the youngest officer, except Sheriden,
that ever took the chief command
now only 81 and all the more remark
able because he is not West Point
graduate, but won his way in the vol
unteer service during the war and as
an Indian fighter since. Gen. Miles
who may be said to have begun his
active life in West Brattleboro, in
charge of logging business for his
father there and at Marlboro when Il
young man, beats all the previous
commanders in the magnificent physi.
que and bearing that make him an
| ideal soldier General and Mrs. Miles
are said to be the handsomest couple
in the army circle. She is a niece of
Senator Sherman and ii sister in law
of Senator Don Cameron.
Mrs. Angelica b. Shea, widow of
the late Judge George Shea, has made
a present to the school district in the
shape of a sun dial that will not only
be fine ornament to the school
grounds. where it is TO be set up. but
of good educational value. The cor
respondence, her offer and the formal
acceptance by the committee, has al
ready passed, and the work of its cree
ton been placed in charge of Geo. A.
Hines. The foundation is to be put in
this fall six feet deep so that the frost
won t move it and in the spring the dial,
a marble slab % inches square, will be
mounted on three foot granite block
as a pedestal Judge Shea had the
dial made by Sheehan of New York, a
master in such work, and designed it
for the grounds of his Oak street resi-
dence, but Mrs. Shea prefers it to be
placed on the school grounds as a
memorial to MN ana she VIII bear an
the expenses OF locating III. Inc dlal
has been accurately calculated for tins
meridian, ana so that lts shadow VIII
not only show the hour but the month.
1t bears two finely cut faces in relief
representing youth and old age, besides
memorial INSCRIPTION IN brass giving |
the name of the donor.
The Springfield, Mass. board of /
trade has appointed a committee to in /
vestipatc and push the project of i'm |
proving the navigation of the Connect /
ic,lt river. 1t is a subject which is
attention all over the civil /
lied world as illustrated bv the fact
that an international deep water
ways association, embracing the
Canadian and United States interests
in navigable connections between the
great lakes aud the Atlantic ocean, is
now holding a convention at Clevc
land, Chicago is building canal
which will ultimately connect the Miss
issippi river and Lake Michigan for
ships of large draught. The people of
New York state will vote in November
on proposition to spend several mil
lions more on the Erie canal The
Springfield idea is to enlarge and deep
an the Connecticut channel as far as
Holyoke or Northampton and perhaps
farther. 1t certainly ought to be done
as far as Brattleboro, which used to {
pc the head of navigation in the old
lays before the advent of the railroad.
There is certainly as much reason for
ioing it as for the James river whose
channel, at government expense, has i
been deepened to accommodate ships of I
above =, 600 tons burden where former ;
y boats of only about 200 tons alone
could go. And it is costing much !
more today to keep the James river I
,hannel open than 1t would to keep {
he Connecticut channel open after {
nee having been deepened. {
Michael Henessey was in the I
lands of the law officers again this I
week but-mirabile dictuN was not {
,uilty. apparently. and was discharg- s
~ c,l,;g S,.l,, Nv, :, torna,,,a !
y charging him with disturb
nee of the peace bv assault on Geo. !.
ohillins, He stood trial before JUS
ice Newton in the afternoon. with c
lit 70 defend and Stoddard to prose- !,
utp Phillips claimed that Henessey !.
hook him mn and chol1ed him FRIDAY !.
rening in front of Robbins & Cowles |
acause he wouldn't nav y cents which y
Jenessey claimed 70 be due. Some !.
E tbe witnesses stated off the stand =
batHenesspv had been paving his devo- !.
;ons bafore tbe shrine of free.rum. q
~ ;l,;t;on but tbev do ,iad II ON the u