The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-10
VERMONT NEWS,
IN BRIEF.

Two cans of Lake Trout fry were put into
West Fairlee lake last week.
A DOUBLE TENEMENT house in Proctor,
owned py the Vermont Marble Company,
was burned last Thursday. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, 5000.
SENATOR PRoCToR was confined TO his
room NJ a hotel in X l~oXville, Tenn, three
days last week, threatened with pneumo-
mia, but is reported much better.
THE mule spinners at the Colchester
merino mills struck last Friday against a
reduction in wages. The proprietors claim
that the reduction was unavoidable.
GEORGE f.. LEONARD of Bennington has
purchased in California two fast horses,
which arrived at Bennington last week,
They are Queen Tempo" with a three
year. old record of .: %, and Happy
Lucy" another three-year-old, with a
record of 2: 80.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermouters: Increase, Charles
O'Kane, Highnate S%prings; reissue, Junius
G. Loggius, Williston; Junius Bliss, Morris.
Vile; original, II. b. Wedge OF Montpelier;
additional, Edward Cantwell of Swanton;
increase, Elhanan Perry of West Bolton.
A san accident occurred at Smiths Mills,
p. @, Monday night, which caused the
death Of one of the most popular engineers
on the p ssumpsic division, f. j.. Rooney of
st. Johusbury, and his fireman, l.. A. Emer-
son of Newburyport, Mass. A rock, esti-
mated 70 weigh $500 pounds, rolled upon
the track and was struck by the night mail
south. Botn were unmarried.
A JOINT meeting of the Joint state com.
mittees of the Young Mems Christian Asso.
citation of Vermont and Now Hampshire
was held last week AT Keene. 1t was voted
to Engage Clans OlandU, now doing inter.
national com nittee work in this state, for
evangelistic work. II was thought advis-
able to divide the states into districts for
such work.
Hon. CALVIN PAGE of Portsmouth, n. H.,
collector of internal revenue for Vermont
and New Hanpshire, says that the sugar.
makers of Vermont will receive heir money
for bounty az soon after July | next as the
checks can be sent out. The appropriation
will not be available until that time. He
thinks sugar-makers should be cautioned
against putting their claims into the hands
of agents to collect. Several men have
been in his Office copying the list of those
entitled to a bounty, and he has no doubt
they will try to nave the claims turned over
to them to collect. There is no necessity
for this, for the money cannot be paid until
July /, and will be paid then, agents or no
agents. Mr.. Page says that about 4 600 Ii.
censes were issued to sugar-makers last
summer for the season of 1895.
A. F. WILLARD of Brunswick, writing the
ESSEX County Herald regarding the game
laws of Vermont, uses the following strong
language: Will the game )mmissioners
make one decisive effort at something to
protect these deer besides an apology? l
cannot help them. / dare not. My duty to
myself and family requires l do not. My
Vermont neighbOrs are situated alike with
me, and their interests are identical with
mine. We are not 'lawless,' nor shall we
co. operate, and yet we are chatting under
the following facts: A dozen or less If our
New Hampshire neighbors have killed, and
eaten we suppose, more than thirty Ver-
mont deer the present last fall and winter.
Eleven Vermont deer, perhaps mora, were
dragged across my farm last week into New
Hampshire BY New Hampshire parties. 4
deer in my garden week before last that I
did not dare nor desire to mol-st was killed
and carried into New Hampshire by New
Hampshire parties an hour later. A tax
paying Vermont neighbor OF mine, whose
mind is chasing a phantom shingle mill,
and whose farm is assessed for SIS OF 500,
has been with his family many times hun
cry this winter when he could nave secured
meat if he had dared to kill some of the deer
that have been dragged by his door into
New Hampshire by New Hampshire par.
ties. One fine would sweep his all. Most
of my Vermont %neighbors and myself nave
not tasted venison for years, and we FEEL it
almost a crime to banker for it under the
present System Of game laws, and the fact
that only Vermonters 80 far have suff sred
from the attempts at prosecution"