Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-08-08
General Vermont News.

The Grand Isle county democratic conven-
tion made these nominations senator, Dr.
Q. W. Petty OF South Hero assistant judges,
N. j. Powers OF Alburg and william Mont
gomery OF Isle La Motto judge of probate,
William Haynes Of North Hero; sheriff, NJ.
l. Mott OF Alburg; states attorney, Josiah
Adams OF Grand Isle high bailil, d. l..
Dodds Of North Hero ;county commissioner,
Socrates Reynolds Of Grand Isle.
These are the dates for the st. Johnsbury
fairs, Northern Caledonia, Lyndonyille,
September and 8; Ryegate and Wells
River, Dairymens association. South Rye
gate September, ., 10 and IL; Caledonia
county, st. Johnsbury, September 10, IL and
IT,
James A. Faulkner 4 Co., of Fair Haven,
have begun to lt out a pickling house.
They have 80 acres planted with vegetables,
suitable for picking. They will also manu-
facture tomato ketchup, and carry ON their
trade In maple sugar and syrup, which has
become quite extensive.
Ernest Romprey, little seven-year-old
boy, the son Of Louis Romprey, who resides
about u quarter of mile north OF Fort
Ethan Allen was shot Wednesday, July 2s,
about 8 o'clock, by u pistol which Mr.. ROM
prey believes was fired by one Of captain
Dodd's men who We're ont for target prac-
tice in the rear of the post stables.
The Bell foundry and tool works company
OF Fair Haven, have begun business with
$50, 900 paid-in-capital and have elected OFF,
GERS as follows President, N. Il. Reed vice.
president, A. N.Adams; secretary and treas
urer, T.. II. Phelps. The company have just
completed extensive repairs on their piaht'
which is on the old Validy marble COM
panys site and has good business, al
though only a month old They will manu-
facture a full line OF bells and strictly first
class tools Of which they own the patents.
4 heavy thunder storm did some damage
to crops In Addison county. 1t extended
into Chittenden county as far as Charlotte
and the young people at Thompson's Point
had some sport with balls OF hail.
The Burlington cotton mills started up
both their mills Monday after an enforced
idleness Of several weeks, owing to the
breaking OF the fly wheel. They will run
on full time and with full complement OF
hands.
The Bethel shoe company has been giving
its employees little practical illustration OF
how free coinage would affect them.
Each employe received the following notice
on last pay day: :,
10 our employes-We use In our payroll
today Mexican silver dollars, containing
more silver than the American silver. We
put them in as sixty cents only, asthat Is all
they will pass for. not being ngexchanSeablef for
gold dollars as our silver dollar is.
should we have free coinage OF silver as
advocated today by the opponents Of our
present gold standard, our silver dollar Will
buy less than this Mexican dollar, rs 1t con-
tains less silver and could not then DO eX.
changed for a gold dollar, yet we could
make you take It for dollar just the same
by law.
this price II you cannot pass them, though
YOU probably can use them anywhere In
town, as sixty cents.
The notice is signed by w. II. Creamer,
who was one of the boiling delegates to the
recent national convention.
Seymour F. Norton who received 321 votes
for president in the pOpulist convention at
st. Louis, is Vermonter. He enlisted from
States Sharpshooters in 1861 was promoted
to be captain of that company, was trans
ferred to the Fourth Vermont regiment and
mustered out with that regiment In July,
1865, Since the war he has published q
greenback and populist paper in Chicago.
The following pensions have been granted
to vermonters: Original, Andrew Holt,
Bridgewater Corners; increase, Harrison
w, Lowell, Fletcher original widows, etc.,
Hannah Tillotson, Washington Rosetta NJ.
Gowing, Quechee.
F, L. Pierce, a chair-stock manufacturer,
who ownes factories in BrOOkline, putney
and Putney Falls, has begun another factory
In Westminster. The boiler Is In place and
the other machinery will be taken In part
from INC IuLucy anu uthos Il "iiS ioctoiicS,
Mr.. Pierce expects to employ about twenty
hands there.
An order has been received at the West
Dummerstone granite quarry for so carloads
of stone to be shipped Immediately for use
at the Northampton reservoir.
About 8, 800, 900 feet OF lumber, now stacked
in Jamaica, will be shipped to the factories
Of the New Home Sewing company at Orange,
Mass.
Burton @. Austin, for two years general
secretary OF the Brattleboro Young Mems
Christian association, has resigned his posi-
ton. He intends to enter the general theo-
logical seminary OF New York city, where he
has been appointed by bishop Satterlee to
the Charles DickersOn Smith scholarship,
which is the most desirable scholarship con-
| ferred.
Glastonbury mountain, nine miles north
| east of Bennington, is the second highest
| or the highest point OF land In Bennington
| county. James Mccormick. q member Of
the United States geological survey, which
ia working in Bennington and vicinity, re-
Gently took a good deal of pains to obtain
accurate results in measuring Glastonbury
mountain, and finds that it's height is 3,S03
feet above sea level. 1t is the first time
the mountain has been measured by an
expert. 1t is a mo0ted question whether or
not Mount Equinox at Manchester, is higher
than Glastonbury mountain. The former
was measured in 1859 by professor Joel w.
lessor Hitchcock Of Amherst college, both
| observers fixing the height at 3, 7S7 feet but
as measured by professor Gnyot OF of Prince
| ton college, the height is given as 3,872 feet,
| or SO feet higher than Glastonbury noun
| tain.