The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Vermont.

ISAAC PRATT of Glastonbury, seventy.
three years old, captured last Thursday in
trap his fifty-third bear. The animal was
two years old, in good condition, and
weighed 100 pounds
The officers of the Connecticut Valley
Trotting Association of White River juno
ton have been suspended from the National
Trotting Association for falling to pay the
winners in races last season.
BISHOP HALL, who has been i'll for the
past six weeks has been obliged to cancel
all engagements till after June 1. He i'm
proves slowly, buth is physicians refused to
consent to his resuming duties May 10, %
was expected in April. All appointments
for this month are cancelled
SENATOR PROCTOR has reported favorably
from the committee on agriculture, his bill
creating director-in-chief of the scientific
bureau OF the agricultural department. Inc
purpose of the bill is to make the position
permanent and fix the salary at $1,000. He
is to be appointed by the president and on
account OF his scientific attachments.
IRVING ROBERTS and Nellie Staggles were
arrested at Cambridge last week for horse
stealing They are in jail at Burlington.
Roberts formerly lived in Bristol, but last
year lived in Hinesburgh. Nellie Staggles
is notorious character. Four years ago
she was convicted Of adultery and served a
year in the state prison at Windsor.
Roberts wife last year secured divorce
from her husband in Chittenden county
court
PENSIONS recently granted to vermonters
are; Original, George H. Rowell, Copper
field; increase, Edward V. Duke, Plainfield,
Warren l.. Bemis, Gassetts, Joseph CIV.
Townson, West Brookfeld, Samuel E.
Bernard, Luman A. Ballou, Springfield;
more (deceased) Morrisville, Charles
Jacobs, Newport; additional, Oscar N.
Gross, Montpelier, Edward MCGEE, Ben
nington; original, widows, ETC., j. Alvina
Whittemore, Morrisville.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY patients were
transferred last Thursday from the Brattle-
boro Retreat to the State Asylum for the
Insane at Waterbury. A special train was
provided. The patients were in charge of a
number Of attendants from Waterbury, who
were assisted by others from Brattleboro.
1t took two or three hours to make the
transfer, ia women being taken in car
riages to the depot, while thirty-six men
walked from the institution to the train.
Several of the patients piteously pleaded
with the attendants not to remove them
from their dear old home, while others Of
fered. vigorous resistance when the hour
came for removal. One young man while
passing down Main street made break and
succeeded in giving the attendant lively
chase through the Brooks House Office, bnt
was finally captured. Some of the patients
had been at the BrattlebOrO Retreat thirty
years or more. They are all state patients
and are transferred to the state institute,
the retreat at Brattleboro being private es-
tablishment.
GOVERNOR WOODBURY. was the guest OF
the Republican Club of New York city, last
week Tuesday evening, at the annual ban
quet OF this organization. In an after-din-
ner speech Governor Woodbury. said: "Ver-
mont has never had a political boss. 1t
would be worth all mans hopes and am
billions to attempt to dictate a nomination
in the Green Mountain State. To illustrate:
1 have been informed that am not to men,
ton the names of presidential candidates
here tonight and 1 shall not transgress the
rule. But at a certain state convention not
long ago up our way it was understood that
a certain set Of delegates should be elected
who should go to certain place and sup
port certain man. But about week be-
fore the convention the people began to be
heard from. And when the party leaders
arrived from Washington and elsewhere
the night before the convention they found
surprise party in store for them. And
these very men who were going to a GER
tain convention to vote for q certain man
are now going to work for another man.
They wanted to go and they had to 90 that
way or not at ALL"
Young mothers dread the summer months
on account of the great mortality among
children caused by bowel troubles. Perfect
safety may be assured those who keep on
hand DeWitt's Collie and Cholera Cure and
administer it properly. For cramps, bilious
collie, dysentery and diarrhGa it affords in.
slant relief. w. E. Terrill & Co., Mont
pelier, vt.