The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.


MARY HOWE LEVIN sailed for Europe last
Saturday. She has signed engagements for
thirty appearances in opera in Berlin and
other cities OF Germany.
USE less soap by using Harmless
w, g. HOLMES, q merchant at Higbgate
Springs, had both legs cut off last Friday by
falling under an express train. The unfor-
tunate man lived only few hours.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Additional,
Samuel II. Jones; restoration and addi-
tional, Charles II. Bassett (deceased), Barre;
original widows, Mary e. Bassett, Barre.
CHARLES SMITH of Weston was arrested
last Saturday for breaking into the residence
of William Abbott, town liquor agent, and
stealing S65 in money. The thief secured an
entrance to the house by the back window.
He was traced to the home of his brother,
and, after several attempts to get away, was
secured by a party of four men.
The village OF Bennington is in no haste
to get city charter. AT a special village
meeting, held last Monday resolution that
the whole subject be dropped until the next
annual village meeting was almost unani-
mously adopted. This means that there
will he no more agitation for city charter
for the next two years. The result appears
to be generally satisfactory.
THE will Of the late Alfred b. Darling,
one of the proprietors of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, bequeaths to his niece,
wife of Col H. e. Folsom of Lyndonville,
100000 The will also leaves to the Con-
gregational Society of East Burke the prop
erty they occupy and $4,000 in trust, $10,-
600 to the st. Johusbury Academy, and
$4,000 to the Lyndon Literary and Biblical
Institute, both in Vermont.
A REUNION of the survivors of the Seven
teenth Vermont regiment will be held at
Morrisville on Wednesday, September 30.
Headquarters will be established at Hotel
Randall, where business meeting will be
held at one o'clock for the election of
officers, after which an informal meeting
will be held, and every comrade requested
to give an account of the things most pleas
ing for him to relate. No campaign orators
have been engaged, but the survivors of the
regiment have among its members scores
that can tell the story of the hardships and
incidents of their service that will be worth
listening to-
MRS ELIZABETH MOODY OF Lynn, Mass,
and her four-year-old son are missing, I'M
der peculiar circumstances. Mrs. Moody
had been visiting for several weeks at the
home of her mother in Vershire and left for
her home in Lynn on the morning of Sep
TENDER 2. She has been traced from Yer
shire, VT, to Hanover, n. H., only few
miles distant, and it has been ascertained
that on the morning of September her
trunk was checked to Concord, N. H., in
which city Mrs, Moody had friends, and
where she formerly resided. She did not
go there, however, and all trace of the bag
gage is lost in that city. Absolutely moth
ing further has been found about her move
ments, despite the most active search. No
reason is known for her leaving, as she was
happy at home and never made complaint.
Her husband cannot believe that she has
wilfully deserted him and Is firmly con-
WINGED that she has met with some mishap,
or is forcibly detained somewhere. Mrs
Moody, his mother, is Of much the same
opinion, and speaks most highly of her
daughter-in laws character and disposition.
In her whole married life, lasting nearly six
years, there has never been anything indi-
Gated but wifely and motherly DISPOSE
ton. Detective Sullivan of Boston, who
has been put on the case, regards it as a
most peculiar one, but at the same time
makes it very striking one by the sugges-
ton that Mrs. Moody has been hypnotized
and is now under the influence of a will
stronger than her own.
AN order for the admission of $50 Cana
dian cattle at Richford for export by way of
Boston was made last Saturday by the de.
partment of agriculture. The order was in
the nature Of special privilege, however,
and the officials of the bureau of animal in
dustry are not yet satisfied with the ar
rangements made for the inspection of cat
tie at the border ports. DIR. Salmon, chief
OF the bureau, is not satisfied with the IA
cilities at Richford. Thus far only one pen
holds that there should be pens enough for
an entire train-load, and will insist that
they be provided before he makes a general
order putting Richford on the list of pen
cattle ports. He holds that each cal load of
cattle should be thoroughly inspected, and
that If disease is found the diseased animals
should be separated from the others. This
would not be practicable, according to his
theory, with provision for single carload.
Inspection would come to a standstil with
the discovery that given carload was in
fected for there would be no place for
quarartining the infected animals or for
examining the following carloads without
exposing them TO infection. The railroad
people are expecting to meet the require
ments by building additional pens, and in
the meantime the shipment reported will
be allowed to go forward if it appears that
there is no danger Of the landing of dis
eased cattle in the United States.
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