The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-09-30
y Vermont State News "

where he was during these nine years.
Oliver Shore, a brakeman ON St. AL
bans, was run over and kilIed by train
at Richmond Tuesday MOI ming
The Vermont University opened its
new year Wednesday morning. The fresh
man class thus far numbers 81.
President and Mrs. Buckingham of the
of the u. V. NJ, who have been spending
the summer in Europe, returned home
Saturday.
Major Il. D. Fillmore of the Vermont
regiment has returned to his home in
Bennington and is slowly recovering
from severe illness.
The new Burlington SHOOT house will be
built from light gray Woodbury. granite.
1t will take about three months to get
the stone ready. H,
Barrels daily papers are running vot-
ing contest for the most popular clerk,
one offering trip to Boston with ex-
penses at firSt-class hotel and the other
a $40 gold watch.
According to an expert Northfeld' IS
hills contain an ineXhaustable supply of
the best black slate in America. tits be-
lieved that,the time is near when active
work in quarrying will begin. -
People, are prospecting for gold along
the Mack river in Moretown. Clarence
Long has taken out So worth in a day.
His father has taken gold from this
stream at intervals for years.
An Italian sculptor, at work in Mont
pelier stone shed, is making plaster cast
of the head and shoulders of Admiral
Dewey, doing the work from photo
graph. The cast will be presented to
Charles Dewey.
S. O. Burt of Bennington accidentally
discharged his gun while out shooting a
few days ago., the bullet entering the
right arm and tearing it so badly that it
had to be amputated near the shoulder.
When a couple after marriage license
routed the city clerk of Burlington out of
bed at two O'Clock on a recent morning it
was an indication that they were in
something of hurry to be welded to.
gether.
The Boston Journal says that the ac-
ceptance by ex-Gov. Woodbury. of a place
on the War Department committee still
further insures the thoroughness of the
work. Gov. Woodbury. is not easily
shunted from the main track.
Col. David ID. Wheeler a Vermonter
who served as Chief Quartermaster at
Tampa and at Chickamauga, says that the
quartermasters stationed under him were
utterly incapable of carrying on the work
intruSted to them
n DdUy NIdDpOu up Ill DI0CGS VI d Hail.
mel sheet and buried under about eight
inches of dirt, was recently discovered in
the corntield of Robert Noble at Bethel.
circumstance indicate crime and inveS-
legations are being made.
Nelson E. Bishop of Orwell, who en-
listed in Co. A, Rutland, died at his home
last week Tuesday from typhoid fever
contracted at Chickamauga. This was
the 18th death in the regiment. His
brother, in the same company is also
dangerously i'll with the SEINE fever,
Quartermaster Hyde recently opened
at Boston four bids to supply the govern
ment with 10000 grave stones. The Yer
mont Marble Co. of Proctor made a bid of
$1.52 stone. This firm had the contract
last year The samples offered by the
different bidders will be examined and
the contract then awarded,
During the past two years there k,aya
been 48 fatal accidents on the railroads of
the state. Only one of these was on an
electric road and in only two cases wa a
passenger killed. Twenty of the acct
dents were where persons were walking
on the track and were hit.
Mrs. Thomas Sears Of Bennington has
just received draft on the Bank of Eng
land fer 100000, her share in her grand,
fathers estate. Her husband, who has
been employed in the shops of the Fitch
burg railroad at Mechanicsville, is not at
work there now.
The state of Washington is raising
money by popular subscription 20 par
chase fine silver table settoI5theterqiser.
Olympia, Dewey's flagship's, which bears
the name of the capital of the state. The
Olympia will probably have the finest
plate in the world.
An officer wearing the uniform of
II nh ii rH tctn D4f h. -
Northtield Tuesday afternoon and re-
marked to a bystander that the town
looked about the same as it did IA years
ago when he finished school a: the Uni |
verslty there.
The Third cavalry regiment, us regu-
lars, arrived at Fort Ethan Allen last Sat |
urday. The citizens of Burlington are
TO give the regiment recep-
ton. Gov. Grout, through Adit. Gen. i. |
Peck, has congratulated the soldiers up
IN their valor in the Santiago campaign |
A Bennington school teacher recently
jried to impress on her class of small boys
he value OF keeping good company. Hav-
ng explained the matter thoroughly she
Isked bright boy what he thought was the
)roI er kind of company to keep. The lad
answered: "Oh, good, but not
90 good"
Says the New York Press the demo-
TdIlC JlCReU IOf lJOO mas Deen started
'uck- jumping across the ountry-Dewey
nd Wheeler ermont and Alabama,
Ianila and Santiago, Philippines and
1Ontauk." That would be mighty pop-
lar ticket but if things are correctly un-
erstoOd Dewey has tendency to associ-
tie with the other party.
There was a general raid of hotels and
in St. Albans Monday, liquor
eing found in all but two places. Each
fender was fined $50 and costs, which
hey paid. At meeting of the hotel and
estaurant keepers Tuesday it was decid-
d that they should close all their places
midnight Saturday and boarders have
cen notified to seek new quarters.
A prosperous old farmer living near
lansfield little over a year ago pur-
based $40 urn to mark the last resting :
lace of his beloved wife. He intended
} get a $500 monument but thought the
I'm would answer the purpose for a short
me. A few weeks ago he sold the urn
n his wifes grave and with the proceeds ]
Iok out license and married another
oman. "a, aNt' |
A sick soldier recently arrived at the Z
otel on the summit of Mount Mansfield
he only vacant room in the house was
ne poorest and the soldier took this with ,
ut complaining, though being obliged to
2 In bed the outlook was cherries. The
est room in the house was occupied by
lew York schoolmistress who, when she
aa rd of tho coI6ipric arrival had bar hoo,