The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-07-14
81 Vermont State News -

venient after he arrives in America.
Mrs. Sally Sabin Smith, who died re.
Gently at Claremont, n. H., left StrafforC
$4,000 to be used as fund to educate
poor children
Fifteen postoffice clerks in Burlington.
Barre, Bellows Falls, B:attleboro, Rut-
land, st. Adams and ST. Johns6ury, Ii in
all, have had salaries raised 500 year.
Mrs. Emyle Grinnell of Colchester cell
ebrated her 1O3d birthday July g. She is
supposed to be the oldest resident of the
state and is remarkably well preserved
for one of her age.
The Windsor County Court adjourned
suddenly and while the jury was sitting
on a long case. Four of the jurymen com
planned of sore throat and a physician
pronounced the trouble diphtheria.
In 1898 there were but So deaths in Bel
lows Falls, in 1897 81 and in six months
this year there were At. AT the same ra-
ito the number of deaths this year will
exceed any previous years record.
Rev. E. Wheelock of Cambridge is prob
ably the oldest settled pastor in Vermont
lie has been with the Congregational
there ever since he was ordained, As years
ago.
| State Superintendent of schools Mason
| ,. Stone has prepared an interesting eX-
hibit of Vermont school statistics and
system of school administration for the
Paris exposition of 1900.
Col. NJ. NJ. Parker of Washington, D.
y, and Vermont, a member of, GOV.
CIRCUITS staff, is being mentioned as a
candidate for delegate to the next repub-
lican national convention.
Allen NJ. Fletcher of indianapolis, Ind,
will build fine public library in Ludlow
as memorial to his father and grand
father, the latter being one of the first set
tiers in the town.
Gen. Circuit will have a centennial cele-
bratlon OF the circuit settlement of the old
Kirby farm SOM time this summer. Gen.
CIRCUITS grandfather settled on the farm
Just 100 years ago and it has been in the
Trout name ever since.
The secretary of the interior at Wash
lngton has just approved the requisitiOn
tor the annual payment of S25,UOO to the
Vermont Agricultural college. All other
agricultural colleges in the country re-
celVe a similar amount annually.
Russell W. Porter viii go on the expedi-
ton which leaves Sidney n. S., July 20
on the steam whaler Diana, to communi-
cate with Lieut.. Peary on the western
coast OF Greenland. Porter has already
made tour trips into the Arctic region.
At session of the convention of the
Association of American Agricultural col
iSS0S anu SApGIlueuG SCdClOlS July D.
President Nj. ID. Buckham of Vermont
presented resolutions OF respect to the
memory of the late Senator Morrill,.
The Springfield, Mass, Republican
headed a recent letter from Brattleboro
containing among other things some po-
litical gossip as follows: Lively fight
promised in Windham county-Plans for
new burial ground"
During the storm at Vergennes Sunday
Willie Seiples, 10 years old, was struck
by lightning while embarrassing horse
and Instantly killed, the horse was also
killed, a man knocked insenSible and the
side OF the barn torn out
The state fair will give $500 in premi-
ums to Morgan horses. All horses to
compete in this class must be eligible to
registry in Battels Morgan Register, all
intending to exhibit TO make their entries |
with E. II. Hoffman, Lyndon, by Septem-
Der list.
A new worm has struck Woodstock |
and is stripping the leaves from the will !
lows and elms. The worm is intensely |
spots along the back. The Experiment I
station says they are 4" Larvae OF vanessa
an tiopa, common, not dangerous"
Bennington had the hardest rain storm
OF the season July q. North and Main |
streets were flooded and III some places
water in the easements was several inches
deep. Lightning struck one of the cleo
trio light generators and left half of the
village in darkness for several hours.
The White River junction Landmark
says it takes no stock in the rumor that
WindSOr's states attorney contemplateS
prosecuting farmers who put up bars at /
the entrance to their pastures in his zeal
to thoroughly enforce the prohibitory law.
The Chicago Times recently asked Col.
b. b. Smalley, Nermont'S member of the
democratic National committee, what in
his opinion should be the leading issue of
the next presidential campaign. He re-
piled that he thought it would be best to
wait until 1900 before building the plat
form.
The Howe Scale Co. of Rutland recent
" shut down Tor week to make repairs.
The New Y rk Metropolitan Railway Co.
IS building Tor It's cable road the largest
power house i'll The world and the Howe
60. has been awarded the contract for III
sailing complete system of Its coal car
lying appliances.
Louis f. Menage, president of the
guarantee Loan Co., after an exile of six
Years IN Guatemala and Mexico, has re-
jurne0 to Minneapolis. Through the
allure of this company Vermonters lost
several hundred thousand dollars. Me-
lage was arrested and released on $4,000
pail. 1t is doubtful, though, if proceed
ngS go any further against him.
A recent despatch from London said
Admiral Dewey will first land in Eur
,pe at Trieste, an Austrian port at the
lead OF the Adriatic Sea-" 1t is reported
hat the Admirals has shown no appre CT
bile improvement since he left Manila
md, acting under medical advice, he will
axe complete rest for some time IN the
Austrian Iyrol before resuming his
Quincy home.
In speaking of American summer re-
ortS and their enormous patronage the =
5oston journal forgot to mention the
ireen Mountains. In afterwards apollo ,
izing it said that Vermont with its
weet hills and unsurpassible lakes ell !
ertained last year $4,000 visitors and
Wished the good-natured and whole-souled
losts among the mountains and valleys
# that state the best of luck. ,
The logs on the river near Bellows Falls ,
damned a few days ago. A man went '
ut on the pile to start them with dyna-
nlte, when the jam gave away and /
10 was struck in the head by one of the 9
Ogs and sunk under the mass. A COM i,
anton on the bank dived under the logs
nd brought him to The shore. 1t was {
airing deed. !
A. L. Nahum of Bristol has met with
reat success on a farm of 40 acres. He 7
; the originator of the Enormous po- ,
alto which has Welded 604 bushels to the d