The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-09-08
n Vermont State News y

Ex-senator and Mrs. Edmunds of Phil.
adelphia are visiting friends in Burling
ton this week.
Miss Bertha, daughter of DR.. Ezra
Brainerd, president of Middlebury col
lege, was married Aug. 30 to Prof. Chas
Albertus Adams of Knoxville, Ill.
Private George Martin of Co. F, 10th U
S. infantry, formerly a member of Co. X
Bennington, has deserted. If found he
will be arrested and court martialed.
At the dedication of the monument tc
the 14th VT, at Gettysburg about Oct. 10
Col. Albert Clark of Boston will deliver
the address.
An East Albany little girl fell head first
into pail of sour milk and when found
was apparently dead. She was finally re.
stored to consciousness.
State Auditor o. M. Barber of Benning.
ton is the happy father of twins-two
girls-born Aug. %. Their accounts will
be audited with pleasure.
The companies of the Vermont Nation
al Guard are now practically filled. Uf
the men who went to Chickamauga many
have reenlisted. The new uniforms and
equipments are now at Montpelier.
George S. Styles of New York, now in
Brattleboro, has purchased the $S0,OOC
mortgage bond of the Springfield, Vt,
ment.
The annual reunion of the Sth vt. Reg
mental association TO be held in Montpe-
lier the day before the Dewey celebration
will be the largest gathering in the histo-
ry of the organization.
The annual report of the commissioner
of pensions shows that there are 9,4SO
pensioners in Vermont and that the
amount paid to them for the fiscal year
ending June 80 last was 81, 491, 150.46.
The firm that manufactures the "Mon-
arch " shirts is going to build a factory in
Rutland that will employ from 100 to 800
hands. 1t is expected the factory will be
finished early i'll November.
Mrs. Allen Roster, the oldest person in
Bennington, recently celebrated her 9th
entire day in the woods blackberrying
and picked several quarts.
Lamora Rice of Newport, years old,
when his sister dropped a pair Of
shears from above, the point striking the
little fellow in the eye, putting it out.
John Harding of Coppertield was pros
trated by lightning on the Advent camp
meeting ground near White River juno
ton Monday morning. He was uncon-
scious for several hours and is still in a
critical condition.
Stowe will have an artificial lake, COW
ering an area of over 100 acres and rang
ing from four to % feet in depth. 1t will
be formed by constructing dam across
the brook running through the Beave:
meadow.
Over 200 Brattleboro women have Or
ganized a society for the assistance of
sewing women and SeamStTeSseS." Its
purpose is to lay claim to and secure
100000 left by the Thompson will at Bos-
ton to assist such workers at BrattleborO.
The 5000 bond stolen three weeks ago
from the residence of Prof. j. r. johnson
at Mortified, were recently returned IN
tact by mail from Boston. The bonds
were negotiable but the thief was proba-
bly, afraid to convert them into cash.
The Estey Organ Co. of Brattleboro
turned out more organs last month than
in any month before for five years. The
improved business condition of the
country is now having its effect on Yer
mont industries.
August % John Smith of Moretown,
pleaded guilty to cruelty to a~aHnRSs az
Montpelier and was fined $50 and costs.
He surrendered the horse for destruction
and the fine was RENTED, under the law
of 1898.
S. w. Benjamin of Montpelier has Just
lodged there during the battle of Gettys-
burg. The bullet weighs half an ounce,
is badly corroded and during the Sc years
ii had been in his body had worked down
his back eight inches.
The state house fence is once more re-
ceiving attention. There is general inn
preston that it ought to be removed be-
fore the Dewey celebration. Let's have
that fence removed at once and settle
fhaf hoe lone 60 "a
people.
A change in the Vermont fish laws is
being advocated by some papers, propos-
ing that the month of August be taken
off from the open season for trout. 1t is
said that good part of the trout taken
from the small ponds and streams in Aug
lst are heavy with eggs and unfit tor use.
1t was a simple question in addition, as
follows, that a Vermont teacher gave |
small class; :" If your father gave your
mother 81 today and IS tomorrow, what
would she have?" And little fellow at
he foot of the class at once answered |
she would have fit"
Oscar w. Cutler of Heartwellville, 70 |
'ears old, bent with age and who has
buried two wives, recently elOped with |
Silvia johnson, IA years old. The parents
trongly objected to the match and have
lad the man arrested on a charge of rape
Illeged to have been committed prior to
lis marriage.
Senator Proctor has sold the Garfield
partment house on Franklin square in
Washington to Richard q. Park, a rich
teel manufacturer, for $4,000. The SEN
tor received in part payment lot on
Avenue which, it is under
TODD, he will improve Immediately, i'm
orting stone from his Vermont quarries.
Caspar NJ. Clark and Pliny Norton have
eturned to Vergennes from Australia,
there they went last April with some
heep There has been a drought there
Or i've years and the demand for sheep l.
yas slack with prices low. The Australf-
ms feel very friendly towards America
nd evidently think that what we do here
all right.
A young lad in Montpelier has demons
rated considerable skill as a hypnotist
nd has perfect control over number of
is young mates. He caused one lad to run
fter bunch of bananas. The boy ran
Ito tree, knocking him down and skin
ing his face. Parents have now put a
etc to further use of their children by
lie young hypnotist.
j. King, river fisherman claiming to !
e LOG years, who for 10 years has lived
it'll his young daughter in shanty at
ne mouth of the Winooski river near
arlington, has been missing for several |