The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-04-28
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". A. CAeney, is hOCueSGcr 10Y.
The Chateaugay made it's first trip on
Lake Champlain Thursday, April 90.
The G. A. r. lot at Bellows Falls will
have cannon, thanks to Congressman W.
w. Grout.
An electric road % miles long to be built
this summer from Lake Dunmore to Rut-
land will cost 100000.
The father of Gen. Nelson A. Miles car
ried on numbering operations for two or
three years in BrattleborO
The federal building in st. Adams is be-
ing completed as rapidly as possible The
iron stairs have just been put in place.
DR.. Chas Bullock, formerly principal of
the Middlebury graded school, has been
appointed a professor in Williams college.
Fire broke out in the millinery depart
ment of E. E. Clarkson d Co.'s store in
Burlington April 10 and did damage to
the amount of $4,000.
The State Firemen's association will
will hold their annual convention in Ben
nington July 10. The tournament will
take place the next day, $500 being offer
ed in prizes.
The Randolph bank cashes $4,000 a
year in checks paid the farmers by the
two creameries in that town. Pension
checks caShed at Randolph amount to
$34,000 year.
Clarence Eddy, native of Vermont
and a former OrganiSt in the Montpelier
Bethany church, has been appointed Off
cial organist for the United States at the
Paris exposition.
The University of Vermont Alumni As
ISOLATION in Washington, D. g., held it's
first annual meeting and banquet Satur-
day evening. James Morrill, was elected
president of the association.
oio boulJor Gonna aiubt tnpc baovv
recently rolled down a steep bank at
Montpelier, crushing through the side of
a house and filling a kitchen which a
woman and child had just left.
The Jerich Press tells the young man
that there is no longer any Iced of going
west as Vermont courts turn out divorces
so quick it would make Dakota blush.
This may be something of fact.
A Granville lady has been fined S. for
refusing to send her children to school.
! The law demands that children be sent to
school and there is something the matter
with the parent who refuses to do this.
At the treasury department in Wash
ingtOn, d. g., April Is bids were opened
for the site of the new public building at
Newport. There were five bids ranging
IN price for the site from $1,000 to $4,000.
A hog said to be thin and still growing,
has lately been on exhibition in st. Johns
bury. The animal is two years, seven
months old, stands over feet, inches
high, feet, 1 inch long, and weighs 1890
pounds.
Vermont is credited with throwing up
the first Union intrenchmentS in Virgin
in, with the first assault upon Confede-
rate fertilization and with being the first
New England state to send out a full reg
iment of cavalry.
In the year 1897. the Shelburne tax
list of DR.. w. Seward Webb was $2800.44
and in 1898 it had increased to $3341.73.
If this ratio is kept up his grand list in
1899 will reach about twO-thirds of the to-
tai grand list of the town.
The schools of the town of st. Adams
observe "St. Adams Day." day set
apart for exercises which will consist of
"reminiscences of the early settlement and
history of the town. This is good exam
pie for other towns to follow.
Clayton A. Wickham. one of the oldest
conductors on the Bennington and RUt-
land railroad, died at his home in Ben
nington April 10. He had been connected
with this road, the Lebanon SprinSd7ahd
Troy and Boston roads for 30 years.
The new state laboratory at Burlington
is doing valuable work for the state I'M
der the efficient direction of DR.. j. H.
Linsley. large number of examina-
lions have been made and the institution
has the hearty cooperation of the doctors
in the state.
Woodstock is said to have suffered the
most from caterpillars. 1t is feared that
the stately naples in the park in front of
Woodstock Inn will fail to renew their
foliage this season. Several owners OF SUI
gar orchards fear that half if not more of
the trees are dead.
Commissioner Bailey says the fish at the
b1tphnrU HpSnpUn nnhlin SUpnnathu nc tbau
have been living on half ration on account
of the short appropriation for their sup
port by the last legislature. Crystal Lake
at GrotOn has been stocked with 10000
trout from the state hatchery at ROx-
bury.
The reason of DR.. Pages resignation as
superintendent of the state insane asy-
lum is probably domestic trouble. He
was most efficient superintendent but
his domestic life was far from pleasant.
His wife has secured a divorce in the
Washington county court on the ground
of intolerable severity.
Rev. G. S. johnson. pastor of the Meth
OdiSt church at Mortified, who was ex-
PEELED from the Vermont conference on
the ground of "cribbing" in the exami-
nation, denies the charge and says he pre-
ferred to be dismissed to telling or admit
ting falsehoOd. Mr. johnson has been
very popular in Mortified.
The state prison directors last week
purchased II acres of land lying north and
west of the institution for $4,000. Corn
and vegetables for the prisoners will be
raised on the land and there is spring
from which it is hoped to obtain a supply
of water An appropriation of the last
legislature made this purchase possible.
Frank A. Dutton of West Derby shot |
himself on the train between East Fair
field and Fairfield at O'Clock last Tues |
day evening, Passengers say that he dis |
played no remarkable nervousness but |
suddenly drew a revolver and fired twice |
He is said to have been a drinking man
but there is no known reason for the deed |
A Brattleboro young woman under the |
influence of liquor while in Boston was |
rescued by a soldier from two colored men |
who were leading her towards place of |
unsavory reputation. She was placed in |
the hands of an officer, arrested for intox-
ication and having no money for the fine, |
and too proud to send home, she was re-
manded to jail.
st. Johnsbury would have been pleased |
if President Mckinley had appointed |
Hon. II. g. Ide, ex-chief justice of Samoa,
a member of the high commission who are |
to peaceably adjust matters in those Pa
cific islands. Judge Trip, the one APP
pointed, is an able man, but Judge Ide |
has an extensive knowledge of Samoan |
affairs and has the love and esteem of