The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-06
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Miss Ethel Blanpied will sail from Ant
werp for New York SATURDAY., September 2.
She is expected in Montpelier two weeks
from to-day.
Miss Bessie Cary, who has been visiting
in the city for some weeks, returns to her
work as teacher of vocal culture in Knox
College at Galesburg, ILL.,, on Friday.
Row. w. A. Dawson, writing from Wor-
ceeter, Mass, states that Mrs. Dawson has
recently suffered relapse and the physi.
CT ans have abandoned all hope OF her final
recovery.
The Montpelier kindergarten and train
ing school, so successfully taught by Miss
Amy b. Fisk will open it's fifteenth annual
session on Tuesday, Septembe. o. at the
home of Miss Fisk, 81 Hubbard Street.
A rate Of SO for the round trip has been
obtained for those from this city who wish
to attend the National Grand Army En-
campment TO be held in Philadelphia next
week. Two tickets were sold this morning
from the Central Vermont station.
Myron Wiley was arrested in St. Johns
bury on the charge Of stealing team in
Cabot some time since and selling it in Lit
tleton, N. II. He was brought into city
court Thursday and bound over in a sum Of
$500 to await the action Of the grand jury.
Not furnishing bail he was committed to
Jail.
d. B. Cilley was in town Wednesday
with the hide of huge bear that he caught
Tuesday morning on Ayers mountain,
about fifty rods from the place where he
trapped one two weeks ago. The one
caught Tuesday morning weighed two
hundred and twenty-five pounds. One Of
its fore feet was gone, giving evidence that
it had been in steel trap and gnawed off
its foot to escape.
A f. Bruce, trustee in the bankrupt es-
tate OF james G. King OF Barre, has filed
his and the nrOpandipUa which were
recently instituted against him by Judge
Wheeler because of his delay in the matter,
have been suspended Mr.. Bruce did not
understand the instructions he received
from the court and so failed to properly
comply with them. When Assignee f. III.
Deavitt investigated the matter he recon-
mended to the court that Mr.. Bruce be re-
lieved from any punishment for contempt
Quite a number from this city went tc
Barre Wednesday evening to attend the
hypnotic exhibition which is being given
this week in the Barre opera house by San
tinelli. They were amply repaid for theil
effort. Sautinelli is an artist in his PROBES
sion and with his class of about twenty-five
volunteers presented some startling anC
picturesque scenes which were not con
fined to simple test experiments but showed
in their dramatic formation the perfect con
troll which he had over the entire elias:
while in the hypnotic state. The house
which was well filed was kept in a roal
throughout the evening.
Thirty-six years ago the third day o
last July, s. W, Benjamin was struck il
the back by a rebel bullet. while he wal
lying on the ground just after the famous
Pickett charge at Gettysburg Surgeons
probed for the bullet while he was in a hos
pita at Baltimore, but failed to locate it
The ball gave Mr. Benjamin no trouble af
ter he recovered until within the last year
1t became so painful on Thursday that b,
submitted to an operation, and the painful
reminder of the "late unpleasantness" wal
safely removed. 1t had worked down fully
eight inches from the place where it enter
ed Mr.. Benz amin's body.
w. A. Shaw, observer at the Mortified
signal station furnishes the following me
neurological data for the month of Septem
Der, covering period of twelve year.
Mean or normal temperature, 56o; warmes
month, in 1891, with an average of 61o; cold
est month, in 1893, with an average of $40
blhest temperature, 900, September %
1895; lowest temperature, 25o Septembe
26, 1894; average date of first killing frost
September IS; average precipitation, 81
inches; great est monthly precipitation
6,27 inches in 1888; least monthly precipita
tiun, .9S, in 1891; greatest amount Of precip
itauon in any twenty-four hours, %
inches, September 81, 1885, Average mum
her of clear days 8, partly clondy days Il
cloudy days 10; highest velocity of wind
for y.two miles an hour, September d. 1896