The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-05-12
- Vermont State News "


three st. Johnsbury parties for $4,000.
Gen. j. G.. Mccullough and family will
soon return from New Y rk to their sum-
mer home in North Bennington.
The Montpelier Daily Record is thing
of the past. 1t is now the Montpelier
Daily journal.
Since July /, '98, II merchants vessels
have been named by their owners after
Admiral Dewey.
| During April 46 prisoners were commit
| ted to the house of correction, ID OF these
being for violation of the liquor law
When fen COWS sell for $500 it is safe to
call them extra good animals. Clinton
II. Conant of New Haven recently made
this sale.
DR.. W. Seward Webb is building a large
addition to his already large residence at
Shelburne Farms 1t is 1T by 40 feet and
extends westerly towards the lake.
President Mckinley has appointed a
Vermonter, Albert S. Kenney, paymaster
of the. He has been a general store
keeper in New York city.
Tuesday morning Mrs. James Fl. Wat
son, wife of the station agent at Wilder,
was burned to death She was filling an
oil stove when the gas exploded and set
fire to her clothing.
Ohio is In the same militia situation as
v
lied national guard. 1t is expected that
Vermont militia matters will soon be sat-
isfactorily arranged.
The Matted Cereals Co. has Just been
organized in Burlington with WI. Van
Patten, president; A. E. Richardson,
vice president; &. ). Van PaLLen, secre-
tary and treasurer; j. R, Moore, supt
The statue erected in Barre to Robert
Burns by the Scottish Clan at cost of
a n l,a, ,asl o1 I,,lNY -
Stafford, Esq, of St. Johnsbury has been
invited to deliver the address.
There will be no June term of the
Washington county court, as the judges
will all be busy in other places. The
cases to be tried will have to wait for the
fall term.
A New York paper cabled Dewey
for sentiment appropriate to Dewey
day and his reply is characteristic: ION
this occasion it appears to me that silence
/ is golden"
Dodge hall of the Norwich University
was struck by lightning May and the
chimney knocked down. Two professors
and 20 students were not 20 feet distant
but were not injured.
Gen. o. o. Howard in recent speech
in Boston said ''As boy | was taught
In the common schools, and | have be-
lieved in them and talked in favor,of them
all my life, knowing they are the corner
stone of the republic"
st. Johnsbury, where prohibition is sup
posed to be extra strong, had this year
with Is year ago. Perhaps they talk
one way and drink another in this good
city.
President A. d. Srown of Norwich Uni
versity has received duplicates of the
models in which were cast the medals
that the government presented to Ad-
miral Dewey, his officers and men. They
were presented the university by the de-
signer, ID. G. French of New York
Barre has purchased the plant of the
Barre Water Go. for $130,000. There is a
doubt about the citizens thinking this
price all right and they will haYe an OPP
portunity to express their opinion in vOt-
ing upon the bonds to raise the purchase
money.
Willard Holden, for the past 10 years an
\ efficient and popular railroad clerk on
the Montpelier and Wells River railroad
died Monday morning at his home in
Montpelier. Bright's disease was the
cause of his death. He was . saSllch es-
teemed citizen of Montpelier
A sad sight was witnessed in the Bur-
lington city court few mornings ago A
young lad was brought ia on the charge
of habitual truancy. 1t was bad case
but the lad wept vigorously when sen
fenced to two years at Vergennes. The
mother, too, felt badly, as by his going
away she is left entirely alone.
Four class trees in the right field of
the Barre Goddard Seminary campus
were recently cut down. The faculty are
! trying to find the culprlt and it is intima-
ted that if they are not found ball games
will be prohibited this season. The boys
connected with the ball team declare
they had no knowledge OF the Affair.
One of the flagship Olympia's surgeons,
Just home from Manila, declares that
! Admiral Dewey is in perfect health He
has not been more than twenty miles
away from Manila since the first day of
last May and he has not felt the necessity
of a PHYSICIANS aid in that time" This
comes direct enough and should end all
rumorS concerning the AdmlraPs physl-
cal condition.
DR.. II. w. Wiley, chief chemist of the
| United States department OF agriculture,
saws that fully 80 per cent of the articles
of food and drink manufactured and used
| in this country are adulterated. There
is more vermont maple syrup " made IN
| Davenport, Iowa, every year than IN the
the whole state of Vermont. This pure
maple syrup" is made OF coarse yellow
sugar favored with hickory bark.
Mrs. Amanda T. Newcomb of Montpe.
Tier, president Oh Ill6 nlelO uOpoA VI
the w. r. c., was in Montreal last week
consulting with l.. B. Harris of Lyndon
vile, commander Vermont division q. A.
b., concerning the annual encampment
of the two bodies to be held in that city.
1t was decided to hold the encampments
June q and o. Headquarters will be at
the Windsor hotel. 1t is expected that
1900 people will attend from this state
alone.
Kipling's first book, - SchoolDoy Lyr-
les. us only eighteen years old and yet it
has become so scarce that a copy OF it
brought 1878 at auction in London re-
Gently. If the author bought the book IN
his anxiety to suppress this evidence OF
his infant muse he payed dear Tor 1t. Ii
the book was purchased by first edition
microbe there is nothing surprising IN It,
Kipling has engaged passage on the
steamer Cymric of the White Star Line
which sails for England March "a.
Plans have been adoped for the addl-
tion to the state house authorized by the
last session of the legislature which APP
propriated $4,000 for this purpose. The
ground floor of the addition will be for
Storage purposes, second floor for library
and third floor for office room, etc, with
a curved recess and passage.way leading
| tn the rear of the speakers platform In
the house of representatives. Construc--
! tion will be of brick, exterior walls faced
with granite. Fire-proof floors OF steel, eX-