The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-09

necessary. Address, Boz 205, lie Roy, NJ " -
Hill, Corinth, who resides in New
Yorck. reports excellent prospects at
the mines and expects that in a short
time a sale of the property will be
made to A. b. Hendryx of Connect
cut, who purchased the Union mine
adjoining last fall When the deal
is consummated, and these two fine
properties are under one control and
ownership, they can both be worked
to good advantage, and be source of
much benefit to all this section of the
country. One great point in their
favor is that there is no speculation
in the matter, as Mr.. Hendryx is a
heavy manufacturer, and uses every
pound of copper produced by these
and other mines controlled by him.
A monster bull, owned and bred by
&. Patterson on the Basin farm at
Bellows Falls, was the center of at
traction in the market place of that
town one day recently This bull
was three years and five months old
and tipped the beam in front of the
Howard Hardware Company at 2, 665
pounds. Mr.. Patterson thinks this
beats the record of the entire United
States, the heaviest weight of the
same age that he knows Of being 2,60S
pounds. The bull was blindfolded
and was led by a ring in the nose. He
was put aboard car at the depot and
sent to the Brighton market to be con-
verified in to beef
The Rev. Alfred Teele Dunn, d. d.,
corresponding secretary of the Maine
Baptist missionary convention and
prominently identified with the inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL commission, the Maine
| Sunday School Association and Maine
Bible Society, whose death occurred
| April 2, was born in Fairfax, VT,
| May 6, 1859. He was graduated from
| Colgate University at Hamilton, n.
| Y, in the class of 1878 and from the
Newton Theological Seminary, 1878.
| He was ordained pastor of the Baptist
church at East Poultney, VT, July 80,
1878.
E. W. Tewksbury e. Co. have re-
ceived this season only forty pounds
! of cake sugar and not more than a
hundred gallons of syrup. V. l. Spear
of the Sugar Market states that the
maple product throughout the State is
only twenty-five per cent of the usual
quantity and of very inferior quail
ity. The managers of the market
| have a large number of orders in and
have had to notify their customers
that the quality cannot be maintained
this year. Instead of canceling their
orders, however, the purchasers eX-
press willingness to take what they
can get The market had counted on
doing-a business of thirty or forty
thousand dollars this year, but on ac-
count of the poor season will be closed
about the first of May and remain so
until another spring.
The steamer j. Q. L., togther with
the yacht house and adjoining boat
house and the entire contents of both,
were destroyed by fire Friday morning
at 2 O'Clock at st. Adams Bay, and
the steamer Liberty was barely saved
from Burning. The burned property
belonged to Joseph @. Leslie of st.
Adams. The fire was caused by the
| aynIOciOp Of a karocapa larnn
Miss Katherine V. Richardson, of
Littleton, N H.. who was recently
accused of trying to poison her moth
er, and was placed by the court under
the guardianship of Secretary of State
f. G, Fleetwood, has appealed her
case to the superior court. The appeal
will come before the court sitting at
Plymouth, May 8. 1t is said that this
is done against the advice of Mr..
Fleetwood and other friends, but Miss
Richardson is unwilling to have any.
one else in control of her affairs.
The marriage of John Henry Cush-
man of Bennington and Miss Georgi-
ana Lord took place at Irving-on the
Hudson, the home of the bride, Satur-
day, April A. The father of the bride
is of the head of the importing firm of
Lord d Burnham of New York. The
groom is connected with one of the
Oldest and most respected families of
Vermont, being great grandson of
the late Gov Hiland Hall, who was
also member of Congress, and his
torian of the State.
John Banyea, of Vergennes, selected
two eggs from the gatherings recently
which in round numbers measured 8
inches round the long way, 81 inches
round the middle and weighed about
one quarter of pound. @. r.. Colby
of Woodstock, is the owner of hen
which recently laid an egg measuring
So by SO inches.