The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, August 9, 1889 State Notes 8/9/1889 Waitsfield celebrated the centennial of its settlement by Benj. WAITE, Tuesday. The Universalist grove meeting began at Queen City Park yesterday and continue for ten days. It is stated that Charles MUNDAY has struck a rich deposit of silver ore on Clark hill, in West Rutland. The Channell Rock creamery, at East Poultney, was destroyed by fire, last Sunday night; loss $2,000. Maurice BISHOP, while swimming in the lake at Island Pond, last Friday afternoon, was drowned. His body was afterward recovered. Mayor CROMBIE of Burlington has offered $200 reward for the arrest of SULLIVAN, the man who is wanted for the murder of George KANE. Hon. G. G. BENEDICT has been appointed internal revenue collector of the port of Burlington, in place of Hon. B. B. SMALLEY, deceased (politically). (Huh? Does this mean he is politically dead, not physically? RHB) A. Bently WORTHINGTON, the alleged Christian Scientist who has cut up such a rumpus in New York, is supposed to be in hiding in or near Brattleboro. (Sounds about right, scalliwags are still hiding in or near Brattleboro. LOL RHB) It is understood that Bishop De GOESBRIAND will erect a college building, with a capacity of 150 students, on land recently purchased in Burlington. Of the sixty odd candidates for teachers' certificates, in Bennington county, at the recent examinations, all but seven passed, and there were one or two conditioned. Private Secretary HALFORD says: "If President HARRISON is to visit Vermont, I haven't heard of it." It is quite probable, also, that the president hasn't heard of it, either. Three burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to blow open a safe in A. H. McLEOD's store in St. Johnsbury, Tuesday night of last week. They were seen by police but escaped. Frank G. TELHAM, a sewing-machine man, has skipped from Brattleboro, leaving the Singer company short and many business firms anxious about goods obtained under false pretenses. S. W. DOW, a switchman in the Boston & Maine railroad yard at Newport, was run over and killed by the train, Wednesday of last week. He leaves a widow in New Hampshire. Rev. E. W. CULVER, Methodist presiding elder at St. Albans, has resigned and will go West on account of poor health. Rev. W. D. MALCOM has been appointed to serve the rest of the term. While walking over the track at "Hurley's Crossing," in St. Albans, last Friday night, Mrs. Esther GILMORE, aged 78, was struck by a passenger engine and so injured that she died shortly after. A gooseberry-bush growing out of the side of a maple tree 22 feet from the ground was a sight seen by St. Johnsbury people, last week, as Stearns LAWRENCE felled a large tree in the court-house yard. The Central Vermont railroad has placed the price of round-trip tickets to the G. A. R. national encampment, from all principal points in Vermont, at $20.55; tickets good from August 22d to Sept. 9th. Runaway horses spilled Miss Emma PATCH and three children, at Cambridge, Tuesday. Miss PATCH was seriously hurt; the children escaped with slight bruises; but the carriage was totally wrecked. A dispatch from W. M. BATES of the International Secret Service says that the missing Brattleboro man, HUMPHREY, has been a the Park Row (New York) recruiting station, having been positively identified. John PRATT, a laborer engaged in building a wall in the rear of the Vermont Life Insurance Co.'s office, at Burlington, met with an accident, last Friday. A heavy, sharp-edged stone fell a distance of 10 feet, severing three toes from the left foot. The engine Randall, running wild, struck the rear of the way freight, which was unloading at Royalton, Monday, demolishing two freight cars and damaging the engine. The engineer of the Randall had orders to look out for the way freight, and he was running slow; and but for the slippery condition of the track, would probably not have been derailed. DUTTON Bros. of Brownington have a breeding sow that seems determined to "beat the record." Within two years she has brought them sixty-two pigs. her last performance was the production of seventeen pigs in one litter, a few days since. As nature provided her with appendages for feeding but twelve, five of her numerous family had to take the bottle. A story comes from Putney about a well-dressed, intellectual-looking gentleman, who fainted on the street and was kindly cared for by the towns-people, who after his recovery made up a purse and sent him to his home in Hartford. The same gentleman "fainted" on the streets of Brattleboro, about three years ago, and was kept at the poor-farm all winter. Although it is an old dodge, it seems to work well. William DONEGAN, one of the selectmen of Troy, was riding home, Saturday night (27th ult.), when within about two miles of Troy village he was in some unaccountable manner thrown from his carriage down a bank of some 60 feet into the Missisquoi river. The next he remembers is being on the opposite side of the river the following morning, when his cries attracted attention and he was given assistance. He was quite badly bruised and injured. The latest Vermont political gossip is that Lieut.-Gov. WOODBURY has formed an alliance with Col. Franklin FAIRBANKS of St. Johnsbury whereby the next Republican ticket is to be WOODBURY and FAIRBANKS. But WOODBURY will need even more than the FAIRBANKS' strength if Carrol S. PAGE has determined to go for the nomination, as is generally believed. Mr. PAGE not only did some useful work as inspector of finance, but he showed at the head of the Republican state committee that he knew how to manage a campaign.--BRATTLEBORO REFORMER. 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On 2/29/2012 8:10 AM, Ruth Barton wrote: ... > Hon. G. G. BENEDICT has been appointed internal revenue collector of the > port of Burlington, in place of Hon. B. B. SMALLEY, deceased (politically). > (Huh? Does this mean he is politically dead, not physically? RHB) Ruth: From the context, it seems reasonably certain that the "Hon. B.B. Smalley" was still able to hear the criticisms of those who engineered his removal from office. He might not have regarded this state of affairs as in all points preferable to having gone on to his final rest in the literal sense. I love the sometimes oblique phrasing that the better newspaper writers and editors of those times were fond of. But sometimes they do make us scratch our heads. In this case, I think we are on solid ground to say that on that date, Smalley was still above it. Darrell