Washington County VT
Miscellaneous News
Woolen Factory and Gristmill Destroyed by Fire
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) April 19, 1826
The woolen factory, at Montpelier, Vermont, owned by Parsons, Watersman & Co., together with a gristmill, were destroyed by fire on the 23d ult. Mr. Waterman was seriously injured in jumping from a window and a Scotch weaver was burnt to death. $3500 was insured by the Etna company. The loss besides insurance from 1000 to $2000.
Mr. and Mrs. Enos Kellog Escape Drowning
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania August 23, 1826
Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 1
Presence of Mind
Another instance among many which have been recorded of the advantage resulting from rare and (..?...) motion in times of peril, occurred not far from this village on the 24th. Mr. Enos Kellog, having occasion to cross Onion River at a fording place two or three miles below the village, by some mistake entered the stream at a place where the water at a short distance from the shore was of very great depth. The horse proved to be a good swimmer and might have taken them across unharmed but soon after the wagon began to float, the forward wheels together with the axle became by some means detached from the rest of the wagon. Mr. Kellogg, who had formerly been accustomed to the exercise of swimming, directed his wife to cling to him, whilst he himself, holding by the reins as far from the horse as possible, kept himself and his wife above water until the horse had drawn them to the opposite bank. Mr. K. and his wife are both more than 62 years of age.
Layman-Hatch Breach of Promise
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania September 27, 1826
In an action lately tried at Montpelier, Vermont brought by Anna Layman against David Hatch, for breach of promise of marriage, a verdict was given for the plaintiff of $740 damages. The defendant has claimed a review. It is stated that the cause had excited a great interest from the standing of the parties, and the circumstances of the case and that a great number of spectators of both sexes were present at the trial. - Am. Sent.
Ezra Bulter Nominated for Governor
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania August 2, 1826
In Vermont, Elder Ezra Butler of Waterbury has been nominated for governor and Elder Aaron Leland of Chester for lieutenant governor. Both these gentlemen are now Pastors of Churches! There has been great difficulty in finding gentlemen willing to accept these offices in that State owing ot the niggardly salaries or some other causes. - Salem. Reg.
Avalanche
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), August 1, 1827
Montpelier, Vt., July 10
Avalanche
A gentleman of Fayston, in whose veracity the most implicit reliance may be placed, has obligingly furnished us with the following account of an avalanche of earth, or slide of the mountain, in Lincoln, Addison county, on the 27th ult. occasioned by the late abundant and almost incessant rains:
On the 30th of June, I went, in company with sixteen of my neighbors to visit the spot so singularly marked by Providence, which I am about to describe. I found the slide to commence near the top of the mountain, between two large rocks, which were stripped of earth, opening a passage of four rods wide, from which it proceeded a south-easterly direction, gradually widening for the distance of two hundred rods, to the south branch of mill brook in Fayston. In its course it swept everything in its way; overturning trees by the roots; divesting them of roots, branches and bark, often breaking them in short pieces. A number of rocks were moved some distance, judged to weigh from 15 to 20 tons. From where it entered mill brook, its course was northeasterly direction of 200 rods, the natural course of the brook, which was very small; but the channel cut by this freshet, it now from two to ten rods in width; and on either side are large quantities of flood wood, piled up in many places very high; and from 15 to 20 rods of the lower part is blocked up across the channel in every direction. Some of the trees are standing on their tops, and generally stripped of roots, branches and bark and broken into many pieces. The pile in some places is ten feet high. Much of the timber is apparently buried several feet in sand and mud. One large birch tree was broken off square, measuring three feet and nine inches where it was broken. One black ash was literally pounded into a broom, whose brush is seven feet long. The whole distance of these ravages is a mile and a half, and the quantity of land thus metamorphosed into barren waste is twenty-five acres. The force of water must have been very great, at which we cannot wonder, when we consider the probable depth of the water. In some places from appearances it must have been thirty feet high. Some of the trees on the sides of the channel were barked thirty or forty feet high, and mud on them at that height. - T.B.
Death Sentence for Mrs. Mary M. Rogers Changed to Life Imprisonment
The Washington Post, December 7, 1904 (Washington, D.C.)
Contributed by Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Montpelier Vt. Dec 6—A majority of the Vermont house judiciary committee reported favorably to-day on a bill commuting the death sentence of Mrs. Mary M Rogers of Bannington to life imprisonment The report is the outcome of extended agitation against the execution of a woman Mrs. Rogers was convicted of murdering her husband in 1903.
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