National Bank (Poultney, VT)

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Episode Information

Episode UID
120000951
Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
12000 national
Charter Number
1200
Start Date
March 29, 1879
Location
Poultney, Vermont (43.517, -73.236)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
bdf8cb233032ced3

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
100.0%
Date receivership started
1879-04-07
Date receivership terminated
1881-08-01
OCC cause of failure
Losses
Share of assets assessed as good
37.1%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
52.9%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
10.0%

Description

Suspension described as to 'settle up' affairs and later placed in receiver Hendee's hands; no run reported.

Events (4)
1. May 31, 1865 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. March 29, 1879 Suspension
Cause
Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details
Suspended to settle up/close affairs; reports state bank able to pay all liabilities and suspension is to wind up business.
Newspaper Excerpt
The National Bank of Poultney, Vt., suspended on Saturday for the purpose of settling up its affairs.
Source
newspapers
3. April 7, 1879 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
4. April 7, 1879 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
Hon. George W. Hendee ... has commenced his work by an examination of the books of the Poultney National Bank, whose affairs he will wind up as receiver.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (19)
1. April 1, 1879 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. A VERMONT BANK GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TROY, N. Y., March 31.-The National Bank of Poultney, Vt., suspended on Saturday for the purpose of set. thing up its affairs. It is said to be able to pay all its liablis ties. TO GET HALF THEIR MONEY NOW. YORK, Penn., March 31.-The Dime Savings Institution of this place opened its doors this morning for the purpose of paying its depositors 50 per cent of their deposits. About $20,000 was paid out to-day. MEMPHIS IN FAVOR OF A SLOW MAIL. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 31.-At a joint meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and the Cotton Exchange, held this afternoon, resolutions were unanimously adopted protesting against any fast daily mail service on the Mississippi that will interfere with the mail contracts of local packets. A GUN-CLUB WHICH NO WEATHER DAUNTS. RED BANK, N. J., March 31.-The Shrewsbury Gun Club held 118 sixth regular match for the club gold badge this afternoon. The weather was cold, with a heavy north west wind. There were six entries. The contestants shot at fifteen glass balls at eighteen yards' rise, from a Parker trap. J.G. Bergen won.

2. April 1, 1879 Daily Republican Wilmington, DE
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NEWS SUMMARY A man named Morgan, said to be from Utica, N. Y., was arrested in Charleston, S. C., yesterday, while passing from the First National Bank with $20,000 worth of U. S. Bonds and other securities, stolen from the President's private room. The property was recovered and the thief locked up. Mrs. Mary Goodail died at Pequonock Bridge, Conn., on Sunday, at the alleged age of 103 years, 9 months and 8 days. She was a native of Connecticut, and twice married. Her first husband was killed in the war of 1812, and her f second died many years ago. 1 At Norwich, N. Y., yesterday, Felix McCann, convicted of the murder of J. Morris Hatch on the 3d of December B last, was sentenced to be hanged on 0 the 16th of May. He asserted his inI nocence and asked for another trial. e At Huntingdon, West Va., on Satur" day, Henry Johnson, on trial for the y murder of Mrs. Pasons in January last, y was convicted of murder in the first de1 gree, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. r Nathan D. Pratt, a son of the Readt ing, Mass., Savings Bank embezzler, n was arraigned yesterday for receiving stolen securities from his father, and was held in $10,000 bail for trial. h S Colonel J. R. French, lately Sergeant at-arms of the United States Senate, was seized with a fit in one of the rooms e d of the Capitol yesterday. He was conv sidered out of danger in the afternoon y The wadding mill of Charles W. 8 Trimper at Niverville, near Hudson, e N.Y., was burned on Sunday, with its r contents. Loss, $70,000. 1 Sixteen buildings in Lebanon, Ky., were burned yesterday. Loss $50,000. I The members of the Laborers' Association, at St. John, N. B., struck yesh terday for $2 per day. They had been receiving 81. In nearly all cases their demand was granted by thestevedors. 1 The National Bank of Poultney, Vermont, suspended on Saturday, for the purpose of winding up its business. Its capital stock is $100,000. All its liae bilities, it is said, will be paid. e The Dime Saving Institution at h York, Pa., reopened its doors yesterday 0 for the purpose of paying depositors fifty per cent. of their deposits, and will remain open until the amount is paid. A wagon containing four persons was struck by lightning, near Decatur, III., on Friday evening, and a man, named t Robinson, and his daughter Kate, were killed. n H Governor Marks, of Tennessee, yesterday signed the bill for the settlement 8 of the State debt at 50 cents on the dollar, with four per cent. interest. t John Clarke, aged 29, fell dead while t taking a drink in a saloon in Chester, Pa., last evening. Heart disease is t supposed to have been the cause. n 8 Captain Edward O'Meagher Condou, S the released Fenian, has been appointed to a twelve hundred dollar clerk 8 ship in the Treasury Department. d Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has been d prevented by illness from taking his d seat at the present season. He is now e improving in health. The Indiana Legislature adjourned in yesterday.

3. April 4, 1879 Essex County Herald Island Pond, Guildhall, VT
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Local and General Notes. When is that walking match to come off? March kept up its reputation and "went out like a lion." Read the "special offer" to the readers of the HERALD in another column. We are sorry to report that Mrs. Gilbert has received no tidings of, her purse, or the money. There will he a grand dance in Bigelow's Hall on Easter Monday, April 14. Full particulars in our next issue. We notice that Association Hall has been much improve by the addition of inside blinds. The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. Church have the credit. The advertisement of the Boston Comedy Company appears in another column. The well known re utation of this Company will ensure them a cordial reception. We have received the first and secand instalment of the History of Essex County, but have deemed it advisable to start its publication when our new typearrives The National Bank, of Poultney, suspended on Saturday, for the pur. pose, it is claimed, of settling up the affairs. The bank is said to be able to pay all its liabilities, The capital stock is $100,000. A special car containing passengers for K ansas passed through this place on Monday evening last. The car stops one day in Montreal, one in Chicago and then g es straight through to its ultimate destination. The Reform Club reading room has been nicely fitted up. and is well supplied with choice literature, SO that all those who have a spare hour or SO, can call and beguile the time away with pleasant reading and social intercourse. The weather king has been playing one of his most severe practical jokes upon US the first part of the week. and hereafter it may be said that April snow-storms bring forth wet feet, croup, discomfort and anything else than flowers. List of letters adve tised in Island Pond post office, April 1. John Nixon, Francis Currier, J. S. Stevens, Remi Giboin, Geo. Hebert, George Marcott, Margaret Stattery., A ew McLean. In calling for any of the above, (please ask for advertised letters. Z. M. MANSUR, P. M. Owing to the stormy weather and the impossibility of procuring new sugar. the ladies of the Union Social Circle have reluctantly postposed their last sociable of the season till Thursday evening, April 10. Posisticely no further postponement. Remember, next Thursday evening, at the residence of Dr. Allama. Let there be a large attendance. What might have been a fatal aceident occurred to Willy Brown, son of Mr. John Brown, yesterday (Thursday.) afternoon. Willy was employed on the wing SHOW plow, and by some means unknown to us at present, fell -off near Hobson's mill, the plow passing over him. Be received a severe cut in the forehead. and was otherwise considerably bruised. His escape was certainly a miraculous one. The Missionary Concert by the scholars of the M. E. Sunday School, in Association Hall last Thursday night, was well attended. The programme was a lengthy one, necessitating some two and a half hours to (*21'ry it through. Had we time and space at our disposal we might particularize, but must content ourselves by saving that the general feeling was that all concerned had acquitted themselves very creditably. We have now about $200 due us for llegal advertising. A notice has been sent to each advertiser, that in some instances has met with success; but in the majority of cases have as yet been unfruitful. Friends, why is this thus? This class of advertising is used to pay the incumbrance on our office, SO that if our friends who are indebted for legal advertising will make an effort to pay up, and at once, it will relieve ns from a great deal of embarassment. The regulations of the Post Office Department require every post master

4. April 4, 1879 Burlington Weekly Free Press Burlington, VT
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SUSPENSION OF THE NATIONAL BANK or POULTNEY.-The accounts of the National bank of Poultney, which has just suspended payment, are said to be all straight, and it is intimated that the suspension is really for the purpose of closing up the affairs of the bank, there being sufficient assets to meet all liabilities. The capital stock of the bank is $100,000, one-fourth of which is owned by Mr. Clark, the cashier, and Edward Clark, his son, the teller. A few years ago the bank had a large surplus, but it lost $40,000 on forged paper uttered by Tom Cree, and $10,000 more in ineffectual attempts to hold some of Cree's real estate as security.

5. April 4, 1879 Burlington Weekly Free Press Burlington, VT
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STATE NEWS. Manchester has voted to buy the old Congregational church at the Centre, move it a few rods west and fit it up as a town hall. The church society will rebuild on the old site in anticipation of its centennial in July. Brattleboro has had 109 continuous days of good sleighing, and the prospects for an additional ten before the season closes are highly promising. There is at present four feet of snow in some parts of the county, and in the woods there is even more. Rev. W. L. Jenkins, of Brattleboro, preached his farewell sermon at the Unitarian church on Sunday morning. Iil health compels him to temporarily retire from the ministry. The society will endeavor to settle a new pastor at an early day, Rev. Mr. Clark coming on trial next Sunday. Harry Putnam and Ernest Franklin, promising youths, ran away from their home in Rutland, the other day. leaving a note behind them to the effect that they were weary of attending school and intended to take a vacation of a few months, The runaways were found at Hortonsville, a day or two later, very tired and willing to return. The recently-scspended Poultney National Bank is said to have assets sufficient to pay all its creditors in full-though there will probably be some loss to the stockholders and some delay in disposing of the real estate. The question of resumption will not be raised until there shall have been an examination under the order of the comptroller of the currency. It is believed that an examination will show that the officials will be free from all censure whatever. The bank has been in operation nearly thirtyeight years, and the business of the vicinity is SO interwoven with it, that the suspension will be felt more or less, but nothing of a serious nature is anticipated. Nellie Monogan, a girl about 15 years years old, who had been living with Mrs. J.J. Rowe, at Poultney, confessed to setting two incendiary fires. She also admitted two unsuccessful attempts to burn the house, one of which was made previous to the first fire and the other a few hours after the second. She is under arrest, but now denies her gult and says she was frightened into making the confession by threats made to her that unless she confessed to setting the fires she would be taken to jail. The motive for the crime assigned by her at the time of making the confession was a desire to get home. She had been very homesick, and only remained because her mother insisted that she must

6. April 5, 1879 The Middlebury Register Middlebury, VT
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Measles are becoming popular. The Strasburg clock is in Burlington. Montpelier has within its limits twenby law students. Chittenden county is to have an ilInstrated history. Plainfield voted a tax of 300 cents at her March meeting. The April term of the Chittenden county court opened April 1. Ex Governor Asahel Peck is seriously ill at his residence in Jericho. The snow, Tuesday morning, delayed the eastern train to Burlington four hours. Mrs. Sarah Pond, widow of a Revolutionary soldier, died at Windsor the other day, aged ninety-five years. Col. Geo. W. Hooker, of Brattleboro, has entered the lists as a candidate for the vacant United States marshalship. Two brothers named Lapaway were playing with a loaded revolver, Sunday, at Manchester, when it was discharged, resulting in the death of one, aged ten years. The national bank at Poultney has suspended for the purpose of settling up its affairs, being able to pay all its liabilities. The capital stock of the bank is $100,000. A Highgate girl recently thrashed a lover who attemped to jilt her. He backed down, apologized, renewed his oath of allegiance, and they are to be r wedded when his work in the sugar y woods is ended. There was a narrow escape from a o terrible accident at Coventry, the other ,night. A broken rail threw the Mone treal express from the track, and cars 1. containing fifty passengers were thrown down the bank. Singularly a enough, no one was seriously injured. Miss Emma Maude Perkins, daugha ter of Rev. O. Perkins, of West Concord, has been chosen valedictorian of the class of '79 in Vassar College, h Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Her sister, Miss Florence C. Perkins, had the same s, honor in the class of 1875. It is the e only instance in which two sisters have 1 received this appointment. One night last week the engraving is room of the Bennington Marble Works 11 was entered and an expensive monument, nearly completed, was mutilated 00 and ruined with a sledge hammer. John Canedy, a roving stone-mason, was caught in the act, and now awaits exin KS amination. After the arrest Canedy claimed that two others were con-

7. April 7, 1879 Orleans County Monitor Barton, VT
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STATE NEWS ITEMS. A tax of five cents on a dollar pays the current expenses of the town of Berkshire. A tax of 15 cents on a dollar pays the expenses of the ensuing year in the town of Franklin. Gen. W. W. Henry of Burlington will succeed the late Gen. George P. Foster as United States Marshal for the District of Vermont. Vergennes has elected ex Congressman F. E. Woodbridge mayor, while his colored coachman, Stephen Bates, is the new city Sheriff. Colonel T. S. Peck has paid to Mrs. George P. Foster $600 to which she was entitled through her husband's memberbership in the Masonic Relief association. T. C. Brennan and Thomas Tierney, at St. Albans, were recently fined ten and twenty dollars and costs, the former sentenced to imprisonment for one month, for liquor selling. They appealed, of course. George M. Chase, of Westminster, has been feeding five hogs this winter on clover hay twice a day, and slops from the house once a day, and reports them as thriving finely. He says they will walk up and eat clover hay like an 'XO A party of twenty treasure hunters from Vergennes are making preparations to unearth 10,000 sovereigns which they insist were buried during Burgoyne's invasion near Ausable Forks on the bank of that river. The usual luck probably awaits them. The National bank of Poultney sus. pended payment Saturday morning. The accounts of the institution are said be all straight, and it is intimated that the suspension is really for the purpose of closing up the affairs of the bank there being sufficient assets to meet liabilities. Sheriff Halbert lately seized from Ransom, who keeps a saloon in St. Albans, two five-gallon kegs of whiskey three two quart jugs of liquor, five I quart bottles partly full, and one barre of beer. The liquor was adjudged by Justice Gilman forfeited, and Ransom did not appear. 1 The richest man in Cavendish, now 74 years old and who began life as a merchant's clerk more than a half tury since without a dollar, and amassed a fortune, still carries the I well-preserved umbrella purchased him 50 years ago. We would like I know how such a man could help / cumulating a fortune. A letter from Port Townsend, Wash I ington Territory, says that Dennis Hight and his wife were both murdered there J a few weeks ago, and that thus far their murderers have escaped arrest, although I two men had been confined on suspicion e Mr. Hight went west from Albany, we understand he has no relatives there J now. He has a brother-B. W. Hight at Council Bluffs; Iowa. I Viola Beckwith, of Rochester, from a swing early last fall receiving injuries which some weeks later duced an almost total inability to food. For twenty-two weeks she not taken as much nourishment as would furnish a single meal for an ordinary : man but has subsisted almost exclu sively upon the small quantities of stim ulants which her stomach could retain. 7 James Brown was arrested recently by officer Ladd, Enosburgh Falls, burglarizing the store of George Fasset : & Son in October, 1877, of about $100 worth of goods. A portion of the good were found in his possession and full I identified by Mr. Fassett. He : brought before Justice J. G. Jenne examination and held for trial at count I court. His bail was fixed at $500 an default of which he was committed jail. J Mrs. Erastus Edgerton of Hydepark has a snake cactus which is now 7 bloom. It has 49 buds and blossoms 4 with the appearance of still more. the main stock are 45 branches, and others of smaller proportions hav sprouted within the past six months 0 Fifteen slips were taken from the plan during the last summer and fall. 1 longest branch is 10 feet, and many d) others are from 5 to 8 feet long. The interest awakened in all the Pro F testant churches in St. Albans during

8. April 9, 1879 Vermont Watchman and State Journal Montpelier, VT
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Personal. CAPTAIN EDWARD O'MEAGHER CONDON, the distinguished Fenian, has been appointed to a $1,200 clerkship in the Treasury Department. DR. CHARLES JEWETT, a widely known temperance lecturer, died the other morning, aged seventy-two years. He has carried on temperance work since 1829. IT has just transpired" that the Berlin Mission was offered to Editor Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, in December last, and was declined by him. MR. EDWIN C. BAILEY is about to retire from journalism and devote his attention to his large property at Stowe. He will assume the control of the Mount Mansfield House, which he owns. SENATOR MORRILL a very ableand exhaustive argument in the Senate on Tuesday against the proposed extension of the Capitol for the accommodation of the Library, on the ground that it would be an architectual disfigurement. COLONEL AND MRS. JOYCE have entirely recovered from the effects of the accident which befell them recently at Washington. The Colonel was promptly in his seat when the House resumed its session for the week on Tuesday, and has been in attendance ever since, CHIEF JUSTICE PIERPOINT, while trying a case in the Chittenden County Court at Burlington on Monday afternoon, was suddenly seized with an attack of neuralgia of the heart, and, fainting, had to be carried to his room in the Court House. He soon rallied, however. MAJOR BEN. PERLEY POORE, the ever popular " Perley" of the Boston Journal, who has been clerk of the printing committee for eighteen years, was superseded on Wednesday by a democrat. He was at once appointed clerk to the committee on Revolutionary pensions by Senator Anthony, the chairman. HON. GEORGE W. HENDEE is to succeed General George W. Grandey as National Bank Examiner for Vermont, and has commenced his work by an examination of the books of the Poultney National Bank, whose affairs he will wind up as receiver. It is understood that the depositors of this unfortunate bank will be paid in full, but that the stockholders will lose one-half of their investment, or $50,000. MR. M. B. CARPENTER, a Barre boy, now a lawyer in Denver, Colorado, has just issued his second volume on mining subjects, entitled Mining Code, or a Compilation of the Mineral and Agricultural Statistics of the United States and Colorado." The Denver Tribune says of the work: "It reflects great credit upon the author, and will meet with a ready sale;" all of which, we have no doubt, is strictly true. THE Thirteenth Regiment, N. G. N. Y. S., of New York (of which Henry Ward Beecher is chaplain), will visit Montreal on the 24th of May, to participate in the celebration of the Queen's birthday. They will go via the Central Vermont line, be accompanied by Dodworth's band of forty pieces, and number five hundred men, rank and file. The military and civil authorities at Montreal are making preparations to give them a cordial reception.

9. April 9, 1879 Green-Mountain Freeman Montpelier, VT
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We understand that Geo. J. Burnham has closed up his barber shop. Mrs. Scott Siddons is to read in Brattleboro on the evening of the 29th instant. Wednesday William O'Neil was fined $5 and costs for driving his horse when unfit for labor. The first week in April has been d'scouraging to hens that were arranging for spring chickens. Rev. N. No wion Glazier, formerly pastor of the Baptist church, is in town on a few days' visit. The last of the series of Pavilion assemblies will be held on next Tuesday evening, the 15th instant. The statutes ake it the daty of school district clerks to give early notice of their election to the town clerk. A special meeting of the Knights of Honor is to be held on Thursday evening. A full attendance is desired. The annual spring migation of Canadians to work in the New England brick yards and manufactories is in progress. The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor meet at Bellows Falls to-day at 10 o'clock A M. Col. J. W. Clark and Cap. R. J. Coffey attend from this place. Some miscreant broke sixteen lights of glass in the windows in the school house up near Wright's mills, and otherwise mutilated the building one night last week. To holders of United States 5-20 six per cent bonds: The entire amount of these bonds, both the issue of 1867 and 1868, has been called for redemption by the treasurer of the United States. It is proposed to put in the walls of Bethany church, Montpelier, two tablets to the memory of Father Wright and Rev. Dr. Lord-the first and the last long-time, eminent pastors of the church. The new $10 U.S. refunding certificates are now for sale the Montpelier National Bank, Charles A. Reed. cashier. These certificates bear 4 per cent interest, and are convertible at any time, with accrued interest into U. S. 4 per cent bonds. Charlie Wilson, for several years the well known clerk in Bixby's drug store, has severed his connection with that concern and returned to his father's home in Barre, where he is to remain for the present. In a recent issue of the Bismarek Tribune mention is made in its columns in one way and another of eight different colonels, all of the seventh U. S cavalry, and the succeeding issue contains mention of five more. The Poultney National Bank, which has suspended payment to go out of business, had a large surplus a few years ago, but 1 st $40,000 on forged paper uttered by Tom Cree, and $10,000 more in ineffectual attempts to hold some of his real estate as security. The president on Monday sent into the Senate for confirmation the name of Gen. William W. Henry of Burlington as United States marshal for the district of Vermont. Gen. Henry has hosts of friends in this county who are glad he has received the appointment. Walter II. Williams. who we announe n few weeks ago had gone to Lynn, Mass., to reside, not liking there has made another change of base, Ionia, Michigan, being his residence when last heard from. He reports business as being good and that Michigan maple sugar is selling for eleven cents a pound, and that it is as black as tar at that. CHANGES OF RESIDENCE.-George W. Parmenter has removed from the Davis house on Summer street to the Cooper house on Seminary Hill; Thos. Marvin out of the Freeman ho on Barre street into that of his father-in-law-Mr. E Putnam on Seminary Hill; John Adams from the Dillon house into the Sherburne house on Seminary Hill. Hon. George W. Hendee is to succeed Gen. George W. Grandey as National Bink examiner for Vermont, and has ommenced his work by an xamination of the books of the Poultney National Bank, whose affairs he will wind up as receiver. It is understood that the depos itors of this unfortunate bank will be paid

10. April 11, 1879 Perrysburg Journal Perrysburg, OH
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THE EAST. The sehooner Emma G. Edwards sunk on Tucknerruck Shoal, near Nantucket, on the night of the 1st. The Captain, mate and three of the crew were lost. The whole Republican State ticket in Rhode Island was elected on the 2d by a larger majority than last year. The Great Western Railway passenger station, American Express Company and the Montreal Telegraph Company's offices at Sus. pension Bridge, Canada, were burned on the 2d. The extensive rendering establishment of Swift & White, Barren Island, was burned on the 2d. Loss, $150,000; no insurance. The National Bank of Poultney, Vt., has suspended for the purpose of settling up its affairs. It is said to be able to pay all its liabilities. Dr. Charles Jewitt, a widely known temperance lecturer, died at Norwich, Conn., on the 3d. The Pennsylvania Legislature, on the 3d, rejected the Riot bill which proposed to reduce the liabilities to $3,000,000, and that no money should be paid until the Supreme Court had decided the act constitutional. Three feet of snow fell at North Troy, Vt., on the 1st and 2d. President Hayes, it appears from correspondence published on the 4th, offered Mr. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, the German Mission last December, but that gentleman declined the honor bee cause he thought the opportunities of serving his country and advancing the views essential to its prosperity were better in his present position than in the new field proposed. Washington Nathan, well known in New York society circles, was shot and seriously wounded, on the 4th, by a Mrs. Barrett, alias "Berdie" Bell. The United States steamer Plyn:outh. which sailed from Boston, March 15, for a cruise to the West Indies, has returned, yellow fever I having broken out when 300 miles southeast of Bermuda. At Philadelphia on the 6th two five-story buildings occupied by seventeen firms for manufacturing purposes, were entirely destroyed by fire. The loss on buildings, stock and machinery is $838,000; partially insured. In the municipal election held at Hartford, e Conn., on the 7th, the Republicans elected the t City Auditor and Marshal, and the Democrats t the City Clerk and Treasurer. At Calais, Me., the Republicans elected their ticket by fifty majority over the Democrat and Green1 back candidates. A New York dispatch, on the 7th, stated r" that, notwithstanding the reported further 1 acceptance of syndicate subscriptions to four y per cents., it is authoritatively announced that f $53,000,000 subscriptions have been refused by the Treasury Department. The Hartford and New Haven piera near Peck Slip, New York, were burned on the 7th. )

11. April 11, 1879 Burlington Weekly Free Press Burlington, VT
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HON. GEORGE W. HENDEE is to succeed Gen. George W. Grandey as National Bank Examiner for Vermont, and has commenced his work by an examination of the DOOKS of the Poultney National Bank, whose affairs he will wind up as receiver. It is understood that the depositors of this unfortunate bank will be paid in full, but that the stockholders will lose one-haif of their investment, or $50,000.

12. August 22, 1879 Essex County Herald Island Pond, Guildhall, VT
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STATE NEWS. A three-year-old child of Phoenix Previer of North Troy was killed by a fall recently. Edgar H. Van Dusen, a young man nineteen years old, of Warren, was arrested last Friday for breaking into the store and Post Office, kept by S. D. Allen, Aug. 6, and stealing candy, cigars, and registered money packages, amounting to $80. A hearing was held before J. S. Campbell, Esq., and he was bound over in the sum of $500 for his appearance at the County Court. He is claimed by Special Agent Bigelow of the Post Office Department for robbing the mails. G. E. Baker, the man who recently accidentally shot himself at the Bates House, Rutland, is now able to be about, and, though suffering from his wound, he will recover. The Rutland Marble Company will put a private $4000 bridge across Otter Creek at their mills in Centre, Rutland, The Montpelier and Wells River Railroad Company are fitting up picnic grounds at Mansfield Summit. Fred Woodworth, an old State Prison convict, has been arrested at Williamstown and committed to jail for arson in burning a school-house and stealing a horse and wagon. Many of the ladies of St. Albans are doing their own housework because they cannot secure servants who are competent. The granite quarries and the business generally at Barre are flourishing. There are seven stone shops in town and over 150 men are employed. The August meeting of Prospect Park Driving Association will be held on the State Fair Grounds at Montpelier August 19 and 20. Washington Webster of South Rye gate has been bound over to appear before the Grand Jury on the charge of committing rape on the person of the daughter of Nancy Adams of Ryegate. As Miss Adams and another young lady were driving from Wells River to South Ryegate, a few evenings since, Webster, with another young man, took her from the carrage and committed the outrage complained of. Frank Deen, formerly of Gloucester, Mass., who burglarized the depot at McIndoes Falls, on the 9th inst., was arrested Saturday at Burke after stealing a horse. He escaped from the officer after stealing his (the officer's) t gold watch, but was captured again Sunday, being concealed in a barn near St. Johnsbury. He is now in jail. Hon. George W. Hendee, receiver of the National Bank of Poultney, exp pects to pay the creditors of the bank a dividend of 25 per cent, about the first of September, to be followed by ( others as fast as assets can be converted into cash. a h A Middlebury, cow fell from a ledge 103 feet in hight, and it was 59 feet perpendicular desent before she struck at all when she rolled down the remaining 44 feet. The cow is now alive and in a fair way of recovery, she d having suffered the loss of only one horn and a broken hip. A young farmer of Vergennes, named de Hallock, is accused of forging notes and having them discounted at the local national bank. A few days since one of the notes for $250, bearing the signature of Hemon Hallock of Panton, the forger's uncle, went to protest, and he relative was thus made aware of the forgery. A note for $65, bearing he name of Anson Hallock, a brother, L S also said to have been discounted. These have been adjusted, and a small

13. August 22, 1879 Burlington Weekly Free Press Burlington, VT
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HON. GEORGE W. HENDEE, receiver of the National Bank of Poultney, expects to pay the creditors of the bank a dividend of twenty-five per cent about the first of September, to be followed by others as fast as the assets can be converted into cash.

14. August 25, 1879 Orleans County Monitor Barton, VT
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STATE NEWS ITEMS. J. B. Kelley of Brandon recently had both legs broken by the falling of a band stand which he was helping to erect. A boy named Harley LaCross was run over and instantly killed by a gravel train at Enosburgh on Wednesday last. According to the Sunday school statistics of the Congregation church of Vermont. the number of scholars connected with this denomination is 22,680. The house of L. W. Leach, at West Enosburgh, was burned last week, the fire having broken out ID a tool house in the rear, where it is suspected a tramp set it, who had been refused lodgings. Hon. George W. Hendee, receiver of the National Bank of Poultney, expects to pay the creditors of the bank a dividend of twenty-five per cent. about the first of September, to be followed by others as fast as the assets can be converted into cash. The site of the old Revere House in Brattleboro has been purchased by Major H. R Chase for $6,600. A brick threestory business block is to be put up, the first floor to contain the People's National Bank and one store, the second floor offices, and the third floor a hall. A Middlebury cow fell from a ledge one hundred and three feet in height and it was fifty-nine feet perpendicular descent before she struck at all, when she rolled down the remaining forty-four feet. That cow is now alive and in a fair way of recovery, she having suffered the loss of only one horn and a broken hip. Colonels Sheldon, Estey, Hubbell, Hastings, Farnham, Grout, Veazey, Wells, Chittenden, Jewett, Dillingham and Smith of ex-Governor Fairbanks' staff, have presented the governor with a handsome album containing the cabinet pictures of the staff, together with those of the adjutant, quartermaster, judge advocate and surgeon-general. The new academy at Bakersfield, recently erected at an expense of $9,526.03, was dedicated last Wednesday. Addresses were made by President M. H. S Buckham and others. The money for the building of this academy was contributed by Mrs. Sarah B. Jacobs, Mrs. S. Jane B. Kendall and Mrs. Roxana B. B Hankinson of Boston. The acadmey is endowed with $40,000 which was bequeathed by the late Peter B. Brigham of Boston. S On Monday night at Waitsfield an inc sane woman named Cutler, who has just returned from the Brattleboro asylum, f assaulted Pardon Bushnell, a carpenter at work in the house, with a hammer. r It was taken away from her, when she seized a chisel and cut off bis car and a d small artery. In consequence of a report that he could not recover, the community n was greatly excited, but he is in no S danger at present accounts.

15. August 29, 1879 The Middlebury Register Middlebury, VT
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STATE ITEMS. A horse owned by Robert Monalth of Ratland, was fatally gored by a last week. The next annual meeting of the 1 mont Bible Society is to be held in Albans, October 15. The house and barn of Will Hickey, of Rutland, were burned Saturday. Loss $650. The Columbian marble mills st at Rutland is over, most of the 1 having gone back to work. Oscur Phillips, brakeman on a frei train, sprained his ankle Monday jumping from a train at Rutland. A black mare owned by G. W. hoon of Lyndon, while being dri last dead. week Tuesday morning, fell de The young ladies of Stowe chew e to such an extent as to excite une plimentary comments in the Lamo News. E. C. Robinson's house, barn outer buildings at Island Pond w insured. burned Saturday; loss $2,500, pa Mrs. Sophronia Spaulding, aged hung herself at Fairfax Sunday me ing. She has been partially insane some time. Albany has a "young" lady bor ing on a hundred, who is learning play the organ, and bids fair to bec a proficient. A Bridgewater man walks el miles every day to a back pastur milk his cow, which gives four qui at a milking. A considerable amount of cord w was burned last Saturday, in the bi yard of Davis & Gould, of Rutland an incendiary fire. Henry Anderson and Charles I of St. Albans, have been committe the House of Correction for 89 ( each, for gambling. John T. Nolan, a brakeman, had right hand badly smashed last Sa day, while shackling cars at St. Alb The second finger of the hand was putated. Among the recent postmasters pointed are George E. Field, at N Ferrisburgh, Arthur W. Britton, N Pomfret, and N. B. Safford, W River Junction. James McGettrick, track-walker tween Burlington and Winooski, passing through a cut near the br when he was set upon by three 1 knocked down and robbed of a $18. The Universalists held their f sixth annual convention at Spring last week. The denomination sixty-five parishes in the state, h new ones having been added du the year. Penn Harrington, of Barnard, a of eight years, recently fell from a of bars and broke both bones of the ie arm a little below the elbow. At Ripton two inches of snow fe of the mountain on Saturday. A black bear was killed last week 1e half a mile from the Breadloaf while another was seen on the m it tain the following day. ne is The Washington county docket sl or 356 law cases for September term ed 75 chancery cases. The term be Dthe 16th of September. The Au term of the supreme court has beer d journed to October 21. ag Ben Drown of East Hardwick -0 cording to the Orleans county Mon was taken from his house one nigh cently by a party of men and boys, er as tarred and feathered. It was clai that he had been living with a disi rs, table woman. Hon. George W. Hendee, receiv the National Bank at Poultney, ex to pay the creditors of the bank a ht dend of about 25 per cent. about er. first of September, to be followe others as fast as the assets can be 8. verted into cash. D. W. Hagar, the Brattleboro ts. who eloped with his servant girl been heard of at Montreal. Both ey ties appear to be sick of their barg and may be expected home soon, vided they can raise the neces ett amount of money. ite rd A three-years-old daughter of Ge Rounds, of Rutland, was playing ld as the steps of the American bot works, when a wagon of the W backed up to the steps, and caugh little one between the wheels an step, a wheel catching one foot. tts was badly scared, but was rescue fore any injury was done. M. Herb. Conant, the barber at the I cal tleboro House, lately confided the ats of his shop to a wandering mul on

16. May 24, 1880 Orleans County Monitor Barton, VT
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STATE NEWS ITEMS. The eleventh annual meeting of the Vermont Baptist Sunday-school convention will be held at Montpelier June 2nd and 3d. Hon, George W. Hendee, the receiver of the National Bank of Poultney, will pay the creditors a dividend of twenty per cent. Warren Ellis of Calais recently shot a bald eagle that measured nearly eight feet from tip to tip. It will be put into the state cabinet. It is reported that the Grand Trunk

17. May 1, 1931 The Barre Daily Times Barre, VT

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DEPOSITORS GET 20% MORE. National Bank of Poultney, in Receivership, Pays Dividend. Rutland, May began second dividend of 20 per cent, also supplementary first dend of per the First National bank Poultney which closed doors ago general 20 per total $150,000 and will 2500 deposiresiding in the vicinity of Poultslate belt largely for the bank's failaddition to his duties the bank, has the duties ceiver the First Champlain and Rouses Point,

18. August 11, 1931 The Rutland Daily Herald Rutland, VT

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One Is $10,000 Auto Action; Are Brought by Bank Receivers. Suits asking damages totaling $23,700 were filed in Rutland County court yesterday. Seven of the cases are attempts to collect funds, due the West Rutland Trust company the Bank. The these cases in one filed Bertha of asking damage injuries the result accident. James for the National Bank of Poultney has six suits through his counsel, Lawrence, Stafford O'Brien. Ernest Foley Fair Haven made defend$600 suit for recovery be due the bank. Orr of Poultney defendant another suit arising from note. $6000 are asked of him. Farrell in another the cases suing Matthew Foley Fair Haven for $2000 note. M. Lynch of Poultney defendant another of the suits arising from $1300 note due the bank, Alton Ward Poultney is being sued Farrell $600 note and Sarah Owens made defendant $500 case, also arising from note. Company Sued. Helen Cendrowski West Rutland, Squires, filed suit against the pany of Newark, asking $1200 Her based $1000 life insurance policy held late husband, Stanley Cendrowski, and payable her his death. Gray Knapp, receiver the West Rutland Trust company, has filed petition for $1500 mortgage making Murphy defendant. This heard the Court of Chancery Rutland county. Sargent Chase of Ludlow represent plaintiff. Courtney Flanders, Minnie Jones Rutland Walter Hanson Springfield, Mass., made defendants the $10,000 filed by Bertha Kenworthy of Ludfirm Stafford O'Brien. The plaintiff claims that she painful and injuries George Kenworthy in which was riding struck Clarendon owned Minnie Jones driven by Flanders. According plaint of the plaintiff, Flanders passHanson's car when the latter slowed up. As Flanders passHanson, the car driving tiff riding, Mrs. Kenworthy leges.

19. October 13, 1931 The Rutland Daily Herald Rutland, VT

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Court Obliged To Again Judges Return to Bench After Recess But Find no Cases in Readiness for Hearing. After weeks recess, Rutland County yesterday that were trial. Judge John adjourned court until o'clock this morning, when expected that the trial docket ready action. Court last Monday and the petit jury excused for week. The taken low the Rutland County bar to attend the session of the Montpeller and the Vermont Bar meeting. Three chancery suits enter the county clerk's office James Farrell, First National bank Poultney, against who the money on notes, as alleged. Darwin Ballard, Poultney farmnamed tion to recover which claims nsix notes, dorsed by the petitions the court to allow him to foreclose four pieces property order that redemption the notes be made at an early date. The receiver entered suit Runkle and H. Runkle, for on Runkle for the Poult National bank. seeks which was fered to the notes by the defendants. Helen Griffin of Poultney action brought Farrell to recover $5700, due four notes. He seeks early foreclosure property, which the fendant offered security. rence, Stafford O'Brien represent bank receiver.