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- MAD DoG.-Winooskl village was
thrown into ferment Wednesday. by
the capture and slaughter of dog supposed
to he mad The animal was the property Of
Mr.. TarboX, Supt. Of the gas works in this
place, whom he followed over to Winooski,
where he showed signs of arrangement of
some sort, and tried to bite his MASTER
Mr T. succeeded in avoiding him, and finally
onticed him into an entry in Baxtcr's build
ing, where he was secured by slip moose
round his neck, dragged out and summsrily
executed. Whether it was a genuine case Of
/ llydrolhobia, is not entirely clear, but the
animal was at any rate SO mad as to be black
in the face, vhichiS less remarkable however.
as it a very black dog,
-RoHBERIEs We learn from the Man
chester American, that the Concord Savings
Bank was robbed Of thousand dollars on
the 10th inst. 1t is supposed that the Cash
Ter left the key in the safe door, while he
went to dinner Also on the 9th inst. DR..
| rebbctts, Of Man, returning from Gambia.
about II o'clock, p NJ, was set upon by
two highway robbers of whom one held
| his horse and the other presented pistol,
and demanded his money and watch The
DR., replied, VERY well, sir" and proceeded,
as the robbcr supposed, to deliver up the
watch, While taking it out, lie managed to
turn a heavy whip he had in his hand so as
to grasp it at the small end, without attract
in. the note Of the robbeT, it being very
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watch into the bottom of the Wagon, struck
the man having hold of his collar tremen-
dous blow across the face with the butt OF
his whip, and spoke to his horse. The horse
sprang like lightning from the grasp OF the
man who held him. Almost instantly two
pistol shots were fired by the rascals, but
without iniuring either the horse or his
owner \ few moments after his escape, the
DR. bethought him of his watch, and he
found it in the back part Of his wagon safe
and sound, The whip, which was nearly
now. WAS broken 10y the force of the blow.
and the DR. who is neither small or weak
thinks the robbcr must bear the marks Of the
stroke for some time to come.
y MARBLE QUARRY CLOSED BY An AVA
LANUE.---The Boston Traveller learns
through a private source, that ON the even
in: Of the 10th ult., shortly after the work
men Of the Rutland Marble company, in Rut-
land Vt, had left the quarry in which they
were employed, a huge mass of surface rock
which oyerhung the pit, fell, covering the
entire pit and engine house to the depth of
about twenty-five feet with rocks, trees, and
the d,tris Of the hill behind it. The engin-
e,r was passing out at the time, and hardly
succeeded in reaching the place of safety be
for, the pit was literally closed behind him.
The extent Of the damage is such that the
company will make no effort this season to
reopen the quarry. They will turn their
attention for the present to another, as yet
untricd, quarry which is in the immediate
vicinity
-NEw Patents have recently been issued
to Cerhas Aprlebee, of Lyndon, for improve
ment in machines for cutting sheet metal
To Augustus Sanborn, of St. JohnSbury,Nt.
assignor to f.. 4 r. Fairbanks X Co, of the
same place, for Improvement in the union plat
form scales.
MEssRs BELKNAr of Mortified, have
a quarry from which they cut scythe stones
and are now running a gang OF sixteen
saws. which with the help of two men, fur
uish from siNte'n t. twenty dozen scyths
stones daily,
-lARGr PRlrFs-A gentleman in Lyn-
don informs Us that lie sold eleven cosset
wcthers last April to droycr for the sum
of : 100 The same man i in the habit of
lattening all his stock we'll, and of getting
good prices for Macedonian.