Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-10-19
Vermont Items.

vermont ltems.
Boxer fast horse owned by Peter
Mcintyre of Newport has been purchaFed
by New Yorker for $500.
The receipts of the State Fair. the Prcsi-
dent says, were just 1855.
Fred Scars. of Stowe, on Saturday last
had his right hand terribly iacerated and
mangl"d by being caught in thrcshing
machine.
Mrs. Lyman Parmonter, of Rochester
Lower Mills Village, committed suicide hy
cutting her throat with razor, on Satur-
day morning, Sept. ooh. Her age was
about IS years.
james o Brien,a scction-hand on the Pas
sumpsic X. r., was found dead on the track
on the 9Th lie start,d to go home, the
evening previous, from 4 house mile from
his own. ON land car; and from the
bruises ON HE head, 1t is thought he was
knocked of the car by accidentally getting
his head into tie way Of the crank.
S. X. Remick of St Johnsbury lost
horse and buggy Sept. Goth. having let it to
man calling himself Albert Hyde Of Per
klnsyille, and pretending to he hiring fac
tory girls Hyde was traced to Bradford,
but no further. He left horse in Remick's
stable and a sulky with another man. which
prove to have been stolen.
A simiIar operation was performed at
South Stanford a eek before, Hiram Bar
rett being ..out" $50 on trade for a wag-
ON which proved to have bcen stolen with
horse from Springfield livery stable, and
Mr.. Soule the landlord at South STAFFORD.
lost 4 wagon which he lent to the thief.
James Lally's house in Middlcsex was
burned week ago Friday. having caught
FIRE IN the larn adjoining by a spark from
locomotive No one was there but six small
children, the father being at work. and the
mother in Montpelier, and but very little
was saved.
Geo. B. Prouty of Brattleboro, in getting
out of a wagon with a gun in his hand,
struck the lock some way, and the charge ex-
ploded. the shot PASSING through his hand.
tie will lose two fingers. The cap had been
taken from the nipple, but probably enough
percussion powder left to fire the charge.
Prcuty was soldier and fought many
battles without getting a scratch.
There was an attempt at bear hunt in
CALEDONIA County last week, which seems to
have failed the Union says " there were
some four hundred men wandering about
Kirby woods that day, and every one of
them came home mad at the thought Of
bear hunt being converted into wild goose
chase, simply from the want of manage
ment'
James Needham is in jail at st. Johns
bury awaiting trial for marrying Abbie IIOag
of Barnet, while be had n wife living in
Holland.
From piece of meadow land IN St. Johns
bury owned by Messrs. E. d I. Fairbanks IL
Co., containing two and one-half acres,
there was cut in, 1850, the last week in
June, eight tons ofhaY; and & second crop the
first week in Sept a, of FIVE and ne-half tons
in all Is one-hali tons of fine timothy, well
matured and made hay, being five and two
ffths tons to the acre. No clover appeared.
The land was plOwed in the month Of Au-
gust, 1865, top-dressed with thirty loads of
manure to the acre, well narrowed; and on
this was sowed one-half bushel of timothy
and ten pounds clover seed TO the acre and
again narrowed and rolled.
The other day hawk was so imprudent
as to attack "a hen of the male persuasion"
owned by L. D. Gould, of Montpelier; that
bird showed fight, and dragged it into eel
lar through window, where Mr.. Gould
caught and killed it. Ii measured feet 10
inches from tip to tip of its wings, and
feet from tip of its bill to its tail.