Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-10-23

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W iliiam slate quarrie- at Fairhasen. Thur
day evening, injured seven men. three 81
them fatally
Some twenty-five students have entered
Middlebury College this term
Hawley shot on Tuesday last. on his ia
theirs farm in Waltham, the largest and
best specimen of the Black Eagle killed in
TINS country for some time. He measured
from tip to tip of his wings seven feet and
four inches, and was armed with claws and
a beak more agreeable to contemplate than to
encounter.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Messrs. Hunt, Tillinghast & Co.. will soon
start the Brick Knitting Mills at Benning-
ton, the new dam being nearly ready for use
Thu New RAILRoADs.-Work is in progress
on about every section of the Lebanon
Springs Railroad, between Bennington and
Chatham Four Corners, n. Y. The track is
being laid at the Bennington end, and the
directors expect to see the road completed by
next July.
+. Buck, of Salisbury has onions, six of
which weigh six pounds. Average size, cir
NNAiiASiNiitt II - iflCGtS-
\ son of Mr.. Harwood, aged Ii years, re-
siding near the top of Rupert mount in, has
caught during the present season, with the
aid of dog, 279 woodchucks.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
DvIDEND.-The Caledonia National Bank,
Danville, has declared a semi-annual dividend
of four per cent, payable Oct. LIST.
ST. bloomsbury have nearly completed new
school house at an expense of about 81 900.
\ boy about twelve years old had both feet
crushed at St. Johnsbury, by the up mail
train Wednesday night. He was trying to
get upon the and fell under All of one
foot and nearly all of the other had to be
amputated.
Frederick Hoffman, Jr., of Lyndon, was
driving Il team for plowng, consisting of
yoke of oxen led by horse, and had the
lines his neck, when the horse stepped
in a Woo chuck's hole, stumbled and fell for
ward, l. awning Hoffman in front of the oxen,
one of which stepped upon him and broke
his leg Glow the knee.
BIG PoRARoEs.-F. \. Way, of Sutton,
recently selected from load Of his potatoes,
twenty-six, which filled a bushel basket
Thirty of them weighed pound each.
Mr. Job Randall died at Lyndon, Sept. %.
aged ninety years. Mr.. Randall came to
Lyndon in 1901, when there were but few
families in the settlement. He represented
the town for eight years in the Legislature
His wife, now eighty-sevcn years of age,
survives him
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
WINoosKI.- Seventeen CAV and festive
youths of Colchester. who on the eth Of Au-
gust last, rode on a rail one Joseph Martin
and wife, who reside on the North Beach,
were recently brought before Justice \. O.
Hood, to answer for "A breach of the peace
Twelve of the = boys > were found guilty.
and fined five dollars and costs each. 4 mol
pros was entered in the cases Of the remain
ing five. Nj. Martins offcnse which pro
yoked the outrage was marrying his cousin,
girl of but twelve years of age.
BASE BALL AT EssEx-The Gypsy
Club of W illiston, and the = Stars : Of Fl sex
played at the latter place on the 10Th inst =,
and after a three hours contest, the victory
was awarded the - Gypsys," the score stand
ing % to "a.
ESSEN COUNTY
The Grand Trunk Railroad sent d. l.
Beausipaus to Island Pond last fall as de
tective TO prevent stealing al that point from
their ears. The night of September Goth, he
caught by Henry Parrot, a switchman.
stealing chest of tea from a car. \ search
on Saturday and Sunday disclosed other
chests of tea, two thirty gallon wine casks.
and % pounds of nutmegs, secreted about
his premises, showing him to have been both
stealing and smuggling
FRANKLIN NTY.
\ bold robbery perpetrnted in Enos-
burgh on Sunday evening. W lille the family
were at church, the house of Mr.. Cross,
who lives in the west part of the town, was
entered and robbed of $500 in bonds and
about $1,000 in notes The money and notes
were in the bureau drawer. locked up. and
were obtained by prying off the top of the
bureau. Suspicion rests upon man who
had worked for Mr.. Cross brother who has
suddenly evaded' those parts for Canada.
During the three days last there was
shipped from St. Alqans depot eighty-six
thousand one hundred and ten pounds Of
butter, and eighty-two thousand and five
hundred and thirty pounds of cheese
LAMoGLLe COUNTY
c. c. Morse Il Co, of Hydepark. are now
daily taking and putting into their Matching
troughs, large numbers Of trout spawn.
They hope to have at least a million.
The dwelling of Joseph Walsworth, of
Iiydepark, entered in the night recently.
and fifty dollars in greenbacks taken from
bureau drawer.
Some one broke into the Lodge room of the
Good Templars at North Hydepark recently,
stole and carried away the charter, tore up
all other books and papers, broke the lamps
pitchers and tumhlers, and raised the . old
nick = generally.
ORANGE COUNTY.
\ new engine throttle has been invented
and patented by T. j. and Edison Doe. of
South Newbury, which promises to be very
Instead Of the engineer being
obliged to use thumb screw for tightening.
and loosening, the lever in letting on and
shutting off steam, the operation Is per-
formed with the same hand moving the lever,
and at the same time, consequently it can be
instantly done with motion
A house in Braintree owned by Arson B.
Terry and occupied by Charles Spear, was
burned October it'll The building was in
sured for $500 and Mr.. Spear had 5000
insurance, which does not half cover his
loss.
Mr. L. T. Richmond of Randolph, gath
cred from apple tree this fall, 80 bushels
of apples.
Two ears of Yankee corn grown on the
farm of H. Reyes, Esq. of Newbury, meas
ure twelve inches in length, contain twelve
rows each, with fftv-two bright golden
kernels in a row.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Capt. l.. ii. Bsbee has been appointed
Deputy Collector of Customs at Newport,
rice Capt. Urban A. Woodbury., ordered to
Burlington. Capt Bisbee has resigned the