The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-10
State Items.

THE sugar house of Dudly Swazey, of
Waterbury, was burned on Monday
night of last week.
SEVERAL very fine residences are be-
ing built by the following citizens Of
Bennington: Messrs. Graves, Putnam,
Bradford, Roberts and Hutchins, cost
ing from $4,000 TO 5000 each: also
an elegant block OF stores by Hon. T.
W. Park, which, for elegance and beau
Is, excel any strUc ure in the state The
entire upper or third story is TO be occu-
pied by the Masons, and which is con-
coded TO be the best hall and suit Of
rooms anywhere outside of the city, and
Of which the fraternity may we'll be
proud
TIE elegant factory Of Hunt & Til
linghast, Bennington, is quite eomplet-
ed costing over a million OF dollars.
THE Ecpross says the town Of Greens
boro on the 26th inst. voted to accept
the enabling act passed by the Legisla-
tuTe, and to take its quota Of stock in the
Lamoille Valley Railroad. The appor-
tionment is $4,000
a HARDY, of Troy, has yearling
colt that weighs 400 los.
CHAs. II. CHAsE's grist mill in Char
lesion, was burned down on the night
of March 9th; loss about s., 600.
THE Times says: The intended re-
moval OF Sheriff Munson TO Colchester,
has made it necessary for him to call his
Deputy, Nh A. B. Ashley Of Milton, to
the post of county jailor Mr.. Ashley
took possession on the first of April
REV. W. II. GILBERT, of Norwich,
has resigned his position as agent for the
Vermont Bible Society, and Rev. Geo.
H. White, Of Weathersfield Bow, has
been appointed in his place.
REV. S.JAcKsoN, pastor of the Metho-
dist Church in Vergennes, is about to
remove to Stanbridge, c. f.
THE members of the Episcopal Socie-
ty i'm Chester, met at the Academy
Hall, on Monday evening, March 30th,
and organized parish TO be called "St.
Luke's."
THE West Rupert Dairy Association
cleared the factory of about 10000 lbs. of
cheese, week before last, which event
was celebrated by the young people,
with a dance and supper in the factory.
MAJOR HAwLEY, of Manchester,
President of the Battenkill Bank, met
with a serious accident on Wednesday
last, by being thrown from his wagon,
sustaining a compound fracture of the
leg.
JUSTICE SINiONs, of Rutland, has SEN
fenced a boy named Charles Higgins,
aged Is years, to the State Reform School
for IS months. His offense was larceny.
THE health Of the Rev Mr.. Torrey,
pastor of the Congregational Church in
Nergennes, has beerand is quite poor,
making brief respite from parochial
duties advisable.
DIR. HENRY c. NEWELL, ofSt. Johns
bury, while visitinga patient on the
morning of the I'd inst, fell down stairs
and fractured both bones of the right
arm.
THE April Term of the Chittenden
| County Court commenced in Burling-
ton on Tuesday last, Chief Justice Pier
point presiding.
THE following Vermont patients, is
sued from the United States patent
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Daniel w. Bancroft, of Marshfield, for
! improved washing machine.
J.B. Case, of Fletcher, for improved
lever purchase.
Charles H. Buck, of West Arlington,
for improvement in attachment for sew
ing Machines.
John Holmes, of Johnson, for inn
provement in dumping wagons.
]. w. Currier, of Newbury, for inn
provement in sap buckets.
PETER MCINTYRE OF Derby last week
sold a New Yorker a valuable pair of
horses for 81, 800.
THE citizens of Craftsbury intend to
erect new Academy buildings this sea-
son, with view to support school the
| year round.
WILLIAM G. MUNsoN formerly OF
Bristol, has gone into bankruptcy in
Waterloo, Wis, with liabilities to the
amount of over $4,000, of which So 900
is due to parties in Addison county.
A Canadian at South Vernon recently
ate 81 pounds of maple sugar in twenty
five minutes.