Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-11-18
State Matters.

amount brought to town was not large, owing,
we presume, to the bad condition Of the roads.
st. Adams transcript, Non. 10.
There is at present piled upon Cham
plain wharf, in Burlington, awaiting trans
portation TO the Bay State Iron Company Of
Boston, 2,700 tons Of iron ore and 900 tons
ofpig iron Il is from the Port Henry mines
and furnaces and the weekly receipts Of the
articles here and shipments to city markets
averages about 400 tons.
About 10000 bushels Of potatoes have
been received at the starch factory IN Coven-
try, at the price Of from thirty-fve to forty
cents bushel. This is not more than half the
quantity usually received, but the potato crop
in that vicinity is third less than the average,
and the farmers have put larger proportion
Of the crop than usual into their cellars.
i. H. McClary Of Albany sent to mar
ket in the month Of October sos tubs Of but
ter 1865 lbs net
About fortnight ago, John r. Tbrasher
Of Coventry and two or three others went
fishing with a seine in Lake Memphremagog.
and by working part Of two nights took
nearly thousand shadwaiters, 10 say moth.
ing Of suckers The whole catch weighed
about 500 lbs A man named Lawrence re-
Gently took from the lake, Just the other side
Of the Canada line, lunge weighing thirty
one pounds.
Mr.. Huse, Of Charleston, lately shot
four coons in his corn crib
Half an acre Of land in Jay has produced
300 bushels Of potatoes
A boy named Knapp, employed in Brad
iord's knitting factory in Bennington, had his
head caught in the machinery last Saturday,
and 80 bsdly crushed that he survived the in
Juries but few hours.
$ Magoon Of Newport, has raised the
present season from Just one acre 400 bushels
Of sorted Chill potatoes.
The town Of greensboro don't intend to
be in debt they voted last week to raise a
tax Of 40 cents on the grand list TO pay the
towns Indebtedness.
There was raised this fall in Mddletown.
a single tomato plant ten feet high and eight
feet in breadth, which had upon it one bushel
Of fruit, some Of them weighing a pound each
They are called the perfect tomato" are
thick meated, have very few seeds and grow
very large.
Last Thursday. twenty blooded sheep.
belonging to John S. Pettibone, of Manches-
ter, were run into and killed by the early
train on the Bennington and Rutland railroad
Charles J Robbins Of Ripton. lost a
barn by fire on the 3lst ult Seven tons oil
hay, 300 lbs. Of meal and several harnesses
were among the contents consumed. -Four
horses were saved with difficulty.
DR.. Butler, Of Essex, lately dug 10Y
fine Early Goodrich potatoes from one hill. |
"A son Of IL. j.. Perry, Of Cambridge |
aged about rs, lost his life on Sunday last by |
the eaying in Of a bank while digging out
woodchucks
A new steam mill, l05 feet long. and to
contain twelve gangs of saws, has been COM
menced in Middlebury by the Addison Coun-
ty marble company. The company are ship
ping marble to Boston
William Whlford Of Addison, has raised
common beet this season which weighs IA
lbs being 20 inches in circumference, thus
beating Mr. Seth Barton's mammoth beet of
Manchester by lbs, in weight, and one inch
in circumference
Henry Wright of Pownal has caught the
bear that has been making such general havoc
in the White Oaks, killing sheep, &C. He
weighed over 400 lbs
"A gentleman in Warren has full blood
Durham calf, six months old Oct. Goth, that
weighs just six hundred pounds lie has also
three potatoes whose united weight is lbs
IA ounces.
"A Mr.. Burke of Milton, dropped down
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