The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-05-15
State Items.

Bennington. An apple tree on Mr..
Harwood's farm, over 100 years old, stil
bears excellent fruit.
JAMES Dunn OF West Newport. who
has kept the exact measurement, in
forms Us that from Jan. lst to April
Ord, sirJ feet Of snow fell.
TIE Lyndon Onion THE locat-
ing committee appointed some few
weeks since met at Lyndon Center last
week Tuesday, and aftorexaminings Sc, ,
eral localities, located the Seminary wess
Of the Lyndon Center common, on the
hill back of :. :. Thompson's residence.
The design IS to remove Thompson's
house and barn and the parsonage.
and appropriate about ten acres for the
Seminary grounds.
THE property supposed to have been
taken from the house of Rev. 4. $.
Cooper, in Milton, after many repeated
searches, has been found in a bed, where
it was deposited for safe keeping, and
its whereabouts forgotten.
Rev. ALFRED STEVENS, pastor Of the
Congregational church. at Westminster
West preached on sunday, April 29th,
his quarter-century sermon. But few
ministers are retained so long in one
place as Mr.. Stevens has been there.
THE town of Halifax hasrecently pur-
chased large safe for the use Of the
town clerk.
TIRE PhGolir says Mrs. Sally Stock
well, widow Of the late AIad Stockwell,
of West Brattleboro, celebrated her
cighy-4iaH birthday, on Thursday,
April Both. The occasion was interest
ing, and the gathering was a pleasant
one. The number present, including
children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren, was thirty-nine. Mrs.
s has had ten children, of whom seven
are now living thirty-two grand-child-
rem, of whom twenty-four are now liv-
ing; and trcny-tleo grcat-gr0nd chill
dron, twenty of whom are now living
During the past year, this vigorous old
lady has knit ten pairs Of stockings
and cut and pieeed f,go JoF-qs,ilts, be-
sides doing considerable other plain
sewing, and a good deal of ordinary
homework. SO far as we know, Mrs.
Stockwell is the Oldest person in the
town Of Brattleboro.
Rev. ROYAL PARKINSON, for two years
leading pastor at Milton, has closed his
labors there.
Rev. Mr.. HERRIcK of Colchester is
to preach alternately at that place and
at West Milton, where Rev J. X. Con-
verse of Burlington, has been for
some years preaching.
THE Brattleboro insane asylum, which
has been for 81 years under Dr. w. II.
Rockwell's superintendent, now has
$40 inmates, and its annual expenses are
SIS, 500. The institution owns 1860
acres of wood and pasture and improved
farm lands, and feeds its fires with
LOO cords of wood annually.
+. 5. HALL, of Worcester, Vt, is one
of the speakers at the freshman prize de-
dication of the Amherst College Athen-
ian Society, on the 9th Of May.
A son of Mr.. VIM. Flood of Glover,
aged eleven years, made this season ia
lbs of sugar from p trees-having no
assistance from any one.
JOHN WILSON, well known as a stage
driver, was thrown from his carriage,
about two miles from Jacksonville, on
the Bakersfield road, on Saturday, the
10Th ult. When found he was insen-
sible.
CHARLIE, twelve year old son Of ].
B. McCuin, of Belvidere, few days
since, while, at play with another boy
who was handling an axe in a careless
manner, accidentally received a cut
which very nearly severed his hand.
THE dwelling-house of Timothy Til
lotson, in Berkshire was recently dis
troyed by fire, together with most Of its
contents. Loss between 5000 and 500.
AT the sale of pews in Christ Church,
Montpelier, last week, the amount Orient
amounted to about s., 800, with six pews
remaining yet to rent. The first choice
fell to Fred. f. Smith, at $40 premium
the second to J. w. Ellis, at $45, which
was the highest premium paid.
ARCHIBALD l.. ALLEN, proprietor of
the hotel at West Townshend, commit
ted suicide about noon on Friday last, by
shooting himself through the head with
a pistol, causing instant death.
CHARLES DAVIDSON and Warren
Ransom. of Island Pond, killed a huge
hedgehog, last. week, weighing forty
pounds and measured four feet in
length.
HENRY G. CLEAvELAND, of Conven-
try, has one of the best stock animals in
the State in his celebrated =" Major.o He
is full blood short horn, bred from stock
brought from Kentucky by Hon. Elijah
cleveland. He is four years old next
July, and weighs 300 pounds.
BETHANY church is the name by
which the Congregational church edifice
now in process of erection in Montpelier
is called 1t is a massive building Of
brown stone, far exceeding any other
church edifice in the State, both in ex-
pense and size, excepting the Catholic
church at Burlington. The outside, ex-
cept the spire and the porches, was fin
ished last season, and work on the in
side is being pushed rapidly forward. 1t
is to be completed and ready for use in
September next.
THE widow of James Campbell of
Rochester, Vermont, died, recently off
broken heart, just seven weeks after the
death Of her husband by tree falling
upon him.
THE Democratic Convention in the
lst District, will be held at Middlebury
May 2lst,