Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-04-28
STATE MATTERS.

cheese has been yet offered in this market
the present season.
The ruling price of butter in the Yer.
gennes market on Saturday last was 40 cents,
and the supply was fulyoqual to the demand
even at these figures.
There was not quito so much doing in
butter at st. Adams on Tuesday as last week,
notwithstanding outside appearances. The
amount shipped was 3S2tubs. Prices ranged
from Doc. to 3sc. per pound,
-Twenty-one cars Of hogs from the West
passed through st. Adams to-day, en- route
for Boston
"A man who had been in California 90
years, aud not heard from for the last half of
that time, suddenly appeared at his home in
Castleton not long since. Instead of its
proving an Enoch Arden ease there was {" 10Y
in that house"
The listers report one half Of the farmers
in Wcstdold out Of hay. 1t is so per ton,
and general locomoton impossible
Mr.. A. VI. Harrimans sugar.house and
contents in Craitsbury, including syrup for
about 300 lbs Of sugar, were destroyed BY fire
WI Nl' hikht vi DpIli Jun.
Henry IIasclton Of Charleston. had on
the 9th inst 800 buckets full of sap and
running over, and could not get at them on
account Of the depth Of the snow.
Freeman Wood, a former resident of
Bloomington, who has not been heard Of for
nearly fifteen years, has turned up all right
in California.
Mr., Reuben Wakefield Of Hardwick has
invented a new mode Of boiling sap. He has
a metallic tube passing through the arch sew
en- times, forming a crate The sap gagged
by faucet in the holder passes through the
CRATE and empties into the evaporator boiling
hot 1t appears like good thing.
The recent death Of Mr.. Hopper leaves
the town Of Morgan destitute Of pauper
The oldest person in town is widow Elliott,
who is ~ years old and is quite well for a
person so old. She has twelve children, the
youngest being 4 9 years old Six Of them
are settled in this town.
The highest number of votes cast in Rut.
land county for any name on the Council Of
Censors ticket was 40
The State Normal School for the third
district, located at johnson, is in a flourish
ing condition, having about one hundred pu-
pills
The scarcity Of hay and grain is produc-
ing great distress in Franklin county One
farmer in Montgomery who had cows lost
three, gave away three, and is likely to lose
the last
Mr.. Ambrose Arnold has been appoint
ed Assistant Superintendent Of the VT Cen
trail, to fill the vacancy recently caused by
the death Of II. H. Locklin
Sheep are dying of in some parts of the
State from feeding on badly cured hay
There was spirited railroad meeting at
Swanton Falls on Thursday, to see if the town
would change the condition Of the bonds of the
town to aid in building the Lamoille Valley
Railroad. The question was decided in the
affirmative by thirty-one majority.
AS Mr.. Daniel Shaw, of Bolton, was
driving home from Waterbury last night, he
drove in the darkness, into torrent which
had washed out cuvert across the highway,
and suddenly found himself struggling in the
water. He was carried some distance down
stream, and considered himself fortunate to
be able finally to reach the bank by swim
ming The horse, valued at $500, and wagon
were swept away and lost
Mr. Norman Boardmau, Of Middlebury,
has from sap run from $50 trees this spring,
made more than 1000 pounds Of sugar Of
first quality.
The saw-mill at East Highgate, owned
by Rixford & Keenan,, and Mr.. Rixiord's
were carried away on Wednes-
day by the flood. The loss must be quite
large.
A female shop-iiter was detected in
the other day, while attempting
to make off from the store Of Beckworth &
Co., with "a yards Of calico secreted under
her shawl
The liquor law is being vigorously en-.
forced in Burlington.
The people at Hardwick village district
No. y are wide awake for a graded school.
At their last annual school meeting COM
mittee Of five were elected to investigate the
matter, and report to the district at an adj
journed meeting
"A man living in the east part of Peach
nm has not been able to get out with team
for fourweeks Having business inst. Johns
bury on Wednesday last he walked seven
miles over to the Passumpsic river, where he
procured a team and rode to town
The number of arrivals at the American
Hotel in Burlington the past fortnight was
645, gain Of 43 over the two weeks preyi-
Gus
The Brattleboro PhGnir says the season
for making maple sugar has been more favor
able than was anticipated, and fully an aver.
age crop has been gathered. There were
sent from this village by the express alone,
from April 9th to the Goth, 1851 pounds
over 36l tons.
A lad in Irasburgh, sick with membran-
GUS Group, was lately given up as dead, and
made to lay him out, when
slight rattle was heard in the throat the most
vigorous efforts were used, and he was again
restored, almost as one risen from the dead
a warning to people not to remit efforts to
save life as long as there is breath or pulsa-
ton of the heart
Rachel Robinson, a colored woman known
in Nergennes for half a century as "0ld
Rachel" died there on Monday at the great
age Of l04 years. The mayor of that city
a collection taken up for her AZ
years ago on account of her needy age She
was about ten years old when the revolution
began, aud recolected many things of that
period when she lived at Arlington, Va. She
thought she was a native of Africa.
Mrs Beard of Peru, 90 years old, while
from N anlI laet xriu lo,r