Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-09-29
STATE MATTERS.

TENDER 9Th, aged 70 years months. Mr. |
Chandler is the fifth person in town whose
death has been caused by cancer within one
year
-Messrs Persons q Rogers Of East Tops.
ham, raised this season from one oat eighteen
stalks which produced 2l40 grains. One
head measured l6l inches in length and con.
tanned pa grains.
On a river farm in Farlcc, was raised
this season one hundred aud eighty bushels
OF oats, good measure, on three acres Of land,
and twenty-iour bushels Of wheat on one
acre
Mr. Alvin Wires Of West Randolph,
has pig four months old, that gained just
ninety pounds in one month-three pound.
per day. SO says the Eagie
- One Of the great attractions at the re.
cent State fair, at Burlington, was the Doug
lass hay loader The machine is fastened to
the rear Of the wagon its two pullies revolye
with the motion Of the wagon wheels, and
the belts that are drawn over them, armed
with iron teeth catch up the winrow, astridt
which the wagon is driven, and, carrying the
hay to the top Of the machine, on the same
principle that grain is carried up In boxes on
belts, drop it to the wagon floor, to be piled
away by hand and fork 4 row of station
airy belts hinder the hay from falling from
those that elevate il.
At q recent town meeting, RichfOrd
voted to bond itself in the sum of $4,000
in aid Of the eastern township route Of the
Missisquoi Valley railroad. Sixteen thou
sand dollars were subscribed in aid Of that
part Of the road between Richford and the
Vermont Il Canada road
The Fourth Annual Reunion Of the
Tenth Vermont Regiment will be held at the
Central House, Rutland, on Wednesday, the
9th day Of October, 1863.
Mrs. Hannah Woodmau Of Walden died
recently at the age Of % years. She had
been married II years, her husband having
passed away about 3 years age. She was
the Kind and loving mother Of II children
- sons and daughters--lO Of whom lived
70 be married many years since $ Of these
survive her. She has had 81 grandchildren,
most Of whom are living and married ALSO
OF great-grandchiIdren she has had II.
Mrs. Carrie \. Hill had on exhibition
at the recent County Fair 10 Franklin county,
bod-quilt containing l2l blocks and $500
pieces and Hattie House, young miss ten
years DID, exhibited o button string 80 feet
/ in length, aud which contained | 100 buttons.
j. Erwin Crane, Of Bridport, has re-
Gently made sale Of over 1000 pounds Of
honey, which has been the production from
his Spanish and native bees the present sea.
son.
There are forty widows in Wateryille, Of
whom SIX are " war widows also four wild
overs, six old maids, and two old bachelors
Mr. aud Mrs. Samuel Harwood of Brain
tree aged respectively 81 and s. years, ar,
the oldest couple in town. They were mar
ried January -, 1902, thus making over 81
years Of welded life.
j. W. Ware Of Coventry, has taken dur
ing the present season, from six swarms o
bees, l45 pounds Of nice box honey.
Mr.. Joseph Drew Of Glover, has an APP
pie tree that he purchased two years since
and which is an inch in diameter four inches
from the ground that he has picked 533 APP
/ pies from this year
The crop Of backberries this year around
Bennington seems to have no end, and almos
everybody is improving the opportunity which
the present beautiful weather presents foi
gathering bouDtiful supply of this luscious
fruit Two pickers recently brought home q
bushe and half in single day
John Manchester, who has store il
Fairhaven near the State Line, was arrested
last Monday for dealing in liquors without
United States license. He was taken befor
Commissioner Nicholson, at Rutland, and re
quired to give bonds to the amount Of $50
for bis appearance before the United State
Court in October,
The locomotive Chester" which wen
down the bank at Nourse's Mills a short tim
since, has been repaired, and is again making
her regular trips on the Rutland road. Ell
ward Foss, the engineer, who was then badl
hurt, has recovered and is again at his post
William f. Peck, formerly of st. } ohns
bury has sold two hundred and fifty horse
! in Boston the present summer. These horse
] have been bought in the West by his brother
Vermont horses are too high to make none
on.
AT the term Of the Windham Count
court last week, verdict of $500 was rel
dered in an action for SANDER. The partiC
to the case are residents Of Wardsboro.
Two very valuable mineral springs hay
been discovered on the farm of b. Richmond
in Brdgewater.
/ Willie Whiting, the IA years old son
, Rev. Mr.. Whiting Of Windsor, who myst'
riously disappeared, August is, has not "
! been heard from.
e Two boys, aged respectively twelve an
l. thirteen years, stole a valuable horse and ca
: riage in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on Il
! 18th, and drove to Ludlow, where on accoul
I of their suspicious conduct, they were on Il
!. following day arrested by Sheriff Stiuso
i They were returned to Fitchburg, in irons, G
4 Tuesday.
r Solomon Emmons died in Woodstoc
on the 10Th inst, aged I ! years. His deaf
was occasioned by fall some two weel
n previous from scaffoldng in barn. whit
l. he had assembled to procure fodder for h
IT horse. Mr.. Emmons was married fifty yea
ago the 10th day of December next, by Ed
10 jasper Hazen, and it is somewhat remark
:, BILE coincidence that Elder Hazen preach'
re his funeral sermon forty-nine years and MI
l. months from that date.
m The Vermont State Agricultural Socie
finds itself, after its late Fair, with abo
re $4,000 in its treasury very comiortab
'e condition to be in.
e. The present week will witness the
1t parure Of the last of the summer visitors
st Manchester. The season has been rath
short, owing to the cold months of June a
July, but Notwithstanding the untayorat
4, weather, the number of people visiting Ma
$ chester has been quite large,-larger, in ia'
sr than during any season since 1866.
m Mr.. Ezra Jarey's little girl about thr
v years old fell off the bridge into the grist m
re pond at Factory Point, on the 18th in
of Her clothes bouyed her up till Ed. Lancl
1t rushed out of his blacksmith shop near
and jumped in and rescued her. She had
narrow escape.
D. Norman Barnard, whose home is in Ca