Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-03-17

W oIce'tef sent q delegation OF i've per-
sons to Nebraska last week.
Gen. S. B. IIazoltnc Of Bakersfield. Is
years Of age has been unanimously elected
town clerk for the lltcth year. During that
period only ID votes were ever cast against
him for that office.
A Mcintyre, of st. Adams, has two
hens and one rooster that weigh twenty-five
pounds and ten ounces.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made to
rob the First National Bank Of Fairhayen
on Tuesday night or carly Wednesday morn
| ing. The roguos effected an entrance through
the window, first having pasted a sheet Of pa
| per over the glass, TO prevent any noise being
made from the broken glass, and then pushed
! It in, after which they uulastencd the vim
dow. An attempt was made to drill hole
through the safe to the lock and then insert
gunpowder but, fortunately, the drill broke
of after penetrating about thrce-iourths of
an inch. The rogucs leN their powder, acids,
and some loose papers ON the floor near their
base Of operations.
- On the Och instant, the National Bank
| of Lyndon elected the following Directors
/ viz: John NJ Weeks, A. g. Robinson G. S.
]
Cahoou, S. b. Mattocks, l.. Is Quimby, G.
W. Mccoy Henry Chase. This election is
final, and settles the protraolod controversy
about officers of that Bank
The Zee crop gathered ia Bellows Falls
the past season amounts to $50 cords Al
lowing 1000 Dds per cord, the amount gath
cred here this winter is 1897 tons.
- Our exchanges from an part. Of the
State speak Of an extraordinary depth Of snow
aud bad roads by reason thereof
49, On Sppd,v morpipr about q o'clocl III.
store OF A. r. Freeman. al Hsrilspd four.
corners. was discovered To- he ON 6rc. When
discovered it had so far progressed that an
efforts 20 save the goods, save some few that
were in the blackstone, were unavailable
Loss light the property being insured $1,000
on goods and soOo on store. The safe was
got out before the lower iioor Tell 10, books and
papers sale. Inc pos'-oince with ITS con-
'e"'s was "no"y lost
james Boyd OF Hartford, aged years,
went TO the woods some little distance from
home chopped, split and piled two cords Of
cord wood ia one day in January last
- Thirty births and sixteen deaths in Bar
nard are reported for the year 1865. These
deaths show great dcgeneracy, for. according
to Cheney, ii Barnard people formerly got
tired Of life, they had to move out Of town to
Of shuttle off the mortal coil
A grand variety entertainment at Man
chester on Friday evening Of last week Melted
500, which was equally divided between
the Episcopal, Baptist and Congregational
saoo1th schools OF the place.
"A lodge Of Good Templars was organ
zei at Factory Point on Thursday of last
week, called Grant, NO. lO4.
A corre-pondeutoftheM Manchester Joura-
al complains that If the expense of the schools
of that town increases as fast for fifty years
as It has for the past ten years it will amount
to sl3O,OuO per anuum' and will make the
dog-tax so heavy that poor man with ten
children won't be able to keep dog.
Il B. Gray Of Dorset, answered a New
York fifteen dollar oroide watch advertise
meut aud got an old cylinder escapement
worth about IS.
WIN. Wilson Of Lyndon. paid SIP the
other day for indulrinq in the fun of getting
drunk
A man named Ambrose Sands. about 80
years Of ace. was found dead IN his room at
East Bfaintree, last week Wednesday He
had probably fallen ON the Aoor in iii and
dislocated MS neck.
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IN the ,ct ac s,esl;nr ,,air oc non,s tho ot2or
day ,vhc-on,,on tlo o,gdsr o,,rn.Ii.J lin ~
Az +a,, H. ,rh;,h T., III I'll
tbc s,r..,s ~ IN, ,iIl,,,o cIIo,roJ h.. I'D
NJ snaIl NV 'lr -o.inis;n l'' bi 49,. IT,
nrorn;ssI .b.tto,. c,st;onsn e,r tbo G,t,ro
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.,i 'i'lI'y N'Iol. 9l 9'I''lorH' 'ol'l.'','ou
'i'1''' DIT '"' "'''''e'o'o "'J Jun 'o' 'ous
''"'e
-fayetieyiile has refused to bond Itself to
ana IN the construction OF the West River
raliroad'
Armory COMPANY at Windsor. have been sus.
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