Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-02-16
STATE MATTERS.

Butter at Richmond, 25 to 30 cts. for
Winter; 80 to 40, Fall.
"A Frenohman in St.Albans is 100 years
bid, healthy and strong.
The tracks of a lynx have produced great
excitement in Ferrisburgh.
The people Of Lyndon are agitating the
question Of a graded school.
During the last cold snap, the mercury
Indicated 26' below zero in Irasburgh.
Justin s. Davis Of Reading made maple
sugar during the mild weather Of January
Tho Orleans County Musical Association
Nil hold its annual meeting in Barton, Feb.
b. "a and 20.
There has been seventeen suicides in the
twn Of Reading within the recollection Of
DE- oldest inhabitants.
IA new cheese factory, 80 by 100 feet, twill
b. built at North Ferrisburgh and ready for
a. by the first of May.
Y Kansas papers are being circulated pretty
freely in Bloomington, and many are becom-
ing DESTROYS to view the land.
-Hial Atkins recently started deer on
De mountain back of Stowe Hollow, and
cnught it alive after days chase.
The cellar of the Baptist Seminary, Lynn
Bon, is completed, and the stone will be ready
y lay, soon as frost is out Of the ground.
Jacksonville has a strong man in the
person Of Il. Laberdce, who raised key con-
iaining ia pounds Of nails with his teeth.
Some twenty-five poor families are now
Regularly supplied with palatable and nour-
ishing soup from the ladies' soup-bouse in
Burlington.
-Colchcster receives net gain from the
liquor business through the town agent, of
of 81 ,939, 10 for three years. The agent had
salary Of $500.
Thursday Of last week, John II. Skinner
of Weybridge, was examined on charge Of for
gerry, and was bound up in the sum Of 80 500.
In default Of bail he was committed
Mr. Harris Of Lyndon had four hogs in
the woods until about two weeks since. They
lived in his sugar place on boechnuts and
were in good order when they came up.
"A New York ice dealer visited Burling-
ton the other day to make arrangements for
securing crop Of ice there, to be conveyed
to New York on canal boats in the spring.
"A physician, recently at Bennington,
gave a case up as hopeless. On his way
home he broke his leg, and the man no had
doomed to death made him his crutch to hob
bic about on.
Chief engineer Bailey Of the Vt. Q. r.
r., has been prospecting over the proposed
gailroad route from Essex Junction to Cam.
bridge, through Jericho and Underhill. He
reports a very feasible route.
The market at Richmond last week was
quiet Only $50 tubs Of butter were shipped,
prices ranging from % to 40 cents pound.
The amount Of cheese shipped was 900 boxes
at prices ranging from to l6 cents a pound
On the third inst, freight train was
thrown from the track between Burlington
and Essex Patrick Collins was killed, aud
Michael Cloney, Andrew johnson and Michae
Ryan, employed on the train, were seriously
injured.
A lively canvass is going on in Benning
nngton county preparatory 70 the vote OF
locating the county seat in that county. A
meeting is to be holden on the last Tuesday
Of February Of the several towns TO decide
the question
According to the Bennington Banner
King Rum held reception in that village .
short time since. The most prominent fea
ture Of the occasion, was the biting of
mans nose in the course of slight misunder
standing that occurred.
An organization has been perfected, DO
tween the citizens Of East Shelburne and Soutl
Burlington for the purpose Of erecting "Th
Champlain Valley Cheese Factory" Stool
to the amount Of $4,000 has been alread,
subscribed, and it is proposed to increase it Il
$1,000.
During the month Of January, 1901
letters and g, 400 papers passed through tn
Island Pond post-ofhce from Canada. Their
100000 in gold, and nearly enough in green
backs for entry fees on bonded goods to pa
the expenses Of the custom house.
The Dry House of swiney 4 Burroughs
Middlebury, with large portion of the con
tents was burned recently. Lumber for abou
800 doors was packed inside, nearly read
for use when it was found to be on fire. Los
to Swiney 4 Burroughs about $4,000; to tn
Middlebury Manufacturing Company abou
the same amount. No insurance.
"A singular character dweleth in Fetch
y er. He is a man about fifty years old live
in barn, and sleeps in cavern dug in tb
hay NOV feeds himself on crackers, por
aud milk, never has any washing done, bu
gets a suit of clothes and uses them till the
" are no more" Disappointment in a Low
affair produced this enviable state Of things,
Some one recently entered the barn {
Curtis Frasier, of Burke, tool a horse, blar
ket and bride, and departed. Mr.. Frasi'
started in pursuit, and found his horse
Norton. 1t appears that the object Of tai
ing the horse was to get to the depot on IL
Grand Trunk railroad as the horse was di
covered on the track by the engineer ar
some distance ahead OF the train.