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VERMONT NEWS.

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Central is manifested all predictions are vain.
VERMONT NEWS.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
In Lyndon town meeting the republicans
ran st-aigh, ticket, and the opposition vas
.. Union = and SIS. Thompson, republican. was
/ elected first -electman by $ msj5riy.
A man uanei Harris WIS killed the other
Jag by the falling Of an eu5lusment on che
railroad
St. Johnsoury suppLies opium by 'he guam
try u IT'S cpicm eating paupers. At anyraie
among the items Of expense at the town poor
farm, was one Of SjI for opium for one person
who is q town charge. he didn't take his
opium -aa III. but he seeas to have got Il
s5meao@.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Hary BuzzsI, horse breaker and brltss If
CRANKY deserves TO be passed around A citizen
oftha, town who signs his name TO his note,
writes 90 the Union that in order 70 cure
kiczin- msre, Buzzsu recently cast her, aul,
with an axe, chopped Ler tail OF within two
inches Of her body lie then whipped her u-l
she was exhausted with excitement and loss Cf
blooi and l-ft her in a pen, with5u, doors OF
T vialoas, exposed Go the wial sui cold. Tie
walls aaI ceiling OF tie pen were all spstterei
With t.o5l c-catiouei by the punishment I1e
F mare was as ready to kick the human brute
with what strength she had eft after this treat
ment as before, and We DO NOT blame her. Nr
8uzls,l is needed IN the town Of CRANKY.
uEyS1yGroS COUNT.
Rev. 3l- Hicks, Of Bennington. who tasted
thirty-foa- days, dill not gste urai. He d.ei on
Friday lass.
The liquor dealers Of Bennington are -' catching
IT," Hlrchius S. Roberts have been fneI 500;
Daniel GiIanham s2l AMI Joseph Gilmore is
under $1,000 bonds to spear at the County
Court in June
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Tie farmers about s. AIbaas are thus ira
laced by the .Usogsr.
Dry va-l IS vet and IN -eor less rotten.
Audi0ur test-a length "a measure forgotten.
Samuel Decker captured sturgeon through
hole in the ice Oh the Hog Island sh5re, that
weighed between 90 and So pounds
Eichari has a haunted ouse.
William Cot. one Of the frs, settlers Of E;ca-
ford, and the Oldest man in toxin, died on the
TIA INST. lie vas S, years Oh AID came 20
B.ohtord in l-l-.
A French woman in Berkshire. actuatci by
patriotic desire to caanteract the effect Of the
measles, scarlet fever, ETC., IL depicting the p,pu-
lation, presented her husband with three chill
rea ats titth, few lays since.
LAN1u-E COUNTY
Lamliils River is reported very high Tie
roads are oyerd3ved aud bridges gone across
the streams empping into the river between
Fairfax and Cambridge
Stowe, M5rristowu and johnson, own farm
upon which the paupers Of those towns are sup
ported. Stowe thus supported fifteen pnupers
At a cost Of S1,3-0,0i N5rristown. thirteen
raupers. for II, 2l5,s JohusontSo for Ss45.-
o5 Why Johuson's raupeis should COS; four
times As ul1b as those Of the other towns. does
not appsar Perhaps the figures ought 70 be
1905.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
We inl the following in one Of our Vermont
exchanges: A large crane. which has male its
home near Caspian Lake, strayei of up in Al .
blny, AMI was seen ly Miss Wright. who set
her wits TO work IN hopes Of capturing IT,, using
all the arts and little secrets known only 20 the
gentle sex, and aually captured il. He meas
urea sir feet from tip to tip" No cards, pr,-
baby
Daniel Blanchard Of Jay, loved black-eyed
lass, and the course Of his true love did not run
smooth-nothiag runs very smooth in that
mountainous region. So the other morning
Daniel, thinking life worthless without his Nal .
VIVA, attempted suicide by discharsine barrel
Of a Smith s. Wesson seven shooter into hi.
breast Having lost his hear, he naturally did
not know where to shoot to bit IT, The ball en-
tered the right side, which was the wrong side
for his ga7pcss. glanced On rib, and Iodcei
In his sAoulder-hlaie. The doctors dug it out.
and Daniel viii recover The other youn-
man is as well as usual.
b. Il. Gilman, Of Westfeld, in souau Of
snow, lost his direction on lake Maeo-. drove
into a hole All his horse was drowned.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Hugh O'Donnell was drowned At Well. river
last week while attempting with team to 20
over a portion Of road which hsd been over
AoTed by an ice jam in the river The man
Vas though, TO have been intoxicated
wISDHAl COUNTY.
Hon Homer Gooihue Of Westminster West.
IS reelected Commissioner without opposition.
There is a big wild animal in Gailflri. which
undertook TO gobbe mar in a buggy the other
evening. The sudden start Of the horse threw
the animll Of, leaving the marks Of his claw.
upon the oil cloth in the Wagon. Shortly At
ter, two young men discovered the animal a
short distance from the place. and shot g, him.
when he disappeared in the woods.
John Hunt Of vernoa, net with a painful se-
e.dent the o'hcr lay, in Boston. In going down
a flight Of steps he made mis-step, causinra
fracture Of one Of the bones Of the ankle. lie
was brought home on Wednesday.
John Clark, who died several years since
At Bellows Falls, left by will near SO, 900 70
the Vermont Methodist conference The will
was contested By some Of his brothers chill
iren' AMI after two years of litigation it has
1een decided in favor cf the conference. A
portion Of the beques, will 20 to the seminary
At Montpelier
WINDSOR COUNTY.
M Horton, the regular nominee for Countv
Commissioner, is elected by about 900 n,ior-
iy The Standard says: The vote is the
argest ever given III Windsor county and Mr.
Horton AMI the temperance men have noblv vim :
Heated themselves
Six divorces were granted BY the Supreme
COURT one for adultery, and the rest for iptol-
'raole severity and refusal to support.
Inc Paris rioters who attacked the Hotel Ia
' lille on the l0ta Of December last ba,o - {