Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-08-09
STATE MATTERS.


ADDISON COUNTY
boyat Whiting, while attempting 10 get on
freight train Of the Rutland railroad, while in
,n,n. on Saturday, fell between the cars, was
, nm over and instantly killed
commencement at Middlebury this week Gil
,ros band furnishes the music Prof seeiye,
4 a Amherst, addresses the Phi Beta Kappa, and
f., Dr. Rankin, of Washington, the fhlladel-
1 ,i,r Society. Prof. Brainerd Kellogg, OF Brook
d, the orator before the Alumni, and II. J..
Nid the poet.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
r,..-e is new post route from Lyndon to East
,i,,lvick. running through South Nheelock and
t,.pnard. A. W Newell has the contract Tor
ZINC the mail. The distance is sixteen miles
u.rdsick reioices in the prospect of telegraph
.,rmunieation with all parts Of the world, in
nhout five weeks. Enough money has been ra's-
I'd by priyate subscription TO procure the nece'-
sary instruments
Il i. understood that there will be no Cal
,dopia County fair this ycar-tbat the STATE ''ir
twill take the place of IT,
Charles punton, section hand on the Passamp-
p p NJ Barnet. had his arm very badly
crushed on wednesday, while Stacking cars IL
i boped to save the arm from ampu'ation' but II
!. hardly expected expected to be OF much use
again
currENDES COUNTY.
Mr. Wheaton, a farmer in Bolton had two val
,,blc horses killed by the cars on Tuesday morn
inc. It seems they broke out Of the pasture,
Want on the railroad and we're killed by the early
morning train The span were valued at i've
hundred dollars
The Burlington W oolcn Company at Winooski,
use 400 900 pounds Of wool per annum' proba-
bis coual TO about one eighueth Of the entire
,ro1,ction of the United States for the present
,,,r Tie wool they are using is from South
America. which works very successfully. They
had in one lot last SPRING rs, 600 pounds, which
would require 20 transport the same, seventy to
eighty cars, making train quite bali mile in
length The production Of cloths By this large
aud successful company. j. $500 yards daily,
s.ual 20 some $50 900 10 900 GOO yards yearly to
the probable value Of from 600 600 to $50 900
VI dollars
ON saturday evening young lrishman named
James Hayes, while fishing near Kinsley's mill
100 Darlington, was taken with ht, and fell into
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The hay crop in Chitienden County is turning
% better than was expected some farmers have
'l. more hay than last season. and it is generally
u better quality, swceter and more nutritious, as
+. customary in dry seasons. Farmers in some
towns who were selling Sli ton when haying
first commenced, have been selling of late at $40,
in The field.
finn. far there have been fourteen applications
or admission to the Freshmen class 10 the L. v.
NJ. Thirteen have passed the required e1amlna-
Con- The prospect thus far is very encouraging
aud hrsc class D. expected. One young lady has
already made application for admission
rR,VkuN couSrr
There is o fine opening for young men at the
sheldon hotels--iorty ladies and only one
beau to wait upon them
Burton llarwood. Of Enosburgh, while engaged
Win others IN getting nay on thursday, was Sc
f'onsy injured. lhey hau Jus, unloaued a loau'
'and instead OF coming down By the ladder he
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,,c-ed I. In ia. .I,,,, an III, 49,, ,hc min.
m, rono,roti,g ob,r, Tive, irobes beneath and
along the rib. in such manner as to avoid the
heart, but to injure the left lung. lie could not
eytricate himself from the position, but hung on
The pin until lifted of by his comrades DR..
Arkley was Immediately called and dressed the
wound Il was thought he could not survive,
but though lying in critical condition hopes are
now entertained Of his ultimate recovery
GRAND t,tr COUNTY
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"HANoA COUNTY
N1sl' bragg, VI i1''i''' mas uos '''' mas
'NusN' anu A'"'u ono huuu'ou anu n'e "o'u
'"u'A' curing tne SUMMER ana j. gV'' ''r a.
many more nose u's comes next
RUTLAND couNrY.
At about nine O'Clock Saturday morning
James Powers, an employee of Messrs. Sheldon a
slason, was instantly killed By falling into The
pit of the north quarry belonging to that com
pany' DIS ance oil some one hunuFeu anu ni'S
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ed,,. If tho o,orrv and in reaching ont in ordet
~ attach n book which he had in his hand N an
,,bor chain no last HE balance and in falling wa
,.reo;ri,a,o5 ;n,o the onorry fret stritin,
"sbeicn If marble some env feet from the sur
c,. a,l r.,n, ,horo h, tho i.,,,,,,n n tI.o mar
ry one hundred feet below.