Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-03-13

, CurFicf 81 HaFdHiek. came VITA hls nti'
e aud bis uils's brother 10 East Bsrke 4
! visit bis SITES father. Mr. George ID. Lam
= Of Walden, vbo is doing logging iol
! tor the Lynion Mill Company about ihre'
! miles from East Barke village, bctvesT
{ Bake Umpier mountains. Ga Thursday
, alter inner. Mr. Currier vent With th,
Young Mr.. Lane into the woods few rod
. from the Camp. TO assist him in chopFing
timber. The irsi tree they fell--a large
spruce ohe-siruek birch stub, which
caused the but-cud Of il to boInd side.
ways about seven feet. striking Mr. Cur
rier across the r ghi shoulder aud breast
killing him instantly, aud crushing MIN
beneath its trunk. Young Mr.. Lane had
to 20 some 20 rods for help, who had to
chop the tree in TWO before they could re.
move the remains. Mr. Currier was a
farmer, % years Of age, and had been
married but few weeks. lie was $. on
to have moved upon a farm in Hardwick,
which he had purchased. Only a few
hours before his melancholy death, he
spoke freely Of his prospects in life, and
of his future plans He was buoyant with
health aud ambition for the future. but in
an unexpected moment all was brought to
close. Truly in the midst Of life we are
in death. On Friday his remains were
removed 10 his home in Hsrdwick. The
afflicted frieLds have our heartfelt symra-
thy in their sad Observation-Disclosures
ian.
A shooting ARRAY occurred in Crafts
bury last Saturday. in which one person
will probably lose his life. The particu-
lars, as we learn them, are as follows -
Charles Mercy with others went to the
house Of one Way. aud some one went to
the liquor agents and procured some whis-
key upon which they got fighting drunk,
Mercy, in particular, being inclined that
way, threatening to tear down the house,
etc, when Frenchman seized a gun,
Ioadep with buck shot, and shot him, the
charge passing through McRoy's leg, near
the hip, driving pieces Of his pants clear
through his leg. His leg was amputated
near the hip. but it is thought he cannot
i've. The Frenchman is under arrest and
,laims that he shot him in self-delcnse.
FATAL AoCDNr.-On Monday Feb.
10th, a Frcnchman by the name of Pros
,erria Conterlie. aged about 80 years. at
york for Bailey and FolIansby, in Vie
ory, having lodged tree, went upon it
o cut it off. When he had got up some fi-
cen feet from the ground he slipped of, ?
nj in his descent to the ground was i'm
aled upon a small stub which stuck up II
bove the snow some two feet The stub q
Inferred his body near the rectum, pene. !,
rating some six inches He lived in u
reat suffering till the next day, when ;,
cath put an end to his distress, He N
,aves a wife in Canada.
The idea of whipping Island Pond al
ITO temperance traces is funny enough, Z,
nd results ia curious complications. Dr.
johnson, a highly respectable man, was Fl
gently arrested brought before Mason, 4
highly respectable magistrate. and fined. /
BON afterwards Mason went to Canada,
me home drunk, was brought before on
who is also magistrate, and on
e compliment of inc was returned, "a
Y on bet" as
A telegraph line will soon he con-
ructed along the Addison railroad. an IN
The whole state is suffering for want wi
got
wafer.
The HYDRoGRAPnIc SURVEY OF YER
)NT.-Prof Collier, Secretary of the x
ate Board OF Agriculture and Manuiac- "
res, has thus far received returns relat.
{ to the water power of the various 10
WINS, from nearly one hundred towns. ssat
rof. Collier has sent blanks to every car
wu, and is ready to send others to any -
rsons who may be willing to render ser. 4
&C in the matter
"A man by the name of Stephen Off
mn, la
Veet of Highgate, aged about fifty years,
ysteriously disappeared the Sd OF last /
lily. The last known Of him was that
went to Sugars for rum. The 22d
t., his remains were found about a r
lie deep in the woods of David Sunder- L
I'D, Esq. His skull was found protud-
3 from the snow, tracked about by foxes
lere was scarcely anything left OF him
t the bare skeleton.
Miss Martha Bickford has sued Rob-
Barr of Cabot for breach eff promise. !,
images $4,000. He bought the farm of 3 u
lrtha on condition that he would marry can
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ATTEMPTED SUIcIDE.-A man named -
ivid Yates, who worked for Ashley r
lynard, of Bakersfield, attempted to y