Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-02-05
XYne ZalN.

.HDNc 4 O/h.
Rev. P. n. Granger, agent of the
Vt. State temperance Society, will lecture
in the Town Hall next Friday evening on
the subject Of Temperance. Ile is a very
interesting speaker, and We hope he will
meet large audience.
The Rail. Road Ball was not so nu-
mcrously attended as expected, yet the
company was quite large, numbering over
GO couples, and from nearly every town
on the line Of the road, from Swant9n to
West Concord with a large delegation
from St. bloomsbury The party was COM
posed Of persons of relinded tastes in such
matters who thoroughly appreciated the
efforts of the Colonel in arranging for the
festivities. both in management, music
and refreshmcnt. A few were present who
some years ago ceased to become diciples
of Tcrpischore, bat whenever Il Contra
was reached in the programme, appeared
quite
"As young as they used to be-
One Of them remarked that Noah consid,
cred the occasion Of sufficient importance
to warrant him re-orening his Ark, and
that was why he had come forth. He
considered Noah man Of excellent iudg-
Imcnt.
The ball passed of very pleasantly with.
out accident or incident worthy Of cspccl-
al mention, except, perhaps, we might
add, that the Cap" had learned neac
tame, and Fred" got on the right trousers.
Walter n. Bedcll and Ira p Ra,h-
burn, were arraigncd on complaint of
Grand Juror Crane on Monday, charged
with setting FIRE to load of hay left in
the road by Eli Jewe:t the Friday pre-
vious. They were held in the sum Of
$500 each for appearance at the next
term of the County Court.
"A chap at Morrisvillc who got on the
train for the purpose ofcounting the num-
Der of couples enroute for the X. X. Ball,
got the Information at the expense Of his
fare to this Station aud team to get
back. lie hadn't got them all count
ed when the train started.
The Z. & o. train was one hour and
ffty-fve minutes late when it left St.
Johnsbury last Friday afternoon. 1t
made up an hour of this in making the
trip besides stopping 10 minutes at VOL
cott
As Valentine day approaches, remcm-
Der that A. z. Clcavoand has got stock
Of those goods.
The harvest of ice has commenced
The river produces an excellent article.
The morning after the New Years
Ball Fred Keller express agent on the
7. g. o. in his haste forgot to change tho
contents Of his pockets on changing bis
pants, and the next morning came near
being left by the train, and would have
been had not Frank" taken him to Nor.
Irsvillc, distance Of three miles in Is
minutes; whereat the Lyndon Union took
occasion to write up a irst-class local
subiectiDg Fred 10 much bantering. Fred
has got even with one Of his tormcntorS
by the following incident related by TIC
same paper:
after Fred Kcoler's mishap the other
mornlng, he found among the worst hec-
tors, Ben Gage, conductor on the express
train. But since last Saturday he has
bcen toerably quiet. While his train
was at NewburS Ben went into the :ele-
graph Office to do some business when he
returned. he saw the hind end of his train
about 40 rods north, moving towards
st. Johnsburf, without conductor. A
glance at his legs satisfied Ben. they were
too brief TO render an attempt to run down
frst-class engine. a successful under
taking Returning to the office he telc-
graphed to the Superintendent that he had
sent the train north and wanetd to know
how to dispose Of the conductor. He re-
ceivcd orders to come up on the mail train
in the evening, which he did, arriving