Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-03

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BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Bennington has man so fond of money
that after paying bill, recently, he walked
homo with the man, il is said, TO be near the
money MS long MS possible.
The name Of the Bennington Free Press has
been changed TO Vermont Gazette.
Convincing proof OF the bad ventilation of
the Bennington county court house is afford
cd by tho fact that George w. Hartman, well
known lawyer, is dangerously i'll from the
J effects OF the escaping coal gns in the build
| ing.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Excelsior Grange, No. IL, =. of H., Peach
am, at their regular meeting, Dec. 81, chose
tho following officers &C. ID. Mears, Mas
ter; Is. F. Varnum, Ovcrseer; Frances Part
fridge, Lecturer; s. NJ. Farrow, Steward;
A. i. Evals, Assistant Steward; T. Martin,
Chaplain; G. L. Sergeant, Treasurer; Jas.
Mclaughlin, Gate Keeper; Mrs. Il. +. Var
mum, Ceres; Mrs F. Partridge, Flora; Mrs.
G.. ID. Mears, Pomona; Mrs L. S. Little,
Lady Assistant Steward; Jas. Esdcn, Secre-
tary.
Chas. II. Mutt has settled his little Difficult
ty with the town of Groton by the payment
of 5000. and the charge Of perjury against
HIM has been dropped.
Lawyer Powers has become dsgustcd
with Lamoille County, when nut one case
was to be found in the whole county to be
tried at the last term of court, and has emf
grated to Caledonia, where four weeks of
hard work cannot clear the docket. where
the carcass is" &c. Mr.. Powers is a rising
man in his profession.
Earle still lives, though his case in the
county court is postponed. Commenting rp-
on the Vermont press the other day, he said
that there were only two papers in the state
that, if the Lord should appear on earth
again, would give him any support ;-and
one of these (thc Erpross) would want to
make II travelling agent of him, while the
other (the Caledontdn) would show him the
Scale Works, and ask him if thOy had any
thing like that in heaven Life has soured ON
Earle surely.
The friends of Rev. j. b. Leighton Gree |
BaptisD intend TO give him Donation Ut
the yestry in North DanVille ON the evening
OF Thursday, January 9th
b. w. Marsh writes us that VIM. II. Marsh |
of Cabot, in II sleigh with his wife and child, |
hnd narrow escape in crossing the railroad |
track near Walden depot on Saturday last.
As his horse stepped upon the track an eN-
ira train came along ut full speed, and just
cleared the back of the sleigh us the horse
am utru Il oil, . |
short curve at this point, and Mr.. Marsh
complains that the engineer didnot sound the
whistle or strike the bell but once till he
passed the road
VIM. X. Marsh, of Cabot. who was acct
dentally shot in his leg on the ith of June
last, taking out some three inches OF the
large bone below the knee, is now on his
crutchcs and rides out some. Prices OF bone
have been coming out ut times ever since
Last Friday he took out one inch square.
A. II. Park, of Rygate, has bought about
thrty-iive acres tillage, pasture and wood
land adjoining his home farm, of William
Gibson at fifty dollars per acre. Most of this
land originally belonged TO the Park farm.
and is an invaluable reucccsSion to it, Mr..
Gibson was II good man in selling il. and
MIR. Park was wise man in buying it,
Eugene Bickford, of Sheffield, is doing
quite u business in numbering this winter; he
intends to cut over twenty-five acres. The
lumber goes to the chair factory at Barton.
William G. Stanton has been appointed
postmaster ut North Danvilc in place ac
Frederick Burnett resigned
Judge Poland has been chosen President
of the New England Society in Washington.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Col. j. T. Barnum, the absconded Rich
mond trader. has been heard from at Chat
anooga, Tenn, en- route for the South.
Jonathan X. Walcott has been appointed
postmaster Mt North Willistou, rice Henry
w. Thompson, resigned.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
James Campbell, of Fairfield, had his {
lrms and hands frozen ON the night of the |,
would have persisted but for his wife, who !
tartcd out to hunt him up. I,
The Missisquoi Valley House. mt Sheldon. /
vas destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning of q
asst week. Insurance on house and furni- /
urc 5000; loss double this amount. d
4 shed under which Hubert j. Brown. n |
takersiield boy, was at work the other day, =
ell from the great weight of snow upon it, =
njuring his spinal cord so that the whole
'ody below the neck is parHlyzed and il is :
ardly possible he can recover. !
Hiram b. Sowes, who was president of d
he st. Adams bank for several years, and h
veil known aud highly esteemed in that q
cction of Vermont, died on "Wednesday, al y
n. Y, whittier he had gone ON @
usincss few days previous.
ORANGE COUNTY. II
A temperance society has been formed in
bradford and n committee of five influential
lcn appointed to notify every liquor dealer
} stop the trade mt once. 81
RUTLAND COUNTY. Il
The dairymen along the line Of the Rut- !,
md and Washington Raioad are making -"
u effort to establish II milk route on that T.
ne.
A West Rutland liquor dealer experienced II
nc disadvantages of II good customer, the
lher day, when man testified before u JUS
ce that he had made 30 successful applica-
ons for rum ut his saloon, and tho Justice ii
lckcd on II fine for each time v
The owners of tho several short railroads y
etween Rutland and New York arc again '
liking of uniting them under one compn- !
y and central management, for the pur- i,
Dse of forming now through line of road u
ON New York to Montreal. Only little =
yer 80 miles of road required to be built to y
lake complete limo between these two u i,
oints. y
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The winter term of the Methodist Semin-
ry at Montpelier has opened with over 100 II
udonts in attendance,
Cabot boasts IL widows and II unnlar- i
ed ladies OF questionable age, with the NJ
ecdlul from one to twenty thousand each. q
his ought not to remain long thusly L
j. i. Colburn, of East Montpelier, has D
used and owns calf that at nine months II
nd ten DAVIS Old Meighed 500 lbs Ii Is n u