The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-09-11

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ara killed
Az ifshmau, while ont iu boa, ca
Iakc Champisin bear Benson, few days
since, was 10 The sct 81 drinking liquor
from 3 bottle Wheu be fell backward inic
tte watef and ara not rise again.
Lees than seven miles Of track on ths
Montpelier and Wells River railroad re.
main i5 be completed, aud the iron i
ready for that From Wells River q
Groion ne trsek q alrcady balasied and
in complete order.
some section hands GA The PassumpsiS
railroad s. Fairlee recently killed stri
ped snake, measuring three and three.
gusrten feet, and containing seyeuiy-siI
small snakes measuring from three to six
inches, and ia good running order.
They steal gravestones at Wells River
aud the inhabitants don't like II and have
concluded 10 have q new brick school
house with a mansarl They will hay,
to get up good one TO balance that al
West Randolph on the other side Of the
county.
Lansing Mills, formerly business agent
at Boston Of the Vermont Central raiho
has been appointed superintendent o.
freight and transportation at st Adams
TO succeed J. W. Hobart recently appoint
ed general superintendent, vice Gle,
Merrill, resigned.
Rev r. n Granger is a leading temper
auee mau ia the state, and liquor com
missioner for Caledonia county. The 9th
err day be fell on the sidewalk at Lyndon
aud the irreverent local paper says If We
can lind out who sold il to him, we shal
favor the prosecution.
II is estimated that about $4,000 quarts
of berries are consumed in Burlington
annually, of which this year, Mr.. j
Chauvin on Church street, bias sold abou
10000 quarts. These berries were bough
on an average cost of l6 % cents per
quart, making total of 81, 600.
AT Bellows Fall sheriff Phelps aud posse
with yirtuous impartiality, pounced upor
thelsland house aud another prominent es
Enlistment, a few days since, and cart.
ed off large quantity of liquor, only tC
find themselves sold, the liquor proving
to be- water. Some think it turned 81
afterit was seized.
BY way Of pleasing variety during tht
services at the Congregational church, al
Brattleboro, on a recent Sabbath evening
a select choir rendered hymns Of We Older
time, including Strike the Cymbals
New Jerusalem, Denmark, and Other
fayorites, The heartiness of the singing
under the direction of Ex-G Gov. Holbrool
made the exercise unusually interest
ing.
The quiet Of Montpelier was disturbed
last week, by the occurrence ola bloody
tragedy at the shops of the Montpelier
manufacturing company, wherein Alder
n. Daniels, an employe, shot and serious
ly wounded Carrie Demmon, his sweet
heart, and then instantly ended his owl
life by shot from the same pistol. TIT
refusal of Miss Demmon to marry him il
supposed to have been the incentive.
A Fairhaven horse is SO smart that HI
will 60 to the post-office without driver
get the mail and post the letters: go to thu
hotel after passengers are all in and whel
his master says good-by to the parting
guests leave for the depot. After th,
load is out, he will start among tn
cars, place the wagon in the right plac,
without direction from one, and wait th,
incoming train, when he will return as h
went.
We learn from good authority that 1
new daily paper is about to be started il
the village of st Adams, that capital il
now being subscribed to that end and i
receiving considerable encouragement
II is to be run by stock company CAPT
ital to be about $4,000. We understand
that about $4,000 is subscribed and tn
market is still open for takers; the precis
nature Of the object sought for in this en-
terprise has not been definitely announ
ced, we beliye, though it has been gener
ally understood that it will be the cham
pion of the railroad interests OF Vermont
1t is to be edited by one who is we
known in the journalistic circles of thi
State, bat this, however will doubtless b
determined as the project proceeds.
That wasa curious case ofputting one
| foot into It, that the horse of Charles II
Martin Of Middlesex, was recently in. TIL
horse was out at pasture, and Mr.. Martil
hearing something drap with dull lhud
went over to ilud bis horse down and th
hind foot Of the animal so firmly embed
\ ded in the jaws that neither beast or maj
could extricate it until the shoe was ia
ken off and the foot pulled through th
/ horses jaws which were then EXTENDED
TO their utmost tension. The horses
neck was drawn to one side by the heavy
strain, and for some moments after re
gaining bis feet he might be said to be
/ long to a stin-necked and perverse gener
alton Finally the animal came out al
right aud will not soon essay TO tickle hi
palate with bis hind hoof
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