The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-11-13

The train was s little late, and be s4t
down on tie track. ana thinks De must
have iateu asleep. When the engineer
saw him be reversed The engine aud aid
al 10 bis power % stop The train which
was $ heavy one, but al ia vain. ID
struck bin, aud broke bis right thigh aud
one Of tbe bones la bis right arm, sod
made d fracture in Dis skull
pIrhthoria Of the most yiruleut tsp,
has Appeared iu Rutland county. O
seven cases ia three families in Casuctou
i've proved fatal, some within a very
short time aaor seizure. In AydcuyiIlc
also the disease assumes a very malignant
form.
e. +. Clifford, of Wooleot, while ar
work oboppiug a few days ago, took hold
Of LIMB which was Ia the way with one
hand aud it a good smart blow with the
axe. Missing the limb be received tho
fail blow on the back of his hand The
limb Is doing well.
Curtis Brown, Of Bclyidcrc, the veteran
bcar-exterminator, trapped and killed d
500 ID specimen, lately, making bis 52d
victim, and at last accounts was Ia pur-
suit Of another which had escaped with d
trap attached to his foot,
William Haley Of Grauyin, n. y, fell
from the steepIc of the new Congregation.
al church at Bennington, last week and
WAS instantly killed.
II. c. Lockwood Of Troy has been sp.
pointed treasurer ct thc Central Vermont
railroad
The scarlet fever aud a peculiar throat
disease are prevalent in Rutland Cem.
ty.
Mrs. Hooper of Benson, 90 years old,
united with the Congregational church,
last Sunday, at special communion held
at her house She has 81 descendants.
Elk Governor Inland Hall and wife OF
North Bennington will spend the winter
in New York with the family of T. W.
Park.
L. 5. 1ompson, who represented lras-
burgh in the Legislature Of 1872, has re.
moved to Stowe, where he will resume
the practice of the law.
An iron safe (Morse PATTERN was
blown mp by burglars, Wednesday night
in the Office OF the mills Of Esty, Frost
Il Co.. at Brattleboro. As nothing was
kept in the safe but books and papers,
the perpetrators secured no money for
their trouble.
An exchange says that dog went
from certain town in Vermont to a town
in New York, two hundred miles in
twenty-four hours, upon the authority Of
of the Utica Herald, We should not sup
pose the authority ola Utica paper strong
enough TO carry dog that distance in so
short q time.
Little Omin Corey of Derby Line took
his aunty's big old tom-cat aud went out
to drown him the other day. lie tried
to throw Tom over the bridge railing in
to the seething torrent below, but Tom
was squeamsh about getting his
feet wet, and held so tenaciously to Orrin's
coat that in the scrimmage both went
over, and Orrin was drowned. The cat
wasn't.
Meacham, the cultivated gentleman
who robbed Elmore's grocery at Hyde
Park, a few weeks ago, with Web
ster the horse thief, broke Jail ffew
nights ago. With a case knife they saw
ed the bars to their window nearly off
then took down their bedstead and with
one Of its pieces pried them apart and
out. They are in parts unknown
as far as heard from.
West Hartford had first class burgla-
ny recently Mr. +. f. Holt happening
to 60 into his store about midnight, heard
some one up stairs, and going up met a
he accosted, aud having a
pistol, threatened to shoot unless he sur
rendered, and so look him down stairs.
After having some communication with
the thief, Mr.. Holt laid down upon the
counter rather carIessly and knows moth
ing Of what happened until he icgaincd