Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-18

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| 4 Burkes shop, st. Johnsbury, took sud.
den departure last Monday, leaving disconso-
late creditors who mourn his loss to the tune
Of from fifty to one hundred dollars.
Ed. l.. 9. McKinstry and wife continue
to hold meetings in the st. Johnsbury Town
Hall every evening this week, at 1870.
They will also hold three services next Sab
bath, at 1890 A. Nj. and l:45 and I p. NJ.
The meetings last Sunday were well attend
ed, and the preaching was full of plain,
practical truths, presented in an ~GnOie aud
torcibe manner.
Quite panic seems to have arisen in st.
Johnsbury in consequence Of the number Of
deaths recently reported from gastric fever,
which, however, denotes no particular dis
ease, so far as we can discover, but is rather
a term used by some doctors for reasons pc
culiar to themselves Most dssimilar cases,
from diseased joints to the irritable stomach
of pregnancy, or from typhoid fever to
hard cold, 90 by this name, which, we may
add, is not recognized by writers on patholo-
gy Of any repute. We feel justified in say
ing that no epidemic, since the departure Of
the measles, exists here, and that this gas
tric fever " is mere myth.
The way freight up on the Passumpsc
road Saturday afternoon got seven cars of
the track near Passumpsic, entirely destroy
ing three Of them. Quite an amount of
Boston freight for st. Johnsbury was more
or less damaged The owners were, so far
as we have been able to learn Daniels d
Sylvester groceries; D. H. Hale, dry and
fancy goods Harvey 4 Haskell, hardware
f. Underwood, tailoI's stock Bingham
Bros. and X. &. Vaughan, drugs and medi-
cinos d. Streeter, boots and shoes |. Har-
vey, groceries; Frazer Bros, varnish. The
II. 4. company are promptly on hand, set
Ting with the parties as fast as the amount
Of damage can be ascertaned.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
S. c. Cutting has sold his beautiful two
year-Old Ilambetonian colt to G.. $. Apple
ton, for Sll00. This fine specimen of "horse
flesh" started for Kansas ON Monday morn
ing where he expects to make season on
the Appleton Stock Farm, at Williamsburg
Franklin county
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The annual session Of the Vermont Meth
odist Episcopal Conference will be held the
23d Of April, at Richtord.
Apples perfectly well preserved have been
found this spring under tree belonging TO
Joseph Bushnell, Of Georgia. They had no
protection from the severe frost but the
snow
ORLEANS COUNTY.
j, G. Boswell, of Barton, has sold his farm
to Mrs. Caroline Brdgeman for $4,000
Jared Hyde has sold his farm on Barton
river, to f. G. Cass, for $500
y. V. Percival and Erastus Randall of
Glover, have exchanged farms. Randall
pays $500 to boot
The sugar prospects arc poor all over the
county. The make will probably be the
smallest for many years.
John Green, from the mountain in Barton,
near Smith Hunts, caught, few days ago,
four raccoOns in one log, aud sold their skins
for SO.
A French Canadian girl at Derby Center,
recently gave birth to triplets. One infant
was stillborn, and the other two lived but a
few hours. No physician was in attendance.
There is to be a town meeting in Albany,
on the 24th instant to see what measures
the town will take to aid in the construction
of the Montpelier, IIardwck aud Black Riv-
err railroad.
Curtis Adams had valuable horse badly
injured Sunday, April &, while crossing the
railroad track at North Troy village. His
hoof caught between plank and the rail,
tearing 1t nearly off.
Mr.. John Currier. OF North Troy, has
nearly completed one of the finest private
residences to be found in the State. This
country palace is said to have cost over s40,-
900, and is situated a short distance out of
the village on the road leading to South
Troy.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Orion Clemens, now on the editorial staff
of the Hartford Conn Post, brother of
" Mark Twain" will be the editor of the
Ratland Daiiy GloLe Henry Clark for
merly Of the Rutland Herald, will be his
associate The first number will be issued
Thursday, May lst
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Ileary d. Stevens, of Barre, has been
elected class orator of '73 at Cornell
Mr.. King will find an answer to his butter
queries from our Nergennes reporter, in our
market column.
We never tasted better article Of maple
strip than came to US by express last week
from A. NJ. Foster of Cabot. Mr. Foster
makes business of putting up this nice sir
up or honey in cans for family use, and
parties ordering it of him in any quantity by
express, G. o. d., may rely upon getting
genuine article Of the best quality at fair
price Mr.. Foster will please to send as two
two-gallon cans, q, o. d,
Scandal mongers in Montpelier have had
a sweet morsel to roll under their tongues
during the past week, in the divorce suit of
Mead rs. Mead, the parties formerly moving
in the first society in town, and the libelee
being for many years past prominent at that
place. But during the trial of this suit the
most astonishing disclosures have been made
and the morals Of the staid old capital Of
Vermont have received a severe shock each
| party having proved the other guilty of al
most every crime in the decalogue.
= WINDSOR COUNTY.
The Ludlow Gazette threatens a daily.
Mrs Dryer, widow of 60, living near
= White River Junction, saw some Of her
chickens on the track, Wednesday, in danger
t from coming train, and went to drive them
off but got upon the track herself, in her ex-