The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-04-17
w. D. WHIppLE, Adi't Gen
STATE ITEMS

The Brandon Manufacturing Company
intend to enlarge their shops this Spring,
TO about double their present capacity,
to enable them to fill their orders and do
much larger business. .
The State Normal School, at Randolph
Centre, under Mr.. Conant numbers about
40 students this Spring. The measles
have to some extent interfered with the
attendance, there having been large
number Of cases in the school,
a life Of that eminent leader of cduca-
ton, Mrs. Emma Willard, who COM
menced her life work in Vermont, by
her son, John Willard, edited by Dir.
John Lord, is forthcoming from the APP
pleton's press.
G. Il W. p. Hazeltines' tannery, at
Derby Center, was entirely consumed by
fire, on Monday, April z. The fire was
discovered between one and two O'Clock
in the morning. Cause unknown, Loss
! $4,000. Well insured.
| 1t is announced that several families
who went from Ludlow last Fall and set
tied in Minnesota and Dakota are about
to return having seen enough of winter
in the Northwest.
Pleuro-pneumonia is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Chester, and in many
/ instances it has baffled the skill of the
best physicians, and terminated fatally.
Ambrose Hill, who drives the stage
from st. Johnsbury to Waterford, re-
ports that there Is but one snow drift on
his route beginning in Elyville, st. Johns
bury, aud ending just before reaching
/ Waterford village. 1t is about IL miles
/ long.
The mice are making sorry work
among the appe-trees, f. +. Butterlied
Of the Springfield nursery, having lost
over 10000 young trees. Scarcely Il
young orchard in the county has escaped
their depredations.
"Big joe" a workman at Fairbanks
scale works, enjoys sound teeth tough
Jaw and a stii neck. The other day he
accepted a challenge TO lift a barrel of
| -four with his teeth. The -four was roll
led out; Joe tied a string around ii, stuck
his teeth into the string, carried the bar
rel Of -four about rod, aud won.
Messrs. Hammond aud Severance, Of
Mjddleb0ry, soon start for California
with nine ear loads Of fine sheep, which
they have selected from the best ilocks in
Addison County. The trip will be made
In three weeks time, aud with but one
change OF cars the entire distance. The
freight is $500; adding pay and expenses
Of man for each car, aud hay and grain,
will ruu the cost up 81 900 a car By The
time tie "Sausct Land" IS reached,
At 81. Adams last week the butter
market was dali, aud prices unchanged
from week before 8jto3S cents for medi.
um to good, and 40 TO - cents for choice
aud selected,
The Boston Commercial Bulletin makes
the tAutalizing statement that The milk
put into 5000 worth Of Vermont cheese
would have brought $4,000 Improperly
diluted aud well skinned and sold Ia
Boston.
Onu Clemens, now on the editorial
staff Of toe Hartford Comm Port, d
brother Of Mark Twain, will be the editor
ofthc Rutland daily Globe. Henry Clark
formerly 0. the Rutland Herald viii BE-
BIS associate. The first number viii be
issued Thursday, May let.
The Ratlaud Herald has il column des.
rrlptiou Of the new Catholic Church IN
that place, now nearly completed, which
Is called, ST. Peters The building is "a
feet long BY n feet wide, with 3 tower
40 fee, high. Ia cost il about $1,000
and Il will sea, I4p9 people