Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-09-10

'"' 4''"a"'Dtef says ~ IS estimated that
there will be $780, coo pounds Of butter made
and sold in Cambridge this year The price
ranges little higher now than for few weeks
past, and some Of the farmers are holding on
for 10 cents
b ORANGE COUNTY.
One day last week Hon A. b. W. Tenney,
D Of Newbury, received paraytic shock. which
has left him extremely low.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Z On Thursday, August 18th, frankie Roberts,
! aged twelve years, eldest son Of the late Almon
, Roberts, Of Derby, was thrown from wagon
striking upon his head and shoulder, but was
thought to be slightly injured, and was about
the village as usual for nearly fortnight On
+ the evening Of the 23i, however, he begun rap
ldly to grow worse and died in one week. The
shock or jar produced congestion at the base Of
The brain, which resulted in efTusion. lie was
insensble the last Eve days.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The Chapman monument is nearly finished
and the dedication will take place at Tinmouth
about the middle Of this month.
All the horses Of the Vermont Horse Stock
Company are 10 be exhibited at the State Fair.
These horses will not compete for premiums
The display Of horses, including these will be
greater than ever seen in the State before
The dwelling house Of Charles Montague Of
South Bridgewater, with barn and its con.
tents, and several other houses, one Of which
belonged b. Lyman Cobb, we're burned, Friday
night The fire had probably been vet by an
insane person, who had escaped from bis keep
ers
The docket Of the September term Of the
Rutland county court contains 100 civil cases
leit over from The last term, twenty-five Grim.
inal, and nine,y-two suits in equity. Some of
them have been going on for thirty years, and
two have bad but ono side represented for over
twenty years
Brandon will hold her tenth annual fair on
Wednesday and Thursday, September eth and
2jth, under the auspices Of the Farmers and
Mechanics Club. The address will be deliver.
ed ly President Buckham, Of the State Aeri-
cultural College, at three o'clock Thursday az
ternoon. Music will be furnished by the Sher-
man Band Of Winooski.
On Wednesday last, thirteen year old
daughter Of +. Ives, Of Brandon, was injured
by falling froma load Of hay. on which she was
riding home with her father from the funeral
Of Mrs Win.low The wagon striking an
elevation, the load tipped of, and the girl
struck her head on q stone, splitting open a
ga,h to tie skull, and cutting M artery. She
was attended by DR. Page, and is now doing
we'll
II half that is told Of them is true, the Eddy
family Of Spiritual jugglers are carrying
90 more than ever just now, at Chit,enden.
whore they reside. One Of the mediums goes
into little closet, opening out from one Of the
main rooms OF the house. and is tied into
chair The other Spritualists, who, with the
outsiders present, occupy the large room, begin
TO sing and presently spirits, visible and lie.
Unable, issue forth from the closet and walk
about the room AZ other times a guitar is
played upon By one Of the mediums. and pres.
emily guitars and other stringed instruments
come forth from bank-nothing, and curve and
gymtc in mysterious procession around the
room, just above the heads of the material peo.
pie present tapping them reproyingly on their
heads for their disbelief in the wonderful reyel.
alton from the spirit land As may be sup.
posed, these " NANTES ations' have caused
good deal Of excitement in the vicinity. and
the house is visited by a large number Of the
curious
wiNDHAN COUNTY.
Frank Georgo's barn was burned at Bellows
Falls, "Wednesday night, with its contents
incendiary.
James Fisk, ST., has purchased a building
lot on Western avenue, in Brattleboro, and will
put up dwelling house thereon 70 cost Sl2,-
600 or $1,000
There is to be a fircmen's muster at Brattle-
boro on the 2jth Of the present month SIX
hundred dollars 10 premiums will be offered,
$500 for the first prize, $500 for the second,
and 500 for the third Invitations will be /
general.
The monument to be erected by the State at
Westminster, in honor Of William French and
Daniel lIought0n. who were killed by the
British in the court house, March 10, l775,
will be of blue mountain granite, l6I feet
high
A suit ha, been brought against c NJ viii
cox, Of Guliord. by the widow Of the late
VIM. Smith, for $1,000, under the act passed
by the Legislature Of 1870, for damages sus-
tanned by the death Of hcr husband, who was
killed in the iracas Of July I, She claiming
that the liquor causing the frac,s was pro-
cured Of Wilcox
One half Of the interest in the Vermont
Phgnir, at Butleboro, has been purchased
by Oln l. French Of Keene s. H.. recently
publisher Of the Keene SenhHeL Mr. Prouty
Is the retiring member Of the firm OF Prouty
a Stedman, who have owned the PhGair Mr. |
French will now assume with Mr., Stedman
the pint editorial management OF that paper.
The house and barn of O NJ Reed at West
Buttleboro were destroyed by fire, early Thurs
day morning, under rather singular circum-
stances ltappears that Reed recently turned
his wife out of doors and took another woman
in her place. This reused the ire of his
neighbors, and as it was likely to make him
trouble, it is rumored that he fired his own
buildings, to excite sympathy in his behalf
The most destructive hail storm that has
visited Wndham County for years occurred
September LIST, passing over the northern por
| ton Of Brattleboro, and extending into Dunn
merston. Tobacco in many fields was nearly
ruined, and the total loss will amount to many
hundred dollars. Stones fell the size of wal
nuts, and one was found that measured an
inch by an inch and a half in diameter.
| Sadawga Pond, in Nottingham Windham
County is mile and half long by mile
broad, but the curious thing about it is that
there are one hundred and fifty acres of land
floating on the surface of the water. It is
covered with cranberries, and there are trees
twelve or fifteen feet high. There is dam at
the outlet, and when the water is raised or
lowered, this land and trees rises and falls
with it. 1t affords fine shelter for fish, which
are quite plenty, pickere being quite plenty
and the most valuable Horned pouts and
eels are also caught in great numbers. 1t is a
common thing with the natives to go
ashore, or rather embark upon the " swimming
land, J." and after making small hole down