Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-14

A fast Bustonian having read of horse at
Island Pond which trotted in 9.l6, made all
possible haste to purchase this match lur Dex-
/ ter, hut on his arrival Mt the Pond he was in
! formed thatthe distance trottod was only
quarter Of mile.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
j. b. Sandersons store ut llghgate was
burned last week. loss $500, insured for
$4,000
An old sea captain spending the summer ut
Highgate Springs invented an arrangement
for scooping up large quantities of fish while
n vessel is passing through schools of them
near the surface II consists Of II pair of side
wheels with basket floats which bring up the
fish and throw them into large receptacle.
The model looks as though 1t might work
we'll
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Alexander Garland, workman in Bucks
sawmil, ut Hyde Park, was struck by II
board which flew from the saw, and 50 Sc
verely injured in the abdomen that he died
on Saturday. lie was hard working man
and leaves n small family Another work
man was injured last summer by the same
saw in the same way.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The town system of schools is working
finely in Corinth.
Mr. George Jameson has sold his farm in
Vershire, to Daniel johnson, for $500.
The Orange County Temperance Society
holds its annual meeting at Chelsea, Feb. 10,
Mt 10 u. m.
The wife of Geo Carlton. of Vershire,
jumped from window recently, while in
sane, and walked about mile on the snow
and sharp crust, decorating her feet and limbs
in dreadful manner. She has since died.
Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, who
was elected Congressman at large, over An
drew johnson, was ut one time principal OF
Chester Academy, and is remembered by
many of his pupils who now reside in that
town. us au earnest, faithful and devoted in.
structor. His wife was Brookfield lady.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The people mt South Albany are brushing up
considerably. They have lately painted and
papered their church and put in bell.
Newport has now seven lawyers, tn,
seventh being L. NJ. Shedd who has just re
moved there from Derby.
Geo. Graves, of Albany, reports the sale o
S25 worth of eggs from 10 hens the past year
and NJ. L. Gilman lO2 doz. from II hens.
Two hundred and fifty thousand shingl'
were sawed at Evans mill in Bloomington
, last month.
, A child of &. W. Richardson, Of Salem
, was seriously scalded on Thursday last b,
, running under stream of water from tei
kettle.
, A stirring Coventry man, 30 years OF age
who has lived within three miles OF thu
= station, never saw the cars until the othe
2 day, when he took his first ride.
The Monitor says that Harry Cheney ha
4 taken contract to get out twelve hundrd'
dollars worth of croquet mallet handles. II,
D has got his machinery to running and turn
= them out in hurry.
. Judge John A. Jameson of the Chcag,
4 superior court, native Of Irasburgh, ha
f been compelled to suspend work on accoun
. of i'll health, and is spending the winter II
y Royalton.
: On Sunday, Feb. 2. the invalid wife of Rev
II. n. Hovey, of Lowell. came near beinI
II burned to death by spark from the stow
:. lodging in the quilt which had been throw
d over her By the use of II wooden rug an,
n some water the fire was extinguished.
L RUTLAND COUNTY.
= There is an unusual activity IN the Stat
quarrles of Poultney. Orders are coming il
j. fast
c WASHINGTON COUNTY.
a Barre is to have national bank, witt
i 500, 900 capital.
! WINDSOR COUNTY.
Josiah Gibson, of Proctorsville, has an "o
arm chair that was made in Pepperel
II Mass, l40 years ago 1t is in good state q
o preservation and in daily use.
T. Woodstock is enjoying what she most dc
: sired, more light her gas works havn
been destroyed by fire, Nov. o, 1872. III
:, Past says it is a beautifully white and stron
light, far exceeding anything they have en-
joyed since ante-war times when rosn wa