Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-04
Mtrmnmt Ratmtt
St, Johnsbury, w., July 4, 1873.


The steam propeller Sancho WIS burned
on Lake Champlaiu, south Of Wcstport, Tues
day, with two barges which formed part Of
her tow. Loss $4,000.
The Vermont Medical Society held its semi
annual meeting ut st. Adams, last week.
Typhoid fever was one of the topics of dis
cussion. and the prevailing opinion was that
defective drainage, want of cleanliness, the
nauseating odors from exposed focal matter,
and other like things, easily remcdied, are
the most fruitful sources of this pre-eminent-
~ Vermont disease.
The State papers have just found out, about
year after the event, that State Grange Of
Patrons has been organized in Vermont
Hon +. z. Cotton, senator from Orleans
county, is one of the very Nblest Of the young
err public men in the state, and the Patrons
made wise selection in choosing him master
of the State Grange.
Gov. Smith makes strong denial, in the
st. Alba ms Messenger, of the rumors in cir
culntion that the Central railroad is to be
controlled by the Eric. He says / take the
earliest opportunity to say that such n report
is entirely without foundation. No commu-
nication has ever passed between this COM
pany and the Erie Railway Company on tho
subject, nor has it ever been entertained or
mentioned in the Board of Directors of this
company.
At the last annual meeting of the Homeo-
pathic State Medical Society, held in Mont
pelIer, the following officers were chosen for
the ensuing year; President. G. N. Brigham,
NJ. D.. Montpelier; Vice-President, c. II.
Chamberlain, Nj. d., Barre Treasurer and
Recording Secretary, G. E. +. Sparhawk, M.
d., Dysville: Corresponding Secretary. IL.
G.. Brigham, NJ. d., Mortified; Censors,
Drs. NJ. G. Houghton, NJ. w. Hill, j. IL.
Jones; Auditor. Samuel Worcester, M. d.,
Burlington. The Society then adjourned to
meet at st. Johnsbury on the second Wadnes-
day of January, 1874.
futile & CO., Of Rutland have issued. in
worry neat style OF both binding and typogra-
ply, the address of Hon. l.. f. Chittenden,
delivered before the VERMONT Historical So
ciety last fall. on the capture of Ticonderoga,
and which was considered of so much con-
sequence to our State, ms an important his
;oric paper. that by order of the legislature
an edition was ordered sufficient to supply
every town clerks office and public institu-
ton in the State. II contains n full and
graphic account Of the march of Ethan Allen
and his men and thoroughly disposes of the
absurd claim set up by Benedict Arnold b
the glory of that expedition. With tho notes
and other addenda it makes an octave vol
ume of 1877 pages. and is II valuable perma-
nent addition to the historical lame of the
State and of the Revolution. NJ. Il. Carpen-
ter, ESQ.,. Secretary of the Senate, desires us
to notify all entitled to n copy under the JOINT
resolution of last fall that the town bundles
have been sent to the county clerk of each
county. Each town clerk will get the bundle
for his town.
ADDISON COUNTY.
The forest worm. similar to but not the
same rs the tent-caterpillar. is stripping the
woods and rncroachng on the orchards in
Charlotte. The trees in some spots are rs
bare rs III winter.
The weather here has been extremely hot
and dry, so much so that notice large num-
bers of fish dead in the streams, but for the
last 81 hours it has been cloudy and hredt-
ems to rain. Let it rain!" is the cry of ev-
cry farmer. Farmers have commenced hay
ing, generally to save what there Is before it
burns up. Crops are very light. f.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
1t is reported that skeleton, enclosed in n
suit of clothes answering the description of
garments worn by one John g. Rice. young
man whose sudden disappearance from Sears
burg, (wherc he had been employed by
Church & Messers,) about two years since,
led many to believe that he had been foully
dealt with, has been found in an obscure
place in Wo0dford, and near the spot where
he was last seen. Rice being ~ man OF disso-
lutte habits. it is believed that he died from
exposure or starvation during debauch.
The knitting mill of A. b. Valen tine Mt
Bennington has been enlarged to accommo-
date six sets of machinery instead of four
all on women's white knit goods
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Passumpsic night express train up will
run Saturday nights, and not on Sunday
nights.
At the Railroad street branch post Office in
this village, $50 weekly papers are deliver
ed, 45O of which are printed in this county,
also 100 dailies, and rs monthlies.
Oliver ii. Remington, of Groton, received
a severe cut in his hand from an axe in the
hands of fellow workman, while pecling
bark on Whitcher mou ntain in Topsham.
A stone was thrown through the window
of the down night train on the Passumpsic
Tuesday evening, Just below Lyndon. The
window and n lamp globe were broken. but
no one was hurt.
Jason Bradley, Of Lyndon, has n gobblei
which manifested IA desire to set, q month
ago. ard he was &c accommodated with set o
hens eggs. The old fellow was faithful anC
Matched out seven chickens which he is nov
rearing. This is one of Chase's stories.
The New Orleans Minsuels gave two en-
tertalnments this week ut the town hall
which were well attended, and gave the mos
perfect satisfaction. Its members are tru'
arttstes in their several spOcialtics. and to
gether make up an mrivalled company
They 90 from here to I.ttleton and Lancaster
We understand that VIM. NJ. Parker, Esq
the new superintendent Of the Passumpsi'
railroad, has received MS present from tn,
employees of the Boston, Hartford and Els
; of which he was lately superintendent a fin
buggy, harness and whip, costing 800. Mr.
Parker is about SO years old, and has follow
cd railroading since about 1910, commencing
as CLERK on the Nashua road, in the freigh
department Having served a good appren
7 ticeship there, he went to the Northern road
} as master Of transportation, which position
! he held until he was made superintendent o
tho road. He run the road several years
and then took position on the Hartford an