The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-22

Vermont News.

Vermont News.
Richforl has a haunted house.
The Clutch measles" rage in johnson.
There was slight frost in Richmond
last week Thursday night.
There is a good prospect of getting the
fair grounds located at lrasburgh.
NJ. II. Clark, of Wolcott. has lost sixteen
lambs with what he calls black tongue.
Three children of Alfred ID. Gallup of
Grafton died on the It'll inst, of canker
rash.
The girls of the seminary at Montpelier
have begun the publication OF periodical
of SO pages
The town of Roxbury with a population
of only 91G has foriy-four persons over
seventy years of age.
1t is estimated that from GO, 600 to 10000
pounds of sugar have been made in lras-
burgh, the present season.
Two franklin county butter buyers visit
Newport Center every Thursday. Last
week they paid so to 81 cents.
McClary < Hancock of Greensboro, were
running each other on butter last week, and
advanced the price cents.
The liquor agency at Newbury has "sus-
pended and the thirsty are clamoring for
the Commissioner to "turn the spigot"
The Baptist Church in West Bratteboro
was fully recognized by an Ecclesiastical
Council convened on Tuesday, May 12..
The Standard says woman in the
streets drunk on Saturday-the first eXhi-
btion of the kind we ever saw in Wood
stock.
There is to be grand Masonic celcbra-
ton on st. Johns day, June 2ith, at Stowe.
Arrangements will soon be published.
David Lang, of Rycgatc, raised last sea-
son lS5 bushels of Danvcrs onions from Ia
of an acre The year before he raised 3G
bushels from square rods of land.
Clark, Boardman u Co., have about 20,
900 spruce logs in the Lamoillc river be-
tween Milton and johnson, out of which
they estimate to manufacture million and
half feet of lumber.
The Middlebury postofficc was entered
by burglars on Wednesday, between the
hours of two and four n. m, also II. w.
Brewster's jewelry store. The young man
who slept in the store arose at two o'clock
slightly indisposed and went out. Return
ing at four o'clock, he discovered n sledgc
hammer, lying near the safe, with which an
unsuccessful attempt had been made to en-
ter it. A revolver was the only thing ia
ken here. AT the postofiice, the burglar
secured $500 in scrip and a watch belong
ing to the clerk. The crime was evidently
the work of an experienced hand.
DR.. NJ. C. Edmunds, of Weston, one of
the Vermont fish commissioners, is stocking
the upper Connecticut and its tributaries
with salmon. He was in St. Johnsbury
Wednesday, and put 10000 of the little
fellows into Moose River in Concord, and
10000 into Wheclock Branch in WheeloclS.
There is a farmer in Washington county
who has tarmed it for forty years, and he
has never been short for hay. This wear
he thought he woudjoin the crowd, and
last week bought half Il ton of hay; yet he
thinks he will have ton to sell if there is
any one in great want. Tradition says that
this mans father and grandfather were new
er known to be short Of hay making a
connecting line from father to son, COM
prisng one hundred and eleven years of
Vermont farming.
The Vermont Mutual Fire insurance Co..
Of Montpelier, has given notice that il
shall pay no insurance on the hotel build
ings which were destroyed by fire at East
Montpelier, February last.
There is room for little liquor crusad-
ing in St. Johnsbury yet Robert Pen
bridge went home drunk, Friday afternoon,
and amused himself for n while by pound
ing his wife. He then drew pistol and
threatened to shoot her, when policeman
was sent for, but before the latter arrived
the wife had forgiven Robert, and she pre-
vailed on the officer to let him stav in the
bosom of his family.
The temperance people of Chelsea are
waking up. Two men were fined by Ran
som Davis, Esq, last week-one for being
intoxicated, the other for getting liquor o
the town agent under false prctences.
The railroad woodshed, on the south sid,
of the river, ut Georgia, was burned Fri
day morning, the fire taking from loco
motive. Loss trifing.
At the annual meeting of the Franklil
county medical society, the following of
ficers were elected President, DR.. Clark
l'ice President, DIR. Baxter. Delegates tt
the medical association of Northern New
York: Drs. G. NJ. Hall and Briggs. Del
ogateS to the Franklin Co. Medical Socict,
Me- York, Drs. Wilder and Welch. Del
cgateS to the Chittenden Co. Medical So
ciety VT, Drs. Branch and Leach.
Addison Cotton, in Jail at Montpelier 70
robbing William Woodbury., Of Berlin, say
there was about $500 in the pocket book Ii
got and that what was not recovered h
has put away, offering to so and get it
they will let him out.
Phillip Hunt the oldest man in town
died Sunday. He was the father of g
children, nearly all of whom are now liy
ing.
Three shops are making boxes at Bar
ton Landing.
A Vermonter who sold his farm and useC
all the money he got for it in buying a lot
terry ticket, drew $50 and brass watch
he then threw himself on a roaring buz
saw and closed his eventful career.
The grangers at Newbury center talk O
building hall.
Many of the Ely miners are leaving tn
place, some for other mines and some 70
their English homes.
Rev II S Hebard has rendered his resig
nation as pastor Of the Universalist societ
in South STAFFORD, and accepted cal
from the Universalist society at Ports
mouth, N. H., at n salary of $4,000.
Westford is reported as wide awake for tn
railroad, At meeting, May II, Hon Alne.
Stone, Franklin Beach and l. G Nichol
were chosen n committee TO take DrODe