Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-03-11

Hon. Samuel II. Kellogg Of Pittstord
received his 4Sih election as Town CLERK
on Tuesday Of last week.
About seven o'clock last Tuesday
evening the house Of Patrick Keller Be-
tween North Fairfax and Buck Hollow
eaucht FIRE from his stove pipe, which ran
through the roof. and was destroyed.
Most of the contents were saved except
about IS bushels Of corr, 20 bushels OF
oats and 10 bushels of potatoes. The
house had been insured but the policy had
expired. Mr.. Kelley is IS or so years
old. a cripple, aud poor so that me los
falls heavily upon him. though 1t did not
exceed $1,000.
"A horse belonging to Foster Phelps,
of West Concord. was attached recently.
and placed in the barn of Elijah Phillips
for safe keeping. Phelps heard that
Phillips had been using the horse, and
went TO his barn aud took it out, wEereup-
Oh Phillips ordered him away. He did
not leave and Phillips assisted him.
Then there was a suit of Phelps against
Phillips for assault aud battery, resulting
III a verdict for defendant TO recover hs
cost.
"A clergyman in n of our churches
was very much annoyed yesterday by the
whispering and laughing Of a married man
among the girls, aud after sharp looks
and noticesb bic pauses had failed to rebuke
and silence the disturber, the minister
stopped in his discourse aud prayed for
him. 1t proved as affeetsal as the same
agency does upon the rum-sellers OF Ohio.
ST. Adams Messenger.
Hon. Martin Barrett, the father Of
Judge Barrett, Of the Supreme Court.
died at his home in STAFFORD on the 18th
inst, at the advanced age Of eighty.ninc
years and six months. Mr.. Barrett was
an bonorsd, respected and usefsl citizen.
lie represented the own several years IN
the Legislature. was a member Of the
Constitutional Convention in 1921 and
1927, aud was a Justice of Peace for l6
years. BY occupation ne was a practiced
machinist.
On Friday morning the house oceu-
pied by Mr.. Robinson, in Sheffield, was
destroyed by fire. The fire was discov.
cred by the family at about two O'Clock,
A. l.. 1t must have taken in the upper
part of the building, as several holes were
burnt through the roof when the family
awoke. All the furniture, seed, grain
and almost all their clothing, was de-
stroyed
There was a bit of excitement in
Danvillc last week. A member of the
prudential committee saw fit, without good
reason, to lock up a school, and lock out
the teacher and her scholars. The neigh.
bOrs rallied and put her in the school
again. and set a guard of i've young fell
lows to protect her. The prudential man
was im-prudent enough to try it a second
time, and the consequence was hat he
was terribly pummeled.
The towns all over the state held
their municipal elections, Tuesday. and,
in some places, there was much excitement
owing to- the interest 10 the tax and the
questions. Burlington pollcd the
vote ever cast in that city, and the
won for the first time in four
years, electing Calvin II, BIodge,t mayor,
Lawrence Barnes by a vote of III
to 6S3, and getting four out of seven al
dermen. Milton r. Tyler, a republican,
was. however, elected without opposition.
The defeat of the republicans is generally
attributed to the uupopularIty of the pro
hibitcry law, the anti-prohibitory republi-
cans voting with the democracy. Both
The candidates for mayor are very popular
men.