Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-10

Ranney's dinners. This barn is for vari.
ETY. Of purposes--for horses, cattle, sheep,
hay, granary. wood shed, carriage house, &c,
aud has a cellar under the whole.
LAMonLE COUNTY.
Thursday afternoon Of last week son Of
s. W. Adams, Of Stowe, was killed by light
ming. lie was lying upon bed, and il is
supposed tho lightning came in through tho
window, near which he lay. His mother
and brother were injured aud a dog in an
adjoining room was killed The house was
considerably torn up but was not set on FIRE.
The people Of johnson have been highly
excited over the inhuman treatment a
little boy Of Eve years. Freddie Russell, has
received from his father and his step mother
This boy was taken away from his parents
and examined. He was literally covered
from head 10 foot with bruises. The neigh.
bors have known Of Russell aud his wife
taking the boy aud holding him head down.
ward in barrel Of ice-water until he was
nearly drowned at one time, and of their
hanging him up by his arms by the hour at
other times. These acts with others, equally
brutal, have aroused the citizens. Russell,
on finding that a suit was pending has
left for a more congenial CLINE. The boys
threaten to give him what he deserves when
he returns il he ever does.
Last Monday Mr.. Albiron b. Tinker, the
well-known cattle dealer, was on his way to
Boston with a car load Of cattle aud lambs,
aud somewhere near West Lebanon, N. H.,
he undertook to get upon thestop of the car
to see If all was well within, when he was
struck on the forehead by bridge, knock.
ing him off. In falling he became entangled
in the trucks and one foot was taken off.
lie died the next moTniag Mr. Tinker be-
gan to drive cattle, sheep aud lambs when
eighteen, before the advent Of railroads,
taking them on foot to Boston. Since that
time he has done an extensive business and
at the time Of his death had about 1000
lambs contracted for, which we understand
his son, who became partner with him this
spring, will take. Mr.. Tinker will be sadly
missed by large number Of friends aud
customers with whom his business relations
were always friendly and satisfactory. Has
New Hampshire as good laws as Vermont 2
ORANGE COUNTY.
Albert Adams has refused $4,000 for
his field in Newbury under which lead
mine was recently discovered, and will sell
the ore at $40 ton, to be taken out by
the purchasers.
Lightning struck the hotel and Albert
Martins house and blacksmith-shop at Will.
Jamestown, last week Thursday afternoon,
aud burned them up the hotel was owned
by Charles Sauborn, whose loss is about
$1,000 Martins loss is $500, insured for
$500.
Chelsea Grange celebrated the Fourth by
a social picnic in the sugar place Of Moses
Lunt. The affair was gotten up the pre-
cejing Thursday, and the arrangements were
necessarily hurried, but the 800 people
who attended unanimously declared it an
enjoyable occasion.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Deputy Jameson is organizing q grange
at North Troy to-day.
A new Roman Catholic church Is about
completed at East Albany. .
Salmon Nye, of Coventry, had harness
stolen from his premises the other night.
The Pass. X. X. Go. are putting up a
small building near the Newport passenger
depot for express and baggage rooms.
Walter Fairbrother sawed off thumb
while running a splitting saw in the mill oil
the Westmore Lumber Company, Friday.
l.. b. McClintock, foreman of the En-.
press office, has left the office for the sum-
mer, on account Of his health, and is con.
ductor on Pullman car.
Mrs. Benjamin Farwell, of Albany, died
very suddenly at Littletou, N. H., few
days ago, while on Il visit. She was sick
only two or three hours.
A. b. Cook. of Greensboro, on Saturday
morning last, found his COW which he valued
at 800, with hole in her head, supposed
to be made by bullet, whether intentional
or accidental is not known.
Willie Gallagher, an Irish boy sixteen
years old, son Of Edward Gallagher, asci.
dentally shot and killed himself, Sunday
June %, while hunting near Big 0smorC
pond, in the edge of Craftsbury.
William Edmunds, of Irasburgh, sold
Marcelus Way, of Barton Landing, a COW
and as he was driving her to Mr.. Ways
she became frightened and ran upon the
railroad track, and was killed by passing
train.
John Green, who was brought before JUS.
tice Tinker, Of Derby, few days ago for
assault ON Miss Garland, has been lodged in
lrasburgh Jail in default Of $500 bail for
stealing horse from Edward Hawkins, OF
Salem. He plead guilty.
John W. Smith, lately partner in Stimp-
son Il Co.'s steam saw mill company, has
sold his village residence in Newport To
Theophilus Grout for S2350, and some fur
niture for 1920, and is about returning to
Boston, his native place.
A plank was laid across the track on the
bridge at North Troy Saturday evening, and
would have thrown the express train down a
distance Of 80 feet but strangely the COW
catcher swept II of. A man named Hayden
Skinner is suspected Of having placed il
there.
Last week Wednesday Alonzo Newton,
who was at work in the steam mill at Bar
ton Landing, leaned forward 10 lock out of
a window just in time to escape being sent
into eternity by the bursting Of a pulley, a
piece Of which weighing 800 pounds passed
where his head had been.
We last week copied an item from an ex.
change which stated that Mr.. j. A. Crane
Of Greensboro, had been victimized by a
moving machine and pillow company which
had failed. lie wishes US TO say that the
company has not failed but now employs
some 40 hands, and there was no fraud in
the matter.
Frank Remission, who stole the horse from
Elijah Hanson, of Irasburgh, some days ago,
was found last Saturday, in Craflsbury, with
the stolen team. lie was riding out with
two ladies, when the officer uncsremoniously
reduced the trio to duet, and took Kenis
ton To IraaburRh. where he Is enjoying cool