Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-26
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SeeeeC sNGeD0s
Republican convention in the third con-
gressional district will be at Middlebury,
August II.
Fifteen oranges were represented at q
mass convention at Bethel, june Is. ID. H..
Boyden was elected Master, w. G. Holman,
o., r. NJ. Cody, s., ]. W. Bailey, L., Hem
ry Pierce, 7.
1t isn't the Waterman, as we expecte d.,
but the Argus, that comes over TO give US
some kindly advice in this congressional dis
trict, this week. That's natural, though /;
Mead's temperance man.
The Springfield Republican says The
prospects of the Montpelier, Hardwick and
Black River RAILROAD are discouraging On
ly 100000 of the 100000 needed has
been subscribed to the stock, and the stock
holders are quarreling.
DIR. Cutting, our state geologist, has pub
lished lengthy article in reference to the
supposed petritaction Of the body Of cit
izen of Rutland, recently disinterred.. He
thinks no such case was ever proved, aud sat
isfactorily accounts for the increased weight
and appearances which led to the suppose.
ton in the case referred to. He de cides the
Cardiff giant to be big humbug.
The Rutland Herald, having failed to get
a Rutland County man nominated for gov
ernor this year, is already at work making
the way smooth for such an event two years
hence. Its plan is to claim Judge Peck's
residence to be Montpelier, and that his NOM
nation breaks down the rule Of alternating
from one side Of the mountain to the other,
so the west side may stand an equal show
with the east next time.
The annual meeting of the Vermont Ed
itorial Association will be at Montpelier,
Wednesday, July /, and the following pro-
gramme has been arranged for the occasion I:
Arrive at Montpelier on afternoon trains.
At AS take carriages for ride about the
village and its envrons. At p. NJ, Ban
quet given their associates by the Press of
Montpelier AT $3.50 p. NJ, annual Bus
mess Meeting, with the usual Poem and Ad-
dress. At 7:45 on the morning of Thurs
day, July 2, the members will take the cars
for Waterbury, where stages will be in read
mess to take them TO Stowe aud Mt. Mans
field Going direct to the Summit House,
they will dine there, and devote the balance
Of the day to "doing" the mountain, those
preierring returning to Stowe the same even
ing, whore they will stop at the famed Mt.
Mansfield Hotel. The next morning there
will be reunion Of the party in "The
Notch" where few hours can be pleasant
ly and probably spent returning to the Mt.
Mansfield Hotel for dinner, which will be
| oE xuha do
sire can leave for Waterbury in season to
take the night express train going South and
East, and the "old mail" going North and
West.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Independent Grange, Sheffield, meets to.
morrow, 9th.
Joel jenkins is Master of Burke Noun
tain Grange, East Burke.
District No. /, Newark, are giving theil
school-house thorough repairing.
Romeo Brockway has just put up gooC
corn barn and shed TO his horse-barn.
Landen Morse, who was hurt by a fal
from barn at West Concord, is improving
Calvin Bigelow's team was stolen Will
he was attending the circus at LyndonvillG
G. Il. McCriliss barn, on West Hill
Hardwick, was burned on the night Of tn
7th.
: James, son of G. w. Cahoon, of Lyndon
has been received as cadet midshipman a
the Naval Academy.
Z On the 18th two yearlings wero run owe
, by the cars at the crossing near the Dive
place, Groton, and killed.
Il. ii. Colby, of McIndoes Falls, lost
/, horse last week, being the fourth one i
, eighteen months, amounting to over 800
loss.
f Barnum's riding monkey fell off the pom,
= at LyndonVille during the evening perform
: ance and made his escape into outer dark
, ness.
} John 2. Ingalls,, Sheffield, had paralyt
: ic shock last week Wednesday night whic
completely paralyzed one side, and he die
:, on the 2lst
r +. A. Way, of Sutton, discovered larg
!. buck deer in front Of his house early las
e Tuesday morning. lie grazed there som
6 twenty minutes and made rapid tracks whe
IT dog was started after him.
6 Alonzo Gray, of Sheffield, has sold h
u farm to man from Canada.-D
g French, of Glover, lately removed larl
a cancer from the breast Of Mr.. Geo. Clap
IS III. X. Thomas lost good hog on Ii
T. Goth. ,a
~ The "old parsonage" some half mi
;, from Lower Waterford was burned abOJ
! 10 o'clock Saturday night 1t was a yer
. good house, and well insured. AS no OF
y had lived in it for several years it is thOugl
the fire was the work of an incendiary.
:. During the storm Of Monday evening Il
8 chimney which remains where the old fact
{. ny was in Barnet, nearly rs feet high, WI
n struck by lightning and seam opened nea
A ly the whole length of it, and other DANA
} done rendering it unsafe to leave it standin
v Mr.. Cook, of Danville, who went
Ie Boston last week TO procure treatment I,