Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-05
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A county conference of Congregational
churches meets at East ST. Johnshury Tues
day and Wednesday.
Messrs. II. p. Shorey & Co. lost $780,
horse on Sunday by death from some unknown
cause.
The council for recognition of the First
Baptist Church will be held at their hall on
Wednesday.
There was frost in some places on Tues
day morning but we do not hear Of much
damage done.
At an adjourned village meeting last
Thursday evening tax Of 33I per cent. was
voted for current expenses.
Justus Burnham has bought into the fur
niture business with Geo. II. Tisdale. The
two will make strong team and will do a
good business.
Mrs. Capron, missionary from India, will
address the ladies at the North Church next
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock subject,
the missionary work.
There was quite a collection at the Athe.
n@um Tuesday evening to witness the BIOS
soming of night-blooming cereus from the
gardens Of Horace Fairbanks.
In taking down an old chimney in Union
Block a hole large enough to admit mans
hand was discovered opening out to the
wood work, and it remains a mystery that
the building had not taken fire from it,
The ordinance Of baptism will be admin
istered at Passumpsc on Sunday the 9TH
inst, at noon. The exercises of the Bible
school of the First Baptist Church OF this
place will be omitted.
Mr. Ethan Carr, who has been in the en-.
ploy Of the Fairbankses some nine years and
has the respec. and esteem of his employers
and fellow workmen, has gone upon the y.
4 o. road as q brakeman. He will not fail
to rise to higher position in short time.
George, a little daughter of l.. w. Row
ell, has been very dangerously i'll from the
effects of kick received on the knee joint
from rude girl playmate. She is now in a
more hopeful condition, but the lesson Of
better behavior should be none the less strik-
ing.
The village trustees are extending branch
sewer up back of DIR. Billiards. house which
will receive drainage from the Court House
and all south of that on Main Street. Now
that the village has been to such heavy ex-
pense for sewers about $4,000, every owner
of village property should put in q drain
wherever possible. 1t will not only make
their premises more healthy but more val
liable.
A hot fire in the stove of James Berry's
picture room furnished beautiful pyrotech-
meal display from the chimney of Hall &
Fletcher's store about 8 O'Clock last evening.
The burning SCOT poured forth like lava
from volcano and for while threa tened a
confagration. The roof did catch several
times but was soon wet down. Had it hap
pened two hours later the chances would
have been Fright smart" for a big fire.
Watchmen were kept about the premises all
night.
AT the annual meeting of Passumpsic
Lodge No. 81 on Thursday evening nice
Elgin watch and chain costing sos was
presented to Charles S. Button, Jr., the re-
firing master, by Silas Martin, in behalf Of
many of the members of the lodge and other
. Masonic friends, as a token of their regard.
Mr.. Button responded in a few fitting re-
marks and thanked the brethren very hearth.
ly for their remembrance of him. Mr. b.
left on Saturday, with his family, for Chi
cago where he is to take up his abode, and
we hope he may find as many and as true
friends there as he leaves here.
One day last week Frank Brown, son of
Il. f. Brown, Main Street, persuaded NJ.
Stevenson, shoe.m maker who depends upon
his labor for support, to smoke, giving him
pipe filed with tobacco-and gunpowder.
of course the charge exploded, and it would
have destroyed Stevenson's eye had he not
CHANGED to have his hand over it. As it
was his hand was burned so that he has not
been able to work since. There is nothing
smart or cunning in this kind of practical
jokes, but there are few boys in this viii
lage who might be benefited by a brief res
idence at the reform school.
The several Masonic bodies held their an
nual meetings last week, and the following
are the officers elected;