Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-27

hashcii " Mnltes Dell Ringers are now
playing in Canada, and by the Sher5rooke
Gazette we not ce they are giving great sat.
isiactiou and receiving crowded houses.
They will visit St. Johnsbury in few weeks,
and we hope they may be we'll received
MIR. Haskell is a sou of our friend j. w.
Haskell
The Portland street bridge gave up the
ghost last Friday. The middle fell into the
| stream, when the current swung the east epd
down until il lodged in the Toe Of the. mill
dam. The ruins are being removed as fast
as possible, but the thing was allowed to re-
main so long that the materials will not be
Of much value now.
Carlos Day, Of the late firm Of Day Il
May, left his wife, very amiable lady, os-
tensibly to 20 TO work in Portland, but the
next day he put up at 6rst-class hotel in
Montreal, in company with Miss Agnes Har-
low, Of St. Johnsbury, who left her home
claiming that she was going to work in New
port, and the couple are still supposed to be
in Canada.
Dick Wilson, the store robber, made him.
self scarce at the Jail last Saturday night.
He had played sick for time and was al
lowed to lodge in the upper room. From
thence he assembled through the scuttle and
let himself to the ground by his bed-clothes.
or course no one helped him, as rs. Had
ley was occupying the same bed-clothes and
knew nothing about it
The project Of disbanding the high school
department of the union school will have to
be abandoned for the present, as the usual
school meeting warning did not give suffi-
cient time to act upon it. But as soon as
practicable it is designed to seud the adj
vanced scholars Of the union school to the
academy, the district paying their tuition
there, as they have a right by law TO do.
That will make more room in the school
building for the other departments which are
now very much crowded.
A petition is out praying for a town
! meeting to be called for the purpose of
choosing an agent to superintend the con-
struction of a new bridge on Portland street,
committee TO confer with the Z. 4. D. Il,
r. company in regard to the amount Of
damage they have occasioned to the high
way in choking up the current Of the Pas.
sumpsic River, and to elect, or perhaps to
The opinion seems to be gaining ground that
a bridge is needed which shall cover both
railroad tracks as we'll as the river. Such
bridge would be expensive, it is true, but if
the expense could be fairly divided up be-
tween the two railroad companies and the
town the burden would not be very heavy.
The advantages to be gained by such
bridge seem to be these Most Of the rise
and fall in crossing the river would be saved;
the danger Of crossing the railroads would
be removed, and there would be no delay in
waiting for the movement of long trains as
is now frequently the case. The Pass.
crossing is very blind one as the track can
not be seen either way by any one passing
east until they get fairly on it, and as the
village over the river continues TO grow and
highway and railroad business increase,
somebody's life is going to be paid for by
some Of these corporations unless more pre-
caution is used somewhere. The railroads
are therefore interested in raising the high
way travel above them, and will no doubt
contribute so far towards such bridge that
the expense TO the town will not be 30 very
much more than an ordinary bridge after
missioners, board was selected at the an
nual meeting but as there was no article in
the warning to that effect, it is thought best
to have them so legally elected that their
acts will be legal.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The population of Burlington is now esti-
mated at eighteen Thousand.
Albert 4. Rogers has sold to T. G. Nara
more his farm of something over forty acres
Of land, lying near the southeast corner Of
Williston.
There was a cock-6ght ut the barn Of the
Stanton House, Burlington, Sunday after
noon. The nstigators were brought up in
the city court. and each fined 81 aud costs
On Thursday morning Of last week, the
bars of the American and Van Ness Houses
in Burlington, we're raided. The officers
found about tive dozen bottles Of liquors at
both places.
William Weaver, Superintendent of Bron.
son & Co.'S great planning mill in Burling-
ton, had his right arm so smashed in tho
machinery last week that it had to be am
putated just below the elbow.
The special election for Alderman in the
Fifth Ward of Burlington, resulted in the
election of b. b. Smalley by vote OF POI
in poll Of 2l3. Mr., Smalley is a Demo.
crat, but was the nominee of both parties.
Willis Beeman, Jed. Lemarsh, and three
other young fellows were arrested in Milton,
charged with an assault with unsavory eggs
upon Rev. j. ID. Beeman. On examination
young Beeman turned States evidence, and
Lemarsh was fined $40 aud costs.
At the auction sale of Mr. Cranes prop
erty at Burlington, Saturday, the horse
" Bismarck was knocked down to G. b.
Gray at 1870. The horse cost $500, and
was valued much higher. The bay horse
sold for $3.50, and horse farm stock at $40.
Westford Is bound to have a good grange
or none.-A. g. Varney has recently
purchased Poland China boar for the i'm :
provement of swine. He is from the stock
Of A. G. Morse, Canton, Ill.-The can
ker-rash is prevailing but no deaths as yet.
Joseph IL. ShortsleeVes, of Burlington,
was l07 years old on the llth Of February
The Free Press says that he is hale and
hearty, has good eyesight, and walked to
mass without assistance, Sunday morning, at
st. JOSeph's church. He now contemplates
a trip to Montreal alone.
There was discussion wild sticks in
Burlington on ST. Patrick's Day, in which
Mrs. OMara had her head cracked, two
men were AOOred with tumblerE and badly
cut about the mob, &C., &c. In short there
was rale good, OuId country scrimmage; -
but the police impoltely intruded on the al
fair before it was finished.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Shopping and lottery auction sales have
been brisk at Island Pond lately