Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-22

| Lyman Churchill, OF Craitsbury, lost an
OK, recently, from disease that resembled and
was called the true epizootic.
On Saturday last Newport boy sixteen
years old, named A. A Lane, was taken to the
Reform School for abuse offered his father and
mother and others.
Ed Taylor, who has wife in Keene, n.
H., was lodged in lrasburgh Jail last week, be-
cause he would prcsist in living With one Bige
low girl az bis lawful wife The Keene woman
got him home last fall, and dressed him up,
hoping to manufacture him into a decent man
again. But he escaped again this spring, got
employment on the Lady of the Lake. returned
10 bis Bigelow love, and pulls up in lnsburgh
under hundred dollar bond which be cam lilt.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The cadets Of the Rutland Military Insti
tuie have gone into camp for two weeks on the
banks Of Lake Dunmorc, in Salisbury
The committee which has charge Of the
erection Of a soldiers monument at Rutland
has offered one hundred dollars for a design
for a monument which can be erected for
given sum.
The body Of young Stearns was found by
dragging, on Tuesday Of last week, of Bluff
Point, near Vergennes, near where he was
drowned, in twenty feet Of water, and was
taken to Rutland
The Rutland County Democratic Conven-
ton met on Wednesday OF last week, only
about tweuty.fy being present, according to
| the Herald' account, aud adjourned to August
Goth, in hopes to get larger attendance.
On the occasion Of the soldiers reunion,
in August, Christopher Rice, Of Rutland, pro-
poses to walk from Rutland to Burlington in
twelve hours, carrying the stars and stripes.
lie challenges anybody and everybody to do
the like
A fatal accident occurred in Pittsiord on
Thursday afternoon, to John Ward, who was
employed ns a sawyer in the marble mill Of the
Pittsiord Quarry Company. BY some means
be became entanged in the betting Of the mill,
and bis left arm was torn off, the right arm
broken twice, and one Of his limbs broken.
lie lived forty-eight hours after his injuries
were received.
wtNDnAM COUNTY.
The preliminary survey OF the west RIVER
railroad was finished at Jamaica on tuesday
The hnal survey Will begin next week
The destruction Of all kinds Of crops by
grasshoppers, on the farms Of Mr.. Flint NJ
w Davis, Nelson Oaks and Orrin Black, in
the north part Of W estminster, is fearful. The
fields and fences are completely covered with
the insects.
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-Aocoru'ng 70 tue ''S'e, re,"'"S' '"' nun
DER OIL poi's ana uoss III " oVuS'oeN '''o III
ereaseu WITHIN Tue year
The Windsor county Democrats have nom
mated for Senator'S Samuel X. Stocker' oil
Windsor Ebenezer bridge, OF Pomiret' ana
Royal Topper, OF Rochester
-A mass convention Of the Republicans Of
Windsor county dissatisfied With portion Of
the ticket nominated at the recent convention
will be held at Woodstock, Angus. 18th.
Tho White River Valley Agricultural So
c;o,v has issnsd IL scbednle IF premiums In,
I ;ts nov, fair which will he held at Betbel Sen.
, tonber d al andAtb The managers Of m,
sooio,, ,,vs tho hest If assurances that the,
$ ,y;l r0.Ea tho raira s,cccss. if possible. The,
t.o ,io..,od ,,,5 or,o,dod ,bc;r nrcrrinrn Ii n
: - ias, co. % boo, rooo win Tho croutb n
,ho sooia,, Tbo society il in a healthy condi
e 49,, 80, >, Sc r,a,orial ;r,orosts and Il
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