National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-02-27
State News.
ORANGE COUNTY,

Df the Financial AMalrs Oh Cne FOWL
of Bradford is in press and Will N
saued in season for town meeting.
See notice of Saloon For Sale.
Town Meeting next Tuesday al
10 O'clock A. nj. Turn out
The Republicans Of Bradford
,old their caucus for the nomina
ton of q Board of Town Ohiceri
mt Town Hall Saturday evening,
Feb. 2Sth, at 6 1,2 o'clock.
The Democrats hold their caucus
in the upper hall at the Town House
on Monday evening March "a.
On Wednesday Eve, March 4th
prox., the Rev. J. McOully Fulton,
NJ. A., will deliver a FREQ lecture in
the M. Il. Church. Suhject-"The
Unfinished, and who's to complete
it Z" Lecture to com nence at Z
o'clock.
The ladies' of the Gong. Society
will hold their next Sociable at Mrs.
j. II. Jones' next Wednesday even
ing. Refreshments will be served.
WEST FAIRLEE.-S. P. Cheney,
of Dorset is teaching . singing
school in this village. We had 3
last week, and have money raised
for Is schools.
L. II. nutchins Of this town, who
was sent to the Insane Asylum at
Brattleboro, last October, escaped
two weeks since, and proceeded to
South Vernon, where he committed
suicide by hanging. His remains
were brought here for interment.
The annual meeting Of the West
Fairlcs Savings Bank was held the
ed iast. Hon. A. Bean was re elect
ell President, and Il. p. George.
Eer'r. The business Ofthis institu.
sion has steadily increased, and the
Bank now has a handsome surplus.
During the panic they met every
demand of depositors for funds.
Bates Bros. s. Co. have secured
.thc services of tirst'clasS Tailor,
Mr.. s. G. Fletchcr7 and can suit any
one who wants y good, tceH fitting.
suit of clothes.
VERsHIRE. Tile friends of Rev.
Samuel White and wife me: at their
residence, on the afternoon and
evening of February 10Th leaving,
with their kind wishes, about $50,
mostly cash.
n couple of dogs demolished II
of John Daggett's sheep one night
lately, and the owner Of the cans
ines paid 800 for the privilege of
having kept them, and slew them.
WEST RANDoLru.-The store of
A. W. Tcwksbury & Sons was ems
tered by a couple of burglars last
Sunday morning about 3 o'clock.
The safe was blown open but about
the time of explosion tho Boston ex
press train arrived and alarmed the |
robbers, who thereupon decamped
without getting any money from
their operations. The store was
set on fire but it was discovered and
|cxtinguiscd wi: hout any particular
damage having beed done. The
burglars no doubt thought from the
immense business done by Tcwks,
bury s. Sons, probably the largest
slone in any retail store in tho State
except that Of the Fairbanks, that
they would get " haul by opening
that safe, after Saturdays trade.
2nstcad ofthat, the new fallen snow 4
enabled the people to track the bur-
glars, and they were found III the
the fields aud taken.
Thomas Davenport of Williams
town was the inventor of the appli
cation Of magnetism and electro
nagnetiSla as Il moving principle in
mechanics, for which he obtained a
patent Feb. 25, 1897. He was ex-
perimenting upon this machine as
early as 1882. In 1884 his model
was pat Gil exhibition in New York.
and from it Professor Morse got
his first idea of the electric tele-
graph.
Lewis Huntington of South Straf.
ford, while out hunting foxes last
week, fired bis gun at a fox, but the
gun burst into such small pieces
that he was able to find but very
few Of them, while both Mr.. Har>
sington and the fox escaped unhurt.
A NARROW EsCApE.-On Satur>
day afternoon last, as the freight
train from this place was nearing
Wells River, the conductor, Mr..
George Witherell, noticed peddler
upon the high way swinging a broom
at him. and in other ways endervor.
ing to attract his attention. Looks
ing ahead on the track Mr.. With>
orell saw a gap about fifty feet long,
which had been washed cut, owing
to the want of a culvert in the pros
per place. He Immediately pulled q
pin, which detached seventeen of
the ninteen loaded cars of which
the train was composed, and these
seventeen cars were stopped within
four feet of the gap. The engineer.
Martin Hamlin, finding that it was
impossible to stop the engine in
season, when within fifty feet OF the
wash out, told the fireman to jump
off, which he did, MIR. Hamlin then
took his little boy, eight years old,
in his arms and leaped from the en-.
CINE, both. fortunately, escaping
without injury.
But the wonderful part of the