Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-02-11

The Court expenses Of the State
amount to upwards of $4,000 annually.
Adm L. Martin. boOk-keeper of i.
T. Fairbanks of ST. Johnsbury, has been
arrested on a charge Of embezzement,
The extreme cold on Sunday inter
fered with the services in some of the
Rutland churches In one of them them
the sermon was omitted, aud in another
the congregation cuddled themselves
around the steve in the paror
john Dea, an Employee in the scale
works at St. Johnsbury, entered a room
whieh was 80 full of steam that he could
not see, on Thursday merninp, and, falling
into a vat of boiling water, one OF his legs
was scaded almost the entire length.
lie lies in a very critical condition.
--AIonzo Reed of Randolph, was kicked
BY horse last week, and his injurcis were
very serious Mr.. Reed has been very
unfortunate for the last year or so, he
being the man who was assaulted year
ago last October IN his house.
"A. R. Tracy, who drives one Of Shcdd
& Walkers peddlers teams, while cross
ing the Lake Monday evening, from Thay-
er's in Colchester TO the Island, on the
stage road, b. oke through the ice, when
about twenty-five rods OF the South Hero
shore, and suffered the loss of his horses.
sleigh and goods, valued in all at about
81, 200 and barely escaped with his life.
"A dwelling house owned by the St.
Adams Water Works at North Fairfax,
aud occupied by Peter Kane was discov-
cred 20 be on fire Sunday morning about
6 o'clock, and was consumed. Loss not
known. Mr.. Kane saved the most Of his
goods.
The grocery store Of II. W. Camp.
bell at Montgomery Center was destroyed
by fire on the night of the 3lst inst
Nothing was saved from the store except
a small case Of bosts and show case OF
candy and notions. The total loss is abou
six thousand FIVE hundred dollars. three
) thouzand of which is covered by insnranc,
III III" feTlHObt rlutufi.
Bradford & Co. Of Bennington ar,
in trolble about the insurance on thei
mill, recently blown up and burned, thu
North British, the Mercantile and tn,
Hina companies, in which they he'll pol
ices, refusing to insure against explosions
About SIS 900 of the $50, 900 lost is Oh
5 the stock, and the adjusters say that thi
was destroyed by the explosion. The fire
5 however, ragged for three hours after tn
, explosion, and the companies probabl.
t won't care to 60 to law on the point
: MIR. Sebra Wilcox, of Bakers
field, received an ugly and danger
, Gus wound while in the woods on Friday
Jan Goth. 1t seems that he went on Il
: the mountain in the morning alone, ant
, Will. 10 the act of telling a tree, as /
! was about to fall he looked up tow ard
the top to see in what direction it woIl'
, fall, and dry limb fen from the top
: one end struck him in the right eye; AM
bad wound and much pain is the result
Something over Il year ago Jonathan
Cummings, Of the Shaker Society at En-
field, lost $500 ut the house Of l.. I
Brooks in Sharon, VT, which be had col
iected for the Shakers for grain, seeds
broons, etc. Suspicion fell upon Brook
as being the party who took the money
as he and Cummings slept together, Th
= Shakers failed to get an Indictment againS
him before the Grand Jury, and the'
commenced civil action for the recover,
Of the money. At the last term Of lh
Windsor County Court "a verdict was ren
dered against Brooks for the amount Q
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