Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-06

church discovered on Sunday that their silver
communion service, worth about 5000, had
been stolen from closet in the basement Of
the building, and, in consequence, the COM
munion exercises had to be postponed.
Cordeia Lessiur was trying to rescue a
companion whose fingers had been caught in
the machinery Of the Massachusetts, mill Mt
Lowell on Saturday, when her own arm was
torn from her body, and she soon died.
The boot and shoe dealers of Massachu.
sets are in n fever Of excitement over GER
tain prosecutions for alleged violation Of
what is known as the Galahue patent on
peggiug machines. The proprictors ella i'm
royalty of one cent per pair on all DO OTIS
pegged with the machine.
George II. Kingsbury, assistant receiving.
teller Of the National bank Of redemption Of
Boston, of which William ID. Forbes is
president, was arrested, Friday, on charge of
embczsing the banks funds, and, confessing
his crime, he restored about S24 900 in Sc.
curities, which is within $1,000 of the whole
amount he has taken
j. NJ. Husc, the Boston dentist, sued by
N. II. Mayo, brother dentist, on charge Of
putting poison in the latters brandy with
intent to take his life, has been acquitted !;
but Mrs. Mayo is now under indictment for
adultery with Huse, while she has gone to
law to convert $4,000, supposed to belong
to her husband, TO her own use. 10 cap it
all, it is charged that she has been engaged
with several others in an attempt to blast
the character Of her husband, and 4 suit
against her, involving the attachment Of
$4,000 worth OF property belonging to one
Of her confederates, has already begun.
A disastrous forest fire, resulting in the
destruction of many hundred acres of woods,
prevailed on and near Turkey Hill from
Wednesday of last week until Sunday The
conhagration was in the limits of three
towns, Ludlow, CRANKY and Belchertown
\ force Of over % men worked in subduing
the flames until o'clock on Sunday morn
ing, but fresh fires broke out few hour
later. An alarm was given and largc
force of workers turned out from the neigh
boring regions and finally succeeded in over
coming the conAagratioD. The names Of thC
losers are not yet definitely ascertained
, One party in CRANKY lost 400 acres. A
one time there was immediate danger to al
the woods on Facing hills
CONNECTICUT.
William Sheridan, who belongs to re
spectacle family at New Haven, is undc
arrest for the 45th time for robbery anC
other crimes.
The Birmingham shovel company will
. soon erect a new building, and their presen
quarters will be occupied by the Optics
needle company.
I The stockinet mill at Eagevllc, in Gla'
4 tonbury, has stopped work, but the cotto
, mill, which has been running on three-qua
ter time, is now running full time.
n The cattle disease which has been so fata
q in some parts of the state is pronounced b
n DR.. Cressy, Of the Massachusetts agricu
: tural college, to be pleuro-p pneumonia.
= is contagious, aud as likely to rage in wintC
as in summer.
is George II. Mix, formerly of Hartford
s. the young man with large fortune an
abundant spending money who recently rol
IF bed Il. B. Clahiu 4 Co., of New York, o
@ $1,000 worth Of laces, has been sentenced
1t five years in the state prison.
$ The wife of Rev. A. Il. Touon, Of Soutl
n ington, woke on Tuesday morning OF La
week and found a stocking saturated wit
ct chloroform lying on her breast, and at tt
out of the house. Nothing was stolen fro
this house, but several other dwellings To-
valuables.