Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-03-11
STATE News.

dwelling house and a large quah''y q
furniture and provisions.
The sum of eight thousand dollars
has been raised during the past week Tor
the new Odd Fellows Hall at st. johns
buny. They want fifteen thousand dollars
MARX French. of Montpelier sen
fenced to nine months imprisonment at
the u. s. Distrie, CoGrt at Windsor, in
July last, for smuggling. has been par
doued by the President.
Suits have been brought against the
town Of Montpelier to the extent OF $780,
600 for damages sustained in consequence
Of detective highways.
They say that the rumsellers OF 81.
Johusbury. have been SO scared by the
recent liquor raids that you can't get any
thing TO drink in that town, at all.
AN I%rasburg lover took a tide with
his lady. the other day, but she was thrown
from the sleigh and her hip was broken
The gallant and affectiOnate young man
gave the crippled beauty to somebody
else to carry home, while he pursued his
travels.
Sally Bailey. over so ysars old, who
recently died at Fletcher, had a piece OF
continental scrip which was Issued Oh the
18th of February, 1T76. and represented
one third of a dollar. 1t bore a motto,
" Mind your own business evidently
meant for Geo. Ill.
There is a scarlet-fever epidemic at
Burlington, the St. Joseph orphan asylum
alone having 80 cases,
Augustus Sanborn FIST. Johnsbury has
sold a patent on a swivel pillow oil his ID
%vention TO "A Massachusetts company, Of
which +. L. Holbrook il a partner, retain
ing a royalty on all ploss sold. The
manufacture of the Holbrook pillow will
cease, the Sanbolu taking its place.
The unusual interest in the W
meeting at Rutland on Tuesday manifest
ed in the large vote polIed, 800 more than
last year. The citizens ticket was elected
over the temperance candidates. and the
solectmen are w. Gilmore, j. A. Sheldon
and II. Hayward. At St. Adams. l.. II.
Boynton, j. w. Newton and g. b. Swift,
republicans, we're elected selectmen. At
Montpelier, the citizens ticket was elect
cd over the temperance ticket.
There arc two sisters who have lived
within six miles Of each other, near Ben
nington, for 80 years and yet have not
seen each other in this time, though there
is no ill-feellng between them, they are
simply "odd."
Huntington and franklin have elect
ed women as superintendent of schools.
Rufus l.. Barney of Burlington left
by his will $40, 600 to the town of Swan
ton, $500 TO the home at Burlington, and
the remainder of his property, some $40,
900 to relatives and friends.
Newport boasts of a young married
woman who recently split a cord and a
half of wood in one day, besides doing a
large amount Of washing, ironing, etc.
Paige & Tolhurst of the Bates house
in Rutland closed their bar, the other day.
aud the women thanked them for it at
their ppblic meeting but it is whispered
hat there is plenty of rum for sale one
story above che bar.room
The ice is moving out of the Wiuoos.
XII, and the water was never known so
high before at this season of the year.
The entire interyale is flooded, not even a
fence car be seen
Old maple sugar in a new dress may
be seen in the store windows al St. Adams.
Tho name OF the Il. h. station here
tofore Known as East Georgia has been
changed to North Georgia.
Hiram Barton, Esq, has served the
town of SALISBURY 40 years as town clerk,
and on Tuesday Of last week received his
fttieth election.
All the old Bibles that we have spo.
ken of are beaten by QUO owned by Rev
II. CardiraI, a leading Catholic clergy
man of the Dioccs of burlington, it hay-
ing been printed at Lyons. France, in
1869, 1t is not versed, aud is in Latin.
The Frontier Grange at West Berk-
shire has just received a ear load of corn
from Des Moines, Iowa, but, owing to un-
expected charges for freight, the cost is
somewhat above the price for corn at
Richtord and Enosburg Falls.
--Fran;is Gogeau, of Colchester, has
brought suit against the town Of Milton,
claiming in damages the snm OF $40. COO,
for injuries sustained in September last
from alleged insufhclency of the highway.
Tho town will contest the suit.
As Mrs. Robert Boyce, of Worces.
ter, was taking a kettle OF hot soap from
the stove, on Tuesday Of last week, she
broke through the kitchen floor, and the
boiling soap flew over her, badly burning
her face one arm, and limbs.
The latest nomination for Governor.
is hat of Horatio N. Bull, the famous
wood-chuck bill man, of Hancock.
"A Roxbury man, named Mcmahon,
attempted to get>on the day express train
East on Wednesday, as it was going out
the depot at Montpelier, and was terri.
bly, crushed by being rolled between the
car and depot, falling to the ground as
as the car had passed. His ribs
were all broken, besides other injuries,
ard he lived but a few hours.
IN. d. Kidder, of Fairfax, has two
imported COWS from which be has made 10
niue days, besides selling Is quarts Of
milk aud feeding two calves, 16 pounds of
He also has a helfer one year