Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-04-08
STATE News.

Aiiual VI Aaot VIVA ~ Nih-S"S va
miss him.
- Ninslow Brothers store at Fayettc.
vile. the largest 10 the place, was burned
OF Monday Of last week.
Miss Nina L. Gregory, the reader,
daughter of John Gregory of Nortbfold,
was married at Philadelphia on the 10Th
Of March, to Henry A. Slayton of Chicago.
The Montpelier Freeman very hand
somely favors the nomination of Hon.
Lyman G, Hickey Of Chelsa, for l~ieuten-
ant governor.
There are now preparations TO work
tie gold mines at Gaysville on an exten
sive scale. Besides gold there is magnet.
&c iron sand, which Is proved 10 be con-
siderable valuable.
AT the auction sale OF General Stan.
nard's personal property in Burlington. on
Thursday last, Generals gold watch which
cost S5l2, was bid in by Walter A. Weed,
Esq, Of Shelburn, for s25l.
Last Wednesday. at Laconia, N. H.,
Blodgett, the Baltimore wife murderer,
plead guilty to murder 10 the second de-
gree. and was sentenced to thirty years
Imprisonment. He subsequently COM
mitted suicide in his cell.
The poor-house at.Albauy is empty,
and the farm h as been let out ION halves"
The Baptists of the state have raised
sll0,0 600 of u 5000 900 fund for building
an academy.
Bishop De Goesbriand on his recent
return to Burlington from Europe present.
ed to the cathedral an exquisite gold cha
lice that had heen consecrated by the pope
himself, and is consequently very highly
priced.
-Betscy Straw, a Waterbury pauper,
bases her claim to Immortality on the fact
that she has been an inmate Of the poor
house for 33 years, and during this time
she has brought from the cellar and washed
all the potatoes the family have used,
amounting to about 1850 bushels.
Five couples were divorced by the
Rutland county court on All Fools day.
Three men were attempting to draw
the charge in a rock that had failed to ex-
plode at the expected time in Dorset, the
other day, when the thing went off and
they we're all thrown high in the air, but
only one of them was severely hurt, and
he will get well.
"A Freuchman in the employ Of Jon
athan Woodbury., Esq, of Berlin, lief,
Wednesday morning, taking with him
about $1,000 in money. and about the same
amount in notes, belonging to Mr.. Wood
bury. The officers are after him.
Jonathan Northrop of West Danville
was killed at Sherbrook Tuesday morning
being crushed by the Passumpsic train al
it backed into the depot. He was an old
map. and some thought he was in a Fl
wien struck.
"A young man in the employ Of Mr.
Zcnas Myrick, of Brldport, some twenty
four years ago, left one day without Civ,
ing notice, taking with him a gold watch
chain and lockct. belonging to one Of the
daughters, and nothing was heard from
HIM until last fall. when he quietly re-
turned and gave Mrs. Baldwin, tormerl,
Miss Myrick, a gold watch. chain anc
loekct, worth $50, in payment for the on,
he carried away.
One Aseltine, living near Alburgl
Springs, got on IA little time Friday last
and afterwards got upon a horse, hut be
ing too drunk to maintain his equilibrium
he fell off and broke his neck. His moth
or, it is said, will now sue The rum .sellct
for damages. A horses back is a poo,
place for a drunken mao.
Instead ofthere being only II ex
members of Congress from Vermont nov
living, as has been stated by some papers
there are thirteen. The additional name,
are those of Hon. Thomas Bartlett. of Lyn
don, aud Hon Henry f. James, Of Water
bury.
Wright, the Bradford Bank thief
has also been held for trial on The charge
of arson and his bail fixed at $4,000, max
ing in all $40, 900. As be has wealthy
friends his bail can be furnished if the par
ties are disposed to do SO. On Saturday
Wright went to the bank and pointed GU,
upon the books false entries, and confessed
to taking about 1900 since July. 1872
which with the amount taken at the TIN,
he left, makes between $1,000 and SIS. 00f
although upon further investigation the
total may exceed this,
"A Singular accident occurred March
%, in HInsdale, N. H., to John Brooks
of Brattlehoro. lie was thrown from 9
load of hay. and his spine was injured il
such u manner that his whole body is per
fectly paralyzed, his head alone js unin,
jured. He is quite conscious, converses
in~telligently, experiences no pam, but is
dead to all appearances with the cxcep'
ton Of his head.
The following dispatch was recently
sent from a border town Of the state tc
distant friepds:--
X, is falling, tho funeral will DO the 2sth.
The news few in the district where ok
was known, and of course a good many
tears were shed, but the friends thought
it was very unseemingly that arrangements
for the funeral should be made when he
was only failing, )" their agony was re.
lieved. however, by learning that some
blunderer had written "funeral' instead
of auction"
"A South Burlington sport has paid a
court $l4 for leaving his span of horses
in the street from Tuesday noon till Wed.
nesday morning at 7, with nothing to eat,
while he was playing billiards.