Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-29

spring.
Samuel Croft, Of Chelsea, is about to put
up barn 60x90, with basement under the
whole.
Warren Bowen, Of West Topsham, has n
pair Of iour.years-old steers that tip the
scales at 1871.
They are TO have new covered bridge
l04 feet long with one new abutment at
South Tunbridgc. Ira Mudgett has contract
ed to build il.
Alfred Norris, Of Vershire, is good
farmer. Ho uses an evaporator and tin
buckets in his sugar place, and what sugar
he has sold has brought IL cents in small
tubs. lie has Dutch bull and two heiiers
from the herd of Mr.. Baker, at Barton.
The town of Washington raises six dollars
on the dollar of grand list, this year, to pay
their debt.---The buildings on the farm
known as tie Bliss farm were burned on the
18th. A. Il. Martin was arrested on sus-
picion Of setting the fire, but was acquitted.
The Commissioner for Orange County has
appointed only four agents, Randolph, Chel-
sea- Topsham, and Bradford. Fifteen towns
have been visited, and several Of the towns
decline TO have an agenty-all agreeing, that
have tried the experiment, that less liquor is
drank where there is no agent.
The grangers at Tunbridgo and Royalton
arc buying flour and corn by the car load ;
also the greater portion of their groceries
are bought at wholesale, thereby saving
large profit which heretofore they have paid
to the merchants they are prospecting fne-
ly, and they think it pays to be a granger.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
d. L. Dwinell has been re-appointed town
liquor agent in Glover.
Il. G.. Carter has been appointed town
agent of Albany in place of Ezra Wilcox,
deceased
The Lady of the lake commenced run
ming on Lake Memphremagog last week
Wednesday.
j. II. Evans has taken the contract to
build the new bridge at Evansville, Brown
ington, for 1000 dollars.
The semi.annual meeting of the Orleans
County Union Sabbath School Convention
will be held at Glover, on Wednesday and
Thursday, June "a and %.
A little child of Alonzo Phillips, of Glow
or, three years old, fell head foremost Into n
tub OF water and was so nearly drowned
that it required great exertion to restore it
to CONSCIOUSNESS.
The sugar house, some 800 buckets, sew
eral holders, two pans and about 200 pounds
of sugar belonging to q. b. Leland, OF
Bloomington, were burned on the night OF
the 18th inst.
The Orleans County Good Tcmplars I'm
ion with hold its next meeting with Clyde
Lodge at Derby Center, June 9th. Public
meeting at O'Clock p. NJ Speakers from
abroad will be present.
Newport is to have bakery, Mr.. Oliver,
of Sweetsburgh, p. O., having purchased q
lot Of Mr.. Beede, near Beede's steam
mill, on which he will at once erect build.
ing for bakery and the manufacture Of
confectionery.
George Reed went to Coventry one day
last week and brought back as many bags
Of suckers as his horse could draw. lie
caught them in the Wheelock brook with
his hands-waded in and threw them out
Monitor.
Between six and seven thousand dollars
have been raised for the purpose Of building
Methodist church at Barton Landing. A
building committee have been appointed who
are to present their plan of the house at o
meeting to be held next Wednesday.
Two Misses Cornell were going from Troy
to Westfeld, Saturday night, the 10th, wher
their horse left the road, and the result was
a tip.over, u smashed buggy, runaway horse
and two very muddy looking girls; but
luckily no bones broken.
Gustavus Fisher, of Glover one morning
not long since, was called upon by a neigh.
Dor to announce the fact that his horse barn
was down. lie found the barn with one end
dropped down some five feet with his horses
all htched in the stalls at an elevation com
mon in threshing machines, though elevated
in the wrong way. With considerable,
difficulty the horses were freed from
the barn without injury from thci
nights tumblc.-ErpreSS.
BY the death Of G. NJ. Ilibbard last Sat
urday the people of Newport lose one o
their best business men and a most esteemed
citizen. For several years his health ha
been somewhat impaired, but he has beer
remarkably constant and dligent in his at.
tention to his business, the manufacture o
boots and shoes, in which he had been en-.
gagged at Newport some three years, going
to the latter place from North Troy. A
the time of his death he employed between
thirty and forty hands, and his employee
and customers all respected him as an homes
man and friend. He leaves wife ant
one child. His funeral was attended a
Newport and his remains taken to Soutl
Troy for burial.
l.. Turgeon, Frcnchman, express agcn
and depot master at North Derby, steppe,
out Tuesday with money that he had takel
for tickets and for freight this month ant
) Sl60. Canada money that he had extracted
from an express package lie sent his key
to Geo. Il. West and left before anythin,
was known to be wrong The express com
pany are after him.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Henry =. Hawkins has been appointeC
postmaster at East Wallingford.
The $50 men employed by the Contra
Vermont railroad at Rutland were pai
S23, 600 last week Thursday.
One hundred and eight thousand head
stones for soldiers graves are being mad
at West Rutland for the general govern
mcnt.
( Mrs. John EIocomb, of Whitelield, N. Y
) who is stopping with her brother in Walling
t ford, was thrown from wagon and her col
lar bone broken on Monday.
: A brakeman who had been drinking care
lessly stepped from the platform of cal
not knowing where he was going, at Ea'
Wallnglord, the other day, and broke LEG
| AT the caucus in Brandon, Saturday, del
cgates to the republican convention wcr
J elected with instructions to vote for N. 4
. Sprague for republican candidate for gov