Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-01-28
State News.

church have just been flushed at Island
Pond.
The Fairbanks scale works Of ST.
Johnsbury made $50 scales la,t week,
but are yet 800 scales behind their
orders.
Hon G. w. Granley of Vergennes.
NaiUual Bank Inspector, is making visits
to the several banks Of the State.
--lIr. Thomas Lavender. for three
years the popular landlord of the WelIen
House. St. Adams. aud Mrs. Lavender,
celebrated their Silver wedding last Sat-
urday evening.
MIR. Samuel Vance Of Glover, has d
pair OF horses, which he raised and broke
aud has always driven. that are 26 years
old, and ore yet capable of doing good
service.
All the liquor dealers of Island Pond
have been up for second offence. They
plead guilty and paid their fines.
Hon. Thomas Bartlett of Lyndon,
recently delivers! an address on the life o!
Gen Jackson, a, Newport.
--Col Veazsy. the Rutland soldier
lawyer. is mentioned" AS candidate
for the Republican nomination for Gov
ernUr.
The Vermont Dairy-msn's Associa-
ton was 10 session at Essex Junction with
large attendance number Of ladies be.
ing present. This is one Of two Associa.
tons in the country that give special at.
teption to butter, the other being the
Western New York Butter.mal ers' Asso-
citation.
"A Dartmouth College student named
Piper, me: with sad accident at Blanch.
ards Mills. in Gruion, on the 2Olh inst =.
both legs being terribly cut by his falling
across an edging saw.
A bill has been introduced in Con.
gross to relieve Hon. D. d. Wead, Post.
master at Sheldon, from LOSS sustained
recently by robbery Of his Office by bur.
glars.
Geo. Carr of Waterford, who has
been specializing in cattle, etc, has failed
for S35. 900, and his creditor have CON
promised for 10 cents on the dollar.
--Gen. Hopkins of Rutland who grad.
uated at Middlebury College in 1928,
and who was Clerk of the Supreme Court
and the Courts of Rutland county for 80
;ears, died at Rutland on "Wednesday.
He WAS Adju'aut and Inspector-geueral
Of the State Militia from 1888 to | So.
The Vermont Teachers Association
has been in ses i'm at St. Abans. One
OF the subjects oil disc .ssion was the number
Of Normal Schools the State ought to have.
The prevailing sentiment seemed to he that
one is better than larger number, aud
that Vermont would be better of il she
had but one Normal School INSTEAD of
three.
The Vermont Department Of the
Grand Army of the Repablic, ned 1t.
seventh annual cncampmebt at Brattle.
bofo on "Wednesday. There are ~ Posts
in the State. with membership Of 600.
TIE next annual encampment will be held
at Mo,pelier.
Stephen Roberts Of Craflshnry, II
year or Two ago, constructed an artificial
fish pond. stocking it with small trout.
Now he is reaping the fruits Of his invest-
mcnt. some Of the trout reaching several
pounds. in weight.
--Slxty-two' years ago, les, one month,
Mr.. Edmund Sawyer took up bis abode
in S'ocbbridge, and on the Dist day Of
December last, died. aged 92 years. be.
ing the Oldest man in town; and on the
9Th of Jan lust. his companion 10 life
died, aged s6 years.
About four grains of gold was taken
by iierr:ck Woodward FROM the glzzards
Of two Plymouth geese. The yellow
fakes have been submitted to the inspec.
ton Of the jewellers who all agreed that
it was the real stuff. Mr.. W. says that
he found black sand aud quartz with the
gold.
The lighthouse a. Russells aaw mill
at CRANKY was burned Oh the morning of
the Sd. Loss about $4,000 The build.
ing contained 20, 900 cloth boards, which
burned like finder. and it Was only BY
great effort that the lumber in tho mill
yard was saved from the flames.
A man Of Plymouth took run on
foot from that town to Woodstock. l6
miles in two hours and thirty-two minutes,
turning out for or going by thirty teams
On his way.
The Vermont Life Insurance Com
pany held Its filth annual meeting ut Bur-
lus'on on Tuesday. The business of the
past year has been greater than that Of
any previous year, aud the iLcome Of the
Company is "a per cent. greater than 1t
~as in 1872. The Company holds 81 II
in assets to each 81 in liabilities. exclu-
i've Of its $1,000 capital. Russell S.
Taft Was reelected President.
In regard to the Sias Randall liquor
case the Caledonian says Through the
omission IN the original papers, he escapes
ines of thousand or two dollars. Through
else, which VIC will nor name,
but which the reader can. he escapes
The sentence of the justice court But
although he bias escaped the full penalty
his time. this suit cannot have cost hun
css than seven or eight hundred dollars
md it has demonstrated that the temper
,nce law can DO enforced, barring mis-
axes and shutting officials.
"Wednesday Of last week s G. Burn.
lam of Hardwick, was unhitchlng yoke
IT oxen in his yard, rhen he slipped