Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-04-29
State Items.


-Twentw-slx thousand four hundred
bushels of wheat passed through over the
Central Vermont Thursday.
The Burlington covocation of Episco-
paliaus opens a quarterly session Of a
week at Highgate, May 5.
Royal Cummings has bought the inter-
est of T. ii. Hoskins, his partner, in the
Vermont Farmer, published at St. johns.
bury.
o. G. Hale has recovered $500 aud
costs from a local company for damages
caused by the inofhcieucy of tarred roof
ing, made by the ready roofing company,
with which he covered the Avenue house.
A pctriied rattlesnake, SO perfect that
six ~rattles were distinctly visible, was re-
Gently found in u block of marble at Bur
lipg,on.
A fiisky colt at Springfield ran away,
the other day, with a gig, jumped a ten
foot fence aud rolled down u bank SO
feet high, and that was the last Of both
colt and gig.
EXTENSIVE FIRE.--The extensive boot
aud shoe factor Of Calvin Reed & Sop,
at WeStield village, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday night, April l4th. Loss, from
three to four Thousand dollars. Insured
for S14U0.
The Central Vermont Railroad man
agemcnt has recently raised the wages Of
track men to the amount paid them pre-
vious to the reduction made last fall.
Hon. Perley Chandler Jones of Chel-
sea, Orange Counly. died recently, aged
I'd. Lie was a graduate of Amherst Col.
lege, a lawyer By profession, and had been
judge of probate, county clerk. register Of
probate, and several times a me .nber of
the legislature.
"A line Of telegraph is being built be-
tween the Lake Dunmorc House and the
Western Union lines, to connect at Leices.
ter junction. The prospect for a success
full season at this hotel is very encourage
ing, the cottages aud many Of the rooms III
the house being already engaged.
The Californian reports that a school
meeting in South Hardwick, April IL, the
Hon. Alden +. Ju LEVINE gave the lie 10
Mr.. Drenan, landlord Of the hotel, and
after repeating it several times. with o Their
epithets, Mr.. Dranan struck him with his
fist, Early Monday morning Mr.. Jude.
vine had an officer on hand who attached
all Mr.. Drenan's property.
The Waterbury hotel has been leased
by Messrs Dir. Fales, Andrew j. Brown,
Mack &. Kencdy aud @. G. Warren, and
they have put it in charge of Edward
Hayes, the former clerk in the house, and
who kept the Mansfield mountain house in
SO very acceptable a manner last summer.
1t will very soou be opened to the public.
"A brawny elm tree, near the house Of
b. A. Slreeter at Vermont Centre, less
than 100 years old, measures six feet four
inches in diameter, aud is said to be the
largest in the State. An old gentleman
now living in Vermont at the age of 50,
distinctly remembers seeing a load Of lunl-
Der drawn ever the the tree, when a boy,
and seeing the rubbed sapIiug spring back
into place.
BOARD MEErING.-The annual Septem-
Der meeting Of the American Board of
Commissioners Tor Foreign Missions, it is
thought, will be held this year at Rutland,
provided the sum Of fifteen hundred dol.
lars is raised by the citizens of that place.
There is, Of course, no trouble about rails
ing the money. So it appears that this
very important meeting will be held with
10 the borders of our State.
The Baptists at st. Adams wanted 10
raise $4,000 to complete their new meet
inghouse. Mr.. l.. Millls,a large hearted
man, agreed to pay one-quarter Of the sum
if the balance could be raised. OF this
5000, two-thirds was pledged. and there
it rather stuck. Hearing Of this, Hon.
Lawrence Barnes, Of Burlington, tele-
giaphed that rather than have Mr.. Mills
deprived of the opportunity to pay his So,
900 be would contribute the lacking sum
Of like amount. Both Mr.. Mills and be
had before paid literally for the same OBJ.
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