Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-06-17
State Items.

AlOAI w W 4hNA1 aAS
of the same kind pending against the town.
The grand commandery of tbeKnights
Templar Of Vermont held Its thirty-sec-
ond annual conclave at Burlington on
Tuesday, and Joseph l.. Perkins of St.
Johnsbury was elected grand commander.
COMMITTEES from the Central Yer
mont and the Wells River railroads met
at Montpelier on Tuesday 10 discuss the
question of q connection of the two roads
at that point. the common ownership of
the Central passenger depot and the joint
use of so much of the NO lioes as lies be-
tween Montpelier junction on the Central
and the Coffee House junction on the
Wells River road. Probably the next
step will be the building Of the Barre, or
Montpelier and Wells River road.
Miss Sarah Heath, of Albany, the
young lady who was thrown from a wag.
on on the oath ult., died on the % inst.
from the effects of her wounds. 1t was
hoped for several days that she might re-
cover, but il was not TO be so.
e. E. Woods, of Passumpsic, is, We
believe, the champian postal card writer.
He has beaten his former feat by writing
the declaration of Independence, the ten
commandments, the Lords prayer, the
Odd and 9th Psalms, the second epis;le
of John, and one verse of TIE good old
hymn CORONATION" making in all 2272
words on n postal card.
The Rutland Globe bases the claim
of Col. Joyce TO the succession TO Mr..
Wizards seat upon the ground that "hc
traverscd the state night and day for
weeks, aye months, during the eventful
campaign of 1872" and was then ready
to 90 TO New Hampshire. What heroism,
indeed! Who can doubt that Joyce's eE.
forts g night and day for months" saved
Vermont from going 20, 900 democratic?
Gen Sherman's family will pass the
summer at St. Adams.
us. Maynard, of Bakersfield. has
probably the oldest sheep in town--2O
years old produces from six to ten pounds
of wool every year, aud this spring has a
very nice lamb.
The recent survey Of the railroad
route from Shelburne Falls, Mass, north
to Winhall, to connect with the proposed
Montpelier and Rutland road, has aroused
new enthusiasm 10: the latter, and sub
scriptioDs to its stock promise to open well
on the ODD. The road is to be narrow
gauge.
A new bridge has been built in place
Of the old one across the pond Oh Water
St.. at East Fairfield, which Is a substan
tial and timely improvement, considering
an accident which recently happened to {
teamster while crossing a rotten bridge
there. BY its falling he was precipitateC
into the pond with his horses and load.
"A Hubbardtow1 man says that while
he was cutting the limbs from a tree ovel
the grave of a former resident of the town,
recently, the ghost of the dead man mad,
its appearance and forbade him to 90 oil
with the work, but, after a little arguing,
he disappeared. He went 50 suddenly
that he left his hat, which the story-teller
shows as evidence of the truth of his tale
Eleven jury trials recently cost one
Of the larger counties Sl577, though tLs
amount of the vcrdicts was only S22l.
Col. Albert Clarke of the St. Alban,
Messenger is Il candidate for the Senate
A thorough search has been made il
the cellar Of the house at Rutland where
Mrs. Frecse was murdered. the other day
but none of her valuables could be found,
and the murderer doubtless carried then
off. Thomas Fay Of Philadelphia has
been arrested as the criminal. at Burling,
ton. The seleutmen have offered $1,000
for the capture Of the murderer.
The bridge on the Central Vermont
railroad between Waterbury andDuxbury,
which broke down, last fall, is being re.
built o~fstronger iron. The wooden bridge,
about a mile above this one, il to be
strengthened.
The people along the mail route be.
tween Bethel and Middlcbury, who have
been losing letters for the past three
months, find that Mrs. Fannie A. Jcwett,
wife of the postmaster at Hancock. ha:
been helping herself to any that she
thought might be valuable. Special Agent
Camp Of Boston started for that part of
the country, about a fortnight ago, and
assuming the role Of a railroad conductor
who was taking a vacation, he put into
the mails letters containing marked pieces
of money, aud, having power to open the
mails, he finally traced the robbery TO the
Hancock office. The money Of Mr.. jew.
EFT, the postmaster, was examined, and it
was all right, but his wife was finally in.
duced to produce an old wallet, which
was found to contain four pieces of scrip
that Camp had marked. She confessed
having burned four letters that she had
rltied, aud her tbefts are estimated at
5000 or $500. The post-ofice has been
turned over to one of Jewett's surcties,
but Mrs. Jewett is allowed to live with
her husband for the present, though under
a bond.
Fay, who was arrested as the MUIR
derer OF Mrs. Freese at Rutland, has beep
discharged. and John Z. Phair, who went
to the circus with her on the night she
was murdered, has been taken in charge.
He denies the crime. but tells contradic.
tory stories about his whereabouts at the
time and after the murder. lie has en-.
gagged exGov. Stewart of Middlebury aud
Judge Dunton for counsel.