Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-05-13

600 shingles by the same fire.
The perpetrator of the outrage upon
DR.. Branch, Of ST. Adams, is yet undis-
covered. An additional reward Of ST.
900 has been offered by the town author
tiles for his apprehension aud conviction.
IF Gov. Converse keeps on pardoning
convicted liquor-sellers in Vermont, and
the people of Burlington are kept on short
allowance Of grog, the temperance ques'
ton IL likely to be quite lively in the
next campaign in lhis State.
The most aslnine burglar in Vermont
is James L. BlOdgett, who went through
a store at East Dorset, the other night,
aud stole a new suit of clothes, but lei;
behind his old dpds, which contained q
diary with his name written in it.
Catherine Bills of Burlington aged
thirteen, was accidentally shot in her faith
er's house by Jack Kane, a young man
somewhat intoxicated, who was exhibiting
a gun, loaded with buck shot, to her faith.
cr and herself While pointing it play.
fully at the girl the piece was discharged
and two shot struck her in the right tenn
pie, one in the neck and over the lip, in.
dicting dangerous wounds.
Patrick Calligan, while at work on
Friday morning, May J., slipped and fell
from The bridge at Georgia depot to the
chasm below,a distance of 70 feet,a and was
Instantly killed. He lived at Alburgh
and leaves a wife and one child.
Louis Miner Of Vergonnes, while lying
in a bridge near Mortified, Friday, was
struck by an engine, and seriously, if not
fatally injured. He was knocked from
the bridge, and his arms were broken be.
sides sustaining other severe injuries. Il
is said he was suffering from an epiIeptiC
fit at the time,
The house occupied by Alonzo Reed,
on the road to Randolph Center, was
burned on Wednesday afternoon of last
week, together with the barn and part of
the furniture and household goods. Loss
unknown.
On the night Of the 9th, the barn O
George Brown, in Bakersfield, vas burned,
it is supposed by an incendiary, together
with l3 head Of cattle, 5 sheep, l horse,
I tons of hay, 2 wagons, and IA lot Of
farming tools. Loss estimated at 81, 100,
which is partially covered by insurance il
the Vermont Mutual.
There is an elm 81 years old and
about six feet in diameter at Franklin.
aud the man near whose house it stands
says that when he was a boy he pulled il
up, which made his father SO mad that hi
walloped him with it and then set it out
again.
There is an awful warning to young
men in an accident hat happened OF
Tuesday to A. Il Raokiu ofSt. Johnsbury
a son.in.law of Congressman Poland. lie
was corking a beer bottle by holding the
bottom of the bottle in hishand and press.
ing the cork against u hard surface, when
the bottom burst out, decorating his hand
badly.
In East Fairfield, Tuesday, April
28th, the. the dead body OF Ella Ice, a
girl of about Is or II years of age, was
found few rods from the house, where,
as some of the members of her family say,
she went after some wood. Various the
cries are set forth as to the cause Of her
death, ard foul play is strongly limited at.
Two Brattleboro girls, five and six
years old, the daughters of M. b. Tenney
and b. NJ. Buddington, accidentally shut
themselves into an out-huilding attached
to an unoccupied shop on Thursday. and,
in their fright, jumped from their c%onfnc-
mcut, falling Al feet and striking on the
rocks, thence rolling into the river below.
The older one was drowned, but the
younger escaped with hel life, though
terribly bruised.
We learn that Solomon Norton, of
Huntington, lost, on May 9th, between
Richmond and Huntington, about 5 1900
in money and notes. Soon after leaving
Richmond, where he had been making
some purchases, he thought there had
been some mistake in the change he had
received, so he took out his pocket-hook
and counted his money. He supposes he
returned it to his pocket, but on arriving
home he found it was gone, and as yet
there Is no trace Of it..
-Swanton is having a terrible epidemic
of canker-rash, which in some cases proves
fatal in u few hours.
Elliot Halladay's house and out
buildings at Marlboro were burned on
Friday night, with their contents, and in
endcavoring to save valuables, Mr.. Hal
laday narrowly escaped with his life,
losing his hair and whiskers.
The base for jim Fisk's monument
at Brattleboro, which weighs four CT five
tons, arrived on Friday, and the monu.
ment, having already arrived at Newly DIRK,
will soon be set up at Brattlcboro with
great ceremony.
Moses Huntley Of St. Johnsbury
killed seven crows at one shot, the other
day.
j. M. Russell, of Kirby, has made
$500 pounds of sugar from 800 trees.
Peter Il. Pease of Burlington, late
of Charlotte, has been appointed addi-
tioual route agent on the Rutland line be-
tween Boston and Burlington.
The number of geese in Lake Cham
plain is said to be immense. Their prin-
cipal operation seems to be TO sail about
the lake on floating cakes of ice, but they
keep shy Of the shore.