Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08


pass. Trial by jury. Verdict for plil., 500.
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cuITTENDEN COUNTY.
Dedication Of the new Advent church at
Hinesburgh will take place jan 10.
On the evening Of the 18th John Fay and
wife, of Wiliston, were invited out to sup
per, and while there received message
that they were wanted at home. Arried at
home they found to their surprise that their
house was we'll filled with friends who had
brought with them plentiful supply Of tin
ware. Among the presents were tin horn
which l should Judge from its size might
have been Gabriols trumpet, beautiful
music stand which must have been quite ex-
pensivc, pair Of hinge tin cuffs, complete
tin chamber SET and "othcr articles too uu-
merous to mention" The festivities lasted
until late hour, and the happy stceds soon
whirled away the noisy guests who left
nothing but their glittering presents and
best wishes. A GUEST.
The following report has been received
from Mr.. Ashley, director Of the Milton
Falls cheese factory; Average number Of
cows, l44 pounds Of milk manufactured
$40, 81; pounds of cheese made, 34,34l
Amount paid patrons 1886, ITO average net
price per pound to patrons lit cents Mil
ler's heater is used 10 the factory, 10 cords
of soft wood was used which cost the factory
S35. They use home renuets and purS Ash
ton dairy salt.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Smith w Gilman a. Co. s saw mill and tub
shop at Montgomery were burned on the
morning of the 3lst, together with the grist
mill OF J ohm Comstock aud the furniture and
carriage shop Of Wilbur Il Hall. No insur-
ance.
The Hayward House with outbuidings,
Methodist and Congregational churches, and
Frank Deals house aud a tenement house
owned by q. Q. Burton, at st. Adams Bay,
were burned Friday morning. Hayward's
loss Is $4,000 insured for $1,000. Frank
Deal, loss $4,000, insurance policy just ex-
PRED. Methodist church $4,000 no insur-
ance. Congregational church, $500; in
surauce Just expired. G.. G. Burton, $1,000,
probably Insured. A boarder at the hotel
lost 5000. Burtons two tenements were oc-
cupied by two French families, whose loss
was slight.
A young man Of rare accomplishments,
graceful attractions, aud high promise, was
lost to the profession of journalism in the
death of William II. Whiting at st. Adams
Tuesday. Mr.. Whiting was a graduate OF
Amherst college, class of GA, and theuceior.
ward until 1869 partner aud co-editor with
his father, MIR. Z. b. Whiting in the con-
duct of the St. Adams Messenger. Then his
health, attacked by a serious hemorrhage of
the lungs in 1858, began to fail, and since
then his life has been desperate battle with
consumption, now ended ere he had compile.
ted his 32d year.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
George A. Darby, mail carrier between
Alburgh aud North Hero, drowned a horse,
crossing on the ice to North Hero, on Tues
day, the 29th. There were two men ahead
Of the horse trying the ice, when the horse
suddenly broke through and went to tho bot
tom, taking the wagon with him. Mr..
Darby ,saved himself by jumping from the
wagon. The loss is severely felt by Mr.
Darby, as it was his only horse.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Rev. Henry Walbridge went to Stowe
instead of Barre, as reported few weeks
ago iu the FARMER, to preach, commencing
the FIRST of January.
The family Of r. w. Mcfarland are suf
fcriug under great fflactious. Last week
was recorded in the FARMER the death OF hi,
mother, Mrs. Nathan Mcfarland. The day
after her funeral his youngest child died o
canker.rash and before sne was buried Mr.
Mcfarland himself Was taken sick aud nov
lies dangerously i'll. The family have The
sympathy Of the entire community.
oRASGE COUNTY.
They have good lyceum at North Tun
bridge.
j. NJ. Jones, Tunbridge, has bought of Y
G.. Whitney pair Of oxen weighing 40O(
pounds, for s240.
j. II. Merrill, of Chelsea, kept 80 hen
the past year from which no received 49,
dozens of eggs, and raised 40 chickens. Pref
ty good showing.
John Allen has been convicted by the Or
ango County court for burglarizing Tewks
bury Il Sous store OF West Randolph Feb
22d, 1874, and sentenced to eight years i'm
prisonment.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
There have been but seven deaths in lras
burgh the past year.
j. Il. Calderwood, of Greensboro, lost q
valuable COW few days ago from some IN
known cause.
d. NJ. Camp, of Newport, will deliver tn
first lecture of the course at Barton Landin
sometime next week.
n. & J. Il. Chase, Jay, have bought tn
blacksmith shop and village lot OF A. Il
Chase, who goes TO Troy.
Some of |. A. Wyman's hens, of Brown
ington, strayed of the other night, but wer
found in a neighbor's henhousc.
The Bloomington Patrons have just ri
ceived a car load Of white winter wheat an
are getting it ground at Derby and Cover
: try.
Mr.. Couaut, state superintendent @
schools, gave a very interesting address
= the people Of Greensboro Monday evenln
+ on educational matters.
A son of George Going Of Bloomington
= was severely injured Friday, Jan. |, b
jumping on n stub which entered his bod
i near the lower part of the bowels.
= Rev. b. NJ. Tillotson lectured at Glover
last Friday, and the Monitor says the lectur
= would compare favorably with those Of man
1 Of our so-called popular lecturers"
The next quarterly convention of tn
y Vermont State Spiritualists' Assoeiatio
will be holden at Glover on Friday, Satul
day, aud Sunday, January Ia, Is, u II.
: Rev. d. NJ. Tillotsou, of St. Johnsbur
y will give public address at the Jason
Hall, at Newport, next Wednesday evenin
. The public generally are invited to attend.