Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-06-09
Vermont state News.

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bed-bug poison. Il is not yet known whether she
will survive.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Tnr dwelling house Of Michael McGuigin, Of
Dorset, was totally destroyed by FIRE Monday
3ist ut
OK last saturday one Mary Youien. female
citizen Of Rupert, whose head Is gray with years
and who isworth probably from three to 1--WE thou
sand dollars In money, left town In the custody Of
collector Bailey for the county Jail in Manchester
She wouldn't pay taxes, aud there she is.
cunrENpnN COUNTY
TIM live people OF Underhill have raised nearly
5000 10 secure the building Of steam SAW mill
at that place
RECENTLY, Fred +, Kipp caught in the Onion
river, In Colchester black sturgeon which
weighed thrtytwo and q half pounds
TnE annual fair Of the Agricultural Society OF
ehittenden county will be held at the Playground
at Essex Junction, September It'll, sth and 9th
TIR Free Press says, that at the last session Of
our State Legislature, charter wns granted to
The Peoples Mutual Fire Insurance COMPANY"
which has already, In quiet way, accumulated
assets 10 such amount as TO safely secure risks
TO almost any extent 1t insures dwellings, mer-
camille and other risks for three or Ave years, at
reasonable and equitable rates
Mn oRHEN SHirNAN requests us to contradict
the statement, which recently went The rounds o.
the press, that he had offered Victoria Woodruff
his estate, and " invited her 10 establish COM
munity Of the right stamp" lie has done moth
ing Of the sort We understand, however, that
the Woodruff recently accepted Mr. Shpman's
general invitation, rs embodied in printed cir
cular addressed to an progressive minds having
tho Christ-spirt' to come To Nalcour and found
community
SHORTLY after the fire in Miss Kcnnc,iy's store.
in Burlington. last Friday, the discovery was made
that the fire had been set in two places in the CUR
ret. This fact with the peculartlcs Of the other
fire. led Miss Kennedy to suspect that it was also
the work Of an incendinry and suspicious were
directed against q Miss Beauregard, who was IA
| her employ When charged with the crime the
girl at first confessed that She set the fire to be re-
yenged upon her employer. She afterwards said
she set il accidentally, and now denies any know-
edge Of it whatever
! PRANK BLACK, Of Darlington committed -u-
| eide on Saturday last by drowning in tine Wi
noosh river Il seems that he was out riding
with his brother and when Just back Of the ggi.t
mill requested him to stop a moment lie then
went directly 10 the river and jumped in Ills
body remained in the water about an hour and a
half before It WIS recovered Il Is supposed that
| the deed was committed ia fit Of insanity, as Mr.
Black had formerly been dennged aud had spent
some time in the Bnttleboro insane asylum. He
was about forty years old, and was in good cir
cumstanoes pecuniary
FRANKLIN COUNTY
HOUSE, belonging to J. B. Cross, at Ilighgate
and occupied by tenant, was burned Friday Of
last week about noon Mr. Cross loss is about
| 800. Insured In the Farmers Mutual for $500
The property belonging to the tenant in the house
was entirely destroyed, the inmates escaping only
with the clothing ON their backs.
A BERKSHIRE correspondent Of the Richford
Sentinel says that Henry Kellogg sometime since,
took his little son, aged seven years out into the
woods, n quarter Of mile from his house, aud
whipped him In the most inhumau manner The
reason for the whipping appears tohaye been that
the little fellow tore leaf from his book at school,
and confessed the truth to his father The boys
screams and the blows inflicted were heard by
neighbor n half mile distant, who went to the
boys rescue
ORANGE COUNTY.
LAST WEEK Monday morning the Rake shop Of
f. Locke & Son, in Brookfeld, came near being
burnt by some rake teeth being too near the stove
pipe. Three thousand rake teeth were burnt
| No insurance.
IlNE Of Manganese has recently been dis
covered on the farm of 5 NJ Field, in Topsham,
and good judges think it valuable find, the
State Geologist pronouncing it very pure There
being but few mines Of this sort in the country
this discovery will doubtless attract large atten-
ton.
Az our building on the premises Of 4. Powers,
Of Chelsea, suddenly burst into flames on Tues
day evening about eight o'clock The rosf Of the
building fell in almost before any one could get
TO IT, The fire then extended to the barn, which
was soon in flames, and from that extended to
the shed which connected the house with the barn,
The people, both strangers and citizens OF the
town. rallied in full force, and by strenuous exer-
tons saved the house
ORLEANS COUNTY.
BAEroS now has a machine-shop
NEWPORT wants to build ten thousand dollar
church.
A wAGoS loaded with half ton Of hay, in Low
ell recently run over Charles stephensons head
and he never winked.
| Nrwrot,r had n hear HINT last Friday Int
brnin understood NAVIGATION hotter than his npr
sners did and so raddled aero-s tho lake and
/ escaped
RUTLAND COUNTY.
ONE Of the Eddy family at Cmttendeni has ac-
| eepted the challenge OF the medium detective
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| PAIR OF hawks over twenty years old was
killed in Brandon, recently The most skilliul
hunters In the vicinity have for long time at
'e"'l'en 70 s"oo' u'eSr n'"N' ou .n'y n''e az,
Why's i'i'ou' Inc H'"'e "l"N n's u''n u''s'Nsu
o@ u,e o"''ie n',sn'o'i''"u' anu n'"9 i'"''uS
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on Friday morning a fire was discovered IN the
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