Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-11-12

Inc Boston and MONTREAL airline UtalD
over tho Passumpsic aud Southeastern roads
has been discontinued.
The Central Vermont railroad officials
have determined upon running special but
ter train to Boston, during the winter and
spring, upon the same plan as the special
butter trains OF refrigerator cars which run
during the summer. The train will cover
the Ogdeusburg and Lake Champlain, and
Rutland roads.
Many people are this winter exchanging
coal stoves for wood stoves, wood being the
cheapest. o.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The starch factory in Walden belonging
TO j. b. Rogers, was destroyed by FIRE last
week. Loss $1,000; insured for 81 900.
There are not as many cattle driven from
northeastern Vermont to market, this fall,
as in previous years. ......
Perry Porter has bought Of j, Trull
nice building lot at West Burke, and in
tends erecting set of buildings in the spring.
Aaron Twombly of Barton has bought the
Weeks house and Store at Lyndonville, aud
moved down.
Dana A. Locke, an snterprising young
farmer of Irasburgh, has furpished a starch
factory with eighteen bushels Of potatoes this
season.
Charles Morgan of Rochester, Windsor
county, the old hop dealer closed his hop
gathering in Burke and vicinity last Satur-
day. In Burke he has bought eighteen
bales, 1852 pounds /; Sutton, eleven bales,
1910 pounds; Newark, seventy seven bales,
l4,l43 pounds; in all 106 bales. He
bought the first half September %; the
last half November aud g. Those who
held on for a rise got interest six weeks
lover the Lefty. Early sales average the
best. All sold for ten cents this year; last
year he bought seventy-one bales in the same
territory at thirty cents. aftE
CHTTTENDEN COUNTY.
A large butcher-knife was found in the
nav of 200 pound halibut at Burlington,
the other day.
Burlington has a 6rst.class scandal in.
dicating Enlightened" people.
The morning daily Sentinel has suspended,
leaving the Free Press and Times the only
morning daily in Vermont, north of Rutland
The Burlington and Lamole railroad
ONcI lnO w luOOohl IlNCif nulOh 10
now practically completed, is said to be the
finest wooden bridge in the state, and it GER!
tainly shows thorough work in every respect.
1t is single span, the length between the
abutments being 1870 feet; the abutments
which are of massive size, are of brick, on a
stone foundation, and tower forty feet above
the river; and the railroad bridge is some
twenty feet higher than that intended for
highway travel below it. The bridge con-
tains some thirty-6ve tons of iron aud one
hundred and forty Of wood, making the total
weight lis tons. 1t is estimated that il
would sustain load fourteen times as heavy
as would ordinarily pass over it, and six
times as heavy as could possibly be crowded
upon it. The material is the best Georgia
and Ottawa pine, and there is no inferior
timber used in its construction. The builder
is Mr. f. l.. Underwood of st Johnsbury
who is entitled to great deal of credit fol
the thorough and workman.like manner il
which the bridge has been built. The iror
angle blocks, OF which there are some tel
tons in the bridge, we're cast by Brink q
Co, of this city, and the rest of the iroI
work came from abroad. Mr. Underwood j
now at work on the trestle work at the end
Of the bridge, and expects to complete it il
about three weeks.-Free Press.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Capt G. H. Reynolds Of st Adams ha
purchased the splendid farm of Hon Il. h
Smallsy in Swanton, and will take possessio
next spring. The price is not stated, br
the farm consists of $50 acres of as hant
some land as there is in Vermont.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
DR. A. j. Baldwin's house at North Wo
colt was burned Saturday night. Only
small part Of tho goods saved. lnsuranC
light.
State Superintendent Conant finds that I
two school districts in Vershire, supportin
schools the same length OF time, the scho
taxes IN one were four times as large as
the other.
90 A little, dirty nuisance pretending to s.
ver.plate old ware is stroling about I
country perpetrating small, dirty Villains
and cheating on a small scale. He may
known by little creased hair parted in Il
middle, is green looking, good subject f
the whpping-pOst, if We had one.
The following officers of Guiding 81
Lodge l. o. of G. T., East Randolph, w
duly installed November 9th, by Deputy
Hanks:
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Mo- X. Banister.
The lodge is in good working cOndit
and check to evil doors.
2Oyears old daughter of James j PIT
Braintree farmer, was knocked senselt
Saturday night, by an unknown man who
tered the house while her parents were
sent, and attempted an outrage, but her III
brother ran for a neighbOr, and the will
left.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
At crystal wedding at Newport CeI
a young man snapped a gun, which pro
to be loaded, towards door that he I
posed some persons were holding, The h
mer caught at hafcock and saved at i
one lite.
The two burglars who broke open the &
at North Troy last summer are serVin
seven years apprenticeship under the u
dian government, for stealing.
Monday morning, when the train
Newport over the Southeastern
reached Newport Center, it was aseerta
that there was no conductor aboard, and
train had to go back to Newport aftel
missing official. There is now only tra
day, each way, over the Southeastern,
that runs 10 the night. .....
Thomas Farrant, gardener, Of Newpo
about making visit to his old home in
land. He sails from Boston in few
James b. Cassidy of Barton has 5
for ireland, where he expects to spenC
winter with some uncles he has never Sc