Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-07-23

This is probably the FIRST railroad tax ever
paid IN Vermont HB fNN
A flock of hens in Fairhaven have been
fed so much on raw meat that they kill and
eat all the young chickens that come among
them.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The controller of the currency having
been advised of the robbery Of $1,000 in un.
signed notes from the Barre national bank
on the evening Of July O, and requested not
to redeem them, the United States treasurer
has given notice that no additional notes OF
the denominations Of $40 and $50 will be
issued to the bank and that all notes out
standing of these denominations shall be re-
turned.
Mrs. Nina Gregory Slayton, of Chicago,
daughter of Hoo. John Gregory of North
field, is making 6ne reputation for herself
as public reader in the West. Last win
ter she gave over twenty readings in the
city Of Chicago. Two evenings 10 succession
she appeared on the stage, with Mrs. Scott
Siddons, aud was regarded by the greater
part of the audience as that lady's superior.
She is one OF the best If not the very best
readers in the West.
One of the unsigned notes stolen from the
First national bank at Barre was detected
at the redemption bureau in Washington,
having been received from Brooklyn bank.
The signatures of the bank officers had been
affixed, though they have no resemblance to
the genuine.
In Waltou's Vermont Register in the sta
tistics for Waterbury, the Vermont Reform
School is named as one Of the literary insti-
buttons Of that town.
The new Pavilion at Montpelier is to be
as fine looking a hotel as there is in the
state.
The Barre bank has presented $50 to
Sheriff Bailey Of Wells River, in recogni-
ton Of his services in capturing Alphonsos.
For safer keeping, the Barre bank robber
is to be transferred from the Montpelier jail
to the state prison.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Miss Clara Whitney, of Westminster, %
years old, broke her thigh while alighting
from carriage the other night, making the
thirteenth time she has broken that bone
within the past Ii years.
The post.office at Bellows Falls has been
designated as an international Canadian
money order office.
Vice-President Henry Wilson is to deliv-
er an Grafton at the soldiers reunion at
Brattleboro, Aug. lS, 10, and 20.
A gold watch was lost and advertised in
BrattIeboro two weeks ago. A man and
wife called last week at the residence Of the
owner, having the watch. They had kept it
two weeks knowing of the advertisement,
but waiting for an offer of big reward.
When offered $40 for its return, the man
was satisfied but the woman wanted more
for her honesty in returning it
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Noah Shepard, of Hartland, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his barn,
Thursday.
Mr.. j. A. II. Ellis, Superintendent Of the
Springfield Industrial Works has demon
strated the fact that dry hard wood, saw
dust and boiled linseed oil, mixed together
and left in heaps, will, in few hours be-
come charred aud soon ignite and burn.
Robert and Henry Britton, of Hartland,
have 80 acre corn field, probably the
largest in the state.
A Ludlow dog,--a big black fellow with
a bob.tail,-th other day, went over TO
Plymouth and got up iirst-class bear.scare.
Some 40 men armed with guns and protected
by dogs turned out, and hunted the sup
posed bear. Poor Tray escaped with his
life, but took bullet home with him.
Gay brothers and Il. b. Kimbal are
building a hutton factory at Gaysville, which
will give employment to 30 or 100 hands.
During heavy thunder storm at Hart
land, one night last week, family were
suddenly seized with an idea that their house
was in danger, whereupOn they left it. They
had not gone a dozen rods when the building
was struck by lightning and demolished.
EASTERN TowNsHIPs, p. q.
Senator Cochrane, of Compton, has re.
Gently sold COW seven months old to a Mr. :.
Murphy, of Michigan, for $4,000.
The, new Eastern Townships bank build.
ing at Sherbrooke is being pushed forward
rapidly.
There are fifteen male and one female
prisoner in the district Jail at Snerbrooke,
aud fifteen boys in tho retormatory school.
There came near being serious accident
on the South Eastern railway last We1nes-
day morning. The locomotive of the Mon
treal aud New York express coming this
way, near St. Johns. "clmb" rail and was
thrown off the track and the whole train
wrecked There were only five or six pas
sengers aboard and no one was seriously
hurt.
The Masons and the military company to
which he belonged have erected $3.50 mon
ument to the memory of Capt. Robert Mau-
son, of Mansonvlle, who was killed by the
accident on the South Eastern last fall.