The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-03-04

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wfy Tbe woand IL dtngsrous onr,
tat hopes are entertained that Il viii uoi
prove fatal
Atheus has dneoa cases u dlp.hefia,
aad other towa, in Niaahsm county are
complaining q tic iHaaeura, icyers and
mninps
Two Ilatawiek cows in aghi recently
gog their horns 20 interlocked as TO neces.
,itate saving ofI one Of ,beln before they
could be separated,
Sickness has prevailed 81 Roadsboro
City aud south Rcadsboro, with a fatality
seldom cqnalied. some over - deaths
since the Isl Of October. all irom dlpthc-
rla excepting two OF three.
The factory Of the Bricktord knitting
machine company AZ Braltleboro, is loca.
ted about mite from the village is four
stories high, and the construction Of the
whole building is Of the most thorough
character, being 100 feet deep by 90 wide
The machinery Is Of the most improved
patterns, aud none bat skilled mechanics
are to be employed Already, some Of
the kuitiers are Ia operation. One OF the
machines win knit 10000 stitches, or p
inches perfect work, per minute, and a
child is easily laugh 40 run one. II Isl
proposed to manufacture six different
sizcs, those OF 81, l0S aud 100 needles
being mos, IN demand for family use.
Oren Shipnau, who was recently &C.
euscd OF cheating the Dawn Naloour com
mnuily, which obtained their lands OF
him, publishes a card denying the charge
aud asserting that it was made by j, Il
Lppjt, alias J Il. Smith, who, he says, is
a villain aud broken-dowu merehanIwho
has 1ed from bis creditors to be wntered
By tbe community,
Charles Olmstead. ticket agent at lhe
Rutland depot, acting as local paymaster
OF The Central Vermont railroad, pays
out about SIS, 900 per month, on the aver
age to the employees looted at that point.
The Chabb's large three story fish pole
factory Of Post Mills, together with an
extension table building, Que house and
covered bridge, were burned Friday eve
ming OF last week, about ten o'clock -
Chubb's loss is estimate at $50 900, with
insurance OF $1,000,
The sons aud daughters OF Vermont,
in Worcester, Mass, have met aud voted
TO hold reunion in that city, March 2nd,
and twenty gentlemen have guaranteed
to make good the receipts and expendi-
lures. The entertainment will consist Of
speaking, singing, tableaux, and an old
fashioned Kitchen dance. None but Yer
monters either by birth or marriage will
be admitted, as il is intended to make the
affair exclusively Vermont" but an in.
vitation is to be extended to all natives of
Vermont now living In Worcester county.
Bakershelds Oldest Inhabitants are Al
exunder Bonner, nearly l02 years OF age,
and still quite active, Benjamin Upton, a
native of New Salem, Mass, who will be
100 in March, and Dea. Asa Dean, who
is in his g8th year and has lived in Bakers
field since the age of q,
Bronsons, Weston, Greene II Co.'S dry
house and $4,000 feet of lumber were
burned at Burlington, Wednesday of las
week; loss $40, 900, insured for $500
The population of Burlington is esti-
mated at between seventeen and eighteen
thousand.
Monitor tells good story OF how John
Falker Of Barton discovered that kerosene
would kill lice on cattle, He had calf
covered with them and one night he took
bossy into the yard and saturated him
from head to foot with the explosive ma
teria. Passing light around the ami
NAL by way Of examination, was about
to say DWELL done, "but, before be got his
mouth off the calf rubbed against the lamp
and that is the last John remembers for a
minute. When he came down out Of the
air he was miuus a head of hair, and
bossy was running around the yard look
Ing for the lice and its former covering.
Neither of these were ever found, but
on the next day bossy lost courage and
gave up the ghost. Falker thinks he has
hit upon the right material to kill lice,
but recommends caution in its applica-
ton.
Old "BnIy Barlow" the Morgan horse
that Cen Stannsrd rode during the "'un-
plessantness' with the Southern States,
and for few years past owned and kept
by Henry II. Seeger, in Milton, passed
ia his checks the other day aud started
for tie land where Societies for the pre-
yenuon Of cruelty to animals" are not re-