Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-03-19

lOut Wueu eNeu tne STRONGEST hnti-ktuukoVt-
gans admit that the pressure Of the grange
movement has caused reduction in freights.
Further, be moraliEes upon En- terrible things
which may be doue behind the closed doors
Of the grange or the council. Who knows
what fearful wickedness is perpetrated at
these secret meetings, aud who knows, while
Equality" withholds bis name, but his
teachings may come from tho "fathcr OF
lies" or some Of his obedient servants. We
think if the Phenir and the Record have
undertaken TO prepare the Brattleboro Sow
ereigns and Patrons for their own funeral,
they will need to employ some extra help or
they won't get their corpses ready in season,
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Chester has voted to pay the town officers
$3.50 per day for time actually spent.
Mrs. Moses johnson, of Plymouth, rs
years old, was fatally injured by falling
down stairs, last week.
A communication from Hawks Mountain
Grange was not accompanied by the name OF
the writer. 1t was not printed.
Col. Mead organized lodge of Good
Templars at Sharon last week with 60 mem
bcrS. The Col. is a live man, aud ono ofihe
peoples
The gas company who have been supply
ing Woodstock with light have gone into the
beautiful mysteries Of the law, and the citi-
zens are paying 20 cents gallon for kcro-
sene.
At an administrators auction sale in
Springfield, last week Saturday, four horses
brought respectively, s26, 81. S1.75, 50 /;
decent work harness was sold for 90 cents,
while two-horse traverse sled brought 81.
We have heard Of many freaks of the
wind, but il beats everything up inLDistriot
No. 10, where it entered the school house
aud carried away the school register, taking
1t from the desk, aud also carried off the lad
der belonging to the school house and no
one has been able to 6nd either of them.
Query-What use has the wind for such
things 2-LudlOto Gazette.
The members of Hawks Mountain grange
Perkinsville, have contracted for the build.
ing Of half dozen express and lumber wsg-
ons, Mr.. Ii. ii. Burbank, of Weathers6eld,
being the successful competitor in bidding
for the building of the wood work. They
will purchase the iron through the grange,
aud the blacksmith who is willing to do the
ironing for the lowest cash price will receive
the job
The report of the town officers of Wealth
ers6eld shows the expense Of paupers for the
past year to be s19S4.S6. Amount OF Or
ders drawn by selectmen, S835S.04. Debt
of town, S30,939S7. Expenses of schools
for the past year, s24lO.96. Amount paid
for teachers wages, 1881, at an average Of
81 per week. Twenty-four teachers were
employed whose experience averaged seven
terms each average age, 23 years.
Weston is greatly excited over case Of
inianticide, the victim being a newborn
child Of Clifford Hessliton, which was born
without medical attendance. aud soon died
from wound on tho head. Hessliton is sup.
posed TO be the murderer, as he is now the
father Of five children and has threatened to
kill the next child born to him, although he
protests his Innocence and demands an in.
vestigation.
EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, p. Q.
Compton grants no licenses this year.
John M. Kelley, of Barford, fell dead
while driving wood team, last week Mon
day.
Collins Bartlett, OF Staustead, has bought
house aud lot at Magog and proposes NOV
ing there.
We hear Mr.. Gardiner Sornberger has
bought the widow More's place in Barnstou,
aud is moving on.
Coaticook has between sixty and seventy
streets, and the authorities are about TO put
up painted signs bearing their names.
Lass week Sunday Mr.. Hiel Tyler, of Ay.
ers Flat, ate breakfast as usual, moved back
from the table, lighted his pipe and began to
smoke, and dropped down dead.
An election is coming in Stanstead coun-
ty, and the Waterloo Advertiser has thus
early commenced to throw dirty water on
the present member. What good will that
do?
An agent is at Quebec arranging for gov.
eminent lands near Sherbrooke for 300
French Canadian families of Fall River,
Mass, and vicinity, who Intend to return to
Canada this spring.
Ouc uuy last "eeA hIuur-JcaT-Olu uhuBut'
er of Lyman Tyler, of Ayers Flat, fell down
stairs aud was picked up senseless. They
sent two miles to Massawippi for a doctor
who refused to 60, aud then they sent two
miles further on the same route to East Hat
ley and got DIR. Hetheringtou before there
was anything effectual done for her. At last
accounts she was convalescing.
Some thirty dwellings besides the hotel
are already up on the FARMS estate, Magog.
Teams are busy hauling lumber and bricks
to build the great hotel on the Glbralter
Point. This according to all accounts, Is to
be mammoth building, l40xl00 feet, four
stories high They freight the bricks from
s. Il. Railway depot near Mansonville. 1t
is said the company arc going to put up a
cotton factory by the mill.-JOHrnai.