Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-07
State News.

The demand for copies of the first report
of the board of agriculture has exhausted
the stock we had on hand. Don't send any
more money here to pay postage on them.
At Saturdays session of the Vermont
Methodist Episcopal conference at Bellows
Falls, it was voted to raise an endowmen mt
fund Of $4,000 for the Vermont Methodist
seminary.
The talked-of Fourth of July celebration
at Lyndonville grove is decided upon. As
the fourth comes on Sunday the celebration
will be on Saturday. All working men and
everybody else are invited to join and make
il general celebration. The Pass. aud r.
4 o. railroads will carry for half fare, aud
an extra train will be run from st. Johns
bury, and possibly from Wells River.
Further notice will be given.
ADDISON COUNTY.
r. j. Varney, of Lincoln, has made 1900
pounds of sugar from 400 trees.
A dwelling house in Granville owned by
Linus X. Prouty was burned last week
Thursday. Loss $4,000; insured.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Vincent Growers drug store at Man ches-
ter was damaged $500 worth by fire, Mon
day.
Mrs. Peters of Bennington was awakened,
Saturday night, by finding man trying to
steal some money from under her pillow, but
she frightened him off before he got it, and
in his haste he left one of his boots, which
identified him as John Higgins, former
boarder of hers, and he is now in Jail.
We find this in the Bennington CORES.
pondcnce of the Free Press -" Cough said
in his lecture here last week Bennington
is lovely place. 1t reminds me Of the
beauties Of Switzerland. Imagine it without
a rumshop.' That would be the most vio-
lent hypothesis that Bennington people ever
wrestled withal, for we have ninety.one, by
actual count"
A subscriber who lives in the town OF
Peru complains that when he applied to his
town representative for copy of the forth
coming report of the board of agriculture
the representative told him he had none yet
and when they did come there would be none
for him. Our correspondent says his only
offense is that he did not vote for the present
representative in the election LAST fall. L;
there another representative in Vermont who
will show himself as contemptibly mean?
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Isaac Pearl, Of Sh efIield, lost good horse
last Saturday.
The sugar house and contents belonging
to II. Giffn's estate in Charleston was burn
ed last week.
Last Sunday a cat belonging to jane
Drown, Sheffield bit Drown on the hanC
it commenced to swell and became very
painful and it is feared it may be fatal.
Sparkling Water Lodge No. 1856, l, o. o
G. T., North Danville, installed their officer
last Saturday evening. Rev. A. ii. Milhkel
is w. @. t. A. W. Milliken w. s., anC
Asa Randall l.. ID.
G. H. q j. NJ. Weeks, Lyndonvillo
have suspended payments. The failures are
not all in st. Johnsbury, after all the FAR
MER has done to "paralyze business in it
own town." Mr.. Stone.
Stephen @. Haynes, of Sheffield, a maj
lightweight years old, says he never EN-
ployed physician. He is now very slim bu
still adheres to the idea that he will g
through this world without the help o
doctors.
Rev. j NJ. Tredrea has severed his con
nection with the M. Il. church at Nortl
Danyille and, the last of June, intends goinI
to the province of Ontario. He will joiI
the Bible Christians, to which sect he be
lOnged in England.
The planning mill of the McIndoes Fall
Lumber Company, a quantity Of lumber
and one dwelling were burned Saturda
night. Deluge engine No. 2 went down iroI
ST. Johnsbury, but arrived too late to rer
der any material assistance. Loss abou
$4,000. The company's mills barely escaE
ed.
The whereabouts of Marcellus l.. Colby
who eloped from West Burke with the min
days bride of Noble Smith, has been ascel
tanned, the Postmaster at Dxville, p. @
writing that they have been living there a