Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-09-03
Of 40 rods, and wallng up the banks, at a
80, - 49,. Q non


fish given him for food as cat does with q
mouse, but be makes lots Of trouble Wy es-
Gaping and always taking bee line in the
direction Of the nearest salt water whenever
he can.
A correspondent at Fletcher says The
hay crop on the river farms proved extremely
light. Oats shelled some in the field, and
wheat is badly grown in consequence Of the
great rains on the 10Th and 22d ult.
st Adams too, has scandal the charge
being that II. II. Hoyt has been too intimate
with his nearest neighbor, the widow Of the
late Julian II. Dewey, but both deny the
stories, aud as the source Of them is known,
suits for black-mail are to be begun at once.
The recently discovered gold and copper
mine at Berkshire, which, has been bought
by w. W. Chapman, Of Newburyport (Mass.)
mining fame, bids fair to prove bonanza
indeed, the ore being easily taken out and
yielding 500 of gold to the ton aud 30 per
cent of copper,--ten times the average Of
the latter 10 the most famous mines and four
aud half of the former.
Victoria G. Woodruff ectured at st Al
bans, Friday evening. The Advertiser says
the lecture was able and the speaker at
times eloquent holding her audience per-
iectly to the close.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
Isle La Mott is deriving quite a benefit
from the construction of the Brooklyn bridge,
the abutment stone being quarried and
dressed there. They are taken from Henry
Hills quarry and the work gives employ
ment to some 90 men.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Harry Leslie, gives a tight rope perform
nnce at Morrsvile, on each Of the two after
moons of the fair.
A. d. Halls barn, of EImore, was burned
with its contents, Tuesday morning.
ORANGE COUNTY.
DIR w. ii. Howard, the somewhat cele-
brated English physician of West Fairlee,
has left for parts unknown, taking his best
horses and carriage and leaving many debts,
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The Congregational church at Barton
Landing is to have pipe organ.
CD. Ware, of Coventry, has this season,
taken from single swarm of bees y pounds
of nice honey, all in small glass boxes.
Isaac McCary, of Albany, sent 1000
dozen of eggs to Boston market in four days,
all brought in to him in single week.
A horse barn belonging to VIM Ryan, of
North Jay, was burned Oh the morning Of
the 9th ult cause Of fire unknown. In
sured for $3.50.
Prof Allen is to make balloon ascension
from Barton fair ground, on the day Of the
races, September IL.
Jack Kendall came near losing his steam
mill again at West Newport, by fire, one
night last week so near that the light Of it
aroused a neighbor
Reuben Niles, of Newport Center, lost q
barn by fire, last week, and Mrs Norris lost
her house Friday night by incendiarism ill.,
sured
A little son Of L. Grow, Of Bloomington
went into the pasture last week to catch q
horse when he was kicked in the face smash
ing the skull over the right eye aud breaking
off FIVE teeth. The boy is doing we'll and
will probably recover.
A Barton Landing correspondent says
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numbering than usual during the coming win
ter. Business is increasing, and the prospect
for large fall trade is very encouraging.
A military company was organized al
Barton, last week, with the following Of
6cers: Captain, Julius Rice; First Lieut.
Scion II. Preston; Second Lieut., james
Cassidy.
John King, Of Greensboro, had hemIock
silver taken from his hand where it has been
four weeks 1t was fve.cighths of an inch
in length and ono-fourth inch wide.
The School Girls Association, of Yves
Derby, propose to print paper to be callec
the School Girls Annual, the FIRST number
to appear September II. The editors arr
Ann Child White, Greenfield, Ind; Elzi
f Blake Sleeper, Newport Center; and Cair
Sas Moon, West Derby.
Last week as D, II. Newton, of Lowell
was cutting brush, his ak glanced, cutting .
deep cash in the leg below the knee. Tn
next day while engaged in the same bust
ness the AK glanced the other way, splttin
the knee.pan of the other leg. Mr. Newto
will repair before the next surgical operation
, Monitor.
Mrs S. +. Collier, Of Greensboro, has
q prckly pear which has been in bloom 70
some time past in all it has yielded twenty
three blossoms. This plant belongs to tn
cactus family, and only blooms at rare inter
walls. The flower is very delicate, resemblin,
wax, the leaves of which are so Transparent
that the finest print can easily be rea
through them. The flower is some fou
! inches across, leaves bright straw colo
petals orange aud very numerous.
Sunday morning, August %, Jonatho
e Brown, Of Craltsbury, called his wife u
stairs and told her he had taken porto
of morphine, sufficient to limit his time o
earth. OF course she was greatly shocke'
aud did all she could to have him take som
a thing to counterfeit the poison, but he utter
refused to 10 so aud before other help a
rived it was too late. lie was man !
years old, in good circumstances financial
~ with no family but wife and one son wi
is about %, and lives at home.
10 Captain Fogg, of Newport, commands
D Gus accident last Tuesday, while in the lii
L. of duty. In assisting in pushing the bo
&c off from the pier at Perkins wharf, a pc
which he held in his hand broke, and he ie
k, striking his head on the wharf, and fro
err there into the water. He sank, and not ri
ID ing 10 the surface, the deck hands dove
n the bottom aud brought him up in an insen
lie bic condition 1t was found that the blC
is which he received when he struck the wha
cut his forehead and nose severely aud re
IN dered him inseusible. He was taken
We board the boat and remained unconscio
ne for some time, but finally recovered and
IN now getting over his injuries Monitor.
ro WASHINGTON COUNTY,
,r The barn and woodshed Of j. NJ. You
of Wocott, were destroyed by fire last \
day night. Insured for 1925.