Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-08-27

and his horse was only saved with great ex-
ertions.
The Gary Cummings place, at West Der
by, was bid of, Saturday, By b. b. Field, for
S2,626. The Asahel Hyde place was bid
of ct the same time for 81 1880, by
Thomas Mooney.
Mr. McOaffrey has bought the Oalderwood
farm near South Albany.
Alexander Frasier has bought all the tito
OF G. w. Sanders in the Livingston farm,
at Albany, for about $50 per acre.
Fat hogs are selling in Greensboro at eight
cents per pound live weight butter 20 to 30
cents eggs IL cents.
An aged Scotchman named Mckay, living
about two miles from Derby Line, while
looking for cattle, not long since, lost him
self in a swamp, where he spent the night.
The barn belonging to Mrs Maria Koran,
at East Albany, was struck by lightning on
the evening of the 10th and burned to the
ground, with all the hay that was cut on the
place also geese and turkeys.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Oliver Borden, West Rutland French
man, was beaten by crowd of unknown
Irishmeu, few days since, aud is not ex-
pected to recover.
The roof of the Sherman quarry, at West
Rutland, has begun to fall, aud the work.
men, who fed precipitately when the crack
ing began, do not dare to return.
Gen II. II. Baxter has just completed, in
the upper story OF the Baxter bank, at Rut-
land, ball claimed to be by far the hand
soonest one in Vermont, and one Of the finest
in the country.
Thomas Fisk, of Rutland has sun.Aower
the stock of which is seven feet aud two in-
ches high and the largest leaves two feet
wde while it is Ia inches across one OF the
blossoms.
The Barnes House at West Rutland was
burned on Tuesday with the stable and other
outbuidings Loss $4,000; insured for
5000
Among the heavy individual taxpayers of
Rutland are W. Y. Ripley, 81 1922 II. IL.
Baxter, s6l6 A. g. Bates, 1907 Q. Glenn
ent, $500; j. w. Champion, S346; II. H..
Dyer, S5l4; w. Gilmore, S565, and John
B. Page, S53S.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
DIR Welch has sold his residence in Rox-
bury to William Frink, for 81 900.
Mrs A. w. King of Cabot, has red
monthly rose over six feet in hight, which,
at one time last week had 1876 blossoms.
Joseph Benjamin, of South Woodbury.,
says that he sawed 30 cords Of wood in four
and one-hnlf hours with Gray's machine, and
that he would not take any other machine
as a gift, if he was obliged to run it.
Rev Josiah Smith has been elected presi-
dent of Norwich University at Mortified.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Prof Bristol, the balloonist of Coles cir
Gus, came near being a second Donaldson at
Bellows Falls on Friday. He had gone up
about thousand feet, when he struck a cur
rent of cold air running parallel with the
Connecticut river. Immediately the balloon
began to fall with great rapdity, the crew
meanwhile looking on and expecting to see
him dashed into the Connecticut at a point
where he would go over the falls but as he
neared the stream, the balloon tackled a lit
tie, and, when within twelve feet of the water,
the professor gave leap up the stream far
enough to save himself, and in another sec-
ond the balloon was dashed over the preci-
pice and almost completely wrecked. The
professor succeeded in swimming ashore,
bat in his leap he wrenched one Of his an-
kles from which he suffered considerable
pain. The balloon was fished ashore at u
point below the railroad bridge, but in a very
damaged condition.
| WINDSOR COUNTY.
A correspondent at Woodstock says
1.-The genuine Colorado potato bug is fast
making its progress in this section, aud in
many places 10 this town is quite numerous,
but we do not expect much injury done this
year; although if not at once looked after,
they will nearly destroy our crop another
season. So far l have succeeded in making
them scarce on my place, and as | was the
first to observe them in this section, mean
to be foremost in annihilating them. Lee
every farmer do the same.
At the dedication of the Quechee bridge a
Frenchman who has heretofore taken his di.
version by standing Oh his head on an eight
inch stick of the trestle bridge, at a height
Of 100 to $50 feet, distinguished himself by
standing on his head on top Of a pine tree
that stood on the very brink Of the preci
pice. He first cut the limbs from the tree
with saw, then cut off its top where it was
about four inches in diameter, and placing
his head thereon kicked his heels in the air
at height of 100 feet from the river below
him.
+. w. Blanchard, of Ascutneyville, wa
severely injured Wednesday morning BY
being thrown down and trampled upon by {
fractions COW.
GRAFTON COUNTY, N. II.
} A reader of the FARMER writes from b ath
} that "on Friday last Mr. William Minot sho
bird on the wing which measured two fee
four inches from tip to tip of wings. Iii
neck and bill were II inches long, his leg
were foot long and it weighed just 81
ounces" That's rare bird, sure.
EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, p. q.
Murdoch LcLeod, 20 years old, was kille
on the 18th inst at the Capleton Cope
. Mines, by the falling upon him OF ca
loaded with stone He leaves a Young wife