Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18

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menced business.
Jack Kendall is rebuilding his steam saw
mill at West Newport.
The Irasburgh Methodist society has
purchased a 1886 Estey organ.
Jonathan james, of Troy, twice heard a
bullet whizzing past him the other day.
T.. e. Foster has sold the Union House
at Glover to Chauucey Clark for $4,000.
Joseph L. Blake, of Newport, has been
fined $500 and costs for cudgeling his
horse.
Two brothers formerly Of Newport, mar.
ried sisters last Saturday. See marriage
notices.
Sol. Eaton, Of Irasburgh, has a hop yard
counting 5000 hills and covering about ten
acres Of ground.
Lucius Robinson has sold his Seth Her
rick farm in Newport, to Silas b. Crawford
for $4,000.
The baptist church at Lowell received an
accession Of two new members last Sunday
by baptism.
Bryant & Elder, Of Derby, have bought
the G. w. Cole place in Salem and they APP
propriate twenty-five acres of it to their nurs-
cry business.
The next meeting Of the county union
Sabbath school convention will be held at
Charleston, on Tuesday and Wednesday
June 30 and 30.
Charles f. Webster, Of Irasburgh, is raising
a new breed Of grasshoppers. They are no
larger than q hornet some are oil black
some all green, others have red bodies and
black wings.
The organization papers Of the Barton
national bank have been forwarded to Wash.
ingtou. The capital was fixed at s15O,OOO
and the stock all taken. Sixty per cent i;
to be paid in on the 9Th Of July.
Craftsbury people are indignant at hay
ing to pay sixty cents a year box rent oil
pOst-ofice boxes that they furnished them
selves by subscription. Really, that does
not look like "good law"
Mrs. Il. Generous, of Lowell, on Tuesday
of last week, was attacked in the morning
with severe pain in the head which resulted
in fits and caused death in a few hours
She was 9s years old and the mother Of ter
children.
On Sunday, June 9th, as Francis Labs
of Newport, went into the pasture to see Il
his horses a strange man stepped out OF tn
bushes and pointing a pistol at Frank de
manded his money. The robber satisi 81
himself by examination that he had N
money, and let him 60.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Greeuo's cheese factory, at Rutland
received 5000 pounds of milk last Friday
and made fifteen cheeses, weighing fft.
pounds each.
The Rutland daily Globe two years old
has a circulation of 1880; the weekly 2eOC
The daily Herald, fourteen years old, Gil
culates 1893 the weekly Herald, 80 year
old, $500. So says the Globe.
A barn belonging to Miner billiard, Q
Rutland, took fire in the caves last Sunda
but the FIRE was soon ex~tinguished. II
supposed that a robin had carried a mate
to its nest and there ignited it as the robil
was literally roasted.
! Rutland is experimenting with NSpthi
with a view Of substituting it for gas fC
lighting the streets. Its cost is about on'
half the cost Of good coal gas, but its illun
mating power is full one half less, aud it
considered dangerous on account Of its ex
: plosive qualities.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
About 300 cords of wood in Waterbur,
/ belonging to the Central Vermont railroa
were burned on Wednesday Of last week.
And now MIR. Fairbank undertakes I
j spoil that good story about the marriage q
. the Reform school by saying the marriae
was at Burlington, that the parties had le
the institution aud that if there was anythin
r desirable" about the marriage it must hay
been wholly Of a spiritual nature.
J, Commencement week at the Vernon
Methodist seminary and female college {
Montpelier, opens on Sunday, June q
a with the annual sermon by Rev. L. White
o Tuesday, examinations and address befol
the Rsthetio society by Rev. DR.. Dani
,F Dorchester Wednesday, meeting Of tru
40 tees class day and alumni anniversary, wi
e an address by Rev. Silas Quimby, and
poem by Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Bowles ; Thursda
July /, commencement.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
: The Windham and Bennington Assocl
= ton Of Universalists will hold a session
Wilmington, June Odd and gath.
VIM. s. Newton, town clerk Of Brattl
boro, while in a somnambulistic state, wal
ed out of the second story window the 9th
night. No bones broken.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
os Rev. Noah johnson died at Ludlo
a June IL, in his 80th year. He had preaC
r ed fifty years.
10 The place of the Springfield Post is