The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-08
state News.

county road from Brookline to Putney in
Windham county has been closed during
the winter preventing communication be-
tween the two towns.
The will of the late Hannibal Green of
Troy provides $780, yeur TO William G.
White Of Highgate, during his life.
Large quantities of cord-word belonging
TO the Ogdensburgh railroad are being NOV
ed over to Vermont. 1t would seem from this
that the Vermont Central will not run the
Ogdensburgh line much longer.
The Chittenden county court commenced
its April term at Burlington on Tuesday,
Chief Justice Perpoint presiding. Two
hundred and nineteen causes appear upon
the law docket and twenty-five on the
chancery docket. Fifty-siX cases are set
down for the jury of which
number will probably be tried. Forty-one
cases are set for the court. The term prom
ises to be of the usual length.
Mayor Blodgett of Burlington delivered
his annual message on Tuesday, and the
city council was fully organized. w. III.
Root was descrvcdly, unanimously re-elect-
cd city clerk.
The ice in the Lamoil!c river has broken
up resulting in a serious Jam" at East
Georgia. The ice is now within about one
foot of the highway bridge, and the road
leading from the depot to Fairfax COM
pletely blockaded.
The loss by fire in New England for the
month of March amounts to $576,550, of
which the proportion of this state is $54,
500.
Theodore Skinner of Albany, VT, re-
Gently slid from hay NOV upon the times
of pitch fork, one of which penetrated
his leg above the knee, making terrible
wound from the effects of which he may
die.
Two boys, fifteen years of age named
Willie Sargent and Chester Coolidge, went
out hunting in Cambridge, on the 10Th ult.,
and killed bear with an axe, the skin of
which measured six feet three inches in
length and four feet in width.
Last year the A. Williams made the first
trip of the season from Burlington to
Plattsburgh, April 9th and the line boats
commenced the regular trips one week
later, April 18th.
Between Pittsburgh and Burlington
lair holes" are reported as abundant, and
the stages are discontinued.
Work on the repairs of the Lamoille
county court house at Hydepark has COM
menced. An addition of 25 feet is to be
built in the rear of the building. The
court room will be five feet longer, and two
rooms placed in the rear of the bench-one
for the accommodation of the petit jury
and the other for the county library and
consultation room.
A singular affair took place in the Gore
between Belvldere and Montgomery, re-
Gently. A Mr. Burnham, while drawing
wood heard his dog making loud yelps and
mournful cries. On looking up he found
him running toward him at full speed witt
an enormous owl fastened to his back. Mr.
B. succeeded in getting the owl off the
dog, and then they had regular pitched
battle the dog finally conquerlng after {
hard struggle. The owl was one of thu
very largest kind and was probably d;yer
TO the contest from hunger.
A series OF meeting, under the auspices
of the Young Mems Christian Association
is to be holden at Johnson on the Sth, 9th
10th and 18th of April.
Geo. Timer was arrested last week al
Swanton for smuggling liquors, and B. Bel
rose tor selling the same. They were inet
S25 and costs. Tinker not being able tC
pay the fine was taken to jail.
The station house at Swanton Junction
was Destroyed by fire, at half past three
Thursday afternoon. Fifteen minutes afte
the fire was discovered the whole building
was in flames. Part of the contents wa
saved. 1t is supposed to have caught from
an engine.
Brattleboro has been struck by the spell
zootic."
George A. Hubbard in Guildhal in shay
ing hoops, last Saturday, met with very
severe accident BY a slip of the shave h
cut his leg at the knee joint so badly tina
amputation of the limb was feared.
Mr.. j. Lyon in the east part of Brown
ington has been greatly afflicted. On Sat
urday he buried two of his children in on
grave. HIS other five children were al
sick at the time. Disease, canker- rash.
Denne Bean has presented the Barto
Monitor office with huge lump of sugar
which was made by his grandfather Sam
uel Bean--forty-seve years ago.
Geo. w. Jenness has collected the take
in Barton for the last three years, and ha
in each year paid into the town treasur,
the whole town tax, on or before the Is
day Of March.
1t is evident that Stephen Gamble O
Greensboro, was not born to be drowned
he has fallen into Elgo pond three times
since the first ice was taken out, and ha
come out all right, and no worse for tn
ducking
Miss Lillian r. Hamilton, who made he