Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-05
STATE NEWS.

Almost mile OF the Burlington and
Lamoille railroad track is already laid
1t is said that a single firm in Canada
will ship seven million feet Of lumber
through Lake Champlain, the coming season.
The building material, all fitted and com.
plete, for the Vermont State headquarters
at the Centennial Exhibition, was shipped
from Ticonderoga for Philadelphia, last Fri.
day morning.
supt. Hobart of the Central Vermont
railroad, in his testimony in the case Of Nc
Carly vs.. the railroad company, stated that
it cost from SO to So to stop and start
passenger train.
A brace Of swindlers from Buffalo, going
under the name Of Charles Fritch a. Co.,
are travelling through the state swindliug
innocent farmers by pretending to sell the
right for new patent planning mill
j. Sullivan Adams, Esq, formally resi-.
dent Of Burlington and secretary Of the
Vermont board of education, died at his
residence in Brooklyn, Florida, on Sunday
the 23ut,, after lingering illness, and was
buried on Monday following.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
g. o. Shattuck has received the machinery
for his new wooden mill at South Danvle.
j. d. Abbott of Barnet shipped from his
tannery last week 100 horns.
People in Barnet own 99l shares of bank
stock and have $4,000 deposited in the
savings banks.
The p. & o. railroad rises 1925 feet in
going from st. Johnsbury to Walden Heights,
distance Of 20 miles
A. b. Norris is rebuilding his bobbin fac.
tory at Norrisvllle and intends to have some
machinery running this week.
Austin Abbott of Benton, Cal.,-son of
Walter Abbott of Barnet,-was accidentally
shot, while trying to prevent two young men
from fighting.
A Groton woman fired four or FIVE shots
from a revolver at man who was he ping
himself from her wood pile the other evening
and he skedaddled without any wood.
Rev. John Gregory of Mortified breaches
at the Universalist church at West Burke
next Sunday. Rev. j. p. Atkinson will
preach at the same place on the l4th.
Martin Sargent of South Danvle is build
ing nice barn forty feet by one hundred
Mr.. Sargent is good farmer, needs a gooc
barn and can afford to have it.
Mr.. G. f. Burnham of Lyndonville, lately
engineer on the Passumpsic, has bocom,
pastor of the Methodist church at Walden
aud commenced his labors there last Sunday
Warren Harris of Danvile has invented
new process for taking stcreoscopic pictures
by which you take your position, keep per
iecty quiet for two or three seconds, reacI
out and take your picture, one or more, an,
then give room for the next.
A Groton man put in his coat pocket, tn
other day, some powder aud shot that he hO
Just bought at the village, but on his wa
home he carelessly put a pipe he had bee
smoking in with it. lie was made uncon
scious by the explosion, his coat was tor
TO shreds, and his other garments were set o.
fire. Probably he would have beon burne
to death, if neighbor hadn't come alon
and cared for him.
Calvin Morrill, thinks the present backwar
spring is the surest sign of fruitful season
and says that in 1881, the season was YER
backward, 80 much 50 that Sias llibbard {
East St. Johnsbury plowed up a piece {
corn about the llth Of June and sowed it
barley, and that Charles Bugbee would hay
done the same thing by large piece OF cor
if he could have got the seed but as he di
not, the corn grew and was finally the be'
piece Of corn that he ever saw, before
since.
The committee appointed at the annu
meeting of the agricultural society, to pr
pare list Of premiums aud tests on trainC
oxen and steers by actual trial are as follow
Asa s. Livingstone and A. r. Hovey,
Johnsbury; VIM. Beden, Burke Chas.
Stevens, Danyille Q, H. Dawson, Waite
ford This committee have drawn up II