Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-09
Vermont state News.


NpfsoS COUNTY.
On saturday Of last week Edward and Archi-
bald Scott, brothers, attacked Mr George Field In
his hay aeld in Leicester They knocked him to
the ground and bruised him with fists and feet in
a fearful manner Mr. Field was unable to get
10 his house without assistance from his neigh
bors lie was robbed u seventeen dollars and q
halt and a pair u gold.howed spectacles were
missing The SCOTS were engaged 10 work for
Field Tor the season, and had left two weeks
since one Of the fellows was arrested aud the
other ded The wife Of Harrison Pratt, Of Sails
bury, sold most of the house furniture last week
and coolly moved with one Of her three children
into an adjoining village, where She is now living
with darkoy servant who has often knocked
down her mock husband when he objected o.
his visits
CALEDONIA COUNTY
lnt largest and best equipped lumber mill in
New England has just been built at Mclndoes
Falls, by K. L. Peabody 4 Co. It isa thrco-story
aud basement, fifty by one hundred aud thirty
five feet building, with platform extension for
each iioor Of fifty by one hundred feet Three
hundred feet beyond they have built planning
mill thirty by eighty feet put in q solid railway
capacity Of thirty-hve cars At time The yard
and mill grounds cover six acres Opposite the
head Of th- yard T. two-story store aud onlc,
foriy-four by hry-fye feet In detail the mill
will have % capacity Of making one hundred and
twenty-five thousand feet Of dimension timber
daily, one saw, The largest ou tie river caitlu.
sticks sixty -four feet long and another cutting
forty feet lengths. Tie machinery and Skating
was built and put IN by the Lane Manufacturing
Company Of Montpelier. The mill employ. one
hundred hands, and commenced running August
list. The other day as the way train north
was shifting cars in the yard at Mclndoes q brake
man named Hunt In endeayoring to draw the
pin from the shaclsles, got his hand between the
bHutersi and his hand was badly crushed It was
thought at the time that he would lose two. n not
three fingers, besides having sore hand for a
long time.
currESpEN COUNTY
BrnrISGroN parties are contracting To deliver
coal nj 81 iohnsbnry depot 40 eight dollar. and
ninety cents per ton. A man named Michael
fox, attempted to get on board the New York eS-
pres. train, at Essex Junction, Tuesday night Of
last week, after it wa. ia motion and was caught
between the car platform and tlie wall Of the de-
pot. one foot and Lex were severely but not dan
gerou-ly injured. The people Of Essex Centre
bad quite scare ON Sunday morning last, when
it was reported that woman was lost ON the
plains 1t seems that Mrs Fosters mother. a
women about ninety years Of age, went berryng
the plains Saturday forenoon. Not coming
home at night the daughter was alarmed and
rallied the neighbors on Sunday morning in
search Of her A little after noon she was found
quietly picking berries about mile away from
the house, seemingly unconscious Of the lapse Of
time. liumors of disagreement in the household
and sundry hard knocks inflicted upon the old
lady are annat o. the cause Of her disappearance
rRANKliN COUNTY.
oN saturday evening, the I'D nit BIN Dd--
COLL well known character ia FAIRFAX and
vicinity, ran his team of a high perpendicular
embankment into a mill pond, and received in
jores which may prove fatal IN old man
name Allard, tnsmith working in one Of the
railroad shops at st. Adams, while going to his
work the other morning. found freight train
standing on Lake street crossing aud attempted 10
crawl under one Of the ears but while he was nm
derneath the train started aud he rolled out on
the other side, escaping death by a hairsbreadth
Mrs NJ J. Kendall Of south Franklin. met
with a serious accident on the evening Of August
ID, while milking in the stable Tie COW back
Of her the largest one ia the herd, kicked with
such force a. 10 send her under the one she vas
milking which in return kicked her back again
under COW No one, and between the two she was
seriously hurt in the hip aud back, the hil-boue
being cracked. She is under the treatment Of
Dr. lhrrah, Of Enosburgh Falls, and although in
a bad situation, hopes Of speedy amendment are
entertained Somebody fired at Mrs CLARA
Dewey, of St Adams about three O'Clock We'd
nesday morning Of last week The attempt was
to shoot her through her bedroom window, but
the ball lodged in the easement No arrests
She is one Of the principals in the Hoyt-Dewey
scandal