Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-03-31

miles from st. Adams, to East Berkshire to
purchase some goods for his family last week
Monday. On the way back he stopped at a
house about mile from his home, and re-
ma;uad till ten o'clock in the evening when
hestarted out in thestorn. That was the last
seen Of him, and alarmed by his disappear
ance, search was made by the neighbors all
the next day and Wednesday. Late Wednes-
day afternoon his body was found frozen
stiff and buried in the snow within thirty
rods of his house.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Two prisoners, Glen and Wilbur, escaped
from the Hydepark Jail Wednesday night,
and the officers are in pursuit.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
u. @. Blake, the butcher, has moved from
Derby to Island Pond.
John Wheeler has sold his farm in Troy
to Romeo Stowe, for $4,000.
The widow of the late Amos q. Robinson
died at Barton last Wednesday.
S. w. Noble has sold his farm in Jay to
Mr.. Sullivan of Sheldon, for $4,000.
Most of the students frightened away from
Derby academy by small pox have returned.
Charles Taylor, of Compton, P. O., is in
Irasburgh Jail, on charge of horse stealing.
Only one more case Of small box at Derby,
that a child Of Hiram Davis, and it is
hoped that all danger is past.
Rev. VIM. Beavius, pastor of the Baptist
church at West Albany, closed his labors
March 8. He is obliged to seek warmer
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Albert Everts has bought of Il. Bickford
Of Troy the Brooks farm together with ten
COWS, a set of Jewett milk pans, the sugar
tools and Union moving machine giving
$4,000 and his fifty acres on the mountain.
The question of building railroad from
Newport to Island Pond is agitating the
minds of Northern Orleans and Essex coun-
ties, and meeting was held recently at
Island Pond to consider the matter.
Preparations are being made to add a
carriage shop to j. L. Beede's manufacturing
establishment at Newport. A new engine is
to be put in with sufficient power to drive all
the machinery, and mill for grinding corn
and provender.
George Parker of Lowell has invented a
patent hens nest, which promises to be big
thing. BY an arrangement in the bottom Of
the nest, the new laid egg drops down into a
lower department, where it is secure from
freezing or being eaten by the mother or
other cruel hens After biddy has laid, she
rises, cackes and turns around rejoicing to
see what has been the result Of her labors
seeing only the decoy, china egg, she encoros
herself and repeats the programme, unfortu-
nately, with no better results than before.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
A French employee of the Brandon man.
ufacturing company named Pocket has been
arrested for posting on the houses of N T.
Sprague, Jr. and w. w. Reynolds threats
to burn the company's buildings if a certain
employee was not discharged.
Messrs ellison, Clement aud Wood6n
shipped from West Rutland on Friday q
specimen Of the finest statuary marble for
exhibition at the centennial. 1t is 81 feet
long, feet wide and 81 inches thick,
weighing 1900 pounds, and is valued al
$3.50.
A fire occurred in the foundry of Messrs.
Mansfield & Stimson on Freight street in
Rutland early last Saturday morning. which
was extinguished with slight damage. The
loss is estimated at 1000, divided among
about dozen companies.
A boy named Moss, about IL years old
was run over by the cars at Poultney, VT.
Tuesday afternoon. One leg was terribly
mangled and nearly severed He is hardly
expected to recover.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
A. @. Guernsey of Calais sold a three
years.old colt to parties in Boston, for $500
One of the orators at Burlington Decora
ton Day, will be Ex-Governor Paul Dilling
ham Of Waterbury.
Alexander Noble, mail agent from st
Albaus to Boston had his leg broken while
shifting cars at Roxbury, March %.
Much interest is felt in the pending
trial of Miles. the Barre bank robber, a
Montpelier, from the fact that the note,
lawyer, VIM. A. Beach of New York, is I,
be his senior counsel. Magoon, the Barr
murderer, is also to be tried.
Friday of week before last John Akin
of Duxbury went with his team about three
miles from home, to draw logs to the mill o
Shurtlef & Fullerton, at Waterbury. Will
at work on his load preparatory to his start
ing for the mill, he was accidentally throw
off and struck on an iron bar set up in tn
snow, with such force as to drive the poin
several inches into his rectum. j. Il. Davis
who was with him, had to use his utmos
strength to remove the bar, after which h
conveyed the unfortunate man home, wher
: he suffered intensely until relieved by deaf
last Saturday morning.
AT Rcxbury, Frank Spauding, brakeman
got his arm caught while Stacking cars on tn
night of the %, splitting the bone and other
wise bruising it.--Wm. B. Circuit has sol
his hill farm in Roxbury to VIM. Kelley, 70
Sl300.-J. L. Warner has leased his farm
. on the east hill to Levi Wilson of Granville
for one year.-Charles Eaton had an o.
> killed while numbering on the % inst -
Moses Clough has bought the stage line iron
Roxbury to Warren.-Charles Fisk an
+ wife celebrated their calico wedding at tn
Q residence of Il. b. Fisk, the % inst, it be
I ing the second anniversary of their marriage
D -Sylvanus Rich has leased his farm +
}. Ezra Dickerman of Braintroe, and rented
e house in the village.
u George Miles, the Barre bank robbie
$ went from the Windsor prison at 5 p. m
u Saturday, in charge of sheriff Horace v
d Tyford and deputy Il. w, Howe, and wake
with them to the Jail, shackled to the iorme
10 An attempt to escape was frustrated la
1t Friday evening, Three keys we're found
a possession Of one OF the three hall boys, wit
c which the boy was trying two locks {
I. Mlles's cell. The third opened door int
IS the yard, where lumber used in rebuldin
IN the west wing was placed so as to scale Il
y wall. The plan began to leak out some day
d since, the boy confding the keys and all
certain notes from Miles giving direction