The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-04-20

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army o. the republe now numbers eight.
cen posts, hsving post "a almost every
considerable town, Brandon, 81. Johns.
bory and Woodstock excepted. II num-
bers Ilitle short OF = tbousaad mem
bcrs.
some Penons, probably workmen aud
3i'charged workmen Of the Rutland mar.
BE company, who are dissatisfied With
DE wages paid BY the company aud The
force employed, spoiled block OF One
'iatnary marble which was flushed aud
resdy for transportation, recently by
pouring oil on Il. They also posted a
threatening notice on the stone
Two men escaped from Hyde Park Iail.
ono night last week. Doe OF them was
caught The next day, but The other Is stiIl
missing. En,low, the forger, had 3
chance to escape with the olhers, but
said be bad no boarding place to gs 10,
and preferred 20 remain where il cost
him nothing.
II appears that Ransom Melvin, the
stage driver from Cambridge to Under.
BILL who was supposed to have commit.
ted suicide, took the cars at townsville.
on Monday morning Of last week, for
trip TO Boston. His friends think il very
curious that man can't go on g quiet
little tear without its being telegraphed
all over New England, rivers being drag.
ged aud no end Of a disturbance being
raised.
James Fisk, ST., Gather Of the late Col.
Jsmes) ID having FIVE hundred dollar
patent harness, Of bis own device, manu-
featured, which be will personally erhib.
1t at the centennial. II 10 certainly
novel arrangement and must be seen TO
be appreciated. IL is so constructed that
no strain whatever comes on the horse.
which, IN case Of accident, 10 Instantly
ioosened from the carriage, which In
turn comes TO q stand still.
a new stock company has been organ.
lzed at Barre, during the past week, un-
der the name and style OF "The Stafford
a. Holden manufacturing company
with capital Of $4,000, which is TO
prosecute with vigor the manufacture of
hay and manure forks, garden rakes, po-
tato diggers, ice tools, etc., for which of
late there has been an increasing de-
maud
Amasa Scott, of Craftsbury, owns
COW that during the last 20 days has pro.
dnced l75 lbs. OF butter, or an average of
Il lbs. day. The details of the feat
are as follows: The first two weeks the
butter weighed AZ lbs; the next eight
weeks the record stood, 10, II, 10, II, II, |
Z
10, 10, IA, pounds for each week. Mr..
Scott cuts his hay very early, from the
10th to the goth of June, aud as often
as Il gets sufficiently grown to !
make sweet and tender hay. This COW
bad, In addition to 20 pounds Of this hay
per day, one peck Of potatoes each day |
tor the nrst four weeks alter she came in /: |
since then she has had less potatoes, but
quart of corn and cob meal at noon.
Friday morning about half-past nine
o'clock, boy nine years old, son OF O.
J. Mcknight, of East Wallingford, fell
INTO Mill river and was drowned. lie
was playing on River street, at a point
Therc the bank rises seven or eight feet
Ibove the stream, swoolen at the time by
he recent rains. The body was seen
ioating along on the surface, mile be.
ow Cuttingsville, at two O'Clock in the
'fternoon, but the efforts Of the commun-
ty to secure it had proved unsuccessful
Up to late hour in the evening. Some
blnk that it may have drifted down
nto Otter Creek, fifteen miles below.