Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-11-03
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1879.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER =, 1870.
The Inst excursion has gone to the Centennial Don't
| you wish you had gone
Col. T. c. Fletcher has been elected director In the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
patent has been issued to Albert Gale Of this place
for furnaces for heating iron and steel blanks.
Warren Estabrooks block s rapidly approaching
completion. 1t will be ornament to the street.
The Montreal day express trains over the Passump-
sic are TO DO discontinued Saturday of this week
Casper r. Kent Of st. Johnsbury has not bought
out the Frontier Sentinel currently reported. Did
not like the prospect.
j.. Haskell and Charles s. Hastings suffered from
the depreciation Of clothes line thieves last Monday
night. Quito n number Of articles taken.
Tho ladies Of tho church Of the Messiah will give an
oyster supper at their vostry Friday Eve, Novom-
Der Sd. Supper served from TO O'Clock. Admission
and supper, 25cts.
The telegraph Offices the Plain are to be sopara.
ted, the Vermont International TO remain in Bank
block and the Western Union TO TO the express
office on Eastern Avenue.
The exhibition Of tho senior class of st. Johnsbury
Academy at Academy Hall this Thursday eve
ming. at o'clock The second half Of tho Fall torn
begins Monday Nov. G. This favorable time for
new students 10 enter.
The last centennial excursion took place last Mon
day About twenty tickets sold at this place to
20 over the Passumpsc road The rivalry between the
two lines quite great the Passumpsc selling tick
cts for $40 at tho last moment. We boeve the P. O.
did not reduce their prices
Mrs Mary Ann Hill, tho mother Of Mrs. p. II. Smith
Of this place died very suddenly last Tuesday afternoon
She had gone up stairs and Just before coming down,
dronn dead ha nh In
an attack of apoplery. MIS- Hill was about sixty
years Of age and member Of the Episcopal church.
The friends Of Rev and Mrs Sanford surprised them
completely last Thursday evening, and rs token of
their regard presented Mr.. Sanford with nice
coat made by Stevens Bros and Mrs. Sanford with
Of Miss eard's "oxquists" hats. Mr.. and Mrs. San.
ford expressed themselves in fitting terms for the kind
| remembrance Of their friends, and a very pleasant
evening was spent.
N. NJ. johnson is good gardener as we'll as a FIRST
rate business man and good, mSthodcal business
usually succeeds at anything he undertakes. Mr..
johnson has shown few samples Of beets that he
raised in the season Of 1875. They sound and
sweet as the crop. OF course he don't pile them
in OF his cellar to rot to sprout but he
packs them in barrel and then fills 1t with dry sand
and has good beets the year round.
The community shocked to hear that Mr.. Z. W
Hawkins, ofthe St. Johnsbury Granite Co.. was killed
| at Ryegate, last week Thursday, about O'Clock
| lie killed in the quarry at Blue Mountain under
| the following circumstances. derrick rope broke
while he was pulling with rope, swinging stone of
some 5000 pounds which let him fall heavily back.
wards striking the back part Of his head tho sharp
edge Of granite stone, crushing in the skull lie only
lived about half an hour. Mr.. Hawkins leaves a wild.
dow to whom he had been married about year lie
was in every way a worthy and respectable young
man, and his death is loss to the whole community
His relatives and associates have the sympathy Of the
| public in their bereavement
The process of tapping the village pipes while they
are full of water and under a pressure Of GO or Il
pounds to the square inch is rather interesting
| 10 those who have wondered how ii could be done
| The operation Is simple enough when understood
The machine for doing costs 500. II is made Of tw
parts, coupled together like coupling two pieces o
hose. One piece is bound endwise TO the Pipe TO bS
tapped and a tight joint is made by leaden gasket
This piece has gate in it. The other piece has
crank SHAFT in it, that carries drill. Having beef
coupled with the first piece, the gate is raised and tn
drill is pressed up to the pipe and through II by tn
crank and at the outer end Of the second pec
of the machine The drill is then withdraw the gat,
shut and the parts uncoupled, quart or Of waite
coming out Of the machine. A screw tap is then pu
in place Of the drill the parts coupled together, tn
gate is raised, the tap cuts the thread and is with
drawn The gate is then shut and the parts uncoupled
another basin of water being lost A globe valve
now put in place of the tap, and is put in 1t
place in the pipe by repetition of the operation 70
cutting the hole The machine is then released fror
the main pipe and you have done good job, but you
tools were out of sight all the while you were dom
It.
Greensboro.-Nrs. VIM. Curtis in a 1T of insanity
| MI 81 suirila on Monday hV lar tlroa
with a butcher knife. Her recovery is doubtful
Rev Mr.. Patten commenced labors at the Congrega
tional church last Sunday,
Fire at stanstend, p. Owe learn that tn
Thursday morning the buildings on the Carlo
Pierce place, on Stanstead Plain, known as the hi
burn castle, were burned with 500 tons OF hay, all Il
grain from 30 acres, so shotes and large amount
other property. The fire was supposed to have take
from lantern.
Lyndon.-A serious accident took place at Il
Great Falls, Lyndon, last week Thursday whoT
wOrknen were engaged in building dam Sever
cartridges OF dynamite were placed 10 dry under
stove in the house where the tools stored As
consequence Of this careless act, the dynamite c
ploded, demolishing the building and hurling thr'
men, who were in the buildng-Prank johnson
Windham, Me-, Charles Putney Of Concord, n
and Joseph Heon Of st. Johnsbury, into the al
! They were all injured severely Joseph Heon recei
ing the worst injuries No bones were broken al
/ they will all They will never put dynami
under stove again.
i The Giant WRter-Wh eel.-As there has be-
4 considerable said the principle suppose that
prophet is not without honor save in his counr
against the Giant water wheels which have bcen place
in the pump house at this place. Mr.. Buzzell has TAX
the pains at expense of $50, to have them test
by james Emerson Of HOlyoke, Mass. Mr. Emers
is the standard authority on water wheels, in Il
country lie makes business Of testing wheels M
docs II for all the manufacturers in the United Stat
that his tests may he considered accurate and reli
BILE, The following is IA copy Of his certificate.
ST. JOHNsBURY, VT, Oct. 20, 1870
This certiGes that have tested the largest wheel
the pump house here 10 St. JOhnsbury, and from mea
urenents made believe the head TO he fifteen feet d.
ing the test, and by actual test gave 70 as IL. p
der seventeen feet head 1t would give 500 H. =.
JAMES EMERSON
The head when the dam is full Is seventeen feet,
that tho large wheel which drives the large pun
gives SO II. p. while both wheels give III II. p.
dor this state Of things shall probably hear
more complaint that the BuIzell wheels are not pc
erful enough to drive the pumps.