Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-28

During heavy storm which passed over
Burlington Thursday afternoon three labor
ers in South Burlington, who were engaged
10 getting load Of hay under cover, were
severely shocked by a stroke Of lightning.
One Of them is likely to die.
ESSEX COUNTY.
d. II. n T. q. Beattie propose 10 re-
build at once their steam mill In Brunswick.
II. II. Adams blacksmith shop, four miles
east from West Concord, was burned
last Thursday. Insured. II is supposed TO
have taken from piece Of hot iron which
fe into the woodwork.
ii. w. Libbey Of White6eld N. H., and
d. w. King Of hast Haven caught 600 trout
in Paul stream in Ferdinand in little more
than one days time, but they say the flies bit
as we'll as the fish.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Marion Bransfeld, the female smuggler,
who has been in St. Adams Jail for nearly
ten months, will be released August 2, as
her term Of United States sentence then ex-
pires.
Charles l.. Reed has formed partnership
in the publication Of the Enosburgh Falls
Express, with Mr.. l.. w. Smith Of Richford,
and expects to issue the first number some
time 10 October. This journal will be de-
voted to local, political and general news,
and the interests Of Franklin county.
Lansing Mills, Esq, general superintend-
ent Of traffic of the Central Vermont rail.
road, with his accustomed generosity and lib
srality. has offered gift Of $1,000 cash tow
ard the Improvement and decoration Of St.
Adams public park, provided another thous-
and dollars viii be given BY any other person
or persons.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Work has been resumed on the extension
of the z. Il y. railroad twOards Swantou.
The annual Methodist camp meeting is to
be held in grove between Morrisville aud
Hydepark, and commences Aug. %.
About three o'clock, Saturday afternoon,
Mrs Clarinda Ferry, wife Of Sylvester
Ferry, living about one mile from Hyde
Park, was picking raspberrioa near the
house, when two masked men seized her,
dragged her into a corn6eld near by, where
both the scoundrels outraged her. A neigh
Dor hearing her screams, search was made,
and she was found bound, gagged and stran.
gled to insensibility with strings tied around
her neck, her mouth being filed with small
stones, and these tied in with her apron
strings. Great numbers searched the woods
in the vicinity under the direction of Sheriff
Dwinell, but no trace Of the 6ends was found.
Mrs. Ferry is badly injured, and claims also
to have been drugged; but it is probable
that her injuries are not fatal. The two
rufians who assaulted her have been lurking
in the woods in the vicinity for several days,
and daughter Of Mr.. Ferry is supposed to
have been their intended victim. At last ac-
counts the perpetrators of the outrage had
been traced to North Troy and thence to
Riohford Three hundred dollars awaits
the man who arrests them. aaA
There is to be horse trot on the Lamoille
Valley Fair Ground in Morrisville, on Fri
day August 18th, 1876. $3.50 will be
awarded in purses, as follows Purse No.
l, $3.50; open to all horses that have never
beaten minutes; S75, 35, rs, Is. Purse
No. 2, 5000; open TO all horses that have
never beaten 240; 500, so, 30, 20.
Purse No. 3, $3.50; open to all horses that
have never beaten $50; s75, 35, %, Is.
| =,
80, 20. Purse No. 5, $50; to the horse
that can average nearest to 800; $50, 10,
10, 3. The following are the conditions
Trotting to be mile heats, best in to har-
ness, aud will be conducted under the rules
and regulations Of the National Association,
barring weight. All horses distancing the
field, or any part thereof are entitled to first
money only. Entrance fee, ten per cent,
which must accompany all nominations, and
be forwarded to c. II. Page, Morrisville
VT. Entries by mail or telegraph will be
received up to 9 o'clock p. m, August 4th
No conditional entries will be received; 4
to enter, To start
ORANGE COUNTY.
On Wednesday evening Of last week {
bear came out of the woods within q mile o
West Randolph and took q sheep from |
Aock.
/ The three.story stone building in Yves
Randolph village belonging to A. IL. Smith
estate was sold at auction on Thursday, 10Th
to j. II. Lamson, for S2,560.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Raspberries are selling in Westfeld a
$ five cents quart.
Up to the 18th, eleven children had beer
born in July within two miles of Coventr.
; Falls.
About 5000 pounds Of butter wer
, shipped from North Troy last Friday. l
: was bought at 20 cents.
Twenty-one persons were baptised by i'm
. mersiOn at Jay, Sunday, the l6th,-l'
Methodist and 4 Baptist.
;. Capt. John Crane, highly respected cit
! izen Of Glover, died on Wednesday Of las
week, at that place, after an illness Of onl
days, at the age Of three score years an
IA ten.
4 A pair Of oxen owned by Lucius Robin
d son of Newport died last Wednesday fror
a excessive heat On the same day Parlel
I. Perkins was overcome by heat and though
t to be dying.
n One of the sneak thieves who clothe
" himself at the Barton Landing FIRE, in hi
: hurry to get off with 4 vest and pair Of pant
: ran of the bridge into the river aud lost h
;. goods, but nothing daunted, ran back au
got another suit.
-, Mrs John Q. Dolloff who lived 10 hi
u house alone at Fast Charleston was iouu
u insensible, Friday night of last week. Sh
continued unconscious, having several col
in vulsioDs Of an opieptic nature, until he
70 death on Thursday night, July 10th.
Two young fellows were arrested at Mort
!, Troy last Saturday night, for house brsaI
u ing and stealing from the house of l.. !
D. Darby Of Sutton, p. q. They gave the
b. names as Park Wetherbee and Enegarn
}, Alegastic of Boston, Mass, and were con
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