The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-01-20

We heM AGAR Gay tksAN &IApNa
snake, larcs seti 10 lengsh. was killea o.
the mauaialn northwest 81 WRseryllla
village, b. some men who WEIR bastins
foxes Snakes aFs vefy seldom faani
ruanips .. Jhis Gns q year.
Me-. Tia s AsDoaald. wife 81 Bsn9
Mcdonald, freight conductor on tho Har'
ZEN E1fens5oa Railroad, attempted sab
eide Al Bennington. Friday night, BY TAX
ms ssFgehniss. ~ treatment from bel
husband wss tbt Cause She viii re-
cover,
Mn Seymour, mother Of Hon. I'd
ward Seymour Il Vergenaes. was born
IN l516. and il be lives tiil Msy she viii
be one hundred years Of age. She i
very smart, And bldt FAR to live ten year,
yet. She Is wonderfully proud that 81,
has lived 70 see The centennial year, aud
Very few are living who can say will
this old lady. Il was bora before the dec
laratiou OF Independence.
The Union says that Eve year old son
Of +. 3. noyey Of Waterford. recently
went into The barnyaId to feed the chick
ems, aud large buck went 81 him and
buited him nearly 10 death. The ehlld''
head was badly bruised. having larg'
cash III the side and bTuise on the back
For some lime after be was found be wsi
supposed TO be dead, but consciousness
was restored Ia few minutes.
The opening ofthe Portland and 0g
densburg railroad to johnson is already
reviving trade between upper Vernon
aud Portland, which in former days wa,
very extensive.
Ransom Adams, OF Newport Center
became enyeloped in flames from Al
overturned kerosene lamp, the othei
evening, and was saved from n horrible
death only by great exertions.
Il. Is. Eddy has entered a suit agalns
Shepard, Davis 4 Co. for alleged falls,
arrest in Burlington, aud claims dam
ages to the amount OF 100000.
On Friday, the mail train on the Gen.
trial Vermont railroad which leaves Bel.
ows Falls at 1850 a. IN, for Whit,
River Junction, struck broken raj
when about two miles from the juno
ton. The train consisted of five cars
three passenger, smoking and baggage
The passenger cars were thrown from
the track, the rear one going down tn
embankment, 70 or 30 feet high, ant
farming completely over, while the othe
two narrowly escaped similar fate. Ii
the rear car were seven passegers, on'
of whom, an elderly lady, was severel
injured. The remaining six were fortu
nate enough to escape with bruises an,
scratches, while in the other cars non
were injured. II was found impossible
to detach smoking car from the wrecke,
cars, and therefore all the passengers
some thirty in number, were packek int
the baggage car aud taken 10 Whit
River Junction. A physician happene,
TO be on the train and attended to the in
iured lady, but the injuries being inter
nal, it was difficult to tell how Sc verel
she was injured. 1t was certainly YER
fortunate escape from a terrible disaster
in this respect being almost a parable
with the Middlesex accidental few week
ago.
The original commission given b
General Burgoyne to Colonel Baum, i
| l777, for him to proceed to Benningto
to take charge of tue stores at that point
is now in the possession of the widow Q
Hon. Horace Everett, for so long mem
Der of Congress from Vermont. Mrs. Ey
erett resides with he: daughter at Ange
lea, N. Y. This document, it is thought
should be in the possession of the Ben
nington Historical Society, to be show
at the cenntenial celebration of the battle
Aug. l6, 1877.
| A very green young in Wheelock
recently put loaded gun barrel in th
fire to remove the contents. After Il ha
been IN long enough, as he supposed, {
"burn the powder up" he placed tn
muzzle TO his mouth, to blow out III
smoke. Several OF MS teeth we're blow
out and bis mouth and throat terribl
burned. The shot had been preyiousl
removed, and he still lives.
The people of Brlttleboro used so, 90
postal cards last year, and wrote fou
times as many letters.
w. ). MorrelI, leading clothing mel
chant at West Randolph, has "gone u
the spout with $4,000 liabilities.
The Burlington free Press intimat,
that there is a regular gambling hell |
daily aud nightly operation in that cit,
The Bates House, Rutland, is in Il
possession OF Deputy Sheriff Crawford
by virtue of writs of attachment an
ejectment.
/. The Vermont Central railroad wi
shortly contest In the courts the legalit
of that part Of law passed by the lal
legislature, taxing its road
The weather was so warm at BrattI
boro last week that striped snakes can
out, supposing that the season for sws
lowing frogs had commenced.
A hotel built of brick and wood. "
and half stories high, at South Har
wick, occupied by J. 5. & X. +. Drena
was burned Thursday morning, the Ct
IL was Yalnad al hniwnnn q 900 and Is