The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-12-28

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STAYS sEws.
The loser railroad woodshed 81 Aess
Randolph. wA. bursed sSous ! o'clock
FRIDAY morning, With about i&'V cords
81 wood Loss about e. 800 The High'
erpres. was delayed By the Gre about
uiue hoars.
sssh Branpeck. ofFairbaven, was k'll'
ed roeeativ by being thrown from Wag'
on ana striking on his bead 90 the frozen
ground.
me new state bssd Of agriculture met
!, The Van Mes. house Darlington, We'd
nesday aud elected Prof II. NJ seeley o.
Miadlebury college, secretary.
The department estimates iOs iatsrnal
lmnrovement include $4,000 FOE Bar
p,g,on breakwater; an equal sam Tor
the Improvement Of swAnton 6srsoF
aud s43 900 for otter creek
Archie. years old, son Of President
Hubert of Middlebury college, was bsd-
ly scalded tue other night BY spilllng The
contents ola pa q OF boiling water over
him. Il was st firs, feared that the burns
would prove fatal, INT ls now out Of
danger.
The loss on the Vermont MahHfaculr-
log CompAny's chair shop NJ kostuteld
proves to be $4,000, with but u go In
surapoe. The building will pr 1babiy not
be rebuilt.
The rage among Rutland county farm
els just now i1 the worthy one W bsh
culture, and large number Of ponds are
being prepared for trout.
A series of successful temperance
meetings has just closed at Middlebury.
I hree hundred persons signed the pledge.
Gov. Fairbanks Is reported as yet very
weak, aud not In condition TO be troub-
led with business or official cares.
In Rutland, Monday, of last week,
horse owned and driven by Porter Benz
son OF Clarendon ran away, and threw
the occupants OF the carriage-Mr. Ben
son and his daughter-out upon the fro
zen ground. iniaring Mr.. Benson fatally.
Tne young lady wAs not much injured.
A hoy in Tuubridge died OF excessive
blecdins from the nose, before medical
all could be attained
A s. Franklin at Newfanc j. elected
master and Y T. Jameson OF lrasburg
lecturer OF tho state grange.
Daring the recent cold snap Woodstoek
had 20 inches OF snow and thernlome-
ter OF 80 degrees below zero. On tho
tsummit" between Bellows Falls and
Rutland, % inches OF snow fell.
Brattlsboro's high school principal,
Benjamin +. Bingham, has taught for 81
successive years in Vermont, first in his
native town of Cornwall, then ut Rat
land, aud for IA years at Brattleboro.
Mary Pagan, girl about IS years Of
age, is said TO have died in Rutland the
other day olnegIect, the room in which
she lay sick being without fire aud so
cold that glass of water had frozen SOL
id. t7"
The heaviest gale for thirty years pass
ed over Lunenburgh on Saturday from
the west Wind eighty miles per hour
aud the snow so thick that it was difficult
to see two rods 10 advance. Several
were damaged, and barn
owned by N. Dodge were blown down.
In the evening the wind blew sixty miles
per hour, and the thermometer was l4o
below zero.
One day last week Charles Drown of
Newport Centre, had a difficulty with
one of the neighbours porkers. Charles
wanted TO insert butchers knife in the
hogs neck, and the hog Guessed not"
In the melee the hos took Charles down
and broke his leg, which ended the con-
troversy so far as Charles was concerned.
A fifteen months old child OF James
Rogers, of st. Johnsbury, was sealded TO
death by the oyerturning of pail of hot
water
A valuable horse belonging to o. b. |
Gray, Of Bellows Falls, was impaled |
upon picket fence which it attempted |
to Jump over, aud was killed.