The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-04-06

49, 49, 49,
The iron fag The BufusRt1n Aad Ia.
noble ralirosd bas bssu Purchased Of
paroles a. Rene \ T., kad Ein - De.
jvered Ks soon - naviEstion opens. Al
tale nAief.h. fJr The baldIug and equip
ment n he road has been purcaAsed.
Some o. tbe farmers Atu advocating
selling esgs BY weight. one q tsem e.
hloiis two eggs Aksa from tie same
farm yard on The sane day from The
sane nest, and perhaps aid b. the same
bsn--one weighing three ounces snd The
other one and BAR wbo vii cad Of
selling u eggs By weight
4 Fumor i abroAd that Jesse Burdeti,
tbe prcsen, superintendent OF the Rat
and division q the Central Vermont
railroad, 10 about 10 accept smother i'm.
porlan, position on the road, aud that
bis place will be oiled by former well
known railway Official. Other impor.
lAnt changes In the running Of trains and
Increase OF work 10 the railroad shops
are surmised.
The wife Of the Rev. DeForrest Stafford,
pastor OF the Baptist church At Fairfax,
sbo has been IN = weak deranged coDdi.
iiou Of health for several months, gTA.da-
ally growing worse, escaped fro@ the
house Friday morning At day lght. and
jumped into the water by the Hollow
bridge among the rocks, drowning her
self.
Smallpox has broken out In Bridport {,
having been brought there from CanAd q.
A number Of cases have occurred, 9th err
have been exposed, aud IL is tbSs lght
George Perkins cannot recover
The little son OF the Rev. W. W
Dowd, Of Middle Granville, reeen thy re-
ceived postal card from his grant father
Thomas Atking, OF Middlctown, Conn
The postal contained 1917 wOr Dis. Tn,
day IL was written the writer entered
bis eightieth year.
The Vermont DAirymeA's Association
is preparing to build cbees factory on
the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia
aud the brethren over The li'ne In Canals
have united with them 50 far as to fur
nish 81 900 in gold.
George Miles, the Barre bank robber,
was taken from Windsor prison Marcel
25th. lie attemp ted TO escape the prison
tse night before, bot bis plan was dis
covered before put into execution. Hi
cell was scar he'd and Smith l. Wessor
tiye-shooter found 10 his bed and severa
false keys, all new. He was tried a
Montpelier last week, aud sentenced t
fourteen years imprisonment.
A Fronchman, named Pocker, emplo y
cd BY the Brandon Manufacturing Co.
has been arrested for posting on th,
house OF n. T. Sprague, Jr., and w. w
Reynolds, threats to bura the company
building il certain maa was not dis
charge a.
t. re directors of the Vermont Stat
.ison met the present contractors TO
the convict labor at Windsor, last week
whose contract tor five years at sevent
cents per day per man expires on the Is
of August next. 1t appeared that wheI
the present five years contract wa
made, the Massachusetts convicts, a
Charlestown, were lot at from one dolls
to one dellar and fiteea cents per day
while now the same labor is fetchin
only forty cents per day, for the late'
contracts. Consequently the director
have, under the circumstances, contrac
ed the labor for one year from the LIST
August next at reduced rate.
i Monday of last week, Abel Peters an
Henry Davis, residents of Mendon, wei
to Rutland, procured some rum, and Q
their return stopping at AbeI's father
in Mendon, got into quarrel. Old NJ
Peters aud bis wife went out TO the seer
Of the fight to try TO separate then
f. Turning from the scene TO enter Il
: house the old man fell dead in the doc
|, yard. On Wednesday the town author
ties called court of inquiry. As /
marks of violence could bNfound on d
body Of Mr., Peters, DIR. Marshall deci
ed that death was caused by undue e
element. The deceased was "a yea
G old.
The ice business is assuming iormi
i able proportions at Whitehall. Me ssr
u White L. Wood, OF Troy, are gstheri
i. the ice at Sound Bay on large seal
q They propose to put up 100000 tons
NJ all. For this purpose they have erect
1--WE ice houses, in the construction
which they have used nearly quart
million feet Of lumber. They have Civ
c emp loyment 10 upwards of 60 men a
Is FIVE teams daily since they commenc
ls operations at that point. The ice lie
v ready sold to New York ice dealers, a
Of the delivery of the same will CONNER
,s at the opening Of navigation. II is ,
N intention to load one beat each d.
which will require fleet Of 10 or
boats to keep the business moving, a
- occupy until the first of September ne
81 to complete the job. The same firm
n. slowing some 1900 tobs Of ice at We
ly port.
a. The funeral Of the late Hon Isasc
@, Redheld was attended at Windsor,
ID Saturday morning, March 25th, at
h PAul's church, where the distinguisl
"A deceased 90 long worshipped, and fr
whence three Of his children bad b,
buried. Rev. DR. MAleom Douglass