Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-16
Vermont state News.


70 Addison county 70 secure the cho'e Mtilho
stock to improve their aocls Two car loads Of
Gne rams were shipped recently to Samuel Archer,
Of Kansas City Another lot " rams and ewes
went to W I. Crockett, Of New Mexico. Yer
gennos has an oleander tree containing one thou
sand six hundred and eleven buds and blossoms.
900. Willie Clark, son Of Chauncey Clark, was
drowned Friday morning In the creek at Middle
bury. A. he was going through the railroad
bridge, which crosses the creek just above the
depot, he fell through between the tie. and
drowned before assistance arrived
HKNSIN0roN couSry
TrfsDW night, August 9Th, the saw mill Of ,.
r. Smith, located In woodford, caught fire aud
was wholly destroyed This building was three
stories high and the loss will be very severe for
Mr. Smith. 4 few years ago at the time Of the
big freshet, a similar building was carried down
stream with the water also owned by MIR Smith,
and several other buildings were washed away
The insurance on the mill burned was two thou
sand dollars
CALEDONIA CouNTy
ST. JonNsnunY Is to be favored with temper
ance reform work under the direction Of Osgood
and Drew. 1t Is hoped that the successes In
other places will find repetition In St iohnshury
.. 4 mass temperance convention for Caledonia
county il called at st. Johnsbury for the 10Th.
This is understood as a bolt, owing to the names
Of two or three persons ON the Republican ticket
being Objectionable.
cHrrrESDEN COUNTY
! Tug sixth annual fair Of the Chittenden County
| Agricultural Society will be held a, the grounds,
in Essex Junction. on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, September 9Th, eth and sth. 4 prom
inent and wealthy democrat Of Burlington, and
Republican Of the same calibre, have made bet
Of two thousand dollars on the result Of the com
ing election Foolish mortas
TRANKLiN COUNTY.
JouN HEAo, Of Montgomery. whose arm was
20 seriously Injured by the bite Of horse re-
Gently, had il amputated at the shoulder the
other day. .. The Canadian cnstom-house Off
GERS caught man en- route 10 Canada on We'd
nesday Of last week with large amount OF
newly made silver spoons knives and forks and
other slyerware carefully packed in vaise.
The goods were seized aud are now at St Johns,
in the custody Of the Canadian officials The
case has a suspicious look .. terrible thun-
der storm passed over Fast Richford the 7th
inst blowing over large body Of trees, besides
doing other damage Caleb Gross, who lives in
that part Of the town, had an OK killed by being
hit by falling tree. Johu Grace aged sixteen
year, Of St. Albans, Was fined five dollars and
costs the other day, for beating his brother
| Thomas aged about twelve years. Their father
is dead and John thought it best 10 keep up the
family discipline. Wednesday afternoon Of
last week rs some boys were playing cards in
lIoyts Grove, one Buck pointed pistol at one
McDOugal telling him that the trick was his,
when the weapon fired, lodging q ball In the
latter's left cheek Buck says he did not know
the pistol was loaded DR. Dunsmore probed IN,
wound but could not find the ball and thinks il
lodged near the eye The wounded boy does
not suffer much Inconvenience from the wound
ORLEANS COUNTY
J. &. KESpALLs steam saw mill at West New
port was burned the other day, this being th'
second he has lost by fire within two years.
The woodshed aud section tool-house Of tn,
Passumpsic railroad, at Barton, containing tw,
hundred and fifty solid cords Of wood, all III,
tools belonging 10 the section, and the water
house near BY, were burned Monday -Four hun
dred and fifty thousand shingles and four hun
dred thousand feet of lumber, belonging to J. II
Evans estate and the Haywood Chair Company
were saved by great eNertion. A favorable win'
from the north saved the whole upper end of tn
village Loss about one thousand eight hundre'
dollars
WINDSOR COUNTY.
A LITTLE three-y ears-old girl in Barnard is sui
fering severely from paralysis and will probabl
. die The cause Of the attack Is the poison in tn
coloing of striped stockings which she has latel
worn. Her limbs were swollen to the size OF
man William Reynolds, a sober old man
. Factory Point, had par,lytic shock while ridin
to Ludlow, the other day and folks, thinking hiI
I, intoxicated, left him in a barn all night, and
died the next day from the neglect. Henry |
, Dunbar, of North IIai tland, and James NJ Foss,
St Adams, have received a patent for variab
eshau-ts for steam engines. The lndustri
Works Company, Of Springfield. manufacturer
Of muslin flags, pressed leather goods and chi
dren's toys, have suspended payment Their ii
dehtedness il largely in town They claim tia
they have assets in excess Of their liabilitie
The stopping Of their works wonld throw siXt
. hands out Of employment. The assets of IL
company estimated at thirty-seyen thousan
three hundred and seventy dollars, and the liabil
ties at thirty-one thousand three hundred an
, seventy dollars The assets are bound up in sue
y a way that they cannot realize on them withol
u making great sacrifice, and they propose
- settle by giving four months note for twenty-h'
y per cent. of their liabilities and the remainder
, seyenty-fye per cent-in stock, and to guannt'
these results.