The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-22

from n hose tournament on the morn
ing Of ,he .0th OF OGohr last. was
washed ashore, Monday night II last
week, some airec miles lt1m West
p5Tt anj fCr miles Dom thc spot
where hc met his tragic death.
There was recently quarIied without
the use Of powder at the Barre granite
quarries, a block weighing about six
hundred and eighteen tons-being for.
~ feet long, seventeen feet high aud
ten feet thick. This immense stone Is
said TO be perfect in every respect,
and is believed to be the largest block
Of granite ever quarried in the State.
n. {. Munson, the contractor on
the Montpelier aud Wells River rail-
road, got through bankruptcy several
weeks ago. lie was owing over
million dollars, and all the available
ossets found some ten thousand jal-
lars. This, the assignee ttoug-,,
was hardly sufficient TO cover costs,
and so the poor debtors didn't get a
cent.
About three weeks ago Hon. Fred
erick Billings, of Woodstock, found
his best horse dead in the stall week
later strange dog killed his we'll
known buck Royal George, imported
by him from England at 4 cost of
$500; and lately a beautiful heifer
which he imported last year from the
island of Jersey at a cost of $500 was
found dead in the pasture with her
neck broken.
Tuesday evening of last week,
collision occurred on the Troy and
Boston railroad at Hoosac junction.
While the passenger train for Benning-
ton was leaving the station and the
station agent was changing the switch
for the passage of freight train, for
Boston, the rear passenger car was
struck by the freight engine. The
engineers legs were broken, the fire.
man and station agent seriously injur-
ed, and several passengers slightly
hurt.
Nathaniel Wyatt, conductor on the
way freight that leaves Woodsville, N,
H., at half past three in the morning
was killed at Woodsville, Aug. 10.
1t is supposed that he fell between the
cars after giving the signal to go. He
was not seen after, or missed, until
the train reached lIayelhill. The en-
CINE was unhitched, and returned,
finding him in the yard with his head
crushed and his,right arm cut off. lie
was about 80 Years old, resided at
Monroe, and leaves q wife and two
children. .-il
The next term of Norwich Universi-
ty opens Aug. 80, Government is to
furnish the institution with artillery
and infantry, ammunition for prac-
tice, and a morning and evening gun
will be fired through the year. The
class to enter this fall promises to be
the largest for many years. Prof,
Charles Gestrim, graduate of for
eign university, has accepted the pro-
fessorship Of ancient and modern
languages, and Prof. W. M. Rum
baugh has accepted the professorship
Of drawing.
Mr.. Thomas T. Prentiss, of Waits
field, who has been U. S. Consul at
the Seychell Islands, in the Indian
Ocean, since 1871, and who is spend=
ing the summer at Waitstield with his
wife and two children, has been sued
for breach Of promise Of marriage by
Mrs. Sarah A. Thayer, widow, of
WaitsfeId, who alleges that Prentiss
was under promise of marriage to her
when he was appointed Consul, and
agreed to marry her when he returned.
She lays damages at $4,000. Prentiss
married woman at the Seychell Is
lands. .... ,'."s.