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

IharleStOWn mas Oeen CHOSEN lOT inc
capital of West Virginia.
Senator Morton suffered a paralytic
stroke recently, but at last accounts
was recovering.
Geo. Mcconnell, of North Haver-
hill, while standing in an open door
during a thunder shower playing a
harmonica, was struck by the light
ming striking the harmonica, and Sc
verely burned on his mouth and the
whole front of his body, passing of'at
his toes. He was unconscious for
several hours, and his recovery is very
uncertsiy' The house was set on fire
and 6adsi9 damaged.
DR.. Alpheus b. Crosby of New
York City, son of the late DIR. Dixi
Crosby, died very suddenly at the res
idence of his mother, in Hanover, n.
H., on Thursday Of last week. DIR.
Crosby was an eminent surgeon, and
held a professors chair in Dartmouth
and other medical colleges, and was
professor of surgical anatomy at Bel
levue Hospital College, New York
City.
Pennsylvania specials report that
the Pittston and the Butler coal COM
pany voluntarily announced Tuesday
of last week that the workingmen's
wages would be advanced ten per cent,
Wednesday. The Phoenix colliery
made the same announcement. The
only company out now at Pittston is
the Pennsylvania coal company. The
workingnen who had made no demand
for this advance paraded at Pittston
on hearing the news.
AS railroad train was turning a
curve near Attleboro, Mass, the 9th
er dav. the engineer saw a child about
two years old lying across the rail.
He blew the whistle for brakes, and
every effort was made to stop the train,
but in vain. Just before the engine
reached the child it got up. but stood
between the sleeperson the outside of
the rail and did not move for the
coming engine. There was not more
than a hands breath between the
child and locomotive as it passed.
Ex-President A. d. Smith, who
died Aug. IS, at Hanover, N. H., had
long been in ill-health, and his life had
for weeks been almost despaired of.
He was born at Amherst, n. H., Sep
TENDER 81, 1904, and was graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830being
in the tweRty-siXth year of his age
He was made. Principal of the Liner
ick Academy in Maine soon after TAX
! ing his degree and remained there one
year. He then studied theology in the
AndovGr Seminary, and after complet-
ING a three years course became pas
tor of the FoJi1teenth-Street Presby-
terian Church in New York. He re-
NAMED in charge of that church TWEEN
ty-years, when he resigned to become
President Of Dartmouth College,
position he continued to hon. until
about year and half ago, when inn
paired health obliged him to relinquish
his duties. The place was not filed
until the last commencement, when
President Bartlett was inaugulated.
Mr.. Smith has written several valua-
BILE works.
The miners strike in the Shamokin
region is spreading to out-laying dis
tricts including the Camerluke, Fid-
dler, Hickory Ridge and Mineral Coal
companies collieries. The latter com
pany has decided to close its works
and keep them closed until the strikers
are willing to resume at the old rate of
compensation. This suspension de-
prives between thirteen and fifteen
thousand miners and laborers of en-
ployment, and this number will be
largely augmented as the strike spreads
through the districts where hundreds
of dissatisfied golfers have prepared
themselves to join the aggressive
movement. Riotous demonstrations
have already commenced and an at
tack was made upon the vigilants at
Shamokin by body of masked men.
The fight was continued for some time.
Several Of the vigilants were wounded
and three or four Of the assailants
hurt. Trouble is apprehended at East
Tennessee coal mines, owing to an eff
fort to introduce conyicts to work in
the mines. The men are determined
to resist any attempt to put convicts
/ RI work