The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-07-19


nev. y. W. Oimtlod, late Of Towns
bend, has accepted 5 call to The Congrs-
gaiioual church At Wiihslon,
II IL said that the Iaic Rev. nr. Hall Of
Brownlbgtoa, was the arst teacher who
used a blackboard ia o5mmon schools.
Mrs. Daniel Hoyt Of Crsasbsry re.
eeived 5 severe injury, a shor, time ago,
BY being struck BY q COW she Wa trying
10 drive into a yard,
0rman Flanders, a young man, n
years old, Of Orange. committed suicide
on The slh, by hanging himself with a
check rein. No known cause for the act.
Burlington Is wondering over the arst
telephone, pat 10 for business purposes
Rnlland rejoiees over the transfer to
the state Of six Insane people, whom she
has been supporting 81 the Brattleboro
asylum, thus efiecting q saving Of $1,000
a year,
Geu. W. W. Henry, Of Burlington, has
been appointed chief marshal Of one Of
the two Vermont divisions st the Ben.
uington Centennial, aud has accepted
the appointment.
Grassboppers are committing great
rsysges IN some parts Of Vermont. The
pastures look as II parched with drought,
and some farmers are Fastening to cut
their hay 10 order to save il from being
devoured.
w. II. McAllis,er, aepa,y collector of
customs at st. Albans, has been removed
BY Gen. Wells, collector for the district
Of Vermont, for q deficiency Of nearly
$1,000 In his accounts.
Chelsea, at a town meeting held on
Thursday last voted TO appropriate five
hundred dollars towards procuring in.
struments for a brass band. The vote
on the the question stood n~inety-one for,
und ffty.eight against.
The steel rails for the Central Vermont
road are arriving In large quantities
from Troy, and a large number Of men
are laying them.
The average weekly cost of pupils at
tending the public schools In this state
for the year ending March 81, 1875, was
Al cents, aud for the next year A. l.2
cents.
A man in the employ of Cyrus Aver, O
Hartlsnd, recently shot al eagle messur-
ing four feet and three inches across III
wings. The nest of the eagle was also
found and besides three young eagles
contained two squirrels, two chicken
aud a young woodchuck.
The first Westinghouse in Vernon
was built at Bennington Centre, abon
1863 or 1894, aud stood midway between
the site of the present one and tie Wal
loomsae House, though it was not fully
completed until ten years later. The
size was 50x40, with the addition 0
porch twenty feet square. A school was
kept in the upper story for some years
The church organization bad been per
fected Dec. 8, 1862, by the union of tn
churches from Hardwick aud Sunderland
Mass. in one body, or "Church Of hris
in Bennington"
Geo. Metcalf, who slipped tho police
at st. JohDsbury some three weeks ago
while under arrest for selling liquor tt
the young men who were drowned there
was captured at Newport las. week b.
Sheriff Bowley after hard tussle. AfteI
his escape from ST. Johnsbury, Metcal
went to S~herbrook, p. @ but cam on
to Barton on the 4th with some horses
Information reached the Sheriff that b.
would go back Thursday on a freigh
train, aud he laid in wait for him. Or
entering the Car several men were found
none of whom would point out Metcalf
when Bowley, picking out the one who
looked most guilty, grasped him ant
held him until his companions could adj
Just the handouts. In the melee Mr..
Bowley had two ribs broken. Metcal
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