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

John trOSS Of falinaNen mas 10
barn now. Last Thursday he took n
smoke there and fred the building.
A thief entered the house of Edwin
Fuller of Chelsea, the Other day, and
appropriated a $1,000 Government
bond.
William Caldwell found, the other
day, an Indian pestle fourteen inches
long, near the bank of the river at
Vernon.
George Gram, ofBrownington, was
very severely gashed by a scythe which
his brother was swinging behind him,
in the hay field recently.
Fred Bushy, Eugene Carpenter and
Peter Calligan escaped from the Bur
lington Jail Monday by knocking down
the turnkey as he opened the door of
their cell.
A lager beer saloon has been started
on Center street, Rutland, for the
''beneflt" OF the children, and among
its patrons a-e boys Of 8, and 10
years of age. -..
Arthur H. Blair, for two years teach
er at Mortified, Mass, is appointed
principal of the Montpelier high school,
j. S. Cilley of the Brandon academy
having declined the position.
An attempt to break out of the
Franklin county Jail at st. Adams, by
the prisoners, among whom is Edward
Tatro, the convicted murderer of Mrs.
Butler, was frustrated Sunday.
Two large stock barns belonging to
Ira Mears of East Montpelier, were
burned last week Monday night, with
40 tons Of hay. The fire was of in
cendiary origin. Loss aboul $4,000;
insured.
The Orange county Jail has no oc-
cupants. Why not have few quietly
leave the massive walls OF the Irasburgh
institution some moonlight night and
walk down to Chelsea and occupy the
vacant rooms!
Several drovers on the line Of the
Passumpsic railroad are preparing to
drive cattle to Island Pond to be ship
ped from there to Boston, on account
of the rates charged for freight over
the Passumpsic.
A man fom New York has been
engaged by the proprietor Of the Bat
tenkill cheese factory, Manchester; to
| convert the whey into suga., and the
refuse, after the sugar is extracted,
into phosphates.
A week ago Thursday, The house,
barn and woodshcd Of A. =. Goodell,
situated near North Derby, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ed in the Farmers Mutual, Of Mont
peler, for 81 ,425.
Patrick McAuliff, an employee of the
Fall Mountain paper company, at Bel
lows Falls, was instantly killed re-
Gently, having his head crushed while
unloading logs. He was 10 years old
and leaves a large family.
Recently, Jonathan Cilley, of Ando-
yer, found three cows, Il pair ofyoung
oxen and two sheep piled upon one
another under an elm tree in his pas
ture, and all dead. They had evident
| ly been killed by lightning.
John Bakers family at East Con-
cord were lately taken violently sick
after eating new potatoes. A physi-
clan pronounced it poison by arsenic,
but as no arsenic could be founC, it is
thought that potato bug must have
accidentally been bold with the pota-
toes.
Captain J. c. Spaulding, of Proc
torsville, was thrown from a load OF
, hay on the 23rd ult., and seriously in
r iured in his neck and the spinal col
: umn. DR.. Putnam of Ludlow was
! called, and hopes are entertained OF
the Captains recovery, though he is
not out OF danger.
Amos Gardner, of Fairhaven, is the
owner of a fine herd of eight full-blood-
: ed Jersey cows, which he purchased
7 last year. This season, in five weeks
after the first of June, he made from
them, $50 pounds Of gilt-edged butter
| which he sold in Albany for twenty
| eight cents per pound.
John Coughlin of Brandon wa
found hanging by his neck in an out
. building, near his house, about fly
! o'clock Friday afternoon. Ris wifi
: says he had not been out of the hous
: more than an hour wher. he was found
He leaves wife ard four children
disappointment and Ill health are sal
e to be the cause Of the suicide.
J Mrs. ApplGCo Barrows of Bridge
water, in che absence of her husban
: few days ago, was at the barn dom
' chores when she was hooked by on
!, of the young cattle, receiving a ser
q GUS wound, the horn striking her jus
+ below the ribs and passing aroun
y from right to left about eight inches
. She lies in a very critical condition.
j. The grasshoppels have so destroye
h the feed in some pastures near st. A
# bans that the farmers have been oil
}. liged to commence feeding their Gait
le hay. Several are moving their GA
N for fodder or drying it for winter us
Corn stalks are eaten off by the pest
and unless wet weather sets in,
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