The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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.ars were totally wrecked. for'u-
Iately no casualties are reported
Another exciting wrestling match
occurred in New York last week be-
.ween Owen of Fairfield, VT and
Murphy Of New York. The match
eas for the champion belt and 5000.
Owen was the winner, aflcr one OF the
contests of the kind that was
ever witnessed.
A novel libel suit was brought IN
recently. A man who didn't
like his neighbor sowed mustard and
on his own grounds IN
such way that when they grew the
words whitehead is a scamp were
seen. The court decided the act to he
Ibelous, and that vegetables had no
right to grow in that style.
Secretary Evarts is amused by the |
statement that he has
eleven lovtay daughters. lie said the
other day to a correspondent: "IeI
your people that don't object to eley-
EN- daughters, but | do object TO the
SUMMARY manner ia which they have
killed off my six sons" The secreta-
~ has FIVE daughters and six sons.
At West Deerfeld, n. H., some
time since, strange clopement took
place. The parties were a French
man, % years of age, and Names. NJ.
Wilet's wife, aged 90. Mrs. Wiley
c9iried her husband part way TO the
Epping eanp-meetinss She then went
home and sold yoke Of oxen, three
cews one ,yearhng, a hog, some wheat
etc., purchased horse and buggy,
and on 29th started with the French
man for parts unknown. ..
Indications of a prehistoric people,
the signs of which are plentiful in
Southwestern Colorado, have lately
been discovered in Western Nevada.
Antique pottery and undecipherahIc
writings on the rocks are the most
common tokens. At one place en-
grayed upon rock is the nude figure
Of a man holding in his right hand Il
shrub, the general outlines of which
show considerable artistic skill.
1t was an enthusiastic fisherman.
He had caught a half dozen black bass
about the size of sardines. ald proud
w placed the catch before farmer for
inspection. The Granger turned the
little fishes over with the blade Of his
knife, and looking up into the face OF
the fisherman, remarked in painfully
measured syllables: "Wouldn't-you
,-haye-been-about- as wcll-ofi
--ifLyou-had -kept-your--ba bait
and-cpoked-it"
At recent meeting Of the Associ-
alton for the Advancement of Science
held at Nashville, Tenn, Mrs. In
gram read a paper upon the prevention
of disease BY the explosion Of gun
powder. This process, she said,
would kill all the mosquitoes and Other
insect pests in room, and the germs
of cholera might he destroyed in the
same way. If Mrs. Ingram is right
in this matter the benelicent purpose
of gunpowder has at last been found.
A Saratoga incident: A bachelor
ting with a 1offfgght young Miss from
tout West" and upon rising to take
his leave he expressed his pleasure at
having made so charming acquaintance
and hoped to see her soon again.
"Oh, as to that, sir" said the Young
lady, las you are not marrying man,
/ see no necessity for your calling
again.
A report has gained circulation that
Osman Pasha who is showing so much
skill fighting the Russians was no 9th
er than Marshal Bazaine, the French
soldier. But now a Kentuckian named
Wicklitfe arises to say that he is an
American and that his name is Il.
Clay Crawford, of Tennessee that
he was q colonel of artillery during
the rebellion and that he has since
been soldier in Egypt, Mexico and
Turkey.
At the New England Fair, at Port
land, Me-, there was foot race by
Norman Taylor, of Plymouth, who
was booked to run five miles in TWEEN
ty-nine minutes, horse being match
ed against him to trot eight miles in
the same time. Taylor made his five
miles in 20 m. 81 s., and the horse
eight miles in 20 m. 22s. Taylor is
forty-seven years old and weighs one
hundred and thirty-fve pounds. He
made his first public appearance five
years ago, when he ran sixteen and a
half miles in two hours and twenty
minutes, crossing the Green Noun
tains from Plymouth Union to Rut-
land. He gave exhibitions at several
places in Vermont in the fall of 1879.
This year, he ran three miles in six
teen minutes and forty seconds at
Beacon Park. Boston, and ten miles
in sixty-tive minutes and twenty-five
seconds at Lawrence. His longest
race was at Saratoga, where he
did twenty miles in two hours, twenty
minutes and forty-four seconds.