The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-05-31
srArE NEWS.
BIZ BrArn4s.

STATE NEWS.
Nessrs. brew snd Perry Of Darlington
have cold their ifotIer, Charley Mack, to
Boston parties, ior the nice sam Of s5,-
o0o.
a young sou Of u. w. Porter, OF North
Troy, stuck silver into bis foot, recent
ly, abd subsequently, died OF lockjaw.
Twenty-Five persons have come from
North Adams TO Bennington TO work In
Woodbury. & Moor's new shoe shop, and
others are to follow
NcKiaue has reversed the action Of a
previous town meeting, aud voted by
four majority 10 aid in the construction
OF the Braltleboro aud Whitehall Rail-
road.
Senator Edmunds arrived at Burling-
ton on Thursday morning, from Wash
ington, looking ia excellent health. His
family are TO follow in about three
weeks,
Gov. Fairbanks has extended an inyi-
tation to Hon. Daniel Roberts OF Bur-
lipgton, to deliver the principal address
on Vermont day, at bennington, Aug.
Is.
Ira w. Cla.k, late a prominent lawyer
of Middlebury, was taken to Brattleboro
to the insane asylum, the 14th. He has
been falling for nearly year. The cause
Of his insanity Is attributed to liquor.
The Addison County Journal has been
trifling with the MiddIebury scholars.
II reported the capture of red bat, and
many called 10 sec the strange creature,
including the president of the college.
1t was brickbat.
Pratt, Wright & Co., of Brattleboro
are out a s55 suit of clothes, because a
clerk allowed a fne.looking youth TO
"show them to his mother" Said youth
was last heard of down at Deerfeld,
Mass.
A Castleton man finds that seventeen
persons have been killed by cars and on
the railroad track in that town since the
advent OF railroads. Nine of these were
intoxicated. Some were deaf and few
we're children.
Charles S. Colburn ofPittsford, grad
uAte of Middlebuy college in '5s, and a
successful and esteemed lawyer, has been
appointed judge of probate to fill the va
cancy caused by the election of Judge
Dunton of Rutland to tho bench of the
supreme court.
The body Of james Neary, West
Rutland quarryman, who disappeared
mysteriousIy last November, was found
floating in an old quarry. Nothing indi'
Gated foul play, aud the remains, which
were badly decomposed, were buried.
DR.. Hoskins informs the Newport Ex-
press that it is his purpose, as soon as
the necessary arrangements are complete
TO re-estabish the Vermont Farmer in q
much improved form. 1t is not yet set.
tied whether the place OF publication viii
be St. Johnsbury, Montpelier or Burling
ton.
The commencement programme at
Middlebury college is; June "a, bacca
laureate by President Hubert, evening
address before the Philadelphia society
by Rev. y. l.. Blake, of Concord, N. ii.
Tuesday, address TO the alumni by A. Y
Walker, poem by w. Il. Howard, Park
erian prize speaking in the evening
Wednesday, graduation exercises.
Since the fishing boards prohibiting
fishing have been put up by our farmers
aud most every one of them follow ID,
letter and spirit of the law, and little
more, il is curious TO observe that thu
fishing party who start out with the big
gest demiiohn, always bring in the mos
fish. In former years, it was The reverse
of this.
A huge sarcophagus, cut from a bloch
about ten feet in length and four in widtl
aud thickness, il being constructed a
the sandblast factory at West Rutland
for the soldiers cemetery at Cold Harbol
Va, where were inferred the remains 0
one thousand braves whose names arr
unknown. The work will cost 81 900
1t isa curious fact that shout one il
every five OF the soldiers monuments
manufactured at the works contains thu
name Of Smith, Jones or Brown.