The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-11-14
STATE NEWS.


The grain, -four and feed firm of S.
G. Noble & Co., st. Adams, has fail
ed for about $4,000.
There is rumor at Rutland that
the rival Howe and Fairbanks scale
companies are to consolidate.
Hops are said to be drug in Or
leans county, and the growers are of
fered only 8 to 10 cents per pound.
Swanton is mentioned as the right
place for holding the winter meeting
of the Vermont Dairymen's Associa-
ton. 49,
William Dodge Of South Windham,
has lodged around until he got few
hundred dollars in his pocket and then
lodged off to parts unknown.
Rev. j. II. Marsh has closed his Ia
bors with the Baptist Society at East
Hardwick, and has gone to Barnston,
p. O., as his next field of labor.
While John Powers, of Poultney,
aged 60 years, was returning from his
slate quarry, one week ago last Sun
day morning, he fell from the wagon
and broke his neck.
Milo Temple Of Lunenburg, VT.
aged % years, and a carpenter by
trade, hung himself on the 18th inst.
Depression of spirits is supposed tC
have prompted the act.
Two young men of Rutland, OF
''good character" recently spent one
night in Jail and paid nine dollars
apiece, for participation in horn SER
enade rendered o young married cou-
pie.
An active revival is in progress in
Dandy, Vt. There ia also a quicken.
ed religious interest in Benson with &c
conversions, and in Hubardton, Clar.
endon, Wallingtord, Pittsford, and
other towns in Rutland county.
S. f. Webb, of Guildhall, while
crossing toll bridge, had occasion to
take out some money from his pocket
when new fifty dollar bill blew from
his hands into the water below anC
passed down the stream.
is a significant fact that every
Democratic from those States whose
Democratic Governors called on the
President for troops during the rail
road riots for aid, and received them
voted Friday to reduce the army, some
of them squarely taking the grount
that the army must not be used t.
"over-awe laboring men,"
A week ago Saturday Rev. G. W
Thompson, pastor of the Congrega
tional church at Danville, asked for ;
dismissal, on the ground of impaired
health. Mr.. Thompson was once pro
fessor of Latin in the U. V. M. anC
during his pastorate at Danville ha
won such respect and love from tn
people of every denomination ant
those of no denomination that his dis
missal will cause general regret.
After pastorate of fourteen year
with the Baptist church in the great
est unison, Rev. Ii. N. Hovey, @
Lowell, gave in his resignation Of tina
relation on Saturday of week befor
last. Though painful to himself an
others, Mr.. Hovey expresses the con
viction that it is better that his "wor
be surrendered to fresh and more abb
hands," The warmest remembrance
must long be cherished between paste
and people.
At st. Johnsbury, recently, Rev
Henry Fairbanks coachman, drove hi
ponies and carriage with Mrs. FAN
banks and little daughter up to tn
Fairbanks store where they got out
do some shopping. On their retur
Hubbard placed the little girl in th
carriage and was helping Mrs. FAN
banks in when the ponies whirle
around, overturned the carriage an
went on with the forward wheels. N
one was injured, but the little girl ha
narrow escape.
The administrator of the estate c
Asa Reynolds, late of Alburgh, ha
applied to the Probate Court for tn
appointment of a commissioner on tn
estate of Hiram Bellows, late of 81
Adams. His claim is for $4,000 eS
ira interest. Other claimants on sin
liar grounds join in the application
The executor opposes, but the Coul
must appoint commissioner on pre-
per application under the statute
There is to be q vast number of claim
for usurious interest which will be pre-
sented if the door is opened. Th
Bellows estate amounted to about ha
a million, - "