The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-04-25
STATE ITEMS.

pounds of nice maple sugar.
The Methodist church Of Sheffield
now numbers $50 members, and the
Baptist church is prosperous.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jabez Pinney of
Greensboro celebrated their golden
wedding on Tuesday evening.
The bill appropriating 81 800 to the
Bennington battle monument has pass
ed the Massachusetts Senate.
1 A petition for a further reprieve of
John p. Phair until the next session
of the Legislature is now in circulation
at Rutland. 1t has already been sign
ed by Ex-Governor Page, Judge Ellis
and Dorr and many other prominent
citizens.
A boy named Frank Hannaford,
while out hunting near st. Adams the
other day, saw a huge pickerel in
pond and managed to send ball from
his rifle through it. 1t was one of the
largest ever seen in that locality and
weighed l6 1-2 pounds.
Mrs. C. S. Stevens and her daugh-
ter Della were thrown from a wagon,
at Bradford, the 18th. The horse
started abruptly, causing the seat to
be thrown from the wagon. Mrs. Ste
vens was seriously if not fatally injur-
ed. Her daughter escaped with few
bruises.
DR.. j. M. Currier of Castleton
has donated his large collection of In
dian relics to the State cabinet. 1t
contains nearly 1000 specimens, and
, is rich in illustrations of the domestic
life of the aboriginees Of Vermont.
Weapons of war, domestic utensils,
pottery, red paint, etc., are among the
specimens. Numerous specimens
from the Kjokenmoddings on a Mr..
Thomas's farm in the town of Monk
ton are in this collection, and show
the greatest antiquity of the pre-his-
toric race of'any locality in Vermont.
This collection is considered the most
valuable of any in the State.
n A correspondent of the Free Press
says There are thirty-nine recorded
n cases where persons have been eXecut-
!, ed for murders, who were afterwards
q found to be innocent. The chain of
I circumstances in every one of these
i. cases appeared to be so complete as
+ to make the probability ofguilt exceed
: ingly strong. Nor could the accused
q in any one instance explain the net
work of evidence that seemed to COM
n pletely surround them. And yet, af-
ter their bodies had began to moulder
to the dust, when it had become too
! late to correct mistakes, it TRANSFERRED
i that innocent blood had been shed.
President Hayes has invited his I'M
J. Gle, the venerable Austin Birchard of
# Fayetteville, who is 81 years old, to
,, make him visit at the White House,
/ and promises to send his son Webb as
y an escort. But Mr.. Birchard declines
g on account of his age and physical in
:, trinity and also his Discrimination to
= mingle in society on account of the
10 death of his daughter Mary, who was
N killed at Ashtabula, and so the Presi-
+ dent will probably visit the old gen.
y tleman himself early in the summer.
n In the course of his stay he will drive
>, over to Wilmington to the scenes SO
10 familiar to his ancestors, which he
\ visited five years ago.
er Vermont is looking forward with
pardonable pride and special interest
, to her first centennial of moment,
which occurs on the 10th of August Of
NJ the present year. Upon that day Of
NJ the month, LIT, the Battle of Ben.
if nington was fought, and under the
IN command of General Stark the Amer
~ lean forces won their first victory under
!. that banner which is now the emblem
70 OF our nationality. The war had beer
X, in progress for over two years, ant
10 while it had demonstrated the bravery
bo of the colonists and shown their oppres
- sors some of the difficulties of conquest
of it had not brought that measure O
success upon the battlefield that seem
ed necessary for the encouragement o
20 the struggling Continentals. Tit
. Battle of Bennington afforded fresl
inspiration and led the American
troops to fight with such redoublet
!, energy and hopefulness that the sur
~ render of Burgoyne and the departure
~ of this formidable watchdog from tn
~ North followed soon after. 1t is prop
= er and expedient that Massachusett
I, should take the part in the coming eel
= ebration that she has been invited t,
take. The battle, though fought Of