The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-05-02
STATE ITEMS.

Osmore Sargent, Of jay, was thrown
from A horse last Saturday and broke
his arm.
An association for the protection
of fish and game has been formed in
Montpelier, with Fred +. Smith as
President.
Rev. l.. II. Tabor has moved to
West Burke, and was TO commence
his service in the Universalist Church
last Sunday.
Frank Haltham, brakeman on
Passumpsic and South Eastern train,
was killed at Newport Wednesday,
while switching cars.
f. L. Hovey has sold the Grange |
store at st. Johnsbury to +. +. Rich
ardson, who takes Volney Powers in
company with him.
John Patton, convicted for man
slaughter in shooting Barney McCue
at Rutland, has been sentenced to II
years in the state prison.
Geo. S. Shaw, Esq, the long time
Insurance agent, of st. Johnsbury,
has already, or expects soon, to re-
move with his family to Boston.
A. j. Fisher of Rutland has a
chicken with four perfect legs and
feet, two being in the natural place
and two growing out Of the back.
Bennington announces the finding
of a woman in that town, named Mrs.
Julia O'Brien, who is 102 years old,
and who is to be exhibited at the July
Centennial.
The dwelling house of b. f. Nor
ton, in Berlin, was destroyed by fire
Thursday night. Loss, 1919. In
sured in the Farmers Mutual of Mont
pelier, for 5000.
A tenement owned by Fairbanks &
Co. was considerably damaged by fire
at st. Johnsbury recently. John Nc
Gowan, the tenant, was taken out in
sensible. His wife, an invalid, is Sc
riously i'll from fright.
Joseph Miles of Lyndon Center, a
young man twenty-five years of age,
brakeman on the Passumpsic railroad,
was caught between the hunters oftwo
freight cars, and so terribly injured
that he survived but a short time.
Place, st. Johnsbury Acadamy ;
recitation, physiology.-Questio by
teacher. s'Name flavor that is excited
by the sense of touch" Advanced
scholar: "a skunk" Then an audi
BILE smile prevailed that class.
Wilmington maple sugar is so deli
cious this year that one Of the clergy
men of the place really couldn't help
taking good bite in the midst of his
sermon Sunday and the cnnoreoatior
smiled and smacked their lips in sym
pathy.
3 A man in Berkshire sent an applica.
ton for dog license to the town clerk
and by way Of description Of the can.
| inc wrote "IIe is rather meaner than
the average dog intellectually he bears
f a striking resemblance to our town
representatives.
t George Short, who was shot by Ar
: buckle in East Montpelier recently.
is in fair way Of recovery. The bal
! that entered his breast was found just
above the left hip bone, having passed
} downward just under the skin. II
has been extracted.
George Perkins, 20 years old, Of
Vergennes, was arraigned before Judge
Grew, charged with indecent assault
on Rose Yattaw, aged years. He
was bound over to the county court
, Perkins is considered half-witted. The
parties reside in Panton.
) The Fairbankses have decided South
f Park to the village of st. Johnsbury
on condition that no buildings shall
ever be erected thereon, no tent fol
| shows, and no ball playing, but that il
shall always be cared for as an orna-
] mental park for the village.
= An old democrat in Glover who
:" sailed" down a little currency dur
ing war time has lately concluded that
the country is not going to the "she-
bung" this year, and unties his purse
strings. He lately paid school tax
; of $3.50 in three cent pieces.
A letter from one tramp to another
: was picked up in Fairhaven, the other
day, which closed as follows: gu
won't ketch me in this stat agin my
advis to II IL to go bak to york stat
ceep clear of vermont fur it IL not a
! good hum fur sensitiv tramp.