Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-30
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
G. d. Hyde Of Troy has invented corn
drOPper, which Is to be attached to the no,
handle.
james Blair's six-year-old daughter wa
killed at East Warren recently by falling
down stairs.
The farm dwelling house Of Silas Crawford
Of Newport was burned last Thursday even.
ing
Capt. Ruius Averill Of Bloomington ha,
bought j. o. 0rnes interest 10 The whet-stout
business at WestmOre, for $4,000.
The ive-year-old son Of Joseph Japan Of
West Enosburgh was accidentally hung while
swinging in Chamber Tuesday afternoon.
John z. Phair, the murderer of Mrs
Frieze at Rutland, will be hung next Fri.
day at the states prison. The governor re
fused to grant reprieve. .,f-h
Rev. 7. s. Hubbard resigns from the Roch.
ester Congregational church, and Rev. II.
Hicks from the Congregational church at
Bakersfield.
AT Bellows Falls, on Monday, Jesse H,
Lewis was found guilty Of murder in the tirst
degree in causing the death Of Albert w.
Deming in Jamaica April 20. 1875.
Lyman II. Hopkins committed suicide at
Barton last Friday with a pocket knife.
Dependency occasiOued by being out of em-
ployment is assigned as the reason.
More than two-thirds Of the old school
superintendonts in the state have been re-
elected. Onc.third Of the number are pro.
tessional men or college graduates not in pro-
fessional life, and six are ladies'.
Col. james r. Willard, aged 70 years,
was found dead in his shop in Jay, on Mon
day Of last week. He was believed 70 have
been murdered by couple Of drunken fel.
lows who took his pocket book and fed to
Canada.
On the morning Of March Goth about 8
o'clock, strange flashing light was seen at
Berkshire in two successive flashes few
seconds apart and loud reports slowly fol-
lowed, more like distant cannon than thunder
This was heard and seen by many persons.
A cheese factory is to DO erected at Maple
corner, in the west part Of Calais, this spring.
Mr.. Peck Of Brookfeld, who establ ished the
factory at North Montpelier last season, is
said to be the prime mover in the enterprise.
About 200 cows are pledged for its support
for three years.
A citizen Of Shoreham caught deer on
the ice OF Lake Champlaia the other day, in
queer manner. The animal had been driy.
en- upon the lake from the opposite shore,
and, slipping, it was unable to regain its
footing, whereupon the man, who happened
to be passing succeeded in tying it, and car
ried II home. - u . w
Last Saturday morning, fragments of
human body were found strewn along the
railroad track at Winooski, here an arm, and
a part Of leg and further on other portions
OF the body. Two or more trains had passed
over the body. 1t proved to be the body
OF malatto named Vaughan who lived at
Essex. A pocket containing an empty bot.
tie revealed the secret of the disaster.
One Of the largest meteors ever seen 10
this vicinity passed over Glover and Crafts
bury last Tuesday morning. The meteor ap-
pearsd as large as a full moon, and moved
very rapidly from east to west. A noise
like the rumbling Of q heavy wagon, or of
distant thunder was heard, while the earth
trembled as though affected by slight
earthquake. Some who saw the fiery visitor
state that it broke IN fragments and fell to
the earth.-Barton Monitor.
The fish commission Of Vermont, with
DIR. Goldsmith at its head, are proving sue
cessful with some interesting experiments.
Among the rest they have transplanted the
smelt from the salt water to the fresh waters
OF the state without diminishing their fe-
oundity aud with improvement in their quail.
ity. The fresh water smelt, indeed rs
raised by DR.. Goldsmith, is the aristocrat of
his race. Herring have also been trans.
planted into some Of the larger and deeper
Vermont lakes, mainly to serve as food to
the lake trout and pickerel.
Albert Brown, cashier of the Springfield
national bank, at FIRST defaulter, has failed
for $4,000. Nearly two years ago, be-
lieving that there was money TO be made
specializing in stocks in Wall street, as
hundreds have thought before him to their
sorrow, he commenced operations though
brokers in New York on the margin plan.
For while all went well, and be made n
fair profit. At the beginning of the great
financial depression he was loaded up with
the various stocks current in Wall street,
and following the belief that the tide would
soon turn in bis favor, he chung to them.
Then came the financial crisis, which affected
stocks more in proportion than other branches
OF business, and as they went lower add.
tionsl margins were called for by the brok-
era. Mr.. Brown being reduced to the last
extremity for money, and believing that he
could replace everything, commenced using
United States bonds which were deposited in
the vaults Of the bank, for safe keeping, and
placed them in the brokers' hands as margin.
Step by step he was led on until he saw ruin
before him, and then it was he applied to
his friends for aid, telling them all. They
furnished him with fuuds, and on March l6
he went to New York and redeemed the iden.
teal bonds taken and replaced them in the
vault. BY doing this he became bankrupt
and suspended payment. His liabilities, di.
rect, will exceed thirty thousand dollars.
The bank accounts are believed to be per-
fectly correct. Mr.. Brown was largely in
terested in the following firms. that are doing
a large business ID. NJ. Smith Il Co., Smith
Mason Il Co., Vermont Novelty Works Co.,
Prize Churn & Go.
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Music AND CoLoR.-ProE. Barrett in a
recent London lecture said that there is