Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04
Vermont State News.


THE Bristol Academy has sixty students this
spring Weybridge had seven deaths and eigh-
teen births last year Five tramps, who at
tempted to force an entrance into c. A. Booths
house, at Vergennes last week, were fired at by
the servant girl and it is supposed one of them
was wounded, Lyman H. Payne, of Cornwall,
has recently purchased forty pure-booded Spanish
Merino sheep of Edward s. Dana at high prices,
including ram, which good judges affirm to be
equal to one sold at Philadelphia during the Cen
tennial for six hundred and fifty dollars, and
which came from the same flock.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
NINE yoke of oxen were recently shipped from
Danville for Connecticut ...A. Buzzel of St
Johnsbury, was arrested for drunkenness, the
other day, and fined FIVE dollars and costs
Peabody's men, at Peabody Station, have been
taken out of the woods, having finished up his
winters work. They have got in four thousand
cords of wood and two million five hundred thou
sand feet of lumber About thirty men will conf
pose the force at the station till the middle of
May, when the saving will be completed, after
which the force will be reduced one-half .. Quite
a number Of Caledonia county people are going to
the Black Hills. 80. The Western papers say that
the Messrs. Fairbanks, Of st. Johnsbury, have
brought suit against Albert NJ Gilbert, Of Chicago,
gent for the Brandon Scale Company, for ill.,
fringement of patent applied to railroad platform
scales, have had a decision in their favor, and
reference was ordered to a master to report dam
ages suffered. Itturns out upon investigations
that Luke Buzzell, Of st. Johnsbury, about whose
failure so much has been said, has from thirty to
Il a.. 4 4
debtedness
cHITrENDEN COUNTY.
The ice in Lake Champaign is getting very poor,
and travel over it has been for the most part sus-
pended -. Lieut. j. F, Tenney, United States
Army, succeeds Capt, W, A, Chapman as signal
officer at Burlington
FRANKLIN COUNTY
H. II. RAwsoN, II prominent citizen OF Mont
gomery, was drowned on the 2sth Of March, in
Trout river He was aiding to start AN ice gorge
which had thrown water upon the highway, and
was swept under the ice and carried directly
under bridge, which had to be cut away to re-
cover his body. The water was not more than
three feet deep. His age was about sixty years,
and he leaves wife and five adult children.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
AT recent auction at Craftsbury, good cows
brought fifty dollars each E. The earthquake re-
Gently reported at Troy proves to have been moth
ing but large meteor, which passed over the
town from west to east accompanied with loud,
rumbling noise, which was mistaken for subter-
ranean rumblings.. An eagle recently attacked
and killed a calf in Jay.....C. d. Hyde, OF Troy,
has invented corn dropper, which is to be at
taclpl the hna.hauila q plnnal 1amps IL
Willard, aged seventy-three years, was found
dead in his shop at jay, on the 10Th Of March.
Foul play is suspected
RUTLAND COUNTY
FRANCIS GIMAN's house, in Rutland, was de.
stroyed by fire on the 30th utimo Loss, one
thousand dollars; insurance, six hundred dollars
IA portion Of the trestle work at the Pittsford
railroad bridge was thrown out of place, last
week, by the water and Lockwood Trains were
delayed only short time. Ira Ayers, OF Forest
dale (BrandOn), farmer eighty years of age
was fined fity-fve dollars and costs, last week
for selling some cider. ...A Grand Army post has
been organized in Brandon, with twenty five
members
wINpHAM COUNTY.
SCION L. WooIEY, the Grafton murderer, ha,
been convicted OF murder in the second degree
... Harrison NJ. Townshend and Edmund Stone
| the Dummerston hre-bugs have been indicted by
the grand jury, Rev, Mr. Russell, pastor Of tn,
| Putney Congregational church, in addition to hi,
ministerial duties, supplied the lack OF fall
school, last autumn, by keeping school OF tel
weeks, free OF charge, to all who would come.
WINDSOR COUNTY
LUTHER o. GREENE has received the appoint
ment OF postmaster at Woodstock. The author
of the graceful and pleasing verses in the Marcl
| 81, Nicholas entitled "pausy's Lovers" it SEEM
is no other than Miss Laura, the nine ears-oll
daughter of Hon. d, Z, Deuison, of Royaton, tn,
Representative in Congress from this state A
| II Emerson, OF Woodstock, died suddenly, tn,
other night, OF heart disease . Grayclin, tn,
Wea,hersfed murderer has recovered from hi
attempt at suicide while in Woodstock Jail. II,
has donned his prison suit, had his heavy blacl
| whskers shayen OF, his hair cut short, and is "a
work in the shoeshop Of Windsor prison .
| A citizen of Mill village tRochesterl, came nea
losing his life by freezing, one night recently
| lie was under the influence Of old cider, and WA
| foLAd in lot through which he was passing ol
| his way home with his feet badly frozen, Mrs
Samuel Barrett, Of Weathersfied left her tw,
the house by screams, and found the younger,
girl OF twenty months, fearfully burned, having
set It's clothing on fire ,. Fhar, the murderer
was lately visited by the Dartmouth Glee Club
| WIN aang fnr him tho - Sweat Uv-and-hv