The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-22
STATE NEWS,
The steam saw mill at Gaysville was
burned last Thursday night.

The steam saw mill at Gaysville was
burned last Thursday night.
Montgomery still keeps up its stock
Of bears. One was caught there last
week.
Mrs. Julia II. O'Brion Of Bcnning-
ton, aged 1913 was the Oldest attendant
upon the Centennial.
The Methodist church at Albany
Center has been sold to the town to
be used as town house.
Mr.. Henry Harris of Newbury,
while going up q hill behind load of
hay, fell dead from heart disease.
The returns to the Bethel clerk
office show that one child died last
year Of information" Of the brain.
Mr.. c. Horace Hubbard, of SPRING
field, has q COW from which he has
sold calves to the amount Of $1,000.
Mr.. l. Phillips, of Colorado, has
just purchased So, 800 worth of choice
sheep in Addison and Chittendon
counties.
Miss Charlotte Stark, of Dunbarton
granddaughter Of the Hero of Benning-
ton, was at the celebration. She was
so years old.
The store Of S. II. Parkhurst in
Brandon was burned the 10Th. A
family occupied the upper portion.
Total insurance, Sc, 300.
The room Of q member of the Slave
Cabin Singers at the Stark House in
Bennington, was robbed Of $50 and
several valuable diamonds.
On the 18th, a daughter of Mr..
Charles Smith Of Barre, aged 7 years,
was killed in q nill-yard by log roll
ing over on her and crushing her skull.
A Fairfield man at work in the hay
field laid his vest down, and few
hours afterwards found that the grass
hopper had reduced the garment to
shredS.
The saw mill of j. l.. c. Corliss, a
few miles north Of w. Burke, was
burned on Friday morning Of last
week, supposed to have been struck
by lightning.
A horse Of j. w. Bright, of Tun-
bridge, recently ran, throwing out Mr..
Bright and his daughter, the latter
being seriously injured. The wagon
was completely demolished.
After enjoying 81 years and four
months Of welded life, Ebenezer Lew
is and wife both died within sc hours
of each other, recently, and were
buried in one grave, the same day.
William A. Bissette and Benjamin
Kittredge Of Burlington, have been
sent to the States prison, at Windsor,
for one year and one and a half years
respectively, for breaking Jail and
horse stealing.
There was heavy thunder storm al
Derby Line Monday night Of last
week, raising the river four feet
sweeping away the dam of L. A,
Stearns & Co., and doing good dea.
Of damage to crops.
The Passumpsic railroad has passed
its dividend, but the earnings Of the
road have been considerably above tho
expenses. Debts have been paid anC
the prospect is good that dividends
will be declared ere long.
Grasshoppers have nearly devarsta
ted Lyndon this year. Mr.. Carpenter
got scarcely ton of hay from nearly
20 acres of mowing. Taylor and San
born have suffered severely, and Others
in that locality good deal.
With some losses not yet adjusted
the losses Of the Vermont Mutual Fir,
Insurance Company for the last fsca
year will exceed one hundred an(
eighty thousand dollars. The com
pany makes an assessment Of 5 pc
cent. alsa.J XII
A young man by the name Of Peel
was arrested at Royalton, recently
charged with stealing 500 from JOIN
Wild. He confessed, amp was thel
arrested for stealing $40 from Squar
Wild. He was examined before
justice who held him for trial at Count,
Court,
Milton has a new iron bridge acros
the Lamoille. 1t was built by tn
King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Com
pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, is singh
span Of 112 feet, with a capacity o
over hundred tons, and the drive
way is some IS feet wide with walk
ON each side.
While digging in clay bank, re
Gently, Louis Lyon, of Milton, foun'
a silver coin bearing the date 1870
somewhat larger than quarter Of
dollar, Of original value unknown. /
lay about four feet under ground, an
when taken from the clay was brigh
as newly coined silver.
The body Of William Maloney, who
it will be remembered, was browne
IN Lake Champlain while retumin