The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-09-06

snd dad, tpaaklnk bnt aicw words lie
bad beos = long, hard working citizsn Of
the town. lesvlng s wife sud several
shildfen EroSa up 70 mas estate.
CsstIs.ou Is rejoicing over irog wi'b
ak iegs.
A Eve year old girl In Bsrsoa walked
20 miles In one day, Gsd was not mpoh
fAtigned.
The apple eFop 10 Orleans oouniy has
not been ~ good for many yeArs ~ IL
promises 10 be this year.
At the New Haven camp meeting last
week, there were al board tents aud 2s
canvas ieuis.
wba, Mrs. Stark said; "lt John
doesn't whip The Brl,isbers be will be =
grass Wldower directly"
Alfred Gle, OF DauvilIs, Killed a black
snake, recently, that measured Eve feet
aud three inches 10 length.
Judge j. W. Ainsw orth Of Walling ford
6s years old, fell from . wagon in . dt,
breaking his collar bone aud one rib.
One hundred and dfty-one pounds Of
honey was taken frOm tree on Round
MountAin, BrAttleboro, by bee-hunlers
recently.
John RIce OF RallAnd has found quartz
bearing cad. aud, Il is thought, silver,
somewhere on Bald mountain. A speci.
men recently brought down aud analyE-
cd was iOuud quite rich in silver.
The Farmer Mutual Fire Insuran &C
Co., which was Incorporated 10 1859, is
about 10 make lie Rrst assessment upon
its premium notes. THIS Is owing 10 the
Unprecedented amount OF losses the CON-
pany has been obliged to pay during the
last two years. The indebtedness is
$55 600.
Charles johnson, who has been under
arrest at Rutland, for some time, for
stonlng 3 car filed with soldiers return.
ing FROM the Bennington centennial, has
been committed for trial in default Of
$500 bail,
II. ID. Everest, an old and quite deaf
gentleman of Clarendon, while driving
across the railroad track the 29rd, was
struck by an engine, aud his $3.50 car
riage was stove in pieces, but he fortu'
nateiy escaped with some slight bruises.
President Hayes was so much pleased
with the turnout provided for him at
Bennington that be commissioned Mr..
George L. French Of Woodstock 10 pur-
chase for him span of Vermont horses.
The Free Press says:--A queer genius
not more than hundred miles from Bur.
ling.on, recently placed bell on bis
barn, to be rung every tune he got drunk
The bell has been ringing for the last day
or two.
Stowe Is Boosting Of an infant climber
A twenty mouths old child, Wishing to
see its father who was at work on the TOP
OF his house, climbed up ladder 20 feet
to staging before Il was discovered.
AT White River Junction, while Mr..
Evarts was on the platform, man climb
ed up and, seizing him by the hand, said
81 want to shake hands with the man
who made the Argument"
MIR. Holmes, Of the Tip.Top House
Mount Mansfield, has "painted" a big
cliff In HE vicinity with whitewash tc
make II resemble snow bank and cause
the curious TO ask questions.
Six boys of st. Johnsbury Center who
got intoxicated on cider, were fined sll
apiece, aud the man who sold them the
beverage had $50 to pay.
II is reported that the government is tC
build signal station and observatory on
the top Of Ascutney mountain, 10 Wind
cor, ct q cost Of $50, 900.
| AS the s 80 q. m. train from Salem, N
Y, was rounding curve near Pawlet
Friday, the Gath, Sumner w. Hitchcock
the engineer, noticed Martin Laydon'i
young child, liz years old, playing or
the track, and made every attemp to stoT
bis engine. The pilot struck the child,
however. aud Il disappeared, but 1t was
soon rescued from under The engine, M
scratched and unharmed. This is the
third child Mr.. Hitchcock has run ovei
since be has been engineer on the Rat
land aud Washington road, but all Of
them escaped without injury.
A constable In Caledonia county wal
rather hard on our assembled "wisdom
and virtue" In the following return on
bis warrant for killiHg dogs under tbt
new law /:
Estate or VERMONT,
Caledonia County, S., July "a, N
have killed no dog and have found
none than have not bsen registered anC
licensed according 10 law, nor have had
any complaints made 10 ms about dog
or cHts aud woald say consider tbs
dog law . nuisance, and any QUE that
helped 10 make II or had anything to do
with II, ara Ruisa1ces.
With any return heroon endorsed
Attest --A----- - CoNsTABLE.n /.
Trial Of Edward +. Hayden, for ths
murder of biz wife At Derby Line last
September, bsgins Sep. 10. at irasburg
Evidence has been taken In the West Ia
undertake TO strengthen the plea Of be
rtditary Insanity, which Il 10 stated will
be bic defence. Hayden 10 In Windso
prison for sale keeping.
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