The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-06-27
STATE NEWS.

on a river running into Bay Chaleur,
New Brunswick.
1t is stated that the Vermont Asy-
lum for the Insane is supplied with
$50 quarts of strawberries, daily.
Joseph Morrin, of Guildhall, while
fishing ia the Connecticut River, slip
ped from a log into the water, and was
drowned.
At Montpelier, a man in anger
struck his own head twice with fiat
iron, but didn't succeed in breaking
either fiat.
The exercises of the Seventy-third
Commencement of the University of
Vermont and State Agricultural Col
lege, commenced on Sunday afternoon.
A little boy living in Barton village,
was poisoned nearly to death a short
time ago, by eating currants from
vines which had been treated with
white hellebore.
Mrs. ID. +. Celley, of Berlin, has
an apple tree not over two feet high,
which recently threw out large double
blossoms, having every appearance of
large house rose.
Harvey Celley, of Montpelier, dis
couraged for want of work, hung him
self in the celler of his dwelling, Tues
day evening. He leaves a wife and
two children destitute.
Mrs. Emma Young, who killed her
two children, at Newark, last spring,
and has been adjudged insane by the
Grand Jury at Caledonia County
Court, has been liberated from Jail.
Jesse Bishop of Passumpsic, VT,
20 years old, left his house at , A. NJ.
Saturday and shortly after was found
dead near the house. He had been
mentally and physically ill for some
time.
One or two jugs and bottles ofwhis-
key were seized at st. Adams, Friday
evening, from freight conductor and
engineer, who had brought them in
from Canada on the locomotive, with
out paying the duties.
The Champlain Association Of Uni
versalists will hold its annual session
in Fletcher, in the Union Church, June
9th and 2Sth. A large and interesting
is expected. Several preach
ars from abroad will be present.
Recently, as Hugh McCalley and
Ed. Lucia, of Bridport, were using
rendrock to catch fish, their boat cap
sized. McCalley was drowned and
Lucia narrowly escaped similar fate.
leaves a wife and one child.
At last accounts his body had not
been found.
An explosion ofgasoline occurred in
the Bellevue house at Newport the
other morning, Thereport was louder
than cannon, breaking several win
1ows and shaking the buildings near
by. The flames burst from the win
lows on each side of the basement,
where the gas works are located.
The Rutland Herald learns that
James Williams, poor man and a
day laborer. in Shrewsbury, has sud
denly become wealthy by bequest
1880, O00pound sterling, over 81 ,000,-
900, from friends in England, He
had repeatedly said he had rich friends
in England, and expected sometime
to receive money from them.
Lafayette Buck, of the firm of Buck
& Robinson, and landlord of the Mem
House, of Newport, who
has been sick with typhoid pneumo-
MIA, died one week ago yesterday
at o'clock, after an illness
of 10 days. Mr.. Buck was for sever
al years connected with the United
States and st. James Hotels of Boston.
He leaves q widow and two children,
one a son, clerk in the Revere House,
Boston.
A sensation was produced the
other day in the Bennington County
Court, by movement on epart Of the
State to set for trial the notorious
Reeves and Cole Bennington banditti
cases, which had previously been put
over. Upon investigation the affida-
Wits by which Reeves and Cole obtain
oI on aytonuipn ,,,ora ubo,Un tC ho M
Their largely fraudulent or obtained by
misrepresentation and unless Juuge
Dunton's health fails these cases will
be tried now.
The site of the house where Brigham
Young was born, is near Sadawga vii
lage, in the town of Nottingham, in
an old pasture, and is not of much val
ne except for a play ground for the
festive potato bug and rolliclking grass
hopper. A few years ago, some fell
lows here picked from the old house
spot a few little flowers and green
leaves, and forwarded them to the old
"Saint" by mail. He afterward wrote
then polite letter thanking them for
the thoughtfulness and expressed
himself spleased with the compliment.
The committee for Vermont's cen
tennial celebration will prepare a list
of will entertain the centennial visitors,
the number of persons each house can
accommodate, the time of such accom-
mediation and the price charged. They
will establish headquarters during the
centennial week, receive and assign
all visitors not otherwise provided fol-
to places where board or lodging, Oh
both, can be obtained. Fully 100000
persons are expected during the days
of the 10Th and 10th of August, ac-
cording to the present indications.