The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-06-13
STATE NEWS.

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The Vermont Life Insurance Co. Of
Burlington are building a fine three
story edifice on Main street.
Rev. Mr.. Itch, Of Mclndoe's Falls,
has been duly installed as pastor Of the
Congregational church at Derby Line.
Fred Blanchard of Bennington, Vt.
was found dead, last Thursday hanging
from a tree in the woods, near Pownal.
He had been insane.
Two criminals in the Ohio peniten-
tiary, confess to numbering a young
Girl near Pontiac, in 1869, for which
Wiley II. Morris was hung.
Hugh Flanagan, a workman in the
quarry at West Rutland, was killed
on Wednesday by being precipitated
into the quarry. He fell a distance of
12O feet.
Mr.. John @. Hoyt, of New York,
has resigned as Director of the Cen
trail Vermont Railroad Company, and
Otis Drury, of Boston, has been elect
cd in his stead.
Thursday last another fire occurred
at Montgomery. A dry house owned
by II. W. Campbell was consumed.
Nearly 5000 dollars worth of property
was destroyed.
Mrs. Taylor Parker, of Marshfeld,
aged about thirty years, hung herself
with rope, on the 9th inst, in her
husbands barn. She was out ofhealth
and low spirited. Two uncles and a
brother have committed suicide before
her.
Pawlet has a notable war record.
Seventy-three Revolutionary soldiers
settled in that town-fifty-four of
whom attained the average age of
eighty-three forty of its citizens took
part in the war Of 1912, and 10 in the
war of the rebellion, of whom nineteen
persisted in battle or hospital. Several
persons belonging to that town also
served in the Mexican war.
Washington advices say that the
President will leave Washington dur
ing the latter part Of the present
month to attend the graduation of his
son at Harvard College. He has de-
cided not to make his Vermont visit
at this time, but will postpone it until
August, in order to participate in the
Centennial Anniversary Of the Battle
of Bennington. This assures the full
success of the celebration.
The property Of the Burlington Cot.
ton Mill Company of Winooski was
sold at auction, Tuesday Of last week.
The entire concem-real estate, wa
ter power, tenements and machinery
was purchased by William p. Clark,
ESQ.,, of Lawrence, Mass, fol
1927, 900, subject to mortgages o
$24, G66.96. The new owrer will
probably start the mill ur, at once. Tn
property cost, Originally, abou
, $13O,000.
1T the commencement Of the Uni
verSlty of Vermont, June 24-38, Rev
= DR.. Hovey, Of Newton, Mass, wi
l. deliver the address before the Societ
h for religious inquiry; Hon. Robert S
:, Hale, to the associate alumni; poem b
e S. S. Cutting, d. D., of Brooklyn
Is DR.. Geo. Dunsmore, of st. Adams
d an address to the medical class, an
l. DR.. Thayer before the medical alumni
d Blaisdell's Orchestra of Concord, \
n H., will furnish the music.
IL They met, quite late Wedne'
y day evening, on Church street, on the
io way home from the temperate
~ meeting, and there was a fight-suc
~ a fight as only two women can get VI
: 1t was short, sharp and decisiv,
vi and the sidewalk was strewn with fl
az male paraphernalia from some distanC
. around. Contrary to the old saying
IL "There was woman at the botto
~ Of it, it is supposed there is man
=" the bottom Of it, this time. The pa
III ties concluded the drama in the Gil
" Court. Thursday afternoon They we
= fined So and costs each. Those tn
= dance must pay the fiddler.
rv Mrs. Eliza Hobart, Of North Fai
OBJ fax committed suicide last week Mo
to day. She was a widow " years
age and dependent on her brother t
support. Rumor says that she h
,ss been very unhappy in this her deepen
m ent state, and intimated that dea
ed would be welcome. Her health W
gi- good and her reasoning faculties,
nd far as people could Judge. nnimpaire