The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-29

ten to twelve cents; good to choice,
fifteen to twenty cents; selections,
twenty-five.
a Charley Ross case is reported
from Nebraska. A little daughter of
n Mr.. Rose of Washington county was
carried off few nights ago by parties
unknown, ana 81 900 reward is offered
for her return.
Asa Smith, of Shoreham, was acci-
dentally shot while partridge hunting
the other day, the charge entering his
arm and face. One hundred and
thirteen No. 8 shot were extracated,
and at last accounts he was doing well.
A nine-year-old son of William
kirkland of Waterbury was drowned
while bathing, Saturday afternoon of
last week. His companion, boy of
about the same age, brought him al
most to shore, but was unable to save
him.
| Arrangements will be completed,
the present week, by which the Bur-
hngtoa and Lamoille Railroad will run
its trains up to the Central Vermont
depot at Essex junction, thus max
ing connections much more convenient
than at present.
The annual fair of the Chittenden
County Agricultural Society will take
place on the grounds at Essex juno
ton on Tueeday, Wednesday and
Thursday, September 4th, 9Th, and
9th, and promises to be an unusually
successful and interesting occasion.
1t is announced that the Patrons or
Changers of Caledonia county are to
hold a Fair atLYndonville grove, Sept.
4th. Any one, by paying % cents TO
the Secretary before 8 o'clock of the
day of the fair, can be member Of
the association and compete for pre-
miums.
AS the Presidential party were COM
ing into Windsor the treasurer of the
Savings Bank stepped out few mo-
ments to see the procession and did
not stop to place his money in the
vault. While he was out burglars en-
tered by a rear window and stole ST.
600 in bank bills.
Another Paris mystery has just been
cleared up. In 1871 woman was
found dead in a well, and the authori-
ties were in doubt whether it was MUIR
| der or suicide. Recently a young man
had quarrel with his sweetheart Ca
former servant of the woman), and
confessed that they murdered and rob-
bed her.
+. M. Foss, the veteran conductor,
ran the engine Middlebury, from Bur-
lington to Rutland, making three stops,
in one hour and thirty minutes. AT
the lower end by Meeeh's cut culve. t
fifteen feet long was burned, but ow-
ing to the rate of speed, the entire
train passed over the rails without ac-
cident.
Linus 7. Gilbert of Mortified,
while telling a tree few days ago,
was fatally injured by being thrown to
the ground, his head striking upon a
family. He hT6H aJudeaXes quite a
ter he was struch by the tree, but he
remained unconscious till his death,
which took place near where the acct
dent occurred.
John Gibson, residing in the north
west part of Cavendish, fell from the
high beams of his barn, the other day
and was impaled on the stakeo of hay
rigging standing in the barn floor
: The stake entered his body in the re-
gion of the small of the back, wrench
ING the ribs from the spinal column
:, and fearfully decorating his kidneys
He was living at last advices, burt it Ii
not expected he can long survive.
The Lebanon Spring Railroad (fron
Bennington to Chatham -Four Cor
ners), which has been operated by thu
a Central Vermont Railroad Compan,
i for several years, and was thrown vi
by them Monday of last week, sine
which time no trains have been run
;, was opened for travel and freight Fri
" day by the first mortgage bondholdcr
l. of the road. F. G. White of Ben
it nington has been appointed Superin
e tent.
s. At st. Albans, Monday afternoon
as Mrs. Gagnon, French woman, 4
e years old, was picking up fuel on tn
=. railroad track, she was struck by
j. freight train and run over by fou
freight cars. Both her legs were Gu
off, and her body was terribly crushed
/ She died in about fifteen minutes atte
% the accident, but retained conscious
1t ness long enough to inquire for he
son and to recognize the Catholi
J. priest when he came to see her. N
~ blame is chargeable upon any one
" save the unfortunate woman herself.
The Rutland Globe says that MI
ut Thomas T. Prentiss, of WaitsfielC
v who has been United States Consul ;
n the Seychelle Islands, in the India
0. Ocean, since 1871, and who is spent
ing the summer at Waitsfield with h
=, wife and two children, has been sue
- - for breach of promise Of marriage b
" Mrs. Sarah A. Thayer a widow
~ Waitsfeld, who alleges that Prenti;
was under promise Of marriage to h'
k, when he was appointed consul, an
I'd agreed to marry her when he returned
Id She lays damages at five thousan
ce dollars. Prentiss married a woman
the Seychelle Islands.