The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-11-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

General Butler is fifty-nine years
old.
Robert Strong, Landgrove youth,
is in Jail charged with outraging the
daughter Of Gilman Davis of Peru.
The Missisquoi Railroad has passed
from the control of the Central Vt.
back into the hands of the first mort
gage bond-holders, and is now man
aged by W. c. Smith.
William Spooner, a venerable and
leading citizen Of Bistol, r. l., died
Sunday night through the mistake of
a druggist, who put up wrong medi-
cine. Addison Wadleigh of East
Greenwich, died Sunday from SINH
lar cause.
Brigham Young appeared to a me-
dunn the other day and remarked :
''Its pretty hot here, but nothing like
it was in Salt Lake when I bought
Amelia that sealskin sacque and left
the others to turn their last years
cashmeres."
Geo. A. Foster, employed in the
car shops at st. Adams, while step
ping out of the way of a passenger
train in the railroad yard was backed
down upon by an engine and instant
ly killed. Mr.. Best who was walking
with him was struck by the corner of
the tender and pushed from the track
without injury. Mr.. Foster leaves a
wife and five children. He had an in
surance policy of$100O.
Recently a man on going to his Or
chard on back lot, found two men
there making cider. They had OBJ
tanned kettle with hole in the bot
tom, and by some means managed to
grind up the apples: and with cover
fitted to 60 into the kettle, and long
pry, with one end stuck under a root,
and bearing down on the other end,
they managed to press out the cider.
A band of tramps robbed freight
train on the Pennsylvania Railway
one week ago last Saturday night near
Chester Junction. They drove off the
railway men and went to the woods
to divide their spoils, when twenty-six
Of the scoundrels were captured after
a hard fight. 1t is said that at least
one thousand desperate fellows are
tramping through the country on the
line of the Pennsylvania road between
bennington and Pittsburg.
There is a singular contest going on
in Hartford, CT, family, when q 60
years-old father and his 20-year-old
son are both counting the adopted
daughter and sister. The girl is in 9
strait betwixt two; the young man is
Of the age and suits her, but he cant
support wife, while the old gentle.
man has plenty of money and she also
owes him gratitude for taking her from
a life of poverty. Meanwhile, botE
parties urge their suits openly and Wig,
orously.
Mr.. Blaine is in very critical con
dition. He has grown worse since he
went to his Augusta home fortnight
ago, has been confined to his bed, de
MED to callers and finally attacked
with dyseutery, which left him so veal
a few nights ago that it was feared h,
was going to die. The last two years
have proved terrible strain ON boil
his mind and body, and there ar,
abundant signs that, however com
pletely he may seem to recover from
his present attack, the days of his OLE
activity are over, or, if they are re
sumed, are liable to be end very sud
denly.
The cable announces the death a
Berlin of distinguished parsonage
Pongo, the most famous gorilla eve
discovered, and the only living on
outside his native haunts. Pongo wa
something over three years of age
about three feet high, and looked YER
much like good-natured little darkey
whom he resembled in great fondnes
tor childish amusements. He wa
very fond of the ladies', also, and in
deed was extremely sociable. He ha