The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-10-25


tswB last week. negotiating With peopls
70 seli an cave gHllcrs Have not beard
o. their selling aay q this vicinity
*. Il Hart has lc, the wsler iaio BIZ
ucW dam again, and thls time we hope
It will not break through Three times
Il has CONE back on him At IA expense d
over four hundred dollars Il must Be
hard on him, ~ We expect bis pocket i
Ike your humble seryants-not shicgly
lined with greenbasks,
We bear thas r. c. Davis has made
arrangements 70 stay 10 town another
year. We are glad TO know that be IL 10
remain with az, f0r Il needs just such
men IS ho il 10 every community to keep
the ball rolling, BY The way, Egbert,
yon want the Manchester JOURNAL.
jus, cal at the post Office and leave Your
name aud $50 aud secure Il until The
frst Of January, 1879. To all new sub.
scribers the JOURNAL will be furnished
from this date until January 1879 for that
price. Who will be the next one to add
bis name to the list from this place Z
Subscriptions received here for the JOIN.
NAL, alsoa number Of other papers
souru LONDONDERRY
Rev. Mr. Suffer, Of Weston, occu.
MED the pulpit al the Baptist church
last Sunday.
The Sabbath school concert al the
Methodist church last Sunday, was nu.
usually good.
When the "beautiful snow" comes
Whitman e Goddard will furnish you
with beautiful sleigh at a price cores
pondng with the times,
Martin 81. l. & Cudworth repre-.
sent the Union Mutual Fire Insurance
Co., Of Montpelier. This company is
rapidly gaining the public favor and con-
fdeuce.
Rev. Mr.. Suffer of Weston lectures
at the Town ball next Friday evening,
subject: The Eastern question or the
Turko Russian war.
The West River house is receiving
an unusual amount of transient custom.
The Messrs. Evans have gained the de-
served reputation Of keeping first-class
hotel.
Prof c. T. $. Pierce Of Vergennes,
10 In this place rehearsing Bradbury's
"Queen Esther" with aid Of our singers.
The Cantata will probably be rendered
at the town hall on the evenings of the
Sth and 9Th of November.
If the next time those two White
Mountain chaps come to see the High st.
young lady they would arrange ii so as
not 10 be here at the same time, it would
save one of them and native swain the
humiliation Of having to offer mutual
in the barn and woodshed
wooDFoRD.
New cider is rolling into town and is
higher in price than last year, but Of bet
ter quality,
Pine Valley is growin9 in population
{. T.. Walker and family Of Bennington
moving there last week.
More wild land is being broken up
than ever before. Evidently people think
farming is not such bad business after all.
cdr" Cutler says he saw white
robin the other day, and another man
saw million of crows, more or less, pre-
pairing for their flight southwark.
The first snow came Monday morn
ing. The storm drizzed till afternoon,
when the clouds broke away with wester.
y zephyrs, giving night of beautiful
"clear as a bell"
The Bennington and Glastonbury II.
r.. Co. having leased the Harlem Extern
sion for a while, the cars are running
through town as usual and business at
has been resumed
"A large number attended the evan
selical meeting at Bennington, Sunday
evening. On returning home they were
immersed" by water directly from
heaven. Rev. Mr.. Foster preached an
excellent sermon at the L. c. Church,
ast Friday evening.
Speaking Of big pumpkins, Increase
Whitney Of this town says he saw vine
once about 60 feet in length which pro.
iuced nearly 200 pounds Of the "fruit,"
aud then ran over stone wall and bore
several large cucumbersl Increase was
never known TO lie.
"A sleek looking young man hailing
from the Granite State put mp at the
house, one night last week.
and went away in the morning forget
ling to pay his bill A few days after.
ward 1t was found that officers were afler
him in pursuit OF stolen horse and car
rage. lie claimed to be a drummer for
gloves and mittens, and bis name IL De-
wight.
Mr.. VIM. II. Harbour, a young man
who went from this town several years
since TO enlist In the regular service on
The Texan frontier, recently took up q
tract OF land on the Western border, and
i now one Of a company Of scouts 10 the
Black Hills, guarding sgainst the depre-
iations OF the Indians. We wis Herb
success Ia bis hazardous exploits.
1T was voted at the town meeting the
10th to leave the matter whether the
town would build the rod over the old
turnpike TO the "Scott mill,n with the
Il Is safe 10 conclude that
they will decide 10 have The road 20