The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-02-08


nmoauanE 10 oaly $500. Hh decline
Is dated from The tIms be built barn
oostiag e. ,Qo a warning 70 ambltioas
farmers.
Last Wednesday Ss.ectmAu Gaines, of
psaiou. and Moses Lee, Of Nergsnuss
while attempting 10 open winser read
scross TIE farm ~ Thomas Batter, were
bratally assam, led BIZ Batter With fence
raIl. inaieiing some ugly bruises. Bot.
Ter threatened q shoot sny oae who
touched 30. fence. lie wac before Justice
Roberts raursday on The charge Of a..
sAuIt With intent 10 kill, ssa The justice
bound him up 10 sppear a The Counly
Cour, Ia The sam Of 500
The Vermont Homeopathic Medical
Society beld their lweniy-six,h semi-an-
nual meeting 3, Bradford on the IL, inst.
TOE regular order Of busines was suspen-
ded, aud lively discussion took place
as 10 the act passed st the lss, session Of
tbs LegislaiuTe regarding the practice Of
medicine Ia the State. All seemed to
regard The measure as an excellent one.
a petition FOR The pardon Of Arson
Haywood, Of Weston, who was sentene-
ed TO twenty yesrs in Windsor State Pri-
son for arson, having been circulated In
other towns, counter petition Is being
circulated Ia Weston. where the crime
was committed, which is being general
y signed,
Ia 81. Adams recently, as the wife
aud daughter Of Mr.. J. Is. Baldwin were
sitting at the window ia their residence,
they wete startled BY the report sfs gun
aud tbe crash Of bullet through the
window near their heads. The ball
struck the wall opposite and fell TO the
floor. An investigation showed that a
boy ID The neighborhood, armed with a
small rife, was engaged IN firing at cats
with such careless aim that the felines
were safer than the neighbors round
about.
The prisoners vt Windsor prison turn
out between 400 aud 800 pairs Of
shoes daily. There is not woman in
/ the Institution. The sanitary condition
of the prison is excellent.
A firm III Chelsea has just purchased
ihirty-dgo thousand pounds of wool, pay.
ing thirty.fye cents per pound.
Eeighly-one inches OF snow have fall
] len ia Woodstock up to January 18th
nearly seven feet.
/ In Chester, on Sunday evening, run
away horse ran Into the yard of J. l.
johnson, OF that place. In the sleigh,
beneath the robes, was found child
three years old, belonging TO Mr.. Bean,
from Ludlow, who, together with his
wife, had been tipped out six miles
away,
The Brattleboro insane asylum has re-
ceivcd large number OF patients of late,
The village tax collector of Brattlcporo
is reported 1000 short on last years ac-
count.
Alta town meeting held last Tuesday a
vote was passed to bond the town of ia
maica to the amount Of $37 GOO, or about
eleven times the grand list, to aid in
building the Brsttleboro and Whitehall
| railroad,
A. p. Woodwork Of South Tun.
bridge, Que day last week, had a barn
broken down by the snow, under which
were IS sheep crushed in the ruins.
Twenty.four hours afterwards, being
ready to skin them, he commenced to
dig them out, when to his great surprise
nc found them all alive but one.
There are 55,0O0,0oO feet of lumber on
hand in the Burlington market, with pri'
ces 81 to So less than last Spring.
Burglars took 5000 from The money
drawer of the Burlington city agency
last Friday night.
A Burlington man finds that the snow
fall IN December amounted TO 20 inches
and "a inches in the first half Of January
"a total OF 4S inches.