The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-08-01

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should do with them.-LU3l0-7 Tribune.
r. 4. White, agent for p. W. Beers
q Co., ofNew York, is m town, correct
ing and completing the survey made a
year ago, preparatory to publishing an
atlas Of Lamoille and Orleans counties.
The following, which we clip irom the
Newport Express, :" may be Of interest
to some Of our readers:
In Memoriann.
EARLE.-At BsrtOn Landing, July 90, very sud.
denly Of cholera iniantlm, ADVANCE. only son
OF a. \. Eaclc, aged weeks. The remains
were taken 10 the gIici-strickeu parents at Nor
risville. The good die young.
Friday morning Of week before last,
the office of the Vermont linton, at Lyn-
don, was discovered to be on fire. The
office is in the basement of a large two
story building, in the fist story, and di-
rectly over the printing Office, being the
store of McGaffey q Newell, and at the
other side of the building, the Lyndon
National Bank, and in the second story
are lawyers offices, etc. When the fire
was discovered it had got under good
Roadway, having worked its way up
through the floor into McGafey's back
store, where it was blazing fearfully.
At first it was thought the building must
be destroyed, and-a result sure to fol-
low-all the buildings on the street; but
through the eXertions of the pail brigade
the fire was at last subdued. Consider
acle damage was done by smoke, fire,
water, and the removal of goods and fur
niture, which was covered by insurance.
The building is owned by Henry Chase.
Notwithstanding the fire, the Union came
out on time. We notice by the report in
that paper that even ''scorcher'' in his
sanctum cannot squelch Chase's sense of
the ridiculous, which causes him to see
everything in its humorous light, and
which (our dcva uggests-naughty boy
that he is y will be a benefit to him by
and-by.
The sad catastrophe which ended the
career of the deacon's ''one-hoss shay
has been repeated, and again are we led
to eXclaim, "Verily, truth is stranger
than fiction" But it wasn't deacon
this time, neither was it a shay, nor
''one-hoss" concern, either; but twas
Myron Cheney and o. w. Snyder, of this
place, and Ed. Watkins, of Montgomery,
with tWO-ho"se carry-all belonging to
f. e. Sawyer. While bound on fishing
excursion to the town of Berkshire. last
Thursday, and as they were vending
their way peacefully along the banks of
Trout river, a calamity occurred which
equals, if not exceeds, the destruction of
"That wonderful one,h0es SHAY,
Which lasted hundred years, to a day."
Our repo- ter, upon interviewing one of
the sufferers for particulars, was taken
back by su. prise; for so wrought up
was this sufferer that he assembled the
heights of Parnassus, and gave express
sion to the following:
"While up q hill we gently wandered,
With naught to molest or make afraid,
Something drapp'd'-the coach ii founderetl-
The ponies stat ted Oh q raid;
And as they irentcly went jun )inT
O'er the road, the jolting, humping,
Gave the carriage mighty humping;
But, as good sailors wbeA they sop
IGun' their sGils and GnChOr dI0'g,
We knocked of our carriage top,
AAd in tic dilch ell went kerhop;
Bat, rising upright o. or feet,
We gazed about III mute suspense;
| The CarliGgG-What W'5 left complete
was calmly testing on the fence;
The horses STOOD in wondering mood
We also neGI them, by the road;
And could three mO,1HlS DdU tIpip wish.
TwOuld been "sutil'l warming" in Il dish;
But, after much investigation,
We were bound to reach our destination
If a carriage could be bred in all creation
AND WE DID, YOU BET!
1t was not wild midnight-nay! the
hour when graveyards yawn was yet 90
minutes in the distance. Although the
graveyards hadn't yawned any our hero
had, and from yawning had gone to
snoring. No sound broke the calm still
ness except the snore of the sleeper,
which, echoing out on the night air, re-
minded one of the sullen roar of the deep
blue sea. But the snorer awakens. His
ear (ever on the alert) hears suspicious
| sound in his front room. With lightning
like rapidity there passes before his mind
, visions of all the dark robberies, bloody
murders, and tales of crime, with which
he, from his long experience as a news
paper typo, was familiar. He rises, de
termired to face the enemy, and discover
: the cause of these strange sounds. With
f shaking hand and palpitating heart he
strikes q match-a light blue fame-a
smell of brimstone--a flash--a sputter-
and then the blackness of darkness, is
, the result. The match died in its youth
Perseverance is characteristic of oul
+ hero, and so, nothing daunted, he sings
, under his breath, 'lf at first you don't
succeed, try, try again !''-and strikes an
, other. This is a success. The robbers
! or-whatever they were, had smelt rat
Cor else birthstone, )and before the light Of
+, the burning match Illuminated the room
+ had made safe exit through the oper
, window. The light revealed work-bo>
and contents, numerous other trinkets
, half-opened wallet, ETC., ETC., scattered
about the room in the greatest confusion
q Hiram raised Frank, our other typo, and
, with determined look, clenched fists
and teeth set firmly together, they sci
forth upon the trail; but, alas theil
+ search was in vain. The supposed cause
| Of all this was tramps, a party of which
passed through here Monday night, al
about that hour. The net haul would
/. have been, had they succeeded in taking
the wallet, as follows: Two cancelec
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