The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-06-20
STATE NEWS.

st. Adams last week 1905 tubs.
The Burlington district camp meet
ing will be held 1t Spring Grove, Aug.
%.
Two Young men Of South Woodbury.
were each fined sl5 and costs, for get
ting drunk and breaking up a relg-
ious meeting.
Cambridge has a Reformed Mems
Club of 300 members Essex junction,
800 with l75 active ones North Vol
colt, 250.
The body of the little Reid boy of
Fairfield, missing since April, was
found last Thursday in the brook near /
his home. An inquest was deemed
unnecessary.
''No fishin, huntin' or trapin allow
ed on These premises" is the notice on
shingle posted by small stream in
Richford, scarcely large enough to
float a pollywog.
Last Wednesday evening, at the Lee
House, Port Henry, Lizzie Archer
dropped kerosene lamp, settingfire to
her clothes, ard she was so badly bur-
ned that she died the next day.
Hon. Z. j. Phelps and Rev. Mr..
Weber are making a pedestrian tour
through the state. Each carries q
haversack and stout cane and both
are reported in splendid condition.
Some very rough looking counterfeit
fifty cent silver pieces have been thrown
on the money market of Burlington.
They are supposed to be of home man
ufacture, dies and all and the materi-
al is silver, probably family plate, bur
glariously obtained.
Mr.. 10 II. Linsley went to Whining
ton, Delaware, last week to attend to
the transhipment Of the passenger
cars Of the Burlington and Lamoille
Railroad. The cars are four in num-
Der and are first-class in every re-
spect.
Grand Master Gale, Grand Senior
Warden Parker, Crane Marshal Smith,
Grand Guardian Shaw, and ten mem
bers Of Killington and Stark Lodges,
II. O. o. F., Of Vermont instituted
the Deerfeld Valley Lodge, No. 3,
at Readsboro, Tuesday evening oflast
week.
George Mills and Frank Duke of
South Barton got into a row Thurs
day night at the steam mill, which
ended in Mills striking Duke with a
slab, knocking him senseless, in which
condition he laid up to 8 o'clock the
next morning. The physicians think
he will recover.
While q young man named Blow,
accompanied by two young ladies OF
the same name, his cousins, and their
l:4tI~ 3D., - ra. oil b,'othnr urae 70 limo
a walk near Bennington village, Mon
day the 18th, he playfully snapped a
capped shotgun, supposed to be UNI
loaded, at them. 1t went off, howev-
er, hitting both of the ladies', one in
right breast and the other in the back.
In one Of the wounds, probably fatal,
were 20 shot holes, while the other is
slight. This foolhardiness ended by
the boy chasing Blow half mile with
a Ratchet.
Charles H. Potter has been pardon
ed out Of State Prison, his failing
: health and advanced age having Sc
cured for him this token Of leniency.
Potter, it will be remembered, was
, convicted in the Chittenden County
: Court, September Term, 1868, Of hay
: ing in his possession burglar tools with
: intent to use the same, including some
, skeleton keys which he had made fol-
E himself, presumably with unlawful in.
s tent, and sentenced to the State Pris.
on for the term of ten years. The
circumstances of the case and the
suspicious which connected him witt
other and graver crimes, are too fa
9 miliar to most Of our readers, to neeC
/ to be recalled.
A shocking accident occurred Mon
day evening by which one of our citi
! zens lost his life. Benjamin S. Nor
: gan and his brother-in-law, Tracy ,haC
been to Windsor and West Windsor
Morgan having a brother who lives a
the latter place. Towards evening
they started from Windsor to drive
home and about eight o'clock as they
reached the foot Of Hour Glass Hill,
: short distance out from Windsor vii
+ lage, going around curve in which il
: q small bridge and driving at furious
t pace, the buggy struck the side log Oh
s the bridge and tipped over, throwing
p both occupants out and down tn,
banks of small stream about sever
. feet. Mr. Morgan was instantly kill
+. ed, having his neck broken, one les
!. fearfully lacerated and large sticl
O or silver driven into it above the kne'
: and thence up through the thigh int
: his body. Tracy received only Sigh
: injuries. The buggy was thrown OF
il to its side and the horse stopped a
Y once facing across the highway ant
0 stood there. Passers by soon raiset
y an alarm and the neighbors turned on
in large numbers. A summons wa
sent to the brother, John G.. Morgan