Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-23

ishVnVuibh HNllh ~ BOluB 10 nave gflet
mill next summer. Well but will they hav,
anything to grind, which would be better.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Mrs. William Griswold Of Cambridge
killed herself, Sunday, from grief at the los:
Of her husband.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
u. p. Cotton and family of Irasburgh
will move to Potsjam, N. Y. in a short
time. Mr.. Cotton will engage in the lumber
business at that place.--Monitor.
10 Revoir, the villain who attempted "a
murder bis wife at Troy was re.arrested
during court time, taken to Irasburgh and
tried for breaking Jail. He was sent to
Windsor for two years.-Monitor.
The meeting Of the board of agriculture,
held last week, at North Troy, was not
crowded, but they were very entertaining
and profitable.
David Ash, an ontorprsing widower from
Sutton, visited New Hampshire some time
since, and as good fortune would have il be-
came acquainted with blushing widow,
whose former husband had also been David
Ash. They formed matrimonial alliance
Of course.
Hayden, the wife murderer, was undoubt.
eddy sick when his trial was brought on last
week at Irasburgh, but it was nervous pros.
tration as we were on the train and saw him
both in going from and to Windsor before
and after his visit to Irasburgh, and as il is
for life he had better have a fair and, in all
respects, an impartial trial.
Q. Q. Frost, Esq, of Auburn, Maine, will
address the people of Newport on the subject
of temperance, on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings of next week, Feb. 2Sth aud March
LIST.
Another reason why the county buildings
should go to Barton Landing is that f. VIII
son and wife have been married SO years,
his age being 81, and hers SO years. OF
course the Landing is healthy place, and
prisoners would not get sick so soon as one
did recently in Irasburgh.
The new hotel at Barton Landing, the
Express says, will be opened for business on
the Goth instant, but the formal dedication
will not take place till the 9th of March.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Albert Ii. Spencer of Clarendon has been
appointed station agent at Chester, in place
Of his uncle, Henry p Spencer, appointed
superintendent Of the state prison at Wind
sor.
1t is said that Mr.. j. j. II. Randall, the
Rutland architect, will probably accept an
offer from the Russian government to become
government engineer and take charge Of a
system of iron railroad bridges to be built in
that country and will leave for st. Peters
burg in June.
Miss Emma Molly of Indiana mas been
conducting some enthusiastic temperance
meetings in Rutland. Need Of it, too
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Geo. w. S. Ide of Calais, who has been
clerk in the store Of l.. A. Kent of that town,
closes his engagement there this month he
is going into the store of Ellis & Gleason at
Montpelier the first of March.
The chances for cheese factory at Calais
are very good, the requisite number of cows
(2OO)having been subscribed, the location will
be either at Kents or Maple Corner.
Hard times are telling on farmers, three
having suspended in Calais in the last few
months with more to hear from. LAM.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
The loss on the insane asylum was some
$40, 1000, partially insured. Some of the
asylum patients during the recent fire at
Brattleboro, had the good sense to wade
around in the melted butter as it ran from
the store house, thinking to render their
boots impervious to water. snow and ice.
Mr.. Harvey d. Parker has presented to
the Massachusetts, anglers association bust
Of his partner, the late John +. Mills, who |
was vice president of the association. Mr.. |
Mills was native of Grafton and for years
one Of the proprietors of the Parker House,
Boston.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
A curious horse distemper is prevailing at
Windsor and vicinity, the animals suddenly
losing the use Of their hind legs, which is
followed by inflammation and swelling upon
the back.