The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-11-01

II i stated that over i0,cpo baslssis Of
baltefnuls have been gathered In Tun-
bridge this fail.
lea L. Z. Smith q Mopkioa raised
II 900 bushels 81 grain on bic farm this
season.
James Coulias house Ia ClArendon
was burned the other night, The family
barely escaping Insurance, 500.
Albert Palmer Of Wells broke both
bones 10 one arm, while wrestling, aud
ampatAiion may be necessary.
Rev w. W. Atwster, editor OF the VI,
Witness IL reported very sick, fears be-
Ing entertained that be cannot recover.
Machinery will be purchased this win
ter for extensive gold mining q, So. Troy
next spring.
Tho marble bust OF Judge Collamer,
made for the state, by Preston Powers,
has arrived At the state house, 10 Mont
pelier, from Italy, and when pedestal is
prepared, Il will be placed 10 the govern
or's room,
During the first niue months OF the
present year there were GO failures In this
state, with the aggregate liabilities Of
s472 ,I6S. For the corresponding months,
last year, the figures were 81 aud 81 $780,
$50.
Judge Asa Reyes of Brattleboro, is
said TO be the oldest graduate of Dart.
mouth college, having graduated in 1910.
lie is also one of the oldest Mssons 10 the
state, bis initiation dating back to 1914.
Lyman Peck, before committed to iaib
has confessed to breaking into the Roy
alton Bank, duplicating Charles Blay as
an accomplice. Sidney Peck, the formers
son, confessed TO robbing the house OF
John Wild Of 500.
The Washington County Supreme
Court, sitting at Montpelier, finished
business Saturday. No opinions were
rendered, but will be during the general
term this week. The Central Vermont
railroad decision will be elaborate and ex.
haustive, occupying some three hours In
rendering.
A daring attempt was recently made
to rob the national bauk of Royalton,
while the cashier was at dinner by fore
ing open a rear door and another one
which impeded progress. The would be
robber obtaining nothing, however, as
the money had been loekei up in The
vault.
Sylvester +. Paige OF the firm of Paige
81 Crooks, druggists, of Rutland, VT,
died of apoplexy Saturday, Oct. Goth,
very suddenly. Mr.. Paige's mother.in-
law died suddenly at o'clock in the
morning and he was out after her death
an hour or two notifying friends. On
bis return to bis house he was stricken
down and had apopectic shocks, aud
died before 8 O'Clock.
A Vermont paper says that a lady at
Newport Center recently accused man
of circulating stories against her chsrac-
ter. A high alteration ensued, which
she followed by pounding him with tin
dipper. He only laughed at this, aud
'then she threw flat.iron at him, strik-
ing his shoulder and breaking on the ham
die. A man with the handle of his shoul-
der broken off would be likely to laugh
out of the wrong side of his mouth
The site of the new Howe scale works,
occupying the triangular piece OF ground,
ten acres in extent, between the Rutland
and Bennington aud the Rutland railroad
tracks is now scene of unusual business
activity. About a hundred men are en-
gagged in digging trenches, grading lay
ing foundation walls, and preparing the
frames for seven new buildings.
David Eastman of Lyndon, in q years
manufactured 5000 lbs. of maple sugar,
which sold for an average price of 10
cents per pound.
Mr.. Fisk announces that within 60 days
he will exhibit In Brattleboro his new
double harnesses. BY a single motion OF
his hand, when driving at full speed, be
will free both horses from the carriage
and from each other, and by the same
motion the reins will be separated from
the bride bits, leaving nothing to drag
upon the ground, and the carriage will
be stopped by means of an ingenious
brake applied TO the wheels.
Calvin Grape, OF "Sugar Hili," Wal
lngford, committed suicide on Sunday
by shooting himself with pistol The
ball passed near the heart, lodging IN his
j back. lie lived about five hours after Tho
J occurrence, Mr. Grape was farmer
. about % years Of age, was married aut
had one child. He had been married
r about year aud half Domestic
, trouble is said to have been the canse o
} the suicide.
A Russian semi.ofiiciaI journal report
a %, 43I Russian troops killed and wound
T ed TO Oct. II.
s Business al Paris, instead OF improving
$ since the election, has been much de
pressed by the fears of a coup d. etat anC
q the many political rumors.
u Nervous Debility.
Il VITAL WEAKNESS OR DEPRESSION,
j. weak exhausted feeling, no energy o
A courage; the result OF MENTAL OVER
WORK INDIscRETIoHs or EXCESS, or som
, drain upon the system, ia always cure
q by HUMPHREYS HOMEOPATHIC SPECFI
n No gg IL tOues nm and iuyiRorates ID