Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-05-18


FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A patent has been granted to A. j. Gus
tin, superintendent Of tho st. Albans irol
aud steel works, for an apparatus for car
rying railroad rails and another for carrie
rolls for railroad rails.
The work ofputting into the st. Adams roll
ing mill facilities for makisg steel rails ha.
commenced. Before the annual meeting the
directors who we're proposing the change said
1t would cost about $4,000, but in oonse
quence Of the searching inquiries into the
management at that meeting the same mer
who were offering to contract for the work al
the above figures are now doing il for abou
$4,000. A saving Of $500 has also beer
effected in the matter Of salaries.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Elisha Davis of North Cambridge made
probably successful attempt at suicide Satur
day night by cutting his throat with razor
Mr.. II. X. Edwards Of Belvidere has .
cat which measures 80 inches from the enc
OF its nose to the tip Of its tail.
Edward Jacobs one of Bucks mill hands
at j Johnson while at work, was severely hurt
by one Of the saws dropping some six or
eight feet and striking him on the shoulder
and cutting a severe cash to the bone.
Some miscreant entered the saw mill Of
William ODER, in Eden, on Sunday last, aud
cut the l2-inch drive belt ten times asunder,
also cutting all the lacings. There is a slight
clue to the authorship, which it is hoped will
lead to full conviction.
Hon. Q, s. Page of Hyde Park started
Monday morning for Rutland, where the
committee 90 the Bennington centennial eel.
ebration are met this week to arrange for the
Forthcoming gala day at Bennington. They
expect to find weeks work before them.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Samuel Hews, 50 years old and veteran
Of 1872, fell over the threshold of his house
at Fairlee on Saturday and broke his limb
above the knee.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Eleven years ago, l. K. Drew of Barton
set out an elm tree near his house, that was
only one inch in diameter and four feet high.
1t now measures thirteen inches in diamter
at the base, and is twenty-six feet high.
Meta French, daughter of Dean French
of Barton Landing was badly burned in the
face last Tuesday, by falling from a chair
upon hot stove.
A tramp called at Allen Ripley's in Cow
entry one night last week and asked for lodg-
ing and as his request was not granted, he
threatened to burn buildings. Mr.. Ripley
escorted him to the front yard, boxed his
ears soundly, and let him go. He was taken
up the next morning.
An effort is being made at North Troy to
form an infantry company for the Benning-
ton centennial.
The saw mill Of G. w. Curtis at East
Greensboro, was burned on the night of the
10th inst, with all its contents, together with
a large amount of lumber. The mill con-
tanned single mill, box and other machin-
cry, and the loss is heavy.
Prouty Il Miller of Newport have com.
menced running their large steam mill at
that place.
1t is proposed to start a mill at North
Troy for the manufacture Of furniture and
other kinds Of wood work.
A little four-year-old boy living at Greens.
boro recently asked his sister to come out to
the barn and hear the hens sing "All for
Jesus"
A little son of Freeman Bartlett of New.
port Center was struck on the side of the
head by a base ball last week viii Oh knocked
out tooth or two for him.
The steam mill belonging to j. T. Beede
X Co., bankrupts, was sold at auction by
the assignee last Friday. 1t was bid off BY
Horace Lawrence and A. w. Brown at
$4,000.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The congregational church at West Rut.
land, Rev. j. K. Williams, pastor, has had
nearly 100 additions during the past year.
Recent developments have implicated
several young men, in Pawlet, some of them
of respectable families, in series of thelts
and depredatiOns and they have been bound
up for trial.
The late murder and suicide at Brandon
is in some respects the strangest of the
strange crimes for which peaceful Vermont
has of late years been famous. Frank Bras.
sor, Jr., aged 10 had borrowed his employers
fine repeating rife for days hunting Satur-
day morning. His father, who was working
In a swamp, heard two quick shots near by,
but thought nothing Of it, till a passer-by
found the boy dead in ditch, with pistol
ball in his body, and the rife missing. About
10 O'Clock at night section hand on the
Rutland railroad met a young man near
Pittsford, who fired at him with q rife, but
was Immediately knocked down, bereft of his
rifle and let 60, the railroad man keeping on
to Brandon, where he heard of the murder
and found the rife to be the one taken from
the dead boy. A hand.car was manned and
started back, but when near the scene of the
tussle a pistol-shot was heard, and the muir.
derer, young man of fine appearance and
clothing, with small white maud, was found
to have shot himself dead through the head.
He is since found to have been an English
lad OF fine education and quiet manner, who
worked for awhile on farm in neighboring
town, and has been lettering about Brandon.
1t has been thought without particular rea-
son that he was crazy, but the facts indicate
a deliberate murder from pure coVeteusness.
His light curly hair had been dyed black.
and burglars mask and other articles were
were found in his pocket with burnt cork,
with which he had partly blackened his face.
He probably saw the Brassor boy with his
handsome gun,and to get it coolly killed him
fired on the railroad.man thinking
him one Of his pursuers, and finally, when he
found he was really in danger, killed himself
to escape hanging.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The house, barns, outbuildngs and stock
Of DR.. Horace Fales at Waterbury were
burned Monday; loss $4,000, insurance
$4,000.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Now that Brattleboro has confirmed with
majority Of the signatures of her taxpayers
similar amount of grand list |
The vote to aid to the amount Of 5000 the |
proposed Bratteboro and Whitehall railroad, !
Lhnsa liuinn On Tho line Of tLn ro..La a..-.-. |