Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-08
Vermont State News.


ADDlSOh COUNTY
ANDREW and Hiram Pratt Of East Middlebury,
lately captured two hundred pound bear in a
trap, aud attempted TO get him home alive; but
Bruin caught Andrews foot in his mouth, maxi
ing two ugly holes in his boot and one tusk pene-
trating the foot to the bone They then decided
To Kill the animal. Mr.. Scion Burroughs,
OF Waltham, had horse, harness and buggy
stolen from his premises the other night.
David iIamblin, of Bristol, was tried recently,
for an assault with intent to kill Daniel Nmbett,
but was acquitted on proving that he acted in
self-defence. Both parties were intoxicated.
Mr.. Frederick II. Hayden, Of Middlebury, com
nitted suicide by cutting his throat on Saturday.
MIR. Hayden had lived in Middlebury since his
boyhood, and had always been an industrious,
Woodworking man, until within year or two,
when he has been troubled with inilammatory
rheumatism and a complication of diseases which
disabled him for active work.
PENNINGTON COUNTY.
AN observatory has been erected on Mount
Equinox in Manchester by the United States
Coast Survey
CALEDONIA COUNTY
The Cdledonidn is waking up in season as
CARDS the st. Johnsbury centennial. 1t says the
hiNh III TOWN. was liliut W lfoDs
Hartley Anger was loading hay last week Thurs
day, when the horse became frightened and ran
away, upsetting the wagon, throwing him under
the load, injuring him severely.
cHrrTENDEN COUNTY.
BLACK bass fishing is reported NJ excellent just
now in Lake Champalu The Burlington police
have lately made raid on houses Of ill-fame
and captured eleven inmates. Four were held in
three hundred dollars each for trial. and four were
discharged. The others are held for further ex-
animation.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
THE house and barn belonging to b. F. Arsen-
ault in Swanton, were burned the other night,
and n part of his furniture, his COW, all his wag-
ons carriages, sleighs, harness, etc, were de-
stroyed. He had no insurance. Parties were
arrested ON suspicion
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
An exchange says Il Stowe man named his ten
children Luceba, Lucretia, laur,na, Lucinda,
Lucia, Lula, Luna, Charles, Carroll and Clarence.
ia young man in Stowe, named Smith, aged
twenty-five years, whose health has been poor for
some years. went berrying recently, but not re-
turning when expected search was made, and he
was found dead in u pasture two miles from his
home. go. Three daily t'ains are to be run each
way the Burlington and lamoille railroad.
ORANGE COUNTY.
MRS GEoRGEW. CoRLIss, of Newbury, an aged
widow lady, was thrown from carriage recently,
and received such serious injury that she lived
but three days afterwards.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
SOME drunken rascas of North Troy in going
home Saturday night, rolled number of mill logs
into the road near the Baptist church, thus COM
polling people attending divine service to make
long detour to reach the church On n recent
day an Amherst student walked from Newport to
Coventry, six miles, in an hour and fourteen
minutes
RUTLAND COUNTY.
THE Baptist church in Mount Holly was dedi-
Gated recently. Mrs Fena Hill, of South Wall
ingford, has bed-quilt which contains three
thousand nine hundred and thirteen pieces.
The Rutland police made a raid on dsreputable
house in that place the other day, and two of the
inmates were bound up in the sum Of five hun
dred dollars; two Of them were sent to Jail for
want OF bail
wINDHAM COUNTY.
AMONG recent improvements on the Vermont
Valley railroad, three miles of steel rails
laid mostly on the Putney division.
WINDSOR COUNTY
w. r. HEWITT, of Woodstock was seriously
injured recently while trying to stop his runaway
horse. Chester town fair occurs on the 9Th and
| 9TH Of September j. &. Spaulding, OF Cavern
| dish, was thrown from load of hay recently and
severely injured about the neck and spinal column
| ....John L. Taylor of Plymouth, recently fell
| from ladder, striking a stake which penetrated
his body five inches. The post-ofiice at
Chester was broken into on Tuesday of last week,
| and robbed of Il small amount of change.