The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-02-21

relieved Of biz charge, alter threatening
TO smash The brains Of bis scholars With a
Gre shovel.
Secretary Evaris has jos, sold from biz
Windsor farm yoke Of oIcn that weigh
ed $50 pounds another that weighed
t,s5i. and two cows that weighed 400
ponpds each.
4 Rutland elcgyman occasionally reads
selected article sundays instead Of
preaching a sermon.
A Worcester hnsbaBdmAn carries the
district school mistress 10 church 10 =
sleigh, while bis wife plods through the
snow on foot.
Several Middlebury students have or.
CANNED an eating club which bids fair TO
be . complete gu cess.
A BrAttleboro organ company has re.
oeived large order for organs 10 20 70
Brazil.
Ga Saturday, while Mrs Charles NJ.
HsLen OF West Randolph, was breaking
kindliug wood, stick few up, putting
out one OF Der eyes.
The Hon. Levi Underwood, aceoups-
MED by two attendants, departed Mon.
day from Burlington, for the insane asy.
lum At Concord, N II.
Ars. 4. j, ChAmpIin, who was commit.
ted to Middlebury jail with Deacon
Smith, was released on her own recog-
niZance, Saturday, there not being evil
dencc enough against her to hold her.
William II. Jaquith's saw mill aud
chair stock factory at Yves ton has been
burned loss, o., 900; insurance, $1,000
Hop raising proved disastrous exper.
linen, In this state the last season. As
= general thing the rates realized did not
cover the cost Of picking, and many rails
ers have not yet sold their hops.
Col. Hooker, who has been spending
the winter in Washington with his family,
writes to friend that be will return TO
BrAtlleboro ia time to take a hand ia the
approaching congressional hair pulling y
General Burgoyne's mess kettle, cap.
tured at con ii" is ia the possession of
A. L. Childs OF Bennington. ltisowned
by Mr.. Langdon OF Csstleton. and Is
generous In its dimensions, weighing sew.
eral hundred pounds.
An exchange says: at is just begin
ing to be suspected that the ravages of
In Burlington, during the past
year have been due to the fact that The
sewers discharge within the breakwaler,
while the water supply OF the city comes
from the same portion of the lake.
The town of Rocking CHAM, since Febru.
airy Sth, 1877, has given aid to LIE
tramps, at an average expense Y cents
per head, or total OF $i40.6i. They
were entertained in the Bellows Falls
lookup, but not very sumptuously.
Editor Swain, OF Bellows Falls, says
there are probably hundred items of
state expenses In which a saving may be
made OF from $50 TO $500 each. This
average alone would save a total to the
state OF $4,000 annually.
The famous case OF tho state v. Alice
Hadlock for assaulting Mr.. Hatch, editor
Of the North Troy Palladium in May last
was heard by the Orleans county court
now 10 session at Irasburgh, The assault
was made with horsewbip, and Hatch.
pelted With red pepper and rotten eggs. |
The affair grew out of scandalous articles
In the Palladium rejecting on the young
lady's character. The respondent was
fined twenty-five cents, the court consider
Ing that this sum was all that II was
worth.
The Brattleboro Reformer wants Wind
ham county 10 name the successor to Con-
gresham Denison, and, that innumera.
BILE rival candidates may be disposed of,
It suggests that the people OF every politi-
cal stripe vote for the best man, inform.
ally, at the March town meetings. This
would be the best way IN It's judgment OF
selecting a candidate for whom old Wind.
ham could 20 solid. lie would naturally
be republican, butth party lines would |
be wiped out And The county could glorify |
herself in him.
The Brstleboro third special town
meeting for The purpose OF voting on the /
question of transferring nhy thousand .
tollars (the SUN for which the town had /
bonded itself October last ia aid OF the .
aud Whilebsll rairoad) 10
he new proposed nsrrow-gauge road
from south Londonderry to Brattleboro,
Was held in the town hall Saturday after
noon with unusual excitement. Ten
hundred and sixtY-six votes we're cast,
In favorable vote for the trans
Ter by los majority. Two weeks ago
he majority against the transfer was II.
The following officers compose the roads
G. +. Thompson, Brattle.
ooro, president; L. L. Waterman, JamAi.
a, vice-presideut; j. A. Butler, Jamaica,
,lerk aud treasurer; Executive committee
G. y. Thompson, j. l.. Martin, Frank
ioodhue. Should other towns along the
Inc follow Brattleboro's example The
Dad will be begun early 10 the spring.
The residence OF Mr.. George Pease, 10
Charlotte, was burned TO The ground
Monday morning between " aud
''cloek, Mr. PeAse aud bis family barely
escaping with few articles Of clothing
There was no time TO save anything. The
ire took from al ash barrel. Los. about
200; no insurance.
Mr.. David Foster OF Weston, who was