Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-07
Vermont State News.


ny with orange colored legs, Is proving "a de-
structive to the potato vines az the beetle . An
drew N. Ellison, Of Starlksboro has a dog weigh
ing less than twelve pounds, that has caught and
killed within month, fourteen woodchucks and
one skunk Each one ofthe woodchucks weighed
more than the dog The vergennes library,
which was founded by Susan d. Strong in 1876.
has some thirteen hundred volumes, and about
four hundred members. The Reform School at
Vergennes il moro than full Carrie Brooks, Of
Ferrisburgh, nine years old was up before Justice
Grandey on the 22d ut., charged with stealing TO
the amount Of fifteen dollars She was sent TO
the Reform School for the full term . The
Shade Roller Company, at Vergennes has been
compelled by large orders TO increase its working
force. e.. Henry Lane, Of Cornwall, has raised
this season eighty-fonr bushels Of the Clawson
winter wheat on one acre and one hundred and
forty-three rods Of land. 90. Nine thousand nine
hundred pounds Of milk per day from six hundred
and ten cows, comprising thirty-four diaries, is
now manufactured at the Orwell cheese factory
into sixteen or seventeen cheeses. The late rains
have increased the amount Of milk per day nearly
nine hundred pounds. The Saranac horse-nail
works at Vergennes, are to remove in October 10
Plattsburg, n. Y, where large share Of the com
panys stock is held and their buildings will prob
ably be occupied by ]. D. Kingland's new horse
nail company. Recently patented machines for
the manufacture Of these nails are now being con-
structed Milo Benedict CORVALLIS musical
prodigy, has been sent to Europe to receive in
struction from some Of the best masters Dea-
con L. p. Smith, of vergennes who was tried for
poisoning his wife, has take farm in Northern
New York. and is removing thither The
Bristol reformed mems club now numbers over
six hundred and thirty members. Mr.. II. A.
Sickle, of Addison, has an oleander that has
fifteen hundred buds and blossoms now on the tree.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
| IN some parts Of Peru whole fields Of grain have
been cut and put into the barns for fodder, the
hot dry weather forcing the ripening process so
rapidly that it totally failed to FILL. IA pair of
horses htched to a moving machine ran away in
Bennington the other day one Of the animals be-
| ing fatally cut and their owner Harrison HAYNES
terribly gashed.. %. Thomas King, an Irishman
employed on the railroad at North Pawnal, died
| from an overdose Of laudanum the other day
| while suffering from dysenterv.. notable
| celebration will be that of the Bennington odd
Fellows and Grand Army boys, August 10th. A
street parade, speech-making and fifteen hun
dred plate clam dinner, are the principal features.
| The odd Fellows and members Of the Grand
Army throughout the state are invited to attend
CALEDONIA COUNTY
| WORK on the North church at St Johnsbury Is
progressing 1t will cost nearly one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, and the walls are to be
three feet thick, two Of brick and one of stone,
from Isle La Motto. The Methodist campme ting
commences ut Lyndonville, August 21st and con-
tnues until the latter part Of the following week
cHTTENDEN COUNTY
ON Friday morning freight train ran over and
killed small child of Mr.. Mcmahon on the
Central Vermont road in Williston The engineer,
rounding curve, could not see the child in season
to stop the train Mr. C g. Pringe and 7,
Hosford, Of Charlotte have started from Shell
burne Point in small boat, fitted for the occasion,
bound for Portland, Maine. They will 20 down
the st. Lawrence by steamer. The Methodist
society at Milton have determined to rebuild the
church recently burned and also to build a new
parsonage.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
REV JAMES F. STONE, late of Eighgate, has re-
Gently removed to Dalton, n H., to take charge
of the Congregational church there. >. The Mis-
sisquoi and Trout rivers overflowed their bank,
during the recent heavy rains, making it impos
sble to cross them doing considerable damage
oats and corn being buried beneath the water
LAMorLLE COUNTY.
The work Of filling up the treste the Port
land and Ogdensburg railroad, west of Morris
vile, has begun. A large engine off from th'
Passumpsic road will be used to haul gravel. |
is estimated that it will take thirty Thousand
yards of dirt to make the fill....A Hydeparl
farmer has lost the hay certain piece of lane
by rain every year for twenty-sx years. Emo
Sherwin, of Hydepark has been appointed station
agent at East Fletcher, vice John Sherman, re
moved. The season at the Mount Mansfield
Hotel Stowe, has set in strongly, and the hous'
is filling up rapidly. A good quadre band /,
employed by the hotel company, which makes il
the gayest season there for many years
ORANGE COUNTY.
THErFoRD ACADEMY has Il five thousand dolla
fund for the aid Of poor students ....T The OraDg
county teachers examination will be held a
Chelsea, August Goth and Dist, commencing a
ten o'clock A. NJ
ORLEANS COUNTY.
CHAREs RYDER, of Barton, has been held il
eight hundred dollar bonds to answer the charg
of horse stealing. ... The Salem Mass institute
excursionists, numbering nearly one hundred per
sons, arrived at the Memphremagog House on tn
22d nit, on their annual excursion to Lake Mem
phremagog Montreal Quebec and other points
The party was under the guidance of Presiden
Henry wheatand and Secretary George NJ
Whipple. ...A Craftsbury young man has die
from the effects of going into the water nine time
in one day....R d, Scott, of Craftsbury, ha'
nearly an acre of potatoes destroyed by fire
short time since. They were planted on newl
cleared land, and the fire is supposed to hav
caught from passing train....L NJ. Field, o
Barton, recently met with a team accident b!
which he was severely bruised, his wagon shat
tered, and his horse entangled in the harness anC
nearly stranged .. A farmer recently harveste,
one bushel OF potato bugs in one day Fema
= tmmps have made their appearance. The pa
: per mill at West Derby has resumed operations.
RUTLAND COUNTY
BRANDON has appropriated $4,000 to procur
water supply from Hitchcock pond. Pitts
ford furnace has shut down on account of low
water. E. james Gilrain, laborer at Rutland
was very seriously injured on Saturday, July 9th
by jack being forced from its position under
house and striking him in the face and breast.
Edward Leonard, of Fairhayen, Middlebur!
College student, has just died from the effects o
hard study. John Owens, prominent Wecl
citizen of West Pawet while at work in tn
quarry Friday, received injuries which have sine
proved fatal He engaged in blasting
rock, and Immediately after the charge had beef
fired, he descended into the pit to clear the rub
bish from the surface of the rock. While engage,
at this large quantity of stone on the top OF tn
, quarry, which became loosened by conclusion o
the blast, fell, and stone weighing fifty pounds
struck Mr.. Owens on the head, fracturing hi
skull. George W. Bishop, Castleton's default
> ing collector has re-appeared, and the state ha
sued the town for 81 900 OF state taxes, which b
Is unable to account for, He lived beyond hi
means. Otter Creek is being surveyed by
q United States engineer, preliminary to expendni
= the 5000 appropriation Of Congress for the i'm
I provement.. Fifteen men are employed a
Castleton, removing blocks of pencil stone at tn
= | quarry little distance north Of that village
:, After being taken to the surface they are spill
. into slabs one quarter of an inch thick; the
i, sawed into pieces four inches wide and six inche
A long, then boxed and sent TO Newark, n J.
:, where they are converted by machinery into Stat
"a pencils at the rate of forty thousand day.
- Four thousand pounds of wool were recently pun
chased In Poultney, at twenty 10 thirty cents pc
7, pound, The body Of Francis Van Allen, a negr
. well known as Pompey, has been found near III
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