The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-05-09

C1siisioa has "a elm ire 90 enc Of its
pfinolpki streets thA, glrths q feet, snd j.
supposed 70 Be 90 ytas cd.
Alfred Joaes Of North HYDE Park was
attempting 10 shoot cats, The other day,
bat made mistake and shos biz better
bali through the rlgh, arm,
Rev. y Q. Saunders ADD wife o. New.
pora we're thrown nom their carriage, The
other day, and both quite seriously To-
jared.
Tie friends Of Sutton lady are arm IN
the belief, says Tho Monitor, thai Der re-
covury from state Of insanity IS due 10
supernatural agency,
Il isa notable coincidence that The pill
box factory, At Bristol is running night
aud day aud the Bristol Manufacturing
Company employ seventeen men making
cofiins.
Much righteous indignation exists
among dog owners Of Burlington, over
the wAnton poisoning Of valuable and in
offensive dogs, which has been going on
10 that city.
Some OF the Methodist churches in the
state have bad large additions within y
months, IFS new members being received
at Bennington, 81 at Mortified aud GO at
Bellows Falls, where the attendance has
been doubled during the last three years
Recently, the family Of Daniel Robinson
OF Sharon missed their little boy, some
two and half years Of age. After a
long search, in which several fthe neigh
bors Joined, be was found some fifty or
sixty rods from the house, stuck In bed
of thick mud, aud so drmly were bis feet
imbedded 10 Il that he had TO be dug out,
as no amount Of pulling seemed TO &C
complish his delivery.
On the 18th inst, General George L,
Foster, U. S. Marshal, attached the real
estate OF the bank Of Farhayen, at the in.
stance of Allen Brothers Of Fairhayen,
who have brought o suit in the United
States district court against the bank for
usury, seeking to recover $1,000. The
bank had previously sued the Allen Broth
eas for the payment of 81 900, the amount
OF their paper hitherto carried by the
bank.
The Caledonian tells how an objection
able family were drowned out" as fol-
lows: last Saturday night the house
occupied by Mrs. Shepard and her daugh-
ter at Paddock village was washed out.
Some unknown parties got out the hose
and attached il TO the hydrant and gave
the house and occupants most thorough
dreDching. Upon the arrival of the po'
lice no one was TO be seen but Mrs Shep'
ard and daughter, who, from description
we should judge, looked much like the
statue on the soldi ers' monument.
Ex-CongressmaA Willard has left the
Hot Springs, Ark, improved in health
and is spending short time In Washing
ton.
A correspondent says that our Vermont
sculptor, Larkin g. Mead, is in Washing
ton, working TO get the bill for the appro
priation of funds TO finish the Washing
ton monument solong unfinished, through
the House, hoping, II it does pass, that be
will get the contract for finishing 1t. lie
has been engaged to make the monument
of Senator Morton for Indianapolis, and
as soon as the present question isdecided
he will return 10 Italy to his work.
Larkin G.. Mead has completed biz
model for the monument to be raised al
Bennington. According TO his plan, 9
a statue of Gen. Stark, twelve feet high,
will surmount structure 100 feet IL
hight. This structure, which in some re
spects is to be a copy of the famous toweI
of Giotto in Florence, will be ornamente(
with bas reliefs representing incidents il
Gen. Stark's campaigns. For this monu
ment, which Is TO cost not less than $75,
900, Vermont has contributed $4,000
New Hampshire So, 900 and Massachusetts
81 800.
On the farm of Martin Guild, of Ches
ter, the other night, stone forty fee
long, twenty feet wide and four fee
, thick, slid down the mountain nearly
mile, tearing up trees and everything els
in its way. In many places the grounC
was torn up 10 the depth oftwo feet, an,
the noise was 80 great as to awaken per
sons two miles away
On Battery street in Burlington, Mon
day afternoon, as some children wer
playing around wagon, a little two
year-old girl was pushed or pulled againe
; q whihletree hook with SO much fore
that it penetrated her body, iuflctiD
, shocking and dangerous injuries.