The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-11-20
STATE ITEMS.

"A large panther has been seen in
the woods at Orange.
Work at the Newport veneer
mandatory is rushing.
In a population Of 10000, Rut-
land County averages thirty divorces
annually.
The Reform School at Nergcnnes
wants ten thousand dollars for new
buildings.
Senator Edmuns has returned to
Washington with his family. lie is in
excellent health.
Rutland is making bid for the
insane asylum which the State may pos
sibly conclude TO build.
An East Middlebury family has
lost five of its members by death, with
in the last fifteen months.
Lyndon Centre has a forty-seven-
year-old gopse. The venerable bud is
still as kinky as yearling.
Rev. Rowland S. Cross, lately of
the st. Johnsbury Center Congrega-
tional church, has accepted a call to
Aoka, MINI.
Hanging is not yet played out in
theory at least in this State. The bill
TO abolish capital punishment was re-
fused a third reading by a vote of l57
to 81.
Horace Leach was badly stabbed
in a quarrel with Chester Albee at
North Troy last Wednesday, and the
latter has fed. Jealousy was the cause
of the row.
Pin White, the forger, YER
satile and brilliant rascal Of Vermont
birth, we believe, has been arrested
and sent to Kansas City to answer for
his misdeeds.
General Kingsley's horse that car
ried him as major of the Twelfth Yer
mont, through the celebrated. Gettys-
burg campaign of 1868, died Nov. 18th,
aged p years.
The Blake families of Derby, Or
leans County, are organizing to lay
claims to an immense estate in Eng
land, amounting to one hundred and
fifty million dollars and including
large landed property.
Charleston points with pride to
73-yeals-old lady who walked 10
miles, spun 200 knots of yarn, knit
two pair of stockings and one pair Of
double mittens in one week.
Rev. Scion Martin, well-known
Congregational clergyman of West
Fairlee, died the 9th, aged Y years.
He spent the entire term of his clerical
labors in Corinth and Fairlee.
William Rawson, of Craftsbury,
26 years old, shot himself in the head,
blowing it all to pieces, the II inst.
He put the muzzle of the gun to his ear
and pulled the trigger with his toe.
E. II. Slayton, of South Wood
stock, has a sheep with perfect min
iature mouth inside one Of its ears
teeth, tongue, and all complete, which
opens and shuts when the sheep chews
her cud.
The State Fish and Game Protec-
tive Association have elected Col. M.
5. Colburn, Of Factory Point, Presi-
dent; DR.. G. f. Gale Of Brattleboro,
one Of the Nice-Presidents S. b. Pet
tengill, of Rutland, and II A. Harmon,
Of Bennington, Secretaries Col. N. T..
SpragHe OF Brandon, Treasurer.
"A young fellow has been swindling
folks in Franklin and Orleans counties
by collecting funds for circulating IL
braries, each of which he said contained
90 choice books valued at 80 cents
apiece. The only books his subscrib-
ers have received, however, are of the
Lakeside Library edition, valued at
about 5 cents apiece.
Once upon a time, when "board-
ing round" was the rule in Vermont
school districts, one man had to board
the teacher just two and a half days.
On the third day, as the teacher sat
down to dinner, the man of the house
SAID: "Madam, suppose your board
ing time will be out when you have eat
ell half dinner; but, as ! don't wish
to appear mean, you may eat nearly as
much as usual"
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