Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-02-20
Vermont State News.
Addison CnnnfY.


feeling no action is possible regarding the so
called railroad debt Of one hundred and twelve
thousand dollars and the fifty-nne thousand dol
lars accrued interest thereon.
Caledonia County.
JosErH WEBER, boy ten-y ears-old broke his
collar bone in st. Johnsbury, while coasting.
JoBN WILSON, Of Mclndoes Falls, had his leg
fractured by the rolling Of log the other day.
ANNIE HAvILAND, n young girl in Danville,
was knocked down and somewhat injured by a
runaway team the other day.
A. b. STARTS, OF St. Johnsbury, has matched
pair Of Devon steer calves that weigh eleven hun
bred and ten pounds with light yoke on.
MRs FLANDERS. Of wheelock, who Is eighty
eight years old, recently fell, breaking and dislo
eating her hip and, it thought, will not recover
YOUNG man calling himself H. G. Sand has
been jailed at st. Johnsbury, under two hundred
dollar bonds for theft ofiewelry and other articles
MIST Of rascals has just been broken ny by
the arrest Of five thieves who have been amusing
themselves by stealing seigh-robes, etc, in st.
Johnsbury and vicinity.
AMONG the persons dying in st. Iohnsbury last
year, one-Rhoda wright-was ninety-three years
and ninety; ten between seventy and eighty. and
two between sixty and seventy
JACOB FARa, Of Walden, has a horse which
takes the children to school IA distance Of three
fourths OF mile) in the morning and then returns
home safely alone. At night he is harnessed and
sent alone to the school-house to bring them back
| AT DANvlLLE last week, while Mr.. o. n, Colby
was Telling trees in the woods, large spruce tree
fell in contrary direction from what he intended,
and when it came down il caught his leg between
the butt and a log that lay near, dslocating his
ankle joint and breaking the bones so that they
protruded through the flesh.
THERE are eleven persons in the town of Rye
gate who are upward of eighty years of age, Of
whom six were born in Ryegate, four in Scotland
and one in New Hampshire. All have been
marred-ten have been parents, three are widows,
four are widowers and three are now married
The population Of Ryegate in 1870 was nine hun
bred and thirty-fve. The oldest native in Rye.
gate is Mrs. Nathaniel Anns, now living in Nc
Indoes Falls at the age Of eighty-nine years. She
was born October 18th, 1888.
Chittenden County.
WINoosKfs liquor agency sales last year aggre
gated two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars
Mr. A. n. MERCHANT, of Burlington, has pre-
scented fine collection of minerals to the high
school of that city.
Essex County.
A son Of Harrison Stowell, Of Lunenburg was
severely cut on the head the other day-acci-
dentally-by an axe in the hands of his brother.
Franklin County.
THE St. Adams Brigade Band realized between
afx al In l,o .la;r f,i.
X. S. SHEPARD, of Georgia, who was lately in
jured by being thrown from his sleigh, has since
died from his injuries.
A RIcHFoRD man has shipped to Boston, this
season, one thousand one hundred and fifty
pounds Of spruce gum.
ANsoN GREENE, of Georgia, recently shot a
lynx which weighed twenty pounds and measured
three feet from tip to tip
Lamoille County.
A. G. WyMAN was instantly killed ut Water
willie on the 10Th, by falling down his cellar stairs
SrIRrTuALIsM is making rapid strides in the
north part of Waterve, and Belvidere; and
meetings are held from house to house from one
to three nights each week
Orange County.
LyCEUM in Newbury has Just settled great
question. 1t has decided, "by large majority,
that lawyers are a curse to the community in
which they reside
, SAMUEL HEwEs, Of fairlee died tile Sth, aged
ninety years He served in the war of 1872 and
was one of the four survivors of the twelve vol
unteers who tore up the bridge across the Sarana'
river at Plattsburgh, aud thus defeated the inair
British attack
, Orleans County.
CARLOS DRowN, deaf mute of Bloomington
has been Jailed for the theft Of a watch
ALvIS RowLEY, of Newport, slipped and fel
from his sled recently, breaking his collar bone
r Ir behooves people to look to their springs a
this time Of the year. Lust week Hollis Thrasher
i OF Coventry, visited his and found three stripes
+ snakes and six large frogs comfortably domi
:. ciled in it
l. THE inhabitants of Derby Line and vicinity ar
= waking up in the cause of temperance. The
> have formed n temperance union hold meeting
once in two weeks, have got in most OF the har,
. drinkers, and number about one hundred an
g fifty members.
$ Rutland County.
b A SUIT against the town of Dandy for damage
"a received while travelling on Sunday has bee
y, defeated
II EIGHT Of the deer for stocking the Green Mour
Z
m Mrs Weatherby, of Port Henry, n Y. lively
m more are To follow.
WEST HAVEN has Just lost a strange charactt
l., by the death of James W. Field, postmaster q
), the place for the last twelve years at the age
Di fifty-four. His body and limbs, dwarfed and IL
Is formed by disease in his infancy, never exceede
n. n hight Of three feet and four inches, while h
: head was remarkably large For fully half hi
~ life he was Obliged to crawl around on his hant
te and feet, as he was 100 weak tn walk erect, bl
he none of his mi-fortunes kept him from supper
ing himself and using his ingenuity in manufa
turing models of machinery, toys and fanC
4, articles, many Of which were beautifully carve
~ He was also quite genius in vocal and instr
DIS mental music till deafness destroyed his power
lip distinguishing sounds lie was devoted Christia
ry Windham County.
er ROWLAND HUNT, of Londonderry, attempt'
suicide the other evening by cutting his throa
lie will recover.
SOUTH LONDONDERRY has voted to aid t
proposed narrow-gauge road to the extent OF eig
times its grand list.
PurNEy has temperance society OF thr
in years standing, with II membership of six hu
=, dred in population of eleven hundred. Duri
~ the entire year literary and musical entertai
ry, ments are given every fortnight
eu Windsor County.
an An evening school has been established
nd Windsor prison, with teachers from the most a
,nt vanced cOnvcts
,o. male, are employed at the cotton mills OF Jon
'"s Lamson & Co.. in Windsor
nu REV STEPHEN WILKINS, q Baptist minister
on Brooklyn, n. Y, who died the 18th, aged eigh
ON one, was native OF Weston, this state.
h." THE other day while Mrs Charles NJ. Hazen,
,,e West Hartford. was breaking kindling wood
- stick flew up putting out one OF her eyes.
~ =" MRs. john HULL of Ludlow, celebrated
Iiss ninety-ninth birthday Thursday last, by an
mo ladies party the average age OF those pres'
Ger being seventy-three years.
Irs TIMES are picking up in Proctorsville
- large wooden mandatory under the mana
INA ment Of Haywood, Taft Co., il running 10
full capacity, finishing one thousand yards
. as cloth daily.
our SEcRErARy-oF-sTATE EvARrs is famous
- raising large cattle lie has just sold from
~" Windsor farm yokes of oxen that weighed
was thousand hundred and fifty and four thousi
Iext eight hundred and hity-one pounds and two @
,ab- that weighed fourteen hundred pounds each.
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