The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-04-18

BrattIeboro is to have poultry and
pet stock exhibition, the coming season,
| shorehsm has a Afty-yesr-old horse,
with something of the yigor Of youth still
surviving,
Joseph r. Nash Esq, prominent cili.
zen OF New Haven, died Tuesday, aged
80 years He had held various positions
OF public trust.
Hon. T. w. Park of Bennington lost
a valuable horse with the dlstemper, re-
Gently, for which he had been offered
$1,000 short time before.
The late II. e. Bradford, of Benning.
ton, had twenty-eight thousand dollars
insurance upon his life.
A negro named Thomas Fairfax, was
crushed by falling tree at Vernon, the
I'd, and died the next day.
Andrew Cowan's dwelling house at
Hyde Park was burned the Sd, the In.
mates narrowly escaping with their lives
An adopted son OF N. j. Rood of Brook
field, aged years, fell into pan of boil.
ing sap the LIST, and was SO badly scald-
ed that be died the next day.
A flve.year-old son of John Gaspaw OF
North Troy was fatally scalded by fall
ing into tub of boiling water Saturday
The child died Sunday night.
The total tax in ST. Johnsbury village
this year is 264 cents on the dollar, 1SJ
being for school, highway aud village, 129
for town, state aud state school,
AT Hartford, the other day Miss Mabe
Gibbs, aged 10, was so excited by visit
from brother whom she had not seen ioI
twenty years that she died before she
could speak.
Tie two North Bennington cotton
mills are shut down with no prospect Of
immediately starting up again. The ex'
tremely low price of prints lis the
cause.-the highest offer being two and
three.quarters cents per yard.
At the States Prison, at Windsor, some
| 800 pairs of shoes are made daily, by
l6l convicts. The work is all done by
the convicts, save the sewing, which IL
done outside, in shop adjoining, employ
ing some forty girls.
The Vermont Mutual fire insurance
company's 50lh anniversary was cele
brated with dinner at Montpelier the
other day, Daniel Baldwin, aged sc, and
the only one OF the Sc charter members
living, being among those present.
The Free Press says the local lake com
merce is opening with notable briskness
half dozen schooners having made trips
TO and from Burlington with full cargoes
within the last day or two. The cana
will, It is now announced, be opened on
the first day OF May.
Gold mining 10 the town of Stock.
bridge Is 10 be resumed at once, on q
larger scale than ever before. The ma,
chInery put 10 last fall has wintered well
and ia now ready for washing gold.
AT Westfeld, the other day, was shot q
wild goose which weighed Z IL pounds
aud measured five feet four inches from
tip TO tip of wings.
AT Passumpsic, April Sd, Hugh Som.
ers heard an unusual noise in the woods
near bis house, so taking bis gun be went
out 20 see what he could find. lie found
six wild geese, and by fortunate shot
killed oae and wounded another so that
he caught 1t alive. They were fat, hand
some fowls.
A young girl Ia Bartonsyille called up.
on ncighbor and wanted 10 buy hen
The neighbor baniered her some and of.
cred 10 sell her ben, the price to be l0C
grasshoppers. The next day the girl sp.
! pesred with the 100 grasshoppers-and Of
course she got the hen.
There Is woman 10 Pomfret who has q
husband aud children 10 take care Of;
! she performs most Of the work on The
farm and In Der own household, but her
husband does nothing; he Il not cut Of
health, but he was born tired.
The title Of champion walker is claim.
ed for William Burke, Of Castielou, a
J railroad track walker. During the six.
teen years Of bis employment st that
work, Burke has walked $500 miles,
or some four aud one-bslf times the dis.
! lance round the globe.
The Addison journal lhIaks Middle.
bury would be good place 10 enforce
The law on Sabbath breaking and estab-
lish society for the prevention OF cruelty
TO animals.
A tramp named Oscar BiEeiow, who
hiss been wandering about Peacham for
several years, haA been arrested On some
serious charges; among others, FOE AZ
assault on woman, and lhFeAt1niug 10
murder bic mother.
ApIil Wa unhiichIng day 10 The Rat.
land county eouri, Eve divorces being
granted Most Of the divorces were
grsuied for insolershle severity, the use
Il ola earving-kBife being apparently The