The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-05-28
STATE ITEMS.
Tile Windsor county Jail at Wood
stock has one lone OCCUPANT.

nave hliltu tlEtNt ipAto ~ oAS Siitt'
"A Bradford dog recently killed an
eagle which measured nearly six feet
between the tips of its wings.
Rev. J. +. Lloyd, pastor of the
South Ryegate Presbyterian church,
resigns TO go to Utica, \. \.
Senator Edmunds, with his wife
and daughter, will sail from New York
for Europe, on the 18th Of June.
Horace c. Reynolds, a Georgia
farmer, recently cut his throat while
insane, and died several days after.
The other day n Guilford log
killed five black snakes, measuring
from five and half to six feet in
length.
The old town house of Whining
ton must have been valuable insti-
tuition. 1t was recently sold for the
sum of So.
"A Mortified spiritualistic lunatic
haunts the village graveyard, robed in
white, "to take and bear away mes
sages from the dead"
Chandler McNall, assistant keeper
of the Colchester reef lighthouse, was
drowned Wednesday, while trying to
bring in a foundered boat.
The Weldon House kitchen range
at St. Adams exploded Wednesday,
iniuring Nelson Eddy and Mary Con-
molly, and doing $500 worth ofdamage.
Bennington county farmers COM
plain that the Colorado beetle or ''po-
tato bug" has appeared in immense
and increasing numbers down there.
-Larrabee's Point (Shoreham) will
celebrate the Fourth of July with an
Grafton by Gen. Fitzpatrick, a balloon
ascension, a military parade, foot and
horse-races and regatta.
Lyman G. Camp, of Montpelier,
who died the other day, had been mar
ried over sixty years. The family
consisted Of the parents and eight chill
dren, no death having previously oc-
cured in the family.
There was-a severe frost in the
vicinity of White River Junction, Fri
day morning, which destroyed garden
vegetables, grapevines, fruit tree bios
SONS, etc. Plants covered with paper
were completely frozen.
On Saturday, the 18th, Mr.. Am
asa Knapp Of East Lyndon, while
loading household goods on to a wag-
on, fell and injured himself SO seriously
that he is not expected to long survive.
Mr.. Knapp is past so years Of age.
"A Calais man, who has kept an ac
count OF last winters snowIalls for
his vicinity, says they began October
20 and ended April Is the total fall
being y feet. The largest amount for
any one month"; inches-fell in
January.
Augustus G. Clark, a prominent
1Uth. He had represented the town
in the Legislature; was postmaster
from 1861 to 1870; and had been 4
member Of the Congregational church
for forty years.
The Hon. Calvin French, first
assistant judge of the Windsor county
court, died at Proctorsville, May 10,
in the eightieth year Of his age. He
was born in 1899 and with the except
ion of two or three years has always
resided in Windsor county.
Two weeks ago Richmond farmer
left a two-quart basin, full of large
board nails, at the end Of hollow
tree, and when he went after it the
other day he found that the robins had
thrown the nails out, built nest in
the basin and laid three eggs,
"A band youthful burglars, from
10 to p years old apiece, and bound
to secrecy by the strongest oaths, have
been discovered at Royalton, and five
of them arrested. They have commit
ted nine or ten burglaries, and consid-
cradle property stolen by them has
been recovered.
Caledonia County Court common
ces its session at st. Johnsbury, Tues
day, June 3D.. The docket contains
1855 civil cases and 81 State cases, Z
for larceny, 3 for forgery, ? for adul-
terry, / for selling liquor, l for assault
with intend to kill, and the rest for
less noticeable offences.
Manchester claims that the Sun
cook valley railroad, run by the Con-
cord railroad, discriminates against
the city, the time tables being so ar
ranged that people along the road can
not visit Manchester and retplyypo the
asked to set the matter right.
Rev. L. S. French, of Castleton,
90 years of age, and his ao-year old
wife are the parents of eleven children,
eight sons and three daughters, all of
whom are now living. Six of the sons
were in the late war and did service
from the drummer boy" and cavalry,
to the naval department-and all es-
capped death though not wounds.
Fifty thousand dollars worth Of
United States $40 certificates have
been sold at Montpelier, the banks
securing $40, 900 worth, to the exclus-
ion of others, by pressing small boys,
paupers and others into service to buy
for them. One man, Wallace f.
Noyes, was given 500 TO buy for a
bank and now refuses to give up his
purchase.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Central Vermont Rail-
road was held at st. Adams last We'd