Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-08-02
State News Item 8,

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State News Items,
Capt. j. N. Culver of the Barlo,
Grays OF st. Albant has tenders
his resignation.
Two young ladiep have riddel
horse back from New York City t.
Waterbury.
F. Stewart Stranahan has beef
elected Captain Of the Rau sou
Guards, st. Adams, in place o
John W. Newton, resigned.
Rutland is to have q trot TIM
meeting August Is, IA and 10, will
purses amounting to $500, includ
ing free-for-all purse Of $3.50.
The Newark diphtheria scourg,
has probably abated for the pres
ent. Having crossed over int,
East Haven, several died of it.
Col. L. E. Knapp of Middlebury
has been appointed to fill out thu
unexpired term of the late judge
Cook, of the Addison probate dis
trict.
Mr.. Edward Barnes, u blind man
was seriously, and it is feared fatal
ally, injured by runaway horse, al
West Randolph last week Wednes
day.
A steam yacht is projected to ply
between Bellows Falls and Wind.
sor. The Connecticut river is navi.
gable between these points.
Willoughby Lake was never 50
attractive in it's convenience and
comforts as a summer resort as it is
this season.
Col. Charles Fl. Joyce, mem bel
LOT Congress, has returned from
Washington and will spend the
summer at his residence in Rnt.
land.
Rev. James Anderson, pastor oil
the Congregational church at Man.
chester, will celebrate the semi.cen-
tennial anniversary of his installa-
ton on Aug. IL.
Rateable property in Bennington
county has been taxed five cents on
the dollar, to meet deficiency in
the county treasury.
It is said the Rutland scale works
have just secured large amount OF
additional capital by the purchase
by a New York firm of $4,000 in
stock and 5000 in bonds.
Rev. NJ. A. Gates, of st. Johns
bury, while engaged at work on his
barn recently fell from the roof, a
distance of thirty feet, and broke
his right thigh and fractured his
left ankle badly.
A tax of ten cents on a dollar has
been assessed on the ratable estate
of Essex county, for the purpose of
meeting the deficiency in the treas.
ury of that county.
Among the passengers on the
steamer State of Virginia, from New
York for Glasgow, which went
ashore at Sable Island in q fog,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Hull, of
Woodstock.
We are asked to believe that a
WOodfOrd farmer, seeing q large
striped snake which was c0ncealing
its young by letting them run into
its mouth, killed the serpent and
found sixty young snakes.
An eight-year-old Brandon boy
named Bordeau quarrelled with
Frederick Trusha, nine years old,
the other day and shot him serious
ly with a rifle, the bullet passing
through Trusha's body.
tits said that tho three best bands
in Vermont are in the order of mer-
it, as follows st. Adams Brigade
band, Shermans band of Winooski
and Rutland Cornet band.
The people of Rochester are rails
ing money to erect an observatory
on the mountain between there and
Randolph, from which the view is
truly magnificent, being the very
centre of the mountain region of the
state.
The travel on the Montpelier &
Wells River road is largely on the
increase, five trains now going over
the road each way daily. The Port.
land train on Monday morning car
rying over 81 through passengers
and 6 pieces of baggage.
Frank Kenfeld of Hydepark was
seriously injured on Monday on the
Portland 8 Ogdensburg railroad.
He was on his way to market with
a load of cattle, and while passing
along the train on the top of the
cars, came in contact with bridge.
A wagon road has been compile
ted from Rutland to the summit of
Killington Peak. This Is a summit
of the Green mountains, 4221 feet
above the sea. a - Una, .ervic.
e''' :. Mas been established at that
| point by the Government.
Ira White, of Chester, father o
Herbert o. White, for whose muir
der Gravelin was hung, committed
suicide in the lookup during a fl
OF mania a potu, by nearly seyerinl
his head from his body, with an or
binary jack-knife.