Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-19


.. Q. Dow aud John Cove trap,
|ped o bear In Lincoln few DAYS
aimee Of about the average size aud
minus ono toe, which was lost in
the trap of the same parties two
years ago. A bear was recently
> caught In Montgomery, and they
have been seen in various parts OF
the state.
Lemuel Richardson of Barre,
Jagged 80, claims to he the champion
fox hunter OF the State. He has
killed 700 during his life and trap.
ped enough to make the number
1880, besides capturing 8 deer, II
fishers, b offers and other game too
numerous to mention.
DR.. o. II. Morehouse, while fish.
ing in brook near Sudbury the
other day, found a large turtle whose
shell was completely covered with
moss. Having some curiosity to
know how thick the moss was, he
caught the turtle and with sharp
stone removed the moss, when to
his surprise he found the shell bore
the date Of 1856.
| Abel Curtis, who taught the first
school in the town of Lowell, Or.
leans county, was the first post.
master, erected tho first frame
house, performed the first marriage
ceremony, built q grist mill in 1872
land was town clerk for twenty
seven years, died in that town July
p, aged "a years.
Il u reported that bon. T. w
Park has informed the sclectmen of
Bennington that unless their q, 900
suit for four years. neglect Of his
North Village national bank to re-
turn list of its stockholders is
withdrawn, he will remove the bank
from town and will levy executions
for 812 900 overdue interest judg.
ments against the town.
1t seems that the first re-
ports as 10 the prevalence of the
smallpox at Enosburg Falls were
exaggerated. There have been only
two genuine cases of smallpox and
half dozen cases of variOloid, and
only one death has occurred. The
authorities have taken all necessary
precautions to prevent the spread
of the disease and a pest house has
been erected and other measures
taken to confine it within its pres
ent limits.
The National Bell Telephone
Company has established district
telephone system in Burlington.
Nearly all the business firms along
the lake are to be connected with
the general Office over Vincent,
Taft & Co.'s store, where switch
board will be provided to accomm0-
date about thirty lines. By means
of this the firms are put in instant
com munication with each other.
In about two weeks connection will
be made with all the public places
in the city.
The farmers in the vicitity of st.
Adams are encouraged by the de-
stroyer Of the potato bug, an insect
known as the pc tatO beetle parasite
"a striped bug similar to the Gu.
cumber bug, but larger. He follows
the potato bug and eats it's eggs af-
ter they have been laid upon the
vines. This will probably be the
last year of the operations of the
Colorado beetle to any considerable
extent, as this parasite has appear
ed in large numbers in the vicinity.
1t is rumored that ike State Au.
|ditQp refuses to. nav certain appro-
|priati0ns OF the last Legislaturc|
made by joint resolutions, on the
ground that all resolutions appro.
priating money must be approved
and signed the same as public and
private laws, and that Gov. Proctor,
either through ignorance of the law
or neglect, failed to approve and
sign the resolutions. 1t is also said
that he is looking quite sharply af-
ter the contracts for the State print
ing since the documents have been
issued.
1t is rare thing to hear of a
tame partridge, but there is one
living in the woods near Mr.. Ed.
Smiths, in Braintree. It comes
out of the woods and follows him
while he is blowing and working in
the field. 1t will come to him and
let him feed, catch and pet it, and
no alarm. Recently A.
G. Bradish and Gilbert Tilson were
up there fishing and saw it. 1t
came up to Mr.. Bradish, picked his
hand and finally allowed him to
catch it. After petting it while
he let it 60.
At Westminster on Thursday af.
ternoon, as Mrs. Hiram Ngtting, a
lady about 80 years Of age, was rid.
ing with her son near the top of the
Clay Hill, about one mile south of
the village, an old ragged tramp
sprang into the road,
frightening the horse, causing the
carriage with its occupants to over
turn into a DITCH. Mrs. Nutting was
severely injured one arm was bro.
ken and her back badly hurt.
The Central Vermont now en-
ploys ninety-one locomotive en-
gineers, and two hundred and
twenty-nine conductors, station
agents and baggage masters. 1t
has one hundred and twenty loco.
one hundred and four pas
senger cars, and two thousand and
fifty freight cars. This does not in.
clude the green cars of the National
Despatch line, of which there are
more than a thousand, and which
carry nearly oil the through freight.
The new trains that are put on this
summer, just for the accommoda-
ton of summer travel, are run by
the road fully three hundred and
sixty miles day.
Charges having been preferred
against Rev. Il, Eastman Of Jack.
for unministerial and un-
christian conduct in several particu.
lars, a committee of clergymen held
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