The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-04-16
STATE ITEMS,

Mrs. John q. NoftnfOp Oh Duf-
lington has just given birth to her 18th
child.
Sharon has just concluded to in
yestigate a deficiency of 81, 400, dis
covered in its treasurers accounts a
year ago.
Matthew Dooley of West Castle
ton, p years old, was fatally crushed
recently while running a saw in slate
mandatory.
Burlington has a case of body
snatching, a paupers remains having
been stolen from the poor-house ceme-
terry the other night.
Bethany church at Montpelier talk
of erecting tablets in memory of Faith
err Wright and Rev. DR.. Lord, their
first and last longtime eminentpastors.
Pleasant Valley has two remarka-
Die boys, one aged ii that weighs 2O9
pounds the other, aged II, has nicely
pieced three bed quilts and is now at
work on the fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo L. Chadree, Of
Albany, made | ,G75 pounds of butter
last season from eight cows and atwo-
year-old heifer; and the family supply
of milk and butter besides.
"A Landgrove woman lost the
power of speech several weeks ago,
bat has now regained it. This is the
second time she has been thus afflicted,
and no cause is given therefor.
The epicurean st. Johnsbury Cal
edoniaa had ripe Strawberries of home
growth April 9th; and on the llth its
horhy-handed editors cut green grass
nine inches tall in the Office yard.
Mr.. A. 7. DALEY of Derby is try
ING an experiment this spring, which
is that of running spout from each
tree in his sugar place to holders, thus
saving the trouble Of carrying the sap
by hand.
-Eledisa Plimpton, of Wardsboro,
who died on her 99th birthday, was
the last of the first settlers of the town
and the last of a large family. She
had lived in Wardsboro ninety-two
years.
An old woman at West Rutland
is singularly affected by music, which
paralyzes all her senses. Recently
she dropped senseless on hearing a
brass band-but that wasn't very re-
markable.
MIR. Steadman Darling, of Wash
ington, near Chelsea line, committed
suicide by hanging recently. He had
been insane for some years, which is
the supposed cause. He was nearly "a
years old.
Smith Ely, president of the Yer
mont Copper Mining Company, is re.
ported as offering to furnish $4,000
to aid in building u railroad from the
mines at Ely to interscct the Passump-
sic at Bradford.
Good Templar Lodges have re.
Gently been organized by II. NJ. Bry'
ant at Rutland, Taftsville, Bridge.
water and Windsor with good mem
bership; also one at East Wallingiort
with twenty-five charter members.
The first prosecution for cruelty tC
animals ever known at Montpelier has
been visited on a Moretown man who
habitually drove diseased and feeble
horses and cruelty treated them. Il
his ignorance Of the law, he was let of
with Sl4 fine and cost.
Mrs. Cults of Brattleboro dropped
dead Saturday morning, as she stepped
from train at the Erie depot in Jer
sey City, n. j. She was about &c
years old, and she had been visiting t
daughter in Patterson, Nj. Her body
was forwarded to Brattleboro.
An East Concord man recent,
complained of some young men for in
toXication, and now they have retalat
ed by having him arrested for breacl
of the peace and notwithstanding
the ofensc occurring while he was
taking a pig home in a sleigh, the pork
er breaking loose and causing consid
cradle noise and confusion in its cap
ture.
The snow is still so deep in some
parts of Hartland that many of the
farmers are unable to get into thei
sugar orchards. This, though un
usual, is not without precedent, a
will be seen by following 81 took TIVE
girls ir my sleigh this day, and rod
ovel fences across the road on tn
crust, the snow being five feet ant
covering most Of the fences. Mem
orandum of Squire Marcy for April 1 Z
1862.
A Vermont minister, besides hi
two sermons every Sunday, and lectur
and prayer-meeting and pastoral calls
raised last year on two-thirds Of a
acre of land 100 bushels of roots, l.
tons of fodder corn, 80 bushels of ear
of corn, 200 squashes, 70 watermelon
80 musk-melons, 8 bushels of pea:
3 bushels of beans, A bushels of pot;
toes, Is bushels of tomatoes, bushe
Of cucumbers, besides flowers. II
also fatted hog weighing 400 pound,
kept a COW from which butter wa
made, and hens which supplied man
dozens of eggs.
The rapid settlement of the countl
is doubling the business of the Gener