The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-05-08

Rev u. u Miller has closed bis lsbofs
with TIE Hsulahd Congregational
church
There arc SIS men sud eve women at
+ present guests Of Toe House Of Correction.
4 L, X. Qaimby & Co, Of Lyndon. have
$ contract Tor 1900 pounds Of maple
honey. 10 be delivered Ia Chicago.
Jay has bad i20 days Of sleighlng this
winter aud AZ inches Of snow fell there
since The FIRST OF March.
David Lyford, while fooling with nitro
glyeerine at North Troy, had his band
blown of aud his face frighlfully dis
figured
The unsightly sheds on Central wharf,
Burlington, are to be removed. and some
much needed Improvements made on the
dock.
4 Chief Justice pierpont Is, we are glad
to learn, constantly improving 10 health,
sud il seen on The streets Of Vergeunes.
4 Francis Kidder, who died at West
Townshend, recently, at the age Of 10,
has been town representative, state sena.
tor, assistant judge Of the county court,
and justice of The peace for A years.
The large mandatory o. the Vermont
Shade Roller Company on the Falls in
Vergennes, was burned Tuesday Of last
week about four O'Clock. Loss $4,000,
insured for 5000.
A Csslleton man has lived In the same
house on Main street S5 years and was
never seen TO enter bis dwelling through
/ the front door but once Ia that time, and
that was with friend visiting him from
4 the West.
I The Vermont Phgaix says iA making
cut for the new railroad about two
miles below Jamaica village, ledge Of
white rock has been struck, samples Of
which take fine polish and have the sp.
! pearance Of being an excellent quality of
marble.
4
the City Of Burlington, 10 recover dana.
ges for injuries received on defective
/ highway, the jury awarded the plaintiff
5000. The case goes TO the supreme
court on exceptions. The Free Press
/ says the suit could at one time have been
compromised for less than oDe-haf the
sum which the city will now have to pay
Daniel Castle of Westford, being sick,
bad Two medicines, one for external and
the other for internal use. Last Sunday
he accidentally reversed the prescription,
swallowing the former, aud the mistake
was fatal, death ensuing the next day.
Mr.. Castle was a young man who was
i held in high esteem in the community.
Last week the owner of sugar orchard
in Starksboro found, on visiting bis or
chard in the morning, that lusty bruin
guarded the door Of bis sugar house. He
gave the alarm, and a goody number
| turned out 10 pursuit, overhaued her,
and after lively scrimage she was de-
elsred "done" she bear The carcass
weighed nearly 400 pounds.
Business is picking up in Barre, and
the granite industry promises to lead.
There are seven stone chops in different
parts of the town, four being In the vii
lage and three at the quarries, and over
100 men will be employed this summer.
The Stafford & Holden manufacturing
company are filling foreign orders for
forks, iron rskes and other agricultural
tools, and the wooden mill is employing
it's iull number of hands. Very few
people are out Of employment, though
all are obliged TO work for small wages
One Of the encouraging signs of the
times, locally, says the Free Press OF Bur.
lington, is the gratifying briskDess OF
business in the various manufacturing es.
Adjustments along the lake shore. Al
have done an immense business, aud one
unprecedented for several years, al
through the winter, with the coming IN
OF spring still greater improvement il
noted. The Shepard Morse company
dough they have for long time past
been running on extra time-are lao car
loads behind their orders; the marble
company have recently largely augment
ed their force aud are now running theil
J works night and day, with a double SCI
, Of hands, aud like encouraging Dotet
come from al parts of The manufacturing
district.
: About Eve o'clock Tuesday afternoon
; while gang OF nine men from the State
workhouse were at work grading fol
the side track from that Institution 10 tho
railroad, two oi them unlocked tht
shackles binding raem with key the,
had In some manner procured, and start
ed toward the setting sun IS fast as thei
legs could carry them. Information o
tie escape was given Sheriff Peabody
and Deputy Sheriff Stesrns aud Superin
tendent Esyes pursued them, but thei
capture has not yet been announced
Their names are James Reed and Jane
Williams OF st. Adams.
S. Hills sugar house, 10 Greensboro
was saved from Ore by bis dog recently
: The men just at night left the place alone
after q while the dog came TO the housu
I barking furiousy, running to the mel
and then towards the sugar place evident
: ly very much excited. His actions wer
50 marked that lbe men followed the dol
i. and soon discovered the roof OF the hous
! In flames, but were in season to pat on
+ the fire. The dog earned his license.
{ Az the business session OF the Tro,