The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-06-25

Rev. Adirondack Murray has or
dered his steam yacht TO Lake Cham
plain, and he is looking for a camp on
the lake shore where he can spend the
summer.
Benjamin Chase, a prominent ard
wealthy West Randolph citizen, has
been indicted for making a false aflida-
Wit as TO the amount Of his taxable
property.
-RichardE +. Peabody, awell-known
young business man, is being tried at
st. Johnsbury for forging the names
Of George Van Dyke aud Henry Mer-
rill to SO, 200 worth of notes in 1876.
The Vermont Central Baptist AS
ISOLATION met in West Randolph We'd
nesday and Thursday of last week.
The attendance was good. The reports
showed that the churches were in a
healthy condition.
One of the Castleton farmers fed
out to his stock a ton of hay day and
he has ploughed so acres Of land this
spring for corn, oats, potatoes and
buckwheat. He don't claim to be
much of farmer either.
E. f. Browns and George w.
Spencer's houses at st. Johnsbury
were burglarized the other night, the
former losing 5000 worth of silverwarer
and the latter a lot of silyerware, 9
gold watch and S25 in money.
Miss Mcclellan of Troy has 8
goose % years old which is raising s
brood of goslings. Mrs. G. NJ. Ken
ney has a turkey which has 25 young
turkeys, and G. w. Abel has a her
which is taking care of "a chickens.
There is to be a grand Fourth Of
July celebration at Swanton. Among
attractions will be freman's race fol
purse of 500 to the first, $50 &c
second; parade; boat, foot and tut
racing; to close with an illumination
-Diphtheria continues to spread al
Newark, and three more persons have
died, while others are sick. A boy
who took the disease at Newark and
carried it home to East Haven Is also
dead. Besides these places, the dis
ease is raging in its most malignant
form at Bethel with fatal effects.
The Randolph paper makes the
following astonishing announcement
"Call at the Herald and NeooS office
and buy frst-class Remington shot
gun, or rifle, or pistol. By aiming in
the right direction you can hit crow
every time if you get near enough to
it,"
The missing girl, Emma Sands,
who wandered from her home in West
ford several days ago, was found in
Fort Ann, n. Y, last Wednesday
dressed in boys clothes and in an in
sane state of mind. She has been
brought back to her home and is now
under medical treatment.
The grand list of Lyndon for
1879 is $9,2l7.73, made up rs fol-
lows: Real estate, 1923. 20; per-
sonal property, So, 288.53; polls, Gj3
at 81, 81 ,306. The increase in polls
since last year is 80, or more than
eight per cent. The increase Of taxa
bic personal property since last year
is $50, 274.00.
Among the Nermonters present
at the army reunion at Albany, N, Y,
were Department Commander j. II,
Goulding; Past Department Comman-
ders w. w. Henry and w. G. Veazey ;
Assistant Adjutant General Taplin ;
General William Wells, United States
Collector; Lieutenant George ii. Big
Glow, of the National Council Of Adj
ministration; Representatives Willard
Holden, E. r. Campbell and others.
In 1876 p. +. Merrill, a Central
Vermont engineer, lost his leg by col
lision between his and Wells River
train, and his employers have given
him half-pay pension. The Central
Vermont then sued the other road for
damages to Merrill and to their engine,
the case has been heard before G. W.
Clarke Of Chelsea as special master,
and he gives the Central $4,000 for
Merrill and $1,000 for the engine.
Wells River people think the decision
is the beginning Of q long LITIGATION.