The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-02-26
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Jay claims forty feet deep snow
DRIFT.
There is sickness in fifty families
in Fair Haven.
Giles Day, a Jericho boy, Is
Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas.
A well executed counterfeit OF
the silver dollar is troubling Rutland
merchants.
David Rollins, Of Newport, had
his nose broken the other day with a
binding pole.
An animal suppose to be lynx
has been providing around in the woods
at Manchester.
e. S. Hutchinson, a freight brake
man, fell from the cars at Salem on
Saturday and was killed.
"A new effort Is being made to
secure stay of proceedings in the eX-
ecution of John Z. Phair.-Sentinet.
Salisbury has just had lawsuit
wherein the plaintiff claimed twenty
five cents and was awarded thirteen.
Henry Preutiss, of Westford, was
killef Wednes,-. Est, by tree fall
ing on him, While chopping in the
woods.
"A Rutland belle claims to have
received seventeen valentines and not
comic one in the number. Love
laden verses predominated.
E Stockwell of Jonesville, cap
tured bear a short time ago weighing
four hundred pounds. In all, he has
entrapped or killed 80 in that vicinity.
"A little daughter ofM. w. Anger
of st. Johnsbury is said 70 have be-
come paralyzed from eating colored
candy, a habit in which she was great
ly INDUCED.
The Troy Methodist conference
holds its annual session at Bennington,
beginning April %, and the village ex-
tends its hospitality to 800 ministers,
but declines to provide for their wives,
many of whom want to come.
johnny Robinson, thirteen years
of age, living in st. Johnsbury, recent
ly took $50 belonging to his father
and went on pleasure tour through
Canada, lie was found in Montreal
with S37 left and returned to his
parents.
George M. Chase, of Westmin-
ster, has been feeding five hogs this
winter OH clover hay twice day, and
slops from the house once a day, and
reports them as thriving finely. lie
says they will walk up and eat clover
hay like an OK.
-Manchcster's constable and tax
collector, G.. ii. Smith, has held the
office of high sheriff and deputy sheriff
of the county for IA years, and has
been constable and collector for %
years, and has always paid the State
treasurer on time.
Mis-. Horace b. Swasey of Kirby,
81 years old, and the mother of II chill
dren, seven of whom are living, recent
~ left her husband and married Mel
son ID. Streeter of Lisbon, n. H., but
as she was threatened with prosecution
she has left for unknown parts.
The late James Williams of Cas-
Teton left his wife life interest in a
$50, 900 estate, and at her death it is
to 90 to the Hydeville Baptist church,
society so poor that they have not
held services for several years, and
have never had settled pastor.
"A shrewd newspaper correspon-
dent, who is also mail agent between
Essex junction and Boston, performs
his duties by proxy, probably pocket
ing neat sum of doing nothing, be-
sides leaving himself plenty Of time to
manufacture sensations for his paper.
The wife of Ebenezer Bugbee left
by will her property, which was sup
posed to be about Sc, 900, to the I'm
iversalist church at West Burke. Only
about 5000 of this amount can be
found. 1t is known that she had some
United States bonds, but they have
not yet been found.
Some few weeks since Mrs. Edwin
Allen, in West Pomfret, cut the end
of limb off of an apple tree-a mere
twig about 10 inches long-in order to
tie to it the vine Of sweet pea growing
in box in the sitting room. The
limb has not only given support to the
pea vine, but has budled and BIOS
somed itself. 1t has now two BIOS
SONS and several buds on it, but no