The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-11-13

wooden mil 70 have az sets OF ma
chlnety /. to be shortly built Al North
Hsnl4nd.
Burliugton l. not altogether a peaceful
city. On Saturday night three calls for
policemen were made through the Iele'
phone
Veteran roll-kecper Bass, Of Bellows
Falls, resigns beesuse be isinks The
bridge Is unsafe for heavy leams, sud The
pfopric,ors neglect 10 properly repair i.
CaYeudlsh boasts eight telegraph offices
In active operation.
Foxes are plenty in the mountains near
Barre.
A siK-yeAr.oId boy Of Joseph Abair o.
Winooski, weighs l05 pounds.
The PAaumpsic railroad bAs raised ell
tie bridge roofs, so that brAkemen can
now stand up without fear OF being
knocked OF.
Theodore Sheldon, OF Montgomery, has
killed i've bears within three months.
Ira Nickerson, OF Dandy, has been In.
prisoned 10 await trial for horse stealing.
A reunion OF the Association Of Vvr.
mont Officers will be held At Brandon
January s.
Hayden skinner. OF North Troy, has
been sentenced TO the House OF CoTFec.
ton for four months for proving around
at nigh, aud Tightening people.
A Richmond dispatch says that the
missing child at West Jay remains my
stery aud no substantial clue can be
found. People who believed she was lost
In the woods have abandoned The idea
and now think she has been kidnapped.
Although faint clue bias been discovered
once or twice, yet il has passed away,
aud people are DO wiser than before.
The my sterious man whom a neighbours
boy testified in court 10 have seen IN
Plooil's house writing ia a book, which
caused much excitement al fret, was, 10
doubt, reporter, who was there on the
third day after her departure TO obtain
information. A. every inch Of the wood.
has been thoroughly searched by several
hundred men, their belief now is that The
ehild could not have wandered away aud
persisted or been captured by bear, ss
no traces or marks could be found, Altho'
ugh expert hunters have been there and
even offered large reward TO shy one
who conld find bears foot prints. The
belief now IL that she has either been acct
denially or Otherwise killed by some one
secreted, or that she has been kidnapped
or been given away by her parents cou-
cent, the latter for the purpose ofcreatiug
sympathy and aid in their extreme pow.
efty. The child without doubt Is 10 good
keeping, aud 10 better cared for than u
could have been with It's parents. A pro-
minent business man in town has received
letter from detective association In
Connecticut wi propose working up The
case themselves, and ask for a correc-
description OF the child, aud even send
fuuds for him to use, II necessary, in pro-
curing Information for them. This COM
pany ask no remuneration from any one
there, but desire to trace out the child for
their own benefit, aud will begin operat-
ion at once.
The Central Vermont freight business
is beaver now than ithas ever been before
So treat Is the pressure the employees
are & 1mpeled 10 do much extra services
and the Jocomtives and rolling stock q
all kinds are kept almost constantly N
motion. Between Saturday nightaapd
Sunday noon. fifteen cars of butter and
cheese, seveuly-six OF beef, and l2S car
Of stock passed st. Albasa station from
Montreal or from the West via the Grand
Trunk railway. Besides these, l24 carr
OF export freight in bond stood in the 1t
Albaus yards Monday morning, awaiting
! trans portation TO Boston.