The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
STATE ITEMS.

STATE IEmS.
-Bridgewater has IS bridges within
lis limits.
Clinton Cummings Of Bolton, sew
en- years old, has been drowned while
fishing.
Otis Gray's son, Henry, was killed
at Calais recently by the caving of a.
sand-bank.
-Enos Blinn ofBurlington 50 years
old, fell down his cellar stairs Tuesday
aud was fatally hurt.
Charles Howe's adopted son IL
years old, has been drowned at Roy
alton while bathing.
Gen. n. p. Banks, will deliver
the address at the Barton fair, We'd
nesday, October LIST.
Mr.. Amidon of Middlebury, be-
tween 80 and 80 years old, is cutting
his third set of teeth.
Mr.. +. G.. Brownell has been APP
pointed master mechanic of the Bur-
lington and Lamoille Railroad.
Royal Briggs of Fairhaven drank
a pint and half of proof spirits re-
Gently, and died of delirium tremens.
Bristol has the largest i" coflin
mandatory in Vermont. They ship
ped one hundred collins to Boston one
day last week.
The number of scholars enrolled
in the Sunday schools connected with
the Congregational churches in YER
mont is 22,G80.
Gov. Talbot of Massachusetts
visited Dandy the other day to discov-
er the grave of his father who died
there over 80 years ago.
The road to the top of Mt. Killing
ton, near Rutland, having been COM
pleted, parties are preparing to erect
building on the summit.
The Burlington health officer, in
his report of the vital statistics OF the
city for July, gives the marriages as
5, births, 10, deaths, 26.
Miss Emma Sands, the young
lady who recently wandered away from
her home at Essex, is to be placed in
the Brattleboro insane asylum.
The widow of Oscar Remington
of Wallingford, who was drowned in
the freshet last Spring, has sued the
town of Rutland for damages.
The late Mrs. William E. Cham
berlain of Mortified left $1,000 for
a town library, providing the citizens
should subscribe an equal amount.
Miss Harriet Adams, so years
old, committed suicide at Mortified
Wednesday night by hanging, while
temporarily deranged by sickness.
Though lE-Gov Levi Underwood
has been taken from the Concord On.
II. insane asylum, he has not by any
means recovered his mental health.
Bristol business men talk of or
ganizing line Of freight teams be-
tween Bristol and Rutland on account
of cXorbitant railroad freight rates.
Richard D. O. Mahoney Of Lex
ington, Ky, has purchased V. G..
Meyerhoffer's interest in the Rutland
Inquirer, the local democratic organ.
Mrs. Curry, of Warren, 81 years
old, has spun 425 knots of yarn in two
weeks. She has also pieced bcdquilt
with 1 ,130 pieces during the past year.
The expense Of the town Of Stan
nard, in Caledonia county, last year,
were only 1923, which included the
support of one pauper, which cost
$42.
Horace Tyler, who left q luxur-
ious home at Essex 10 years ago and
has since barely earned livelihood in
Nevada by teaming, has been called
home by his old father to share in a
$500, 900 property.
The state teachers association,
which held its session at Woodstock,
elected Homer I. Fuller of st. Johns
bury president, B. M. Weld of Nor
.risville secretary and j. S. Cilley OF
Brandon treasurer and editor.
Clark French, employed by Mrs.
Daniel Taft at Barre, was seriously
kicked by a colt which he was beating
the other day. His nose was broken,
an eye knocked out and his forehead
crushed in, so that IL pieces Of bone
have been removed.
Col. Charles II. Joyce, member
of Congress from the First District,
has requested Hon. Lovland Munson
of Manchester, Col. Lyman Z. Knapp
Of Middlebury and j. c. Barrett of
Rutland to act as commission to ex-
anime candidates for the appointment
of cadet at West Point, which is to be
filled in 1880.
The town of Bristol has the most
active and useful medical society in
the State, composed Of the physicians
of that and the adjoining towns. 1t
holds stated meetings, at which cases
are reported and patients examined
and surgical operations performed
gratis for persons in INDECENT circum-
stances. DR.. L. Hasselton is Presi-
dent; DR.. E. M. Kent, Secretary.
The Vt. Mutual Fire Insurance
company has declared an annual as
sessment Of five per cent, and the
Union Mutual one of four and one-halt
per cent. The farmers Mutual has
not yet held its annual meeting fol
making up their assessment. The
past year has been one of extraordin.
ary hardship to these comnanies. thei,