The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-10
STATE

SAAlE liLHi9s
-BratllebOro has a class in phonO-
graphy.
A fossil mud-turtle has been found
In a solid rock in Burlington.
Several cows have died in Felch-
willie in consequence of being choked
with apples.
Geo. Jewett, only child of Col.
A. b. Jewett, died Of typhoid fever at
Swanton, Nov. Sd.
1t has cost s26s, 1852 to run the
Insane Asylum at Brattleboro' for the
last two years.
Charles Prue, Of Newport, came
near losing his little SOL last week
cause, eating paint.
Quick work-505 feet of pump
logs were bored by j. c. Leayitt, OF
Newbury, In IA hours.
Mrs. Edwin Gregory ofTroy has
just received a pension for herself and
children amounting to s1,700.
John Cole, of Danville won't be
likely to fool around his warts with
acid after losing one finger in that way,
State musical Convention at Mid
dlebury Nov. 30th and Dec. LIST, 2nd
and Srd, conducted by L. o. Emerson.
"A wild goose went circling about
the village of Newport just yer the
roofs of the buildings, one day last
week.
The Plymouth gold mine has beer
declared, by an old miner, to be rich
er than any he was acquainted with
Thomas McGovern, blacksmith
Of Barre, was killed on Thursday by
the breaking of a horse power wheel
"A young child of Geo. SimmC
of Bristol was fatally burned the othe,
day by its cloths taking fire from the
stove.
j. Peasley, of Bolton, is a lucky
fellow, finding many swarms of wild
bees, one of which yielded 100 pound:
Of nice honey.
Mr.. o. A. Mead's little son (Erl)
had the misfortune to lose a finger by
getting it between the cogs of Q
clothes wringer.
e. Stockwell of Vernon raised
from a single pumpkin vine, II pump.
kins weighing 402 lbs. Exit politics,
enter pumpkin pies.
The amount of deposits in the
Savings Banks of Vermont have in,
creased nearly a million dollars during
the past year.-Star.
Isaac Farwell of Dorset, who is
101 years old, and who began to vote
for Presidents by voting for John Adj
ans in 1900, is so far the Oldest OF
the old men who turned out Tuesday
to vote for Garfield and Arthur.
MIR. Carlos Wardner raised a tur-
nip this year which weighed twenty
four pounds and measured two feet
and eleven inches in circumference.
Miss Howard of Burlington has
given $4,000 to the home for desti-
tute children, in that city, to pay of
the mortgage which has been threaten
ing it.-RUtland Herald.
"Wednesday morning Benjamin
Greenback of this town received the
following dispatch from his New York
agent: "Garheld elected. Now GO
to work we shall want your goods
lively now."-Stur.
The NeW HdUen Era says Of
Waite Let him be so punished that
no boy in Vermont will ever have the
slightest ambition to initiate his career.
Let the lesson to cashiers, presidents,
directors, and all who occupy official
trusts, be such that our State may be
forever saved from the repetition Of
such a d~emoralizing life-influence.
Some farmers in the northern
part of the State have been victim.
lied by a stranger who bargained fol
butter to be delivered at Bellows Falls
at 33 cents a pound, and paid them in
advance with bogus checks on the
Bellows Falls bank. In each cast the
check was larger than the amount due.
and he got the change in money out
of them.
The ring leader OF a gang of burg.
lars was surrounded in the woods a
Thetford by a company of citizens ant
it was thought fatally injured by shot;
received as he attempted to escape
A rendezvous was found on the noun.
tains in Fairlee and some stolen pro
perty. Thefts and burglaries had be
come very frequent in the vicinity
IT'S hoped this capture may put a stoE
to them. Later, Abbott, the burglar,
has confessed who his accomplices are,