The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-03-10
STATE IIEM s.

-Ihe losses BY IRE III feIhioh. uui
ing the month Of January were $751;
900.
Burlington, says the 81. Adams
Messenger, will have the next state con-
vention.
The Sutherland Falls Marble COM
pany, Of Rutland, is erecting new
building ESQ feet long.
Edward Tatro who murdered Mrs.
Charles Butler at Highgate, in June,
1876, is TO be executed on April 2nd'
Prof Henry Fairbanks owns the
original Fairbanks scale, brought from
England by Jonathan Fairbanks in the
Speedweh, in 1888.
President Buckham, we learn, is
about to offer prizes to the boys OF
Vermont for raising the largest crops
from given piece of land.
The Burlington Cotton Mills at
Winooski Falls have placed orders for
machinery to the extent of duplica-
ton of their present mill-some 5000
spindles.
Every day for some time past the
Central Vermont has carried over its
line, going south, 600 loaded freight
cars and last week the number was
increased TO 800.
H. A. Sprague of Panton recent
" sold 20 merino ewes for $3.50, and
several offers to leading breeders OF
from $50 to 800 for a single sheep
have been refused.
The total expenses of the town of
st. Johnsbury for the past year were
S16,046, decrease of S2751; and
$4,000 of the town dept has been paid,
leaving it $lS0,0O0.
Hon. George A Ballard, of Fair
fax, has been i'll for about two weeks
with inhammatory rheumatism, COM
plicated with heart difficulty, and is
still seriously sick, but hope is enter
tanned Of his recovery.
George r. Richards of Barton
Landing, who is over 100 years old,
was married less than year ago.
Last week family troubles arose which
resulted in separation, and Mrs.
Richards has gone to Canada.
In the road suit over which much
litigation was had in Woodbury., the
committee have decided in favor Of the
petitioners to lay the road. Judge
Perley of Hardwick, John Bell of Wal
den, II. S. Tolman of Greensboro,
courts committee.
The North Pownal Manufacturing
Company surprised their operatives
one week ago Saturday afternoon by
advancing wages ten per cent, COM
mencing March /. This makes % per
cent they have advanced weavers vol
unfairly since Jan. l, 1880.
The St. Johnsbury Cdladonian
learns that four-year-old child of Mrs.
John Chubb, of that place, has had a
serious time from the effects of poison
inserted in a tooth by dentist to
kill nerve. An operation for the re-
moval of part of the child's jaw has
been decided upon.
An incendiary fire destroyed two
large barns on the estate Of the late
Lyman Royce, in the town of Sheldon,
Wednesday nig.sa, with their entire
contents of hay, grain, moving
machine, etc. The live stock was
saved. The fire was set by tramps.
Loss, SO, 800; insured for 5000.
The Methodist Seminary at Mont
pelier has hit on a novel and capital
idea. Some forty of its own pupils
are out teaching. To these it sends a
series Of printed questions for their
pupils, i'll these scattered district
schools, to answer, and one scholar in
each school who does the best-75 per
cent. of them all at least must he an
swered-will receive free tuition one
term at the Montpelier Seminary.
Mr.. S. w. Cummings, the popu-
lar passenger agent Of the Central YER
mont railroad, whose official connec-
ton with that corporation terminated
on Saturday, was surprised on the eve
of his departure by the presentation
from few of his most intimate friends
of an elegant solitaire diamond stud,
and handsome case containing care
fully selected assortment of articles Of
solid sterling silver for table use.