The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-04-07
STATE ITEMS.

formed at Barton.
Newport has been made an inter
national money order post-Ofiice.
The Springfield toy factory has
shipped 400 gross of the 10 puzzle,
making four tons Of freight.
Another foolish woman comes to
the surface-Mrs. j. III. Bosworth of
Fair Haven; she has made a quilt Of
6 400 pieces.
burlington has inaugurated an
Irish relief movement, purposing TO
add its contributions to the Herald
fund of New York.
"A. A. Richardson, brakeman of
the Central Vermont railroad, was
struck and killed by a bridge near
Waterbury Monday.
The scarlet fever and measles
have run their course at Berkshire and
the town is convalescent, but one
death having occurred.
An old fogy at Milton, who wasn't
sup in the ice market, recently sold
20, 900 of ice for 5000, which the buy
er has since sold for So, 900.
-Diphtheria has broken out at
Richford and in the surrounding towns.
Ten deaths have occurred and many
people are very sick. The measles
are raging in nearly every town in the
vicinity.
Eli Boyce, of Waterbury, a man
about 40 years old, became so insane,
from domestic trouble with jealous
wife and disappointment in hiring a
farm, that he was taken to the Brat
tleboro asylum.
james O'Halloran Queens counsel
at Montreal, has sued Congressman
Bradley Barlow of Vermont for $780,
900, the first installment on the pur-
chase of Southeastern railroad shares
transferred by him.
Luther A. Davis, formerly United
States consul at Abercorn, Z. O.,
dropped dead in a store at st. Adams
Wednesday, his death being the result
of injuries received in a railroad acct
dent several years ago.
DR.. G. j. Crowley Of Rutland,
suicided Friday, with morphine, and
told the doctors whom his wife sum-
moned to save him, that his life was
not worth saving, as he had disgraced
himself, and wanted to die.
In 1873 the State Of Vermont
produced nearly 100000 pounds of
maple sugar, worth about $4,000.
This is about the average production,
and is somewhere in the neighborhood
of 80 pounds for each inhabitant.
"A farmer of Williamstown empt-
led the brine from his beef barrels at
the roots of maple tree during the
Autumn. This spring the tree was
tapped for sap and the first sugar
made from it was so salt as to be
worthless.
The land owned by Benjamin w.
and Francis Davis Of Fairlee has been
bonded in $4,000 by Mrs. Francis L.
Downer of Sharon, and is to be at
once mined for gold and silver, Of
which there are said to be rich surface
indications.
John 7. Paris, a longtime pas
senger conductor between Rutland and
Benningto y, married Jennie Bowen.
They were afterwards divorced, and
then married again. Now they have
been divorced a second time, she al
leging intolerable severity.
Victor II. Lovejoy, charged with
recently assaulting with intent to kill
William Blodgett at Underhill, has
been re-arrested and placed under
$4,000 bonds. He has instituted a
counter-suit against Blodgett and the
other, claiming that they first assault
ed him and that he fired his revolver
in self-defense.
Five prizes of $25, $40, $15, $40
and S. are offered by two trustees of
the State agricultural college to Yer
mont boys not over II years old for
the five largest yields Of corn on one
eighth acre, and five prizes of the
same amount of the largest yields OF
Early Rose potatoes entries must be
made before the 1st of May, and the
highest prizeman in each class will be
given a free scholarship in either the
academic or scientific department Of
the State university.
The late Arunah Huntington Of
Brantford, Ont, left his estate Of
5000, 900 with the exception of a mod
crate legacy to his wife, to his native
state of Vermont for the benefit of the
public schools, and a suit brought by
one of the heirs to break the will has
just been decided in favor of the state
at Toronto. The last session of the
Legislature in joint convention accept
ed the bequest which amounts to $685..
900 in real estate and 100000 in
cash and stocks.
| Edward Tatro the Highgate muir
derer was hanged in Windsor prison
last Friday afternoon. In his state
ment, Tatro said that Butler, the hus-
band of the murdered woman, was tc
blame for the crime, as he was drunk.
ard and had taught him to drink. He
stated that Buffers mother, on hel
death bed, had lamented the fact that
she must die and leave her son drunk
ard. When his hands were bount
Tatro held them up and said, "Do you
see that, Mr.. Butler?" and all the
while the perspiration was rolling down
Bntlers face. In his confession
which was given to the public after tht
execution, Tatro affirms that Butler