The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-11-03
STATE ITEMS,

will be hanged Jan. eth, 1881.
Colonel w. r. Rowell, has been
appointed deputy collector of customs
at North Troy.
Royal S. Carr, for the murder of
Murcurmock, will be hanged the last
Friday in April next.
S. NJ. Waite is suffering from a
severe cold, in the county Jail, and his
wife and a physician have been sum
moned.
-Four car loads of Hubbard squash
were shipped to Boston from Alburgh
last week. They were raised on Isle
La Motto.
Gardner S. Melcndy, of Fairlee,
has lost several head of cattle from a
disease which it is feared is pluro-
pneumonia.
The Vermont snath company at
Springfield is making preparations to
build an addition to the main building
of its shop.
OF all the 46 justices of the Uni
ted States supreme court since its be-
ginning, not one has been appointed
from Vermont.
E. 2. Walton of Montpelier has
been chosen president Of the State his
torical society and G. G. Benedict of
Burlington corresponding secretary.
The 18th annual convention Of the
State Sabbath-Schoo Association was
held at Rutland Wednesday and
Thursday. The attendance was large.
AT St%ratton, on a recent evening,
Daniel Willis broke his lantern while
husking corn at a barn, and in a short
time the buildings on the place were
consumed.
Waite will be tried at the circuit
court in Rutland, Nov. 16. Col. X.
lIaskins, of Brattleboro, will be the
especial U. 5. district attorney to con-
duct the prosecution.
Clark B~atchelder died at Lower
Cabot Friday morning last, aged 46
years, from the effect Of a silver which
he stuck into the end Of his thumb
about three weeks before.
The Vermont shade roller COM
pany of Vergennes has been running
a quarter extra time to fill orders now
employing thirty men. One tow
brought 1000, 900 feet of lumber to
this establishment.
The punishment of the crime for
which Wood and Mrs. Smith, the
Williston murderers, were convicted,
is Imprisonment for lie. Their counsel
took exceptions, which will come be-
fore the supreme court at its session
in this city mex January. - Free
Press.
An insane man, Byron Blake, OF
Sheffield, Caledonia county, murdered
his mother, sister and s~tep-father with
a shot gun, mutilating the bodies in q
horrible manner, and then hung him
self. When will people learn that an
insane person may, suddenly, become
dangerous?
&C. W. Spaulding, of Fletcher,
comes to the front with q sample
potato from a hill Of over thirty large
potatoes, all of which weighed 1t
pounds. L. p. Cleaveland, of Geor.
gia, shows two, the largest of which
weighs two pounds and sixteen ounces,
Messenger.
In Vermont, the great mass of the
people are farmers, as a whole, the
most independent and happily-condi'
toned body of people in our country
They can afford to be liberally-mindet
towards others in every walk Of life
and we believe it is for their interest
to be thus liberal Windsor Journal
The Young Mems Christian asso'
citation at their 14th annual convention
at Rutland elected these officers Pres
ident, G. b. Hubert vice-presidents,
Rev. j.. G. johnson, w. A. Cooper
secretaries, Rev. j. H. Babbitt, G. L
Story; railroad secretary, N. X
Brown ; auditors, G. p. Harris, S. S
Brennan.