The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-10-06
SIAIE LIENS.

are sinking a shaft to reach a gold
bed.
The Randolph stste normal school
numbers 1877 students, Is more than
last year.
Vermont has four e%x-governors
over SO-Hall, Fletcher, Dillingham;
and Converse.
The freshman class in the Uniyer-
sity Of vermont at burlington ,numbels
25, two of them women.
Vermont in a year furnishes few
err homicides than the record Of week
in a single Kentucky county.
The Rutland Herald is 50 years
old, and there is a woman aged sc in
Castleton who has read the paper IS
years.
Minister j. Is. Angle, formerly
president of the University of Yer
mont, arrived at Pekin, China, on the
9th ult.
One hundred of the 1870 conyicts
in the state prison at Windsor are EN-
ployed in making shoes for Boston
contractors.
-Marcellus Woodward, q horse
thief committed for two years to the
house of correction at Rutland last
week, has escaped.
Robert Skinner of Swanton thinks
he has found coal on his farm and is
digging for a seam Of il. He also has
hopes of striking oil.
The town of Pomfret is over
whelmingly Republican, yet a pro-
nounced Democrat has been town clerk
for AZ consecutive years.
Rutland has a ghost that prowls
aboutthe cemetery which no II seems
to have seen, but which is neyerthc-
less supposed to be there.
Prom a few isolated cases during
the summer months, diphtheria has
become an epidemic at Bennington,
VT, and the public schools are closed.
Joshua Fowler of Colchester,
aged 81, was found dead in his stable,
with his throat cut, Saturday morning.
Mental depression from a cancer was
the cause.
The water in Lake Champlain at
Burlington is lower this season than
at any previous time during the pres
ent century, being two inches lower
than in 1859.
w. {. Brown, the defaulting tel
Ter of the Rutland County national
bank, who was brought homelast sum-
mer and then bailed, has disappeared
since he was indicted.
Prank Stockwell, n carpenter,
had his nose cut off Wednesday while
at work on George +. CrowelPs new
house in Mechanics square, Brattle-
boro. He vas using a broad AK over
his head when the helve slipped off.
William Billings of Woodstock
has n barn that blossoms with SQUASH
es. The vine trails up the southern
gable, covering the end of the struc-
ture, then rune along the ridge pole
some fifteen Or twenty feet. 1t is
loaded with s%quashes to the end, and
is quite a sight.
One of the most important cases
for many years tried in a Vermont
court is that brought by the present
board of directors of the Brandon ma
tional bank against John A. Conant
and the old board, charged with squan-
dering over 500, 900 belonging to it.
Both sides have eminent counsel, but
it is thought the trial will be reached
within q year.
A leading Greenbacker of st. AL
bans placed Il mammoth squash, weigh
ing 81 pounds, in his window the 9TH
er day with q label, 1.-The Green6ock
Squash" but somebody, without his
knowledge, put a half-pound one be-
side it with the label, "The size OF
the squash after the November cleo
tion," much to the disgust of the
Greenbacker, who did not discover it
for some time.
What a ''feast of fat things in
the way o"fautumnal scenery Vermont
ers may now enjoy! An artist who
could fifty paint the glories visible
from almost any window in Vermont
land certainly sin this county, at
this time, could command thousands
of dollars for a single painting. Let
us appreciate and study and enjoy the
immense wealth of beauty that nature
is lavishing upon us Vermonters.-Er
The Orleans county shire question
in this county is liable to be agitated
in the coming Legislature, and there
is a desire on the part Of somebody tC
annex a portion of Morgan to Derby.
also the whole or q part Of Salem t.
Derby. There is a notice for the ere.
alton of a new county, making Soutl
Hardwick q county center. This
would require a town or two from thi,
county, a portion of Caledonia, anC
parts of other counties. ~. Farmer
The case of Col. L. S. Stowell o
Cornwall, recently deceased, was on,
of the most curious in medical records
Owing to a disease of the colon, al
passages from his bowels ceased, fo
months, till relief was finally secured
by an operation performed by Prot
Little of the U. V. NJ. medical college
by which an opening was made in hi
side, the intestine severed and the en-,
oft stitched to the opening. Throug'
the artificial passage thus made tn
excretions of the bowels were dis
charged for over two years-a perio
hitherto without precedent, we believe
in surgical historv.-Free Press.