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


The population Of BratlleOoro
foots mp 5S77.
The population Of Underhill Is l.
AL, against ,65j in 1870.
-Swanton's population IS said TO
have increased 500 since 1871.
Secretary Evarts is at his Sum
mer home at Windsor, this state
-Middlebury has a population oil
2,994-a decrease of62 since 1871
The census reports shows that
Windsor has a population of 2,l'4'
Washington county has lost about
4 per cent in population since 1871
Senator Edmunds pays taxes at
Burlington on a valuation of Sl9,OOO.
Queen City Park at Burlington
has been made 10 acres larger and
improved in many details.
William Allen, Jr., of Middle
bury, while drunk Saturday night, stab
bed George Sumner in the arm.
William McCloskey, of st. Al
bans, a brakeman, had his right foot
badly crushed at Essex junction a
day or two ago.
Oscar +. Washburn, who owned
S100,0 interest in the Bridgewater
gold mines in 1865, is now laborer
in North Carolina.
Samuel Lamsom a young man
about 81 years of age, living near Ran
dolph Center, committed suicide by
hanging, Wednesday.
Miss Eliza Cross, the oldest resi-
dent of Hayerhill, where she has al
ways lived in the same house, celebra-
ted her Goth birthday last week.
AT Waterbury Sunday, Seth Town,
an old man, was thrown from his
wagon by his horse becoming fright
ened by firecrackers, and very badly
cut and bruised Oh head and Shout
ders.
There is but one person under
sentence of death in the State Prison,
f. G.. Hayden, who is sentenced to be
executed the first Friday in January,
1881. The present number Of cOnvicts
is 1853.
John Hyland was arrested Satur-
day for an assault with intent to kill
on Homer Corse of Newport. Hyland
escaped from the officers and is in
Canada.
The rolling stock of the Portland
and Ogdenshurg railroad, Vermont di-
vision, was sold at auction last week
by order of the court, to the st. Johns
bury and Lake Champlain railroad,
the new organization controlling the
same line, for $57 $50. There were
but two or three bidders.
The followingpatcnts have recent
ly been granted to Vermonters w. S.
Blaisdell, Randolph, beehive. G. W.
Kendall, st. Adams, plating machine.
o. G. Munro, Poultney, feather rem
ovator. G.. II. Simmons, Bennington,
manufacture Of coffee pots, etc. G..
ID. Spooner, Rutland, cancClling stamp.
In the process of rc-adjusting sal
aries of postmasters it has been dis
covered that there were three post
offices in New England which show a
decrease in receipts sufficient to take
them below the grade of Presidential
offices. One Of them is that at North
Bennington. The total number OF
post offices in the United States is now
AZ, gu, an increase of 1888 during
the last year.
The Brandon frozen well-thc
work of man played upon by freak
of nature-was dug in November,
1858. First was 10 feet of gravel,
then 4 feet of clay, then a deposit OF
II or > feet of frozen gravel, then
about 2 feet of gravel not frozen, when
water was struck, and the well was
dug to the depth ofabout 80 feet deep
The water is about 2 feet deep-ncvel
more nor less. The ice was cut
through last week and found to be p
inches thick. There is ice on the wal
some or feet from the water.