The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-11-03

FIRE from The blaze u a candle. She VA
burned 10 crisp. QUO finger being barnes
completely %. She wAs subicc, 10 iits and
probably icll In cnc. her dress taking ERE
Men frum Springfield O.. are hnyips
winter gran apples in Addison county !,
take West They say Vermont apples kecI
better than the Western fruit
John l.. simonds. superintendent Of th,
BrAiileboro Sewing machine company, Eel
from his Ccnirevillc dam recently, breaking
three ribs aud sustaining other serious ia
iuries
Fred Stewart Of Havcrhill, Mass when
returning from Wells River on Saturday
night last, was stopped by three masked
men. who robbed him Of al his money and
yaluablos, then got into their wagon aud
drove rapidly away
The town of Shrewsbury was startled
on Monday morning by the report Of the
horrible aud unaccountablc suicide Of
Silas Wilmoth son Of Walter Wilmoth, a
vcll.to.do.farmer OF "Shippy Hollow" in
that town. From the circumstances II
seems that young Wilmoth went iuto an
old unused house on the premises in the
night aud set it on fire, deliberately burn
ing himself TO death. He left some written
communications indicating a purpose to
commit suicide and had acted strangely.
There is tax case at Tunhridge similar
to that of Chauncey Warnera at Cambridge.
Aaron NJ King failed to make out his list,
and the listers by doubling assessed him
s92, 600 He appealed to the seleetmen and
they reduced his list 10 $4,000, Mt which
sum itappears on thegrand list book. This
is gross injustice TO the other ax-payers
and probably inyalidates the whole list
Colonel G. W. Seaton, who Inns been
made superintendent OF the pension bureau
TO succeed General Walker, is native OF
Vermont, and a son Of Rev G. Nj. Seaton,
a retired Congregational minister and now
a resident of Essex Junction. Col Seaton
graduated at Middlebury college in the
same class with Judge Dnaton and was IN
officer in Gen. W. Y W. Ripley's regiment
Of sharpshooters.
Evidence was taken at Bennington the
other day before the commission OF which
George Stoddard OF Brattleboro is chair
man, appointed by the Supreme court in
the contested highway case, 1t Is proposed
TO Law out new road from Woodford Hol
low, through the towns of Glastonbury,
Somerset and Stratton, to and beyond Hol-
lis Towns mill in Somerset, opening up
large tracts Of timbered lands TO the Ben.
nington market. Their traffic has hitherto
gone largely to North Adams Mass. Glas-
tenbury and Stratton contest the PROPOSE
lion.
Denizens Of Plymouth, for the last week
u two, have been greatly excited over the
attest discoveries Of silver and gold in their
midst, A company. under its superin
,endent, one Anthony Blum. has been de-
geloping the mines, heretofore only par
tally worked, and the latest reports are to |
tle effect that very rich deposits of the pre-
,ious metals above named have been dis
covered. The outcome of tunneling and |
sinking of shafts the present season is that
vein of gold and silver bearing quartz has
been struck that is said to be good for from |
,ne to five hundred dollars per ton. The
vein is said to be from one to eight feet
vide and extending to unknown depths