The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-08-17

sash large nrnbcrs Of aasli are dyisg
IN I.Ais Chanplsin shAs in sons sposs The
surface d ,hieliy covered 9Th ,hsu. sp'
pcsring ., a liisls distance iiks hscks Of
foam
An idea Of Lake Ehamplain commerce
is given by The fact that $40 boats cleared |
ct the canal inspectors Office At Whitehall
.hi. season mp 10 August sih. against i.Tso
durine the same period last year, Amount
Of tolls received. sil,s6a-o %; last year
sl0,i9i.7a
Two Massachusetts, men by the name o'
Birch came 10 the village Of West Barnard
las, week with mining implements, for the
purpose Of opening silver mine on one OF
the farms in that township. II IL generally
thought by those who are acquainted with
the locality that they will succeed.
Probably the most extensive vegetable
grover in Vermont is j NJ, Ainsworth OF
Castleton, who has growing on his ten acre
garden thousands of onions. thousands OF
cabbages, thousands Of celery. thousands
OF tomatoes. thousands OF turnips, ten
thousand strawberry plants and thousands
Of other things too numerous to mention.
Willard johnson. = well.to-do farmer OF
Ludlow, and chairman Of the board OF Sc
lectmen, had the misfortune to be thrown
from moving machine he was operating.
recently and received such serious injury
by his hight arm coming IN contact with
the cutter bar Of the machine that II be-
came necessary TO amputate the injured
limb midway between the hand and elbow.
The interest in Plymouth's gold mine
receives fresh impetus by change in man
agement. Some st. Louis men have taken
possession. and begun active and success
fnl work by sinking good sized shaft and
tunuelng 800 feet horizontally to point
where they have struck rich vein OF ore
which promises we'll. A new smelling mill
has been built rs well as large boarding
house and other needed buildings.
1t is expected that the four manufac.
tories of Montgomery will turn out 4OO, 700
butter tubs the present season, OF oil sizes.
A larger proportion Of ten, twenty, and
thirty pound tubs are called for than usual
The material for hoops has become ex'
hausted in this region and is now brought
from Michigan, Several carloads have
already been received.
The Barnard correspon dent of an eI-
change tells this startling tale: "Moses
Cross Pillsbury Lynn, summer boarder
stopping with +. ID. Angel, was going
through Hon. W. G. Danforth's pasture
where his sheep are; the sheep came up
around him, aud he was calling them
pretty sleepy, nice sleepy, etc., when the
old buck came up in the rear OF him.
After picking up his remains he made
very decided remark that had several DIS
in it.
Frederick Wheeler has been seriously
injured at Swanton while moving with
machine. He was watching the knives
when one of the wheels struck stone with
i such force as to throw him into the ditch,
striking upon his hands. BEFORE he could
recover himself the knives nearly severed
the left arm about midway from the hand
to the elbow.
Bradford people saw phenomenon dur
ing the the approach OF shower. Inc
clouds were strangely illuminated and
there were appearances as OF fire 10 the
heavens. Some affirm that! cinders Tell III
their door yards, and it was evident to
every person with sensitive optics or toler'
ably fair olfactory nerves that the atmos
phere was charged with the gaseous pro
duets of combustion. Without question
something was burning The man who
always thinks that the world is coming u
an end whenever anything unusual takes
place in the meteorological department Of
r the universe was out OF town that day
consequently nobody appeared to be seri
ously frightened. After the shower hae
passed it transpired that man in Wes
0 Newbury, five miles distant, had beef
Q burning brush heaps together with
r hundred acres OF wood and several houses
! and barns.