Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-25
wATCHMAN & JOURNAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 25

Sextette club of Boston, Lieutenant John
W. Danenhower of Arctic expedition fame,
Rev. Robert Collyer, Robert Burdette, John
b. Cough and others.
A PAIR of cattle exhibited at the late Cal
edonia county fair was recently shipped to
market by Moses Gilfllan of West Barnet.
Their live weight when they arrived was A.
800 pounds and dressed 1852 pounds. They
had 1856 pounds of tallow. They were con-
sidered the best pair of cattle ever slaught-
cred at Brighton market.
j. A. Brown of South Hero has sold his
pair of gentlemen's driving horses to A. A.
Vsntine of New York city for $4,000. This
pair took second prize at the state fair.
The horses weigh LOO each, are sixteen
hands high, brown, six years old, stylish
and can go in three minutes nicely. They
are from Black Hawk and Hambletonian
stock. The animals started for New York
Tuesday.
SIDNEY EpGETT of Felchville, sailor of
twelve years experience, has several curios-
tiles which he captured himself, among
which is a Zulu soldiers coat, one Of six
surviving members of 400 warriors, 80 he al
leges, who escaped from an engagement.
He also has Csffir apple from Africa, in a
preserved state, resembling small pump
kin. Also the claws of a sea hawk, cap
tured from the mast of ship in the night,
and other curiosties.
On Thursday, October 10th, while two
ten.years-old boys were playing on the top
Of tie mountain, on the west side of what is
known as the Notch, about mile south of
West Bolton, one of the lads, a son of Riley
Giles of West Bolton, made a misstep and
! fell down an almost perpendicular preci.
pice two hundred and fifty feet into the
valley below. His companion gave the
alarm, the neighbors rallied, and the body
of the unfortunate boy was found, life be-
ing extinct.
ESSEX COUNTY Herald: some of the Grand
Trunk brakemen spied tramp on lumber
car the other day, and upon going to order
him off found him intently examining a
book. Curious to discover the particular
style of reading affected by this class of
mortals, he took the book and found in it a
list of names and residences along the line,
some Of them being Island Pond people.
Inquiry elected the fact that each of the
| fraternity jots down the names of people
who aid him, and when he meets one of the
brethren they exchange, thus giving each a
guide on his winding way. BY feeding
strangers people may entertain angels un-
awares,' but they are more likely to be
tramps."
In 1880 marble quarry was opened on
the line between Middlebury and New
Haven, and it has been worked by different
parties more or less ever since. 1t is now
owned and operated by the Cutter Marble
company of Middlebury, who have been for
| several years at work upon it in an effort to
find paving marble. Part of the time they
have purchased marble from the Rutland
quarries, brought it to Middlebury and had
it sawed and finished in their mill, for the
sole purpose of keeping their men employed
until such time as they should find good
marble in their own quarry. That time has
at last arrived, and the company is now
getting out large blocks Of marble of an ex.
cellent quality. They now employ about
fifty hands.
ST. JoHNsBURY Caledonidn: "The en-,
gineer and fireman who discovered the Wal.
den trestle on fire, notice of which was made
last week, do not want to repeat their ex.
perience. They were busy eating their
breakfast when they reached this point, and
were almost upon the trestle before they
discovered the fire. The engineer whistled
for brakes, but it was too late to stop the
train, and as the locomotive went over the
burning trestle the engineer felt the rail bend
under him and the engine sway to one side,
and he thought he was booked for the bot
tom of the gulf which at this point is ninety.
six feet below the rails. But the entire
train went over in safety before it was stop.
ped. The engineer then drew the pin and
went to the Bend in hurry, as he knew the
east-bound train was due there in few
minutes. As he went screaming down the
grade he met hand-car with section-men
The men had time to jump but had no time
to remove the car, which was tossed off as
an elephant would brush off a fly. Arriv.
ing at the Bend, the engineer found the
other train already there, and with few
men taken upon the locomotive the fire was
soon reached and extinguished."
RuTIAND HERAID. 60 The sacrat of var