The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-02-01
STATE NEWS.

with The state lsw requiring ihcn 70 Gle
head II 5000
Mira sally Young 81 Orwell has present
! al the town With $500 town clock ans
also With slate sidewalk. ~. fee, vide
for the cniire lrng,h Of Main street, coat
ing 5000
Mr. VIM. r. Greene o. vergunnes, vhe
was badly ipiured by abuil iSo weeks ago,
is improving. and il 90 new and nniavorA'
bic feature develops may recover from hls
Injuries
Mrs. c. s Whittier 81 Montpelier rc.
Gently fell down fight Of stairs with her
baby IN her arms. both escaped injury 81
any Kind
4 Geo. Freeman o. rlainheld, recently
ioand dead lynx 10 his barn From al
appearances the animal bad made meal
OF Paris green, found in the barn, with
natural results.
Clarence Briggs. son Of Sect Briggs Of
Goshen, fell into tub Of hot water on
The 10Th inst, and was SO badly scalded
that he live only few hours. The boy
was about two years old
The school children Of North Benning-
ton are forbidden TO write notes to each
other during the session under the penal
ty Of having them read 10y the teacher aloud
before the scholars. A note was recently
captured while in transit from one pupil
TO another. Having been written in tel
egraphic characters, the teacher postponed
the execution Of thu sentence
Francis Williams, aged 80, boss stone
mason from Gill, Mass, was instantly
killed by a derrick falling on him at
Readsboro. Friday. He leaves family at
GILL An Italian was badly burned few
hours before by premature discharge OF
blast in ledge Both were employed
in the Newton paper mill works,
A Bristol farmer has tried feeding hen
on red pepper to make her lay eggs. She
went to the barn and began scratching in
a pile of sawdust which had lain on the
barn floor for some years. The hen dug
up Ratchet and whiskey bottle, aud
then laid an egg and went of cackling.
The Bristol man can account for the hatch
Cd, but the whiskey bottle--n never
The BenningtonsB amer says; Many
Of our citizens are expressing wi.h to
see the battle monument before they die.
And this reminds us that there is count
er. current setting in-from the outside
too. From several sources Of late inqui-
ries have come to our ears concerning why
the monument is not begun. Five years
have passed since the thing was started,
men who have subsoFihed are dead aud
diving, and the impression is gaining
strength that something is wTong IN the
or responsible for the delay.
These things are talked What haTs the
members of the association to say
A most disastrous fire occurred at WI
iooski Saturday morning at about seven
o'clock. A railroad train ran of the track
nd collided with o car loaded with kerr
scne oil. The oil ca vght fire and explod |
d, getting fire TO a store house belonging
o the Burlington Wooden MIL company.
his was large wooden bul.' ding hlled
With wool and mill supplies, aud was
urned to the ground with contents Ten
Iaded cars were burned. The Burliug on
re department was called upon aud res !
onded promptly and after two hoars
ard work the fire was got under control
arlington Woolen company loss 800, 900,
Insurance s75, coo, Stafford, Humphrey 4
o, loss so, 900, covered by insurance;
entral Vermont railway company, loss
1900, partly insured.
A queer combination OF causes was re-
oonsible for the recent destructive fire at
Iinooski. An incoming freight train got
I the track, humping several fiat cars
ID driving some iron rails in the first car
to tank Of crude petroleum on the next
II and as the oil escaped it was fired by
hot box on the derailed freight train,
lusing an explosion that hurled flaming
] 80 feet away to the large wooden store
,use that was burned 1t is said that
e insurance companies are going to
axe trouble for the railroad, as the mis-
lievous freight train was running, it is
aimed, at high rate of speed