The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-10
STATE NEWS

, Brattleboro farmers are c
excited over the breaking o
ease among p cows on the
ry farm, similar in chara,
horse disease known as scra
Noah Greasy of Hartford CT
professor of veterinary SCI
Amherst agricultural colles
mcdiately summoned. He
the only cattle affected wer
cows which are pastured &c #
swampy lot where there is
ancc of low bush blackben
he accounts for the outbl
fact that the mich cows Ia .
customed to run through the blackbcr-
ry briars, so scratching their legs, and
in hot weather seeking shelter in swami
ply land He thinks that in this way
they contracted sort of malarial fever
affecting the legs and making the other
wise harmless scratches malignant. II
is expected that the disease will be con-
fined to the cattle now sick.
Timothy Dugan and Richard Barry
of Vergennes were tipped out of a
boat while fishing in Otter Creek Fri
day. The steamer Gazelle was passing
at the time, when w. c. Bradbury who
was on board noticed two hats floating,
and plunged in just in time to save
Barry. Dugan sank and was drowned.
1t took five minutes to resuscitate Bar
ry so that he could tell where Dugan
was. Dugan leaves a wife and six
small children.
A. l.. Dinsmore, a Bridgcwater saw
mill man has failed for $4,000; assets
nominal.
AT Pownal Amos Thompson caught
large black bear in trap. The boun-
ty from the state and the bearshin will
bring him $50.
DR.. Samuel j. Allen of White River
Junction, who killed Edwin Hansell of
Rockland, Mass. in Boston. saloon
last month, has been arraigned and
pleaded not guilty. His trial is set for
next September.
The First National bank of Montpe.
licr paid scmi-annual dividend of five
per cent on Monday.
The Central Vermont road has at las
agreed to reduce the freight rates fol
Brattleboro to correspond with thos,
charged at Shclburne Falls.
Springfield doesn't mean to be at tn
mercy of another food, and so ha
voted to widen and deepen the channe
Of the brook, to tear down the build
ings that cover it and build up wall
where necessary, and to build a new
bridge on Main st.
A bill has been passed by Congress
and approved by the President author
ling the towns of North Hero and A
: burgh, in the county OF Grand Isle, t
, construct and maintain highWa
/ bridge at some convenient point acros
that part of the waters of Lake Chan
| plain which divide the aforesaid town
The bridge must be built under an
subject to such regulations rs the secrC
tary of war may prescribe for sccurin
I convenience of nayigation: and ii
= right to erect and continue the brid2
T., is subject to revocation on the part {
Congress,
( Wesley Dcmas, a young chapat Wor
for j. NJ. Campbell, and young Cam
ron, at work for G. l.. IIadley, at Mo
risyille, were out shooting on Sunda
!, afternoon, using a large navy revolye
Dcmas loaded the revolver with powdt
e and shot and handed it to Cameron
: shoot at target. Cameron examine
$ the revolver, holding it in both hand
5 and accidentally pulled the trigge
/. sending the charge towards Dema
Four large shot struck the latter in Il
e abdomen, making serious wounds. ID
n c. c.. Rublee was Immediately sent f'
1 and found the young man in great pail
c The four shots were probed for, bl
+ not reached, the doctor probing as f,
as he dared to. If inflammation shoul
set in there would be but slight hop,
: of the young mans recovery.
s Pacific engine Co, of Factory Poi
v took first money at the tiremans mu
a ter at Fairhaven July 4th,