Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-01-11
STATE AFFAIRS.
VERMONT DAIRYMENs MEEriSG-nurrEB tx
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VERMONT DAIRYMEN's MEETING -BurrEE TX
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% NJ Tinkham, secretary Of the Dairy.
mems association, sends out a circular IN
which be says: with the view Of gaining
information by which our butter may be i'm
proved in quality and better prices secured,
an exhibit Of butter will be feature of the
coming dairymrn'5 meeting at ST. Johnsbury,
Jan. 23d and oath Every dairyman in the
state is invited to bring or send by express a
sample of his butter for the exhibit, for
which purpose a pound or a pound and a
half will be sufficient which should be wrap
ped in a cloth wet in brine and so packed as
to come without injury. The butter will be
judged by an expert from a well-known Bos-
ton firm, which handles 10000 pounds of
butter per week, and every sample will re-
ceive notice. Each exhibitor should send
with his butter full statement of its make
the kind of cows from which it was made
how they are fed, how the milk is set, when
skinned, and whether sweet or sour how
churned, whether washed or worked without
washing, whether colored, and with what
whether worked after sailing and how long
after, how much salt to the pound and what
kind, and in what shape put up for market.
All samples will be shown by numbers only,
and the exhibitors are requested not to put
exhibits, the expert will make classes as the
merit of the sample demands, and by classi-
flying and comparing the statements accom-
pauying the exhibits, valuable information
must be cured, which each exhibitor will re-
ceivo. The classification each sample gains
will be furnished to the maker only, but in
formation as to quality and methods used in
the various classes will be made public. The
management appeals to the dairymen of Yer
mont to make this exhibit as full as possible,
for the larger it is the more valuable the data
to be secured"
Forbes, the Boston Journals correspon-
dent, thinks that the number of old persons
who died in this state last year was remarka-
bly, large, there being 200 who had passed
their sOth birthday, including six centenari-
ans and five veterans of 1872.
Fred Harvey was arrested at McIndoes
Falls Monday morning on the charge of
breaking and entering Perrys store, and
brought before Judge Duncan and held TO
bail in the sum OF $500, in default of which
he was committed to Jail
The dwelling house Of L. S. Lamb in
/ Gaysville, together with much of the furni-
ture, was burned last Friday afternoon. The
fire took from stove pipe passing through a
partition. A very strong wind was blowing
at the time and the sparks we're carried to the
barn of Mr.. Harrington, which contained a
stock of hay, grain, farming tools, ~ nice
/ cows and yoke of oxen, all of which were
consumed. Soon after DR.. @. @. Smith ;
barn took fire, but was saved. The lass was
partially covered by insurance.
The supreme court of Chittenden county
has just confirmed a decision giving Mrs.
Hiram Crandall of Burlington $4,000 damages
for injuries received in falling into public
drain which was unguarded by lights.
-Silas Bearnout of North Royalton, while
walking on the railroad track near Royalton,
last week, Was struck by the engine of the
limited express south and almost instantly
killed. He was a well known and much re-
spected citizen of the town. His age was
about Is years.
The Charles P. Harris manufacturing
company of Rutland have contracted for the
work of the boys in the reform school al
Vergenues for bottoming chairs,
Frank White brakeman on the Sulli
van railroad, was instantly killed last Friday
night at Windsor His lantern had gone out
and he was walking toward the saloon car &c
reight it when he slipped between the real
car and the saloon car, and the latter passed
over his chest, death being instantaneous
He was about twenty-five years old, unmar
ried, and lived with his father aud sister al
Windsor.
AT Newport the other day horse, goin(
at quick gait through the street, struck
telegraph wire which was down, and was turn
ed over backward.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Kingsley of Rutlant
celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary
last Saturday afternoon.
AT Rutland, last Saturday, runaway
horse, as it went tearing through the street
slipped and fell striking its head on al
iron post. The post was broken of, th
horse was knocked senseless and its sku
was fractured, but it is expected to recover
nevertheless
"A big and ugly bloodhound belonging t
Geo, b, Boyce of Poultney, made a savag
attack on Mrs William Roberts last Thurf
, day, bit her severely and would have kille(
her had he not been called off. The do
was Immediately killed. His carcass weigh
ed ITO pounds and his skin was feet long,
The product of the Plymouth gold min
for December made bar of gold seven an
one half inches long, and worth So,
; Certain Rutland people who hate H. "
Love, are bound to keep him well advertised
Their latest is to have him arrested for vic
lating the Sunday law" in issuing papC
on that day.
1t is said that the spruce trees on Ii
: Green Mountains are being attacked with th
same insect or disease which is killing th
trees in the Maine forests
= Lake Champlain froze over at Burlinl
i ton, Tuesday, the earliest closing for
+ years
John Butler of Highgate was fatally il
b. jured Tuesday by an express train at Sew
l ards crossing,
. The Vermont Merino Sheep Breeder
Association held their eighth annual meetin