The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-05-09
STATE NEWS
THROUGH THE SIFTER's SIEVE.

THROUGH THE SIrTER's SIEVE.
Hon. John w. Stewart has sold out
his interest in the Middlebury Register
to Joseph Battell.
The second district committee has
called tho convention for the nominal
ton of a representative in Congress at
Montpelier, July Esd.
Rev. Edward Green, Of Peterboro',
N. H., has accepted his call from the
Bellows Falls Baptist church.
The bondsmen of Indian Agent Pratt,
formerly of Dummerston, and who
was said to have been short in his ac-
counts, have settled with the govern
ment for 81 and costs.
Judge Royce sustained the indict-
ments against Lawrence Brainerd at st,
Adams on Thursday, and decided that
Brainerd could appear at the prelimina-
~ hearing by attorney.
Last week while Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Robinson of Arlington were on their
way to Manchester to visit their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Austin Perrin, when about a
mile of their destination, their horse be-
came frightened and suddenly turned
out of the road, when Mrs. Robinson
was either thrown or fell out and i'm
mediately expired. DR.. Hemenway
was summoned and upon examination
decided that death resulted from all cpl
leptic shock caused from fright instead
of the fall. She was 63 years old.
Albert Fish of West Rutland was
quite severely injured in attempting to
stop runaway team which had got
away from his son. and to which drag
was attached. The result of his injuries
was three ribs broken on the left side,
his left shoulder badly bruised and an
ugly wound in the abdomen, which,
however, did not pierce its walls.
St. Johnsbury is to have a new pub
lie hall to cost $4,000.
Robert Fulton of Waitsfield, who has
for some time suffered from neuralgia,
lost the sight of both eyes during a sim
gle night. He went to bed seeing, and
rose the next morning blind.
Thomas Smith of Georgia is an Eng
glish man who labored by the day until
he saved enough to buy him small
farm in Georgia. This spring after all
absence from his mother country of 81
years, he was taken with sudden de-
sire to return to his boyhood home, ann
with that object in view he sold his
farm and deposited his money in the
First National Bank of St. Adams
With his trunk packed, and at the depot
ready for start, he called at the bank
for his money. The bank had closed
thot morninS and his all was gone.
Four black bears were recently shot
in Woodford cave by Alonzo Bishop
and Benjamin Buckley. They will gel
a State bounty of $l5 each and at least
$40 piece for the skins.
There is considerable expression a.
mong Republicans in the western por.
ton of the state for Blaine, as the sec.
ond choice after Edmunds.
II. F. Brigham of Bakersfield is men.
toned as the probable Democratic can.
didate for secretary of state.
Castleton furnishes three stalwart
students of the State Normal School
They tip the beam at $40 pounds, are
under 10 years of age and wear No. 1(
boots and No. II overshoes. One OF
them stands 6 feet in his stockings.
Edward johnson, in the Popular Sci
ence monthly, declares that the prohib-
tory law is practically dead letter in
all except the smaller towns of Yer.
mont. johnson probably visited Mont
pelier, and inspected Oviatt, the Argus
phenomenon.
The damages at Burlington by Friday
nights gale on Lake Champlain will
reach 100000. The piers at the north
end of the harbor, about two miles
long, are nearly all more or less injured.
About 700 feet of the breakwater was
swept away. The waves rolled in 80
feet high.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock has
given $1,000 toward an endowment
fund for Whitman college at Walla
Walla, w. T.
St. Adams has had five suspicious
fires since April 81. None of them have
been large but they have all been SO
placed as to indicate strongly the pres
ence of band Of incendiaries trying to
burn the town.
Work upon the new French Catholic
church at Burlington is being pushed
as rapidly as possible and the walls
have already assumed definite shape.
There are about forty workmen en-
gagged upon the building now, and it is
expected that the work will require two
years, and that the church will cost
100000.