The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-17
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The Connecticut was raised feet oy 'h'
recent rains.
Picture frames made to order at Wi WI
er,scabnet shop, rear lseformer office. lyzz
In Row ker's dwelling house on Chestnu
ST (Esteyy1lle) is to be sold at auction to-ihor
row afternoon at two O'CLOCK.
The inventory Of the estate OF tn e N.Y. nv
Charles McCune,. editor anu piopa,. .tD 500 a.
Buffalo Courier, shows properly WORTH S'-''
ia. a}S3l
H-The militia is to muster atSt Aioans .n.'
year instead OF at Essex Junction as AZ Ito
ranged. AT Least this is the latest uluefs'anu
ing
John Howe Is attending the photograph
ORC, national convention at Buffalo, Y, tni'
week. in company with II n Haywood, OF bel
lows Falls. f.s l.5s,.
The claims against M Waite's estate II
insolvency. which it is hoped to close up nex'
week. aggregate Sl24,0O0. The properly
amounts t0about $l7 ,0Oo. te E.t
-CM Russell has received an agency, foi
Personal Memoirs of General Grant ana VIII WI ~
once commence thorough canvass OF Wlno'
ham County.
The Paris dressmakers have produced a
graat sensation iby advertising the high society
ladies who never pay for their flne dresses. IG
Brattleboro dressmabers and mllinefs couiu
probably show some unexpected names IN tneir
list of cheats"
Walter Merrill, son of Rev c H Merrill, OF
West Brattleboro, had one side of his face bad
" burned with g,lnpowder from a toy cannon,
July 4. Ernest Winchester also received
charge of powder in one of his cheeks from
gun barrel with which he was playing.
DIR Geo p Tyler of Lansingburgh, N Y, will
preach at the Congregational church Sunday.
The son of Commodore Theodore ? Green, OF
the Andover Theological seminary and grad
uate of Amherst college, will preach in the same
church the first Sunday in August.
Mrs 7 Housh's engagement on the "Sig-
nal" at Chicago is for only one year, during
the absence of the editor in Europe. Brattle-
boro people will all be glad to learn that she
will then return here to her CHEEKY work among
us. She will continue her literary management
OF the Woman's Magazine here while at Chica-
go.
e litor Gibbs of the Messenger was so
tickIed with the attentions he received from Col
Levi X Fuller, at the recent press meeting at
Brattleboro, that he forthwith begins to boom
him for the lieutenant governorshp. The
"stOp" the inventive c0lonel1s said to have de-
-[Montpelier Waterman.
Geo D Hadly of Dummerston, comes to the
front with the largest rumber of the largest
eggs, ever before heard Of He has a buff Coch-
in hen that presented him IN nine days with tive
eggs of the following dimensions 6 2 in-
ches, IA ks, 6 IL "a, 6 IL 81. x
Ia. Without doubt these figures are. osgs 6
actly what the hen fruit measures, as Will be
seen by calling at this office. u
-Aout 400 people attended the picnic Of the
Baptist, Congregational and Methodist socie-
ties at Sylvan grove, Bernardston, Wednesday.
Six cars left here at 8: 80 in the morning, and
many went down on the ten O'Clock train, while
Others went with teams. The day was flne ana
was passed most enjoyably in games, races and
other sports. 1t was a basket picnic, but COT
fee, ice cream and lemonade were furnished in
abundance. The picnicRers returned home on
the five o'clock train.
w w Newcomb has placed with G Ul-
lery of the Reformer Job Department, an order
for 5000 copies of "Newcomb's Guide to Brat
tleboro and Vicinity" This guide is a neat lit
tie pamphlet of % pages, and besides the r Il
Time tables, a table of distances and fares,
stages and express lines, and similar matter, it
will contain fund of useful knowledge for
everybody The work will be delivered by Aug.
!, and every one should call and get copy at
Newcombs jewelry store, as it will be gratis.
-CnarleS CnanuleT lnquIfeu VI Dau DIcSha
han Wednesday night chow his liver was"
Dan undertook to show him that it was in Wig
orous condition, and they had it all the way
from the Estey stables on Birge street to Dams
house on Elliot street. They once agreed to go
up in the Charlier woods to have it out, but
the spectators were too numerous. They did
considerable jawing and some pommelllng.
Dan went down three times, but still vows that
he will lick him.
Prof John M Klein, a somewhat noted as
tronomer of Kentucky, predicts a brilliant
comet in the southwestern heavens early in Au-
gust or the latter part of July. He says that
he can now see in the heavens the orbit of the
comet, made visible to him by the streak OF
gaseous matter that always follows In the
wake of great comet 1t is impossible, he
says, to see it at present, as it is travelling IN the
orbit of the sun, whose brilliant light during
the day prevents the human eye from gazing at
it. The DETECTION by the latter part OF July or
the first part OF August, will, however, bring 1t
above the horizon during the early evening
hours, when it will be plainly visible and when
it will he a comet of the first magnitude. The
Louisville Courier. Journal says that Prof Klein
has heretofore predicted comets with unfalling
accuracy.
The Boston Journal has been gathering fig
ures and estimates of this years hay crop In
Vermont. New Hampshire and Name. From
ils IepOIts HUH ou0 UIiltIcHt pOiuts CohSAuuSS
that the Vermont crop, which usually reaches
100000 tons, will fall about 200 600 tons short
This represents a loss of about S2,0O0,000 to
our farmers, for only part Of which it Will be
possible to recoup themselves in higher prices,
either for their hay or beef. The experience OF
last winter, in which hundreds of thousands OF
dollars were spent to bring hay into the state,
will have to be repeated, and the outlook is
certainly not an encouraging one. New Hamp- |
shire's hay crop is never over about half OF
Nermont's but 1t is estimated that 1t Will tall |
from Az 900 tons last year TO 4Ol,OO0 tons, |
and Names from l,l23,000 tons to 963,OoO |
Everything seems to have contributed TO the |
trouble. The winter was unfavorable in most |
sections and there are great patches of winter |
killed grass. In the spring the prospect was |
favorable, but the severe drouth IN June was |
very disastrous. The late rains have caused |
the grass to thicken up appreciably, and as the I
farmers have generally waited for il, the dam
age is partly repaired.
Col VIM Austine has presented the cele- |
rated "wall' gun from Mexico 10 the Col John /
5 Tyler camp No Sons of Veterans, for salute /
firing Memorial day and other occasions. This
'walF' gun was used on the walls of fortress.
lad musket flint lock on one side of the 1
Dreech 10 explode it; it swung by its trunnions
IN an iron semicircle, with pinile bolt let iuto
he upper surface of the wall, SO that the gun
'onid not be moved in any direction and with.
nut recoil when fired. II was loaded with tin
'ase containing twelve musket balls, and kept
'G the stormng party when the fortress was at
aeked. was cast in Spain from he'll metal,
probably early in the last century aud was sent
o Mexico when a colony of Spain. It was
tored in the arsenal in the City of Mexico, at
he date peace was declared with the United
states this arsenal was restored 10 the Mexican
government. The Mexican'officer who relieved
col Austine, the American officer in charge,
PRESENTED this gun TO the latter as a memento of
he occasion, and the colonel brought il home.
! he lock has not been removed, the vent is
plugged with a round file and new vent bored
N TOP, so as it can be used as a small piece and
nor1.ed on q carriage.