The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-08-06

Paul Van Der WORT past commander
!, ia-chisf Of Omaha vii deliver ihe ors,iol
q, The coming q. A. r. celebration Ia Ben
!. nington. August Is.
|, A carload Of spraes lumber shipped irou
Last Berkshire. this week, vas bound 70
South Africa and 10 70 be used 10 the con
!, siruction Of school house.
The west River Nstionsi bank n ia
mAica proposes 70 clcss iu Affairs II tb'
expiration OF i,s charter Angus. II. owini
|. 70 an Improbable business
A passenger 10 attempting 10 board |
train Il South Ryegs,s station on the Pes.
sumpsic road Saturday night fell undei
the cars and had both legs cut Of.
Henry A Bowers. Who Was sentenced
10 1852 from Montpelier 70 the House o.
Correction for four years for robbing the
United States mAils. vas liberated on Sat
urday by pardon Of tbs President.
There we're thirteen thousand seven
hundred sixty seven kilograms handled
at the Western Union office in Rutland
during June, IN increase Of six hundred
sixty seven over the same month las. year
The ST. Johnsbury granite company has
received . contract for . soldiers monu-
ment to be set upon the field Of Gettys-
burg for the l27th regiment Connecticut
volunteers. The monument to cost two
thousand dollars.
Among the l0l teams which passed over
Main street, Castlstou. Wednesday night
from the shov u Rutland. was oAs Of
which the two horses vsrs each 20 years
old, the wagon -. and IL three occupants
averaged 80 years each.
Rochester Hollow huntsrs spent two
days last week trying 70 catch an old lear
but without success. They chased the
bear for two days. then she chased them
from the woods and took her two cubs and
marched of 10 parts unknown.
A Wsrdsboro boy, nov in Denver, COL,
writes OF getting caught 10 . snow storm
July 8. while ascending Pixies peak. He
says: II had on my great coat and mittens,
but the wind blew SO hard and the snow
was so deep. ! was nearly frozen"
Aunt Dolly White Of Newbury celebra-
ted her lO2d birthday July %. She has
recently lost her eyesisht but her mind is
still clear and her memory very fresh.
She repeats poetry and scripture with the
same precision aud dignity as she did
IS years ago.
George johnson. for the past eight years
deputy clerk OF the United States district
court, will it is believed, succeed b, y.
Smalley. who has been appointed collec-
tor Of customs. Smalley has held the Of
fee Of clerk many years in spite Of his
offensive democracy
Thomas II. Garfield OF Burlington is
one Of the largest farmers OF the North
west, and works five thousand acres for
the best quality OF seed wheat. He has
sixty miles Of fencing, three hundred
blooded cattle. seventy horses and i'm
mense focks Of sheep.
The committe OF the Bennington histor.
ioal society appointed to consider the de-
.igns for.the battle monument have recon.
mended that submitted BY M, ]. Phi. Rim
81 Boston. Mr.. Rims design is for
,hsft 800 hundred feet high, to DO built Of
blue limestone.
Prof. Charles X. Adams, who has been
,lected president Of Cornell UNIVERSITY,
formerly lived in Derby, aud his father
was deacon Of the Congregational church
i. that place Young Adams got his early
training in the academy at Derby, and is
-emem bered as good scholar. The fam.
ly went West.
s. W. Hindes. who has just been ousted
rom the post Office at North Hyde Park,
. an old soldier who lost both hands upon
he battlefield, and who with the one
numb left on the stump Of his right hand
lid the work promptly and satisfactorily.
Nevertheless Mr. Hindes had to make
way for hungry democrat.
The bodies of engineer Lawrence and
fireman Gotta, OF the train which ran into
washout on the Boston and Lowell rail-
.oad. near st. Johnsbury. were recovered
lbout IL O'Clock Friday night. Engineer
Lawrence was badly crushed. Gotta was
,aught under the wood from the tender
md was evidently drowned. Is the engine
vas under water.