Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-03-20
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
UNITED STATES COURT. The Brad
ley Fertilizer Company VS.. DR.. Ii. A.
Cutting. This case came up for trial
at the February term held at Burling-
ton. The Fertilizer Company was
by the members of the
firm, with II. G. Ide, of the law firm
of Belden & Ide, st. JohnsburY, as
attorney. They also had several wit
nesses present. DR.. Cutting did not
appear in person, nor by attorney.
Col. Walker of Rutland stated what
DR.. Cuttings attorney told him, and
the Court held the case for trial until
the next day, when affidavits were re-
ceived in behalf of DR.. Cutting, set
ting forth that the Doctors physical
strength was not such as to allow
him to stand the press of a trial. The
Fertilizer Company produced affida-
Wits showing that the Doctor was able
to be out and several miles away from
home, and they were very anxious to
have the case tried. The Court finally
continued the case till the May term
and the Fertilizer Company will en-
deavor to have it tried at that time, as
they feel that as 1t stands untried, it
is IL great damage to their business in
terests in this State.-Barre, IT., En-
terprise, March II, 1885.
Mrs. Mehitable Danforth has just
passed the one hundredth anniversary
of her birth at Bristol.
Thomas Ready of Burlington, charg-
ed with burglarizing John w. Carpen-
ter's house, pleaded guilty in the city
court, last week Wednesday, and was
sentenced to three years in the state
prison.
An eight year old son of John Ban
yer was instantly killed at Vergennes,
last Monday afternoon, by large log
rolling on him.
Rev. DR.. Brastow, formerly of Bur-
lington, has been elected professor of
homiletics and pastoral theology in
the Yale Theological School.
Last Sunday morning Mrs. Julia
Porter of Hinesburgh, was found near
her home in the road, soaked with
rain, and in dying condition. She
died without returning to conscious.
ness. Mrs. Porter was old and feeble,
having passed her eighty first birth
day, and her death was probably due
to exhaustion.
Vermont comes out ahead at the
merino sheep exhibition at New Or
leans. or the 1926 offered, this state
gets S475, or 1926 more than all the
other states combined. The first and
second premiums were in money; the
third, "highly commended;" the
fourth, Commended" Vermont gets
five firsts, three seconds, one third and
one fourth; all other states, four firsts,
four seconds, five thirds and five
fourths. Vermont takes first on rams
of any age; first, second and fourth
on yearlng rams; first on ewes two
years old and over; second on ram
lambs; first on flock (ram and five
ewes) and sweepstakes on ewes of any
age.
John Daley, the oldest person in
Rutland, died last week. He was born
in County Mayo, Ireland, Aug. Is,
1884, and lived there until he came
to Rutland SO years ago. He was ID
years old at the time of the Irish re-
bellion, and remembered and told
many incidents of that struggle.
Hon. George w. Hendee, Receiver of
the Vermont National Bank, will pay
o dividend of 20 per cent to the depos-
itors of that institution, as soon as the
checks, now in the hands of the
Comptroller of the currency, have
been signed and returned.
A new story from Burlington says
that New York state fireman in the
Green Mountain state on visit, was
taken to Ethan Aliens grave, and
while standing there he remarked that
he never knew before where Ethan
Allen was buried, and after pause
astonished the company present by
saying, swell, don't remember that
l ever seen Ethan Allen, but l have
seen some of his colts"
A fatal accident occurred in Whit
ney, near Brandon last Wednesday
afternoon. While Henry Brown and
his son Charles, in his twenty-first
year, were coming from the woods
with load of logs, the binder bect me
loose, springing round with tremen-
dous force, and knocking senseless Mr..
Brown and his son. The father, who
was severely cut across the face, re-
covered, but the son expired at 4
O'Clock the next morning.
Twenty towns in the State voted to
adopt the,town system of schools at
the March meeting.