The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-27
STATE NOTES.

DIR. L. NJ. Bingham has rendered his
resignation as professor of surgery in
the Medical college, the board of trus-
tees having passed resolution sustain
ing him, and it is expected that all the
students will now return.
EX-Gov. st. John of Kansas is to
speak on temperance twice in this state
in June-at st Adams and Mortified.
Senator Edmunds has introduced a
bill to give Vermont 5000 towards a
soldiers home.
The Supreme court has just announ-
ced decision in the case of the Con-
necticut and Passumpsic River railroad
company VS.. st. Johnsbury, in which
the petitioner excepted to the laying of
a road across its track at grade by the
commissioners. The court held that
the county court had no jurisdiction to
establish a highway across the track of
the petitioner at grade with the track,
and the decision was reversed, and
cause remanded with mandate to that
effect. The case will therefore be tried
at the coming term of Caledonian coun-
ty court. The highway in question is
the extension of Eastern avenue in st.
Johnsbury across the railroad and into
the granite yard.
General l.. S. Partridge, promi-
nent citizen of Norwich, died there Sat-
urday morning of heart disease. He
was leading democrat and was well
known in political circles throughout
the State. He was postmaster at Nor
witch.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
division of Sons of Veterans will occur
in Brattleboro Tuesday, June 1. The
regular business meeting will be held
during the day at Grand Army hall,
and in the evening at 8 O'Clock there
will be public installation of division
officers and a campfire.
Clifton Sherman of Brattleboro, who
twice won the Childs gold medal in the
bicycle races there and was first at
Chester, was second in the two-mile
bicycle race at the annual spring meet
of the Amherst last Friday, and in a
one-mile walk broke the college record
by 22 - seconds, making the mile in Z
minutes and 3G seconds and the last
quarter in minute and 40 seconds.
Teno twelve freight cars of Con-
ductor Hayes special train were wreck
ed near South Vernon station Monday
night, by being switched through mis-
take upon a side track andinto another
train.
Judge White of Bennington has re-
ceived commission from Secretary
Manning, authorizing him as a regular
agent to prosecute claims against the
treasury department of the government.
A four-fOot rattlesnake, with 10 rat
ties, was killed by Andrew Thomas on
the mountain near Brattlcboro, We'd
nesday.
AS a party from West Dover were
fishing last Friday near the head waters
of the west branch of Deerfield river
in Somerset, some three or four miles
from any road or cleared land, they
found a pedler's valise filled with dry
goods and Yankee notions, which APP
peared to have lain there nearly year,
as the goods were mostly spoiled. The
only name or writing found about the
valise was on an envelope that had
been through the mail, directed to al.
II. Willis, Bridgcwater, Windsor
county, VT"
Later-Twenty men unsuccessfully
searched Somerset forest all day Sat
urday for the body of j. ii. Willis, a
peddler from Bridgewater, whose pack
was recently found by some fishermen
near the head waters of the Deerfield,
and who is supposed TO have mistaken
a wood road for the highway and wan
dered into the wilderness last fall, soon
after visiting Somerset, since when
nothing has been heard from him. He
was about 63 years old. 1t is believed
that his body was destroyed by animals
His son and brother-in-law were among
the searching party.