The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-05-29
Vermont News.

Manchester people are talking of a
town library,
The pulp mill at Bellows Falls is
now lighted by electricity.
A fountain is soon to be added to
the academy grouods at Poultney.
Col. Albert Clarke of Boston will
deliver the Memorial day address at
Royalton.
S. NJ. Nutting Of Westminster re-
Gently had 80 sheep and lambs killed
by dogs in one day.
DR.. Webb has sent Joseph Battell
of Middlebury check for $500 for
the horse breeders.
The date of the joint exhibition at
White River junction has been
changed to the first week in Septem-
Der.
Ezekiel Nye of East Montpelier,
who invented an organ before the
Estey organs came out, died the other
day.
The Vermont State Eclectic Med
ical society is to hold its Goth session
on Wednesday and Thursday, June
3 and 4, at Montpelier.
The students and friends of Dr.
Wickham are talking of raising fund
by subscription to erect monument
at his burial place.
Senator Edmunds has sent Stan.
nard post of Burlington a check fol
500 for Memorial day expenses. He
has done this for many years.
Henry Oviatt, for several years ,
court reporter and newspaper write
in Vermont, is one of the editors o.
the New York Recorder.
A Montgomery man was fined $500
and costs the other day for executing
second chattel mortgage on person
al property contrary to statute.
The house of Charles Butler o
Highgate was burned Thursday. l
was the scene of the murder of Mrs
Butler by E. Tatro several years ago
Gov. Page has appointed DR.. o
W. Sherwin of Woodstock membe
of the state board of health to succeed
DR.. Chesmore of Huntington, who i
dead.
In allotting the money at the wa
department for arming and equippin,
the militia of the states, Vermont ha
been awarded $685., the sum bein
available July /.
The Billings green houses il
Woodstock have a splendid displa
of grapes. The fruit is coming on i
three successive crops, the first o
which will be picked in three weeks.
1t is stated that Capt. Ralph w
Hoyt Of the 18th United States in
fantry will be detailed to visit tn
state militia while in camp at Ben
nington next August and make a
inspection of the troops.
John w. Hobart, general mana
ger of the Central Vermont railwa,
has rendered his resignation to Pres
ident Smith, to take effect June
Mr.. Hobart has been in the servic
of the company 43 years.
Otis Flint of Tunbridge had Oh
hand badly mangled by a cross he
the other day. tits feared the woun
may prove poisonous and result
hydrophobia.
The fifth annual reunion of Con
pany c, I'd Vermont, was held
Brattleboro the other day. OF Il
80 original members who went to Il
front "a are dead, "a living with ihc
postoffice addresses known, and thel
are IA of whom nothing i, known.
DR.. $. II. Foster, y graduate
Middlebury college in Lhe class
1870, committed suicide at Malon
N. Y, the other day by taking mo
l phine. He had been in the place f,
several weeks and pretended to re
resent a medical book publishil
house. He had long been addict'
to the use of morphine and was di
sipated. He leaves no family.
There is 4 woman in Bethel wi
an historic ancestry. Her name
Mrs. Ruth Carter Rowell and she
a great-great-g granddaughter of Il
famous Hannah Dustin, who w
captured by the Indians in 1897
her home in Haverhill, Mass, al
5 who after a weary march of sever
days encamped with her captors,
in number, near Concord, N. Fl
: and arose in the night and with Il
aid of two companions killed all t
Indians and returned to her HON
Mrs. Rowell has in her possessi,
the original cloth in which her bra
ancestor placed the bloody scalps
the 10 Indians and conveyed them
the government officials, for viii
she received large sum of money.