The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-26
STATE NEWS.

The State Board of Agriculture vii
hold meetings at Putney on Tuesda
and Wednesday, Jan. 30th and 31st
and at Townshend, Thursday and Fri
day, February 1st and End.
The Burlington Coasting Club ha
voted to attend the Quebec carniva
in body.
The Burlington cadets have beer
selected to fill the vacancy caused b,
the mastering out of company N o
Richford. Applications to SUCCEED
company N had been presented b,
bellows Falls, West Randolph, Fai
Haven and other towns.
The report of the chief of police ot
Burlington shows that the expenses
OF the department for the year were
$4448. 8.S9, divided as follows: $4196..
90 for officers salaries, S13S % foi
uniforms and caps, and STA for in
cldental expenses. The number OF
arrests made during the year was 453
against 424 last year. This does not
include the arrests made as the result
of search warrants. The department
consists of 45 commissioned police
men. Of these 33 are watchmen at
several manufactures without ex-
pense to the city.
1t is reported that the Connecticut
River Lumber company's drive by
Bellows Falls this year will be very
small-even if they start one at all !;
and the Fall Mountain Paper com
pany are cutting no logs at all this
season either in Vermont or New
Hampshire. Last year they cut
about 4,0O0,0 ,000feet Of spruce logs.
A memorial was presented to the
Chester Grand Army post Wednes-
day. Speeches were made by Col
c. II. Joyce of Rutland and others.
George Davis of East Montpelier
has second and sixth prizes on his ex-
.hibition of cocks at the New England
Light Brahma club exhibition in
Boston.
The Fairbanks Scale company is
building big l20ton platform scale
for the United States government, to
be used for weighing the mammoth
cannon in the Watervlet arsenal at
West Troy, N. Y. The patterns are
different from any other scale ever
made at the shops, and the scale is
built almost entirely of iron and steel.
The platform is II by Is feet and the
scale has the greatest capacity for the
size of the platform of any scale ever
built in the world.
TIE annual meeting of the 9Th Ma
sonic district was held in Masonic
hall at Bellows Falls this week We'd
nesday, January "a afternoon and
evening.
During drunken fight in South
Poultney Sunday night William Nc
Grath, quarryman, was stabbed and
seriously bruised about the face by
Matthew Cronin, fellow-laborer. Nc
Grath lay unconscious for several hours
after the fight and was at first thought
to be killed, but he will undoubtedly
recover. Cronin has been arrested for
assault and battery.
Griffith & Nathaniel of Poultney one of
the largest slate manufacturing firms in
the state, have stopped all work at their
quarries and works for an indefinite time.
They are one of the Oldest firms in town
and in the best season of the year employ
about 200 men, all of whom are now with
out work The shutdown is due direct
ly to the slate pool breakup January A..
n o ,;,l, Of ,>f
the pool and were thereby enabled to
undersell all members of the pool and
hold the market.
Winfield Smith of Ripton was instant
| ly killed at Belden's Falls, three miles
north of Middlebury Tuesday. He was
drawing sawed timber from Ripton to
the mills at the falls and, when near the
railroad culvert he drove off the road to
get to snow. The sleds went offa sluice-
way and the load tipped over. Smiths
| foot was caught in the binder and he
could not jump. His ankle was broken
by his efforts to free his foot. The heavy
timbers of the load fell across his breast,
crushing the body horribly.
| Alexander Bissette, Videll Lessor and
Peter jerome appeared in City court
Burlington Tuesday, on bill of infor-
nation filed by States Attorney Cush.
man, for grand larceny at Queen City
park last December. Jerome and Lesser
were each sentenced to seven and Bissettt
four years at hard labor in the states pri
son at Windsor.
Mr.. Meredith, democrat, of Vir