Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-08-22
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten TOR
Our Readers.

says tlidt tllC WutVi 40 A<"iNS S,--
plain is ID IL inches above low water
mark.
Rev. W.. H. Hopkins Of st. Adams
has decided to accept the call extend.
ed to him by the lst Congl church OF
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Richard Morris Hunt, the late la
mented architect, was brother OF the
painter, VIM. Morris Hunt. Both
were Vermonters, born in Brattleboro
in the twenties.
The Dorset Mountain Marble COM
pany Of Vermont was recently organ
lied with capital of Sl50.O0O. WI.
Gray of Philadelphia is president Of
the new company.
The postofiice department has made
the following annual allowance for
clerk hire at the Vermont pOstoffices
named: Montpelier, 50, 724; St.Albans,
$2, 200; Brattleboro, S2,64s.
Speaking of COWS, there is one
owned by J. p. Seaver of East Crafts
bury which furnished its owner 81
pounds OF butter in June, besides the
milk and butter for family Of three.
Geo. A. Huntington Of Montpelier
was brutally assaulted Saturday even
ing, Aug. 10, by member of row.
ing band Of gypsies, with whom he
had demonstrated for turning a drove
OF horses into his meadow.
The Rutland school commissioners
have voted unanimously to extend a
call to Alfred C. Thompson, principal
Of Hadley academy, Hadley, Mass,
and a graduate Of Yale college, to be-
come principal Of the High school
there.
Frank Delorieax, who has for sew
eral months past been clerk for }. d.
Yandow, Morrisville, disappeared last
Wednesday night and has not been
seen since. He collected several bills
before going and carried the proceeds
with him.
Senator Proctor has been trying his
luck at trout fishing again this week,
along with State Fish Commissioners
j. w. Titcomb of st. Johnsbury and
H. w. Bailey Of Newbury, who have
been his guests. They have been at
Lake Pico, Senator Proctor's private
trout lake.
The state highway commissioners
report that the best six miles OF road
in the state is that running from the
Barnard line through South Pomfret
to Woodstock. Bicyclists agree with
them. A team can go the full length
of this road at a 2:40clip without halt
and without danger.
A prominent Brattleboro taxpay-
er, who is quite an enthu-
siast over the electric railroad, says
that if the charter could be secured,he
would guarantee to raise the money
for trolley road to Hinsdale and
Mortified in four days. Both towns
seem to be willing to contribute.
The champion. New England bred
performer at harness racing is YER
mont bred horse. II will be matter
of state interest moreover to know
that the sire of the chestnut mare,
Whisper, 2:0S 3-4,who established this
record at Rigby recently, is Alexander,
who is owned by Z. 4. Brownell of
Burlington.
The Bennington Knitting company
has received a new water wheel Of the
latest pattern, and will put it in posi-
ton the last Of this month II the mill
can be closed long enough to permit.
At present this mill, the same as all
the others, is running to its fullest ca
pacity.. Some Of the mills are work
ing evenings.
The big wooden bridge near Pitts
ford came near being burned Wednes-
day. 1t caught fire, probably from
the engine Of a passing train, and was
burning briskly when the Addison di-
vision train came along. The con-
ductor stopped his train and, with his
crew, succeeded in putting out the fire
but not until the flames had reached
the roof of the bridge. This is one of
the few wooden bridges remaining on
the Central Vermont.
A Bridgewater angler landed two
trout at one throw day or two ago.
While he was fishing in the river with
two flies and about six feet Of leader a
half-poundcr swallowed one of the
flies, broke off several feet of line and
started down stream. 1t then turned
around and came up again, when
another trout took the second fly. One
trout wanted to 60 up stream, the
other down, and while they were yank-
ing away on the line the fisherman
seized it and landed them.- Wood
stock Age.
A party Of young people, who are
at Lake Bomosecn, were
robbed Wednesday night of their spare
cash. One man lost $40. The money
was taken from his pocketbook, which
the burglar kindly put back into his
trousers pocket. There is piazza
around the cottage which they were
the windows being left
open nights, and it is probable that
the burglar hied himself to the roof,
where he could reach in and mulct the
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