Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-04-04
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Elijah Miller of West Brattleboro
narrowly escaped being shot few
days ago. He was seated in his
home, talking with friends, when an
old gun which was standing in the
corner of the room slipped from its
place, and, falling, struck the ham
mer and exploded. The charge
barely missed Mr.. Miller and en-
tered a bureau standing against the
wall.
w. L. Terrill, druggist at Mont
pclier, met with quite painful acct
dent recently. When he went to
enter greenhouse, Il large light of
glass fell, striking him upon the arm
and cutting it to the bone, and it also
severed the bone of his little finger.
Eli Tiffany of Bennington has in
vented what he calls bicycle train
err. 1t is heavy base on which a
bicycle can be fastened, the wheels
of the bicycle resting on the wheels
of the trainer. Thus a beginner can
learn pedaling and other details of
managing IL machine with no danger
of falling off, and as the friction on
the trainer wheels can be varied at
pleasure, the affair may be used AS Il
means of securing indoor exercise.
While Paul king of Cambridge
was riding on a sled with shotgun
by his side Tuesday, the horses sud-
denly started, causing Mr.. King to
lose his footing and in regaining it
he in some way discharged the gun.
1t was heavily loaded with buckshot,
the whole charge entering his right
side and would have caused instant
death only for the heavy clothing
he wore. Physicians successfully
removed the charge.
Mrs. George Marsh of Northtield,
who was recently bound over to await
the action of the grand jury of Wash
ington County ON the charge of
poisoning her husband, was former
resident of Bethel, when she was
Mrs. Wells Greene. While she
lived there Mr.. Greene died unde,
what were considered at the time
very peculiar circumstances.
Rev. Calvin Granger of Poultney,
who is now over 90 years of age, is
seen almost every day going to and
from the post office and is seldom
absent from divine service on Sunday.
c. B. Prindle of Poultney, who has
just passed his goth birthday, is re-
markedly we'll preserved. He re-
members distinctly when he lived in
the city Of New York, which at that
time contained only 400, 900 inhablt-
ants, and there were neither steam
nor street cars, telegraph nor tele-
phone facilities, and the streets were
lighted by oil lamps.
The great Carnegie steel works,
near Pittsburg, have just had Il very
large order completed at st. Johns
bury, for railroad pattern scales for
use in their big rolling mills, and
large orders for platform scales for
Russia and China have been in pro-
cess of execution the last month.
The experiment station at Burllng-
ton has just issued bulletin 50, con-
tanning analysis Of I3 samples of COM
mercial fertilizers licensed to sell in
Vermont. The analysis and guaran-
tees are compared, and the valuation
of ingredients determined. y sched-
ulc OF trade values agreed upon by
the experiment stations of the New
England and Middle States is given
and discussed. Two more fertilizer
bulletins will be issued in April and
May. The ANALYSIS will be posted
in the post offices. The bulletins, as
we'll as all publications of the sta
ton, will be sent free of charge to
any address upon application to the
experiment station, Burlington.
One of the most important land
cases ever heard IN Vermont will be
that of Bennington and Glastonbury
Manufacturing Company-practical-
ly Gen. J. 6. McCullough-against
the Newtons, John {. and Moses, the
Deerfield River Company, with some
contractors who worked under them,
for wilful trespass IN cutting timber
on the lands of the former in Glas-
tenbury. The suit is for $50, /;
land to the extent of 10000 acres is
covered by it, and the claim is for
triple damages under the statute APP
plying to the cutting Of trees entirely
without right. Such damages are
very rarely awarded, there having
been very few cases where it has
been done in all Vermont history,
though the report Of Gov. Pingree as
| rferse in the Davenport case against