The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-15
VARIOUS VERMONT MATTERS.
$1,000 Worth of Liquors Seized ana the
Proprietor and Six Inmates Arrested.

$1,000 Worth of Liquors Seized ana tn
Proprietor and Six Inmates Arrested.
The Estate Line" house on thcVer
mont and Massachusetts line between
the towns of Clarksburg and Stamford
near North Adams, was raided Sat
urday night about midnight. Eou
women and six young men were place.
under arrest and taken to North Ad
ANS Thomas Goodin, the propri etol
of the house, was arrested and takel
| to Bennington, and about 81, 00
worth of liquors were seized and alst
taken to Bennington.
The seating capacity Of the court
room at North Adams was all occupied
Monday, and good number of curiou.
men hung around the windows out
side. The police were unable to keel
the crowd away. The young men who
were arrested at the "State Line
house pleaded guilty to the charge o
Iewdness and were each fined S.. The
young women pleaded Tot guilty.
Found Dead in the Woods
| Patrick Cronyn, aged so, an engineer
employed by J. X. Booth at Burling.
ton, 1uit work Monday night in his
usual health and started for his home.
Failing to arrive search was made
and Tuesday he was found dead in
some woods near the lake. lvestiga-
ton shows that heart failure caused
his death.
Arrested for Horse Stealing.
DEPUTY Sheriff William NJ. Smith of
Cambridge Tuesday arrested Irving
Roberts and Nellie Stagglcs on a
charge of horse stealing and brought
them to Essex Junction. Sheriff
Reeves lodged them in Jail at Burling
ton. Last Saturday morning Roberts
hired horse of G. r. Willis of Essex
Junction to drive with Nellie Stag
giles to Williston. Failing to....return,
they were traced to Richmond, Hunt
ington, st. George and Shelburne.
where the trail was lost. Tuesday
morning they appeared in Cambridge,
where they were recognized and cap
tured. The horse was nearly dead from
overdriving. Roberts formerly lived in
Bristol, but last year lived in Hines
burgh. Nellie Staggles is a notorious
character, four years ago being CON
victed of adultery and served a year in
the state prison at Windsor. Roberts
wife last year secured divorce from
her husband in Chittenden county
court.
Prohibitory Law and Hard Cider.
Thomas Fitzmorris of White River
Junction was arranged before II. {.
Pease, justice of the peace, on Tuesday
on charge Of treating a company of
young men with cider on Sunday.
May 3. ExGov. S. E. Pingree APP
peared for defendant and j. G. Harvey
for plaintiff. The facts Of the case
show that it has been tho custom for
a number OF years for Mr.. Fitzmorris
to keep cider in his cellar and treat
his friends whenever they called upon
him. On the day named a party armed
with quantity of poor whiskey, went
up to see their old time friend, and
with his cider and the whiskey they
carried, proposed to have a jolly time.
The result was, they became intoxica-
ted and afterward arrested. In court
they disclosed on Mr.. Fiztmorris and
warrant was sworn out against him.
On Saturday last, Deputy Sheriff q.
w. Hoffman searched his premises
and found four barrels of hard cider
Mr. Fitzmorrispleaded guilty to two
otfenses, the court imposing fine OF
$50 and costs, amounting to s3i. The
fact that Mr.. Fitzmorris was igno-
rant of the extent of the law added
greatly to the defense. The cider was
confiscated by order of the court.
The New England section of til e
United States department of agricul-
ture says of Vermont in its weekly crop
bulletin for last week: The first part
of the week was cool, but the last part
has been very warm, and fruit buds
have come out with rush. Pears
and apples are showing up well, but
one correspondent in Chittenlen county
that plum ana cherry trees are
coming into blossom sparingly. y
in Lamolle county
states that grass never looked better
at this time of year, but the general
that it is growing very slow
ly and that the feed in pastures is
poor. One correspondent in Windsor
county says that many farmers are
blowing up last years seeded ground
because the dry weather of last season
"a catch Dry weather is the
great complaint of the farmers in this
state, and the correspondents generally
say that warm rain is badly needed.
Owing to the eXorbitant price. $50
and half of the privileges, charged by
the managers of the Granite City Trot-
ting Association of Barre, the officers
Of the Vermont State Firemen' Asso-
citation have been obliged to cancel the
which was to have been
held there July %.