The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-10
VARIOUS VERMONT MATTERS.

VARIOUS VERMONT MATTERS.
I Ayrshire Milk and Butter Record.
/ CM Winslow of Brandon has issued n mill
record of the herd of Ayrshire cows owned By
him, established in 1878. This herd has beer
shown at stale fairs including, the Valley fair a
| Brattlcboro in 1891, with satisfactory success
| but has never been outside of Vermont except
| to the worlds fair NJ Chicago, where with q
Canadian judge it was allowed to take the first
position below the Canadian herds, and in their
| special prizes offered for exhibits from the
| states il won first for herd, first bull and sec
ond for COW three years old. The entire herd
has recently been tested with tuberculin and Is
| free from tuberculosis. The milk is weighed at
| each milking, and unless there is some good
reason, COW is expected to give, in her prime
not less than 6 900 pounds In year and heifer
| 5000. If the established capacity OF cow Is
not 1000 pounds, after fair trial with good feed
| and care and no mishaps, she is sold regardless
| OF her other good qualities and Il hcifer put in
her place In 1892 the ISabcock test WAS intro.
duced, and a heifer is expected to be able TO
make 2J0 pounds OF butter and n maturcd COW
800, or she is sold regardless of her milk yield.
The average milk yield OF the cows OF the herd
| for Ii wears, during which the herd had NJ dt.
ferent times from to IL cows, was G,2tG pounds.
The record of Rena Myrtle, $3.50, of l2l72
| pounds in 800 days was made ms furTnw COW
AT the Vermont experiment station, Burlington,
| In November Ils9j, and is the largest full year
butter record ever made 1t that station, by any
breed. In November, 1854, the experiment
station purchased some Jersey COWS, and -Four
Ayrshircs, and for the rest of the experimental
wear, nine months, Acme 9Th, 1882, n COW from
Mr. Winsluw's herd, gave G33 pounds of butter,
which was the largest record of any o! the COWS
OF that purchase.
A Fortune as Heirs OF Gen. montgomery.
Mrs Abbie Achilles and her son Charles, OF
Georgeville. 70: James and Emory IL Achilles,
! .,tN t.bt a.ht HfTf
Horace Achilles, Troy, III III Achilles, santa
Paula, Cal, Lyman Achilles, Bolton, Il: Luell
and Betsey Achilles, tarnham, both daughters
of Charles; Mrs james b Achilles, Georgeyile;
and Mrs Wall, of Washington, Oregon, are said
to be heirs TO n property in New York for which
they have been offered $4,000 each to quit
claim. They have been summoned TO meet in
New York May to prove kinship The Achilles
family on the maternal side is descended from
General Montgomery, of Revolutionary fame,
VINO died in n night attack upon Quebec Dec 5lst
ia. About ll9 years ago Gen Montgomery
leased an important trac, OF land on Manhattan
Island to parties for the term of 90 years. The
lease expired Is or 10 years ago. Meanwhile u
great city has been built up around the tract In
question. one of the buildings Is Trinity church
New York. 80 that there Is no question of the
immense value OF the property. A daughter OF
one Shohbell Achilles was married some years
ago TO w II Wall, of Vancouver City, Oregon, a
lawyer. II was he who discovered that his wife
and her relatives were heirs 10 the property IN
New York lie Immediately began proceedings
10 such good effect thst offers OF settlement IN
large amounts began to be made TO the heirs.
United States Court.
There was short session of the United states
circuit and district courts before Judge wheeler
at Burlington Tuesday. The exceptions were
PARTIAL, disposed of In the ease OF Wayne Cob
leigh against the Grand Trunk railroad com.
pany. Israel Duhuc OF Wtnooski was arraigned
on a charge of pawning United states soldiers
equipments, and fined 800 and cost There
were two cases of selling hop beer without
government license against III Il Smith of Ches.
ter and United STATES against r 4 Leland of
Chester. Both pleaded guilty and were fined
nominal sum. The case OF United States against
iIcdyey was entered amt discontinued. rhe
court then adjourned until May
Frozen 10 Death
The body of joseph Wade of Poultney, aged
70 years, who disappeared on Christmas, was
found Friday afternoon near the bank OF the
Poultncv River, in Hampton, ) Y He had
frozen to death. The body was carried down
the river during the recent floods. The body
was found by John Grant of Cast!etOn, while
hunting wild ducks.
A Woman Held on Two serious Charges.
Mrs Constant Wright Of oxford. \ II, has
been arrested on the charge OF larceny from the
dwelling OF Mrs John Pratt at bradford and for
settln0 the house ON tfc a week or more ago.
Mrs Wrighrs home IS but few rods from the
Pratt hOusc. which had been unoccupied for
several weeks before it was burned. Wagon
tracks about the house led to an Investigation,
which resulted in ascertaining that Ms Wright
had hired team OF II i Warren the evening
before the fire, and a comparison of the foot
prints showed that they were made by Warrcns
horse No arrest was made ut first, because the
hiding place OF Mrs Wright could not be ascer
tanned. Several days ago friends OF Mrs
Wright sent an agent to Bradford to negotiate
with Mrs Pratt and offered to restore the stolen
property and pay 5000 to settle How much
property wac taken Is not known, nor Is Ii
known where Mrs Wright WAS arrested.
At meeting of the school board in Newport
last week IL was decided to establish new de
partment of commercial nature, including
stcnOgraphy and typewriting. There was n
strong feeling TO Danish Greek from the school.
Mrs Nellie Kelley of Burlington well know as
'Ncllio Popcorn who has spent 4 third If not
one half OF her life in the state house of correc
ton was Tuesday adjudged insane and taken
to Waterbury asylum.
Albert Baker, living at l3l Maple street, Rut.
land committed suicide early Friday morning
by taking a dose of laudanum. Mr. Baker re
tired THU sdav evening as well as usual but on
arising early Friday morning things seemed To
20 wrong and in spite of the efforts OF his wife
and oldest son he drank more than two ounces
of iaudanum and died from the effects about
l o'clock. Although the doctors worked over
him for considerable time they were unable TO
save his life. Baker was A. years of age ana
leaves wife and four boys. He was In the
employ of Moseiey y Stod!ard.
The house of NJ Robinson of Lyndonyillc
was entered on Monday night by some sneak
thief. In the morning the front door was found
unfasteneu, having been locked the night be-
fore The room of u Mr. Austin, who boards
there was entered and "A gold watch taken
from his vest pocket. His wallet was also mis-. |
sing. Several people In different houses in the
village have lately lost money and other small
articles.
Last Monday morning Rufus Cloud Of South |
Royaiton built his fire and left the house. His
wife coming into the kitchen soon after, smell. |
led smoke and looking through the register into |
the room above saw fire. She found some
clothes which had been left on chair had tip |
ped over against the stove pipe and were blaz- |
Ing soon after, her son, James Cloud went up |
to lind his mother and found the chamber full OF
smoke. After crawling around on his hands and |
knees he found her In Il closet, across a trunk |
and nearly smothered. She revived after n |
While but was i'll from the effects and the fright
Mrs Ann White of Rutland. who was run into |
and knocked down on Convent avenue by a 1
pair of runaway horses last week, Is in criti- /
cal condition She was accompanied 10y her I
daughter. who WAS also knocked down, but was |
not seriously injured.
Frank IL year old son of George Parker of /
met with a severe accident Saturday 4
forenoon AT the Salisbury Bros, furniture manu-
factory. lie was taking away stock from a l
moulding machine, when, brushing away shay I
ipys "a mitten he wore got caught IN the knives, 4
which drew his hand into the machine and be- \
fore he could be released hi left hand was bad /
iy mangled upto the thumb, right across the \
palm and had 10 be ampitated nj the wrist joint
a Young mems Republican club was formed /
N, tturtins,Ynp MaD1ay avauiur with these Of