Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-12-10

Loss about $4,000 with no insurance.
The law enacted at the last session
of the legislature stopping the pay
ment of bounties on all noxious ami
mails will go into effect Feb. |, le9 :.
Bears, foxes, lynx, etc., are included
in this list.
The Skillings, Whitney Il Barnes
Lumber company has decided to
close out its entire mill interests at
Burlington and remove its machines
to Ogdensburg, n. Y, where the
company now operates large plant.
The museum at st. Johnsbury has
bought of Prof. Perkins of the Uni
versity of Vermont a collection OF 20O
specimens of Vermont fossils, which
was obtained largely from beds in
Lake Champlain, where no more los
sis exist. This is one of the largest
collections of Vermont fossils ever
made.
The farm buildings of Norman b.
Thompson situated about two miles
from Grafton were burned last week
Monday morning with most OF their
contents, including hay, grain and
farm produce. The live stock. wag-
ons and few household effects were
saved. The loss is heavy as the build
| ings were comparatively new and
among the best in town. Insurance,
81, 200.
The State Board Of Railroad Com
missioners. Messrs. Olin Merrill of
Enosburg Falls, Frank Kentield of
Morrisville and u. ;. Stanton Of RoX-
bury. met at their room in the state
house at Montpelier last week and re-
appointed Fuller &. Smith of st. Al
bans clerk. Ii was the first meeting
of the new board and the work of the
next two years was discussed in for
NAL way.
Farmers in Bellows Falls and yicin-
ity, who are supplying milk TO the
Boston Dairy company, are indig-
nant Ger the repeated reductions IN
price made by the company, cuts ag-
gregating about % per cent having
been made during the past year. a
meeting was Immediately held to dis
cuss forming branch Of the New
England milk producers union and
a temporary organization was formed.
A Autograph advertising Mr.. Barnes
of New York in Brattleboro caught
the eve of one man on Elliot street.
lie gazed upon the picture Of the ven
cradle man in fantastic costume, grasp
ing woman by the throat with one
hand, while in the other he held
dagger. He evidently could not de-
cipher the reading al the bottom of
the board, rs he turned TO a stranger
and asked: .'What's that about, DIR.
Giddings at the Waterbury asylum 7"
Among the curiosities displayed at
the art exhibit for the benefit of the
Whiting library at Chester recently
was bust Of Garfield made of sever
al thousand dollars OF cancelled green
backs, a china tea set that had been in
Senator Proctor's family for eight gen-
erations, table formerly the proper
ty of Daniel Webster, sample of
wedding dress 200 years old, jug of
earthenware and canteen made by
the Aztecs, found in Arizona and sup
posed to be 800 years old also a
priests robe of great age from the
city of Mexico.
Aunt RAMA Gleason Of Barnum-
vile celebrated her Goth birthday re-
Gently. She has resided in Manches-
ter and Winhall nearly all her life,
and can claim the distinction of being
an 1912 war widow. She was the
mother of | children and has had 81
grandchildren and over 80 great
grandchildren. Four of the children,
with q number of the other descend
ants, were present at the anniversary,
with other relatives and friends. Aunt
RAMA has been confined to her house
a number of years.
AT the last session OF the Vermont
legislature it granted charter to the
Ely Copperfield Railroad company,
which will connect the copper mines
of Ely, Stratford and Corinth with the
Boston Il Maine and Central YER
mont railroads. Preliminary SURVEYS
are soon to be made. The citizens of
White River Junction are trying to
secure for their own the location of
the smelling works soon to be erected.
No other large producers of copper
are as near the market as the Vermont
copper mines, and with proper rail-
road facilities these mines will have
great advantage over other mines.
st. Adams and Island Pond, by an
order of the department of agricul-
,ure, have been added to the list of
ports at which cattle and sheep from
he Dominion of Canada for export
rom the United States may be en-
cred, in bond, for Portland, Me-, and
Boston, Mass, for export from the
wo last mentioned ports only in ac-
with the regulations in the
rider of February IL, 1889. The
companies carrying
attic or sheep in bond from Canada
or Portland and Boston for export
lave established at these points special
took yards for cattle and sheep and
uch yards are to be used for no other
purpose.