Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-04-23

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OF our state contemporaries refers to
q spring omen: "The listers, those
harbingers Of spring, are with us. Get
your annual liz Mdy."
Work was recently begun on a guard
wall which will Surround the ground
al the house OF correction at Rutland.
The wall, to be built Of stone, will be
faced with brick and be is feet high.
The latest telephone scheme in Yer.
mont is to connect Waterbury, Stowe,
Morrisville and Hyde Park. Citizens
OF these towns are to form stock
company for the owning and operat-
ing OF telephone system with the
idea OF giving frst-class telephone SER
vice at nominal price.
| Photographer Webster Of Bellows
Falls has unearthed an old and quite
valuable negative of Bellows Falls,
taken from Mt. Kilburn great many
years ago, evidently in the times when
boating was done on the river, as the
looks show plainly. Many citizens are
having prints made from it to show
the remarkable growth Of the village.
Robert Chute, brakeman on the
Central Vermont railroad, wss shovel
ing coal at New London, Conn.,, last
Friday, preparing for the run to Brat
tleboro, when he found a suspicious
looking box in the coal. TWAS taken
out and opened and was found to con-
tain IL sacks Of dynamite and half a
pound Of gunpowder, enough to have
wrecked the engine and most Of the
train.
j. S. viles Of Montpelier started on
a little boating expedition one day re-
Gently, intending to go from Mont
pclier to Middiesex in canoe. He
met with few distractions until he en-
tered some rapids, when the canoe
collapsed and let him into the water,
which he says was cold and wet, too.
He waded to the shore and footed it
back to the bridge and came down to
the opposite side of the river and res
cned the skiff. Mr.. Viles thinks it a
| little early to take these kinds of baths.
However it was narrow escape.
Rev. VIM. II. Crawford, who has
just finished a five years pastorate at
the Methodist church in Pittsford,
leaves good record behind him. Dur
ing the time Mr.. Crawford has been in
Pittsford he has, in making 1900 calls
and visits, travelled 5000 miles and
preached 2S9 times, with l07 texts
from the Old Testament and $50 texts
from the New Testament. He has at
tended 665 social meeting and his con-
gregations have aggregated 1865. He
has attended So funerals and "a
weddings.
Carlo Malanni, an employe Of An
gelo Scampini at Barre, was struck by
the Montpelier IL Wells River subur-
ban train at the Granite street cross
ing Wednesday afternoon of last
week and seriously injured. The
buggy he was riding in was smashed
into kindlings and Malanni went
under two cars. lie received an ugly
cash ten inches long in one thigh,
three broken ribs, and the right side
of his face was completely skinned.
1t is thought that he will recover.
The first annual report of the YER
mont state board OF pharmacy for the
year ending Dec. /, 1895, has been
issued. 1t contains the pharmacy act
and complete list of registered phar-
macists in the state. The report
shows that during last year ss7 phar-
macists registered by application
under the state pharmacy law and Is
by examination. The receipts during
the year were: Licenses for certificates,
1887; examinations, Sl35; total, 1922.
The expenditures equal the receipts.
A serious accident occurred last
week on the Brush quarry in Wood
bury. About a. m. there was seam
blast to be fired and Mills Winters had
the matter in charge. He was light
ing the fuse and in some way some
loose powder ignited and the whole
charge exploded without moments
warning. His right arm was burned
to a crisp to the elbow and his hand
was badly lacerated while his face
was literally filed with powder. DIR. |
Carter OF Hardwick was called and
dressed the injuries. 1t is mystery
how Winters escaped alive.
DR.. w. B. Clark, native OF Brat
tleboro, now professor Of geology at
the John Hopkins university, has been
state geologist OF Maryland
under the permanent bureau just ali-
thorized by the legislature, with a
$4,000 appropriation annually, to
prepare and publish a series of occa-
sional papers for the purpose Of keep
ing the people Of the state informed
the methods Of the survey
as it is in progress, and to show what
has hitherto been done for the study of
geology, natural history and resources
Of Maryland by public or private
agencies.
There is tract OF land in Benning-
ton county, between West Sandgate
and West Rupert, where once was
school district with its