Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-11-11

", ult IL AT OF. JOnnS SATURDAY morn
ing from the effects of shock OF ap
opleXy.
The engagement is announced OF
Miss llerrika Stevens, daughter of the
late Herrick Stevens Of Vergennes, and
w. II. Button of Washington, ID. G..
Mr.. Button represented Middlebury
in the general assembly of 1896.
The Vermont Society of the Sons
Of The American Revolution will hold
its annual meeting in the supreme
court chamber at the statehOuse,
Montpelier, at 2 O'Clock Monday
afternoon, Nov. Is.
Five barns on the II. II. Howe farm
at Underhill were burned recently by
the breaking of a lantern. The horses
and other stock were saved, but most
If the wagons and tools, with the en-
tire summers crop of hay " ere burned.
Thomas Moore bought the farm about
year ago and had no insurance.
Ten thousand salmon are to be
placed in the waters Of lakes George
and Champlain by the United States
fish commissioner the present week.
twenty thousand lingering trout
from the state fish hatchery at Rox-
bury were sent 20 Bennington this
week for distribution among the
streams in that vicinity.
The ell of the Lake House, and the
barn, carriage house, woodshed and
granary adjoining, were burned at
Newport Sunday Of last week, with
10 tons of hay, $50 bushels Of oats,
several harnesses and many other ar
ticles. Part of the hotel furniture
was gotten out, but the remainder
was badly damaged. The total loss
is about s., 900, fully covered by in
surancc.
The Ia pound baby Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Gingras is alive and
healthy. This is not, however, the
only small baby in Burlington.
About eight months ago Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. DeVarennes rejoiced over
the arrival of a son. Two weeks after
the birth of the baby it was weighed
and it tipped the scales at two
pounds, being less than one foot long.
Now this little one weighs 10 pounds,
but it is only one-half the normal
size.
Charles Devlin, lad II years old,
was arrested in Burlington last week
on the charge Of stealing purse con-
tanning $40 from Minnie Bracken in
81. Mary's cathedral last Sunday
morning. After being arrested he
suddenly became confidential with
the chief OF police and told how dur
ing the past few weeks he had entered
the house of Thomas Corrigan on
Front street and stole $40, had brok-
en- into fruit store on Cherry street
and into Welch Brothers maple fac
tory, getting small amounts in each
Of the places, in addition to admit
ting the charge on which he was ar
rested
In the digging OF a ditch at Bel
lows Fails last week for laying a new
water pipe beside the Congl church
the workmen unearfhed two skeletons
at n short distance from the surface
and about Is feet distant from each
other. Nothing is known OF them
and their appearance would Indicate
burial at least 100 years ago. As
portion of the land now covered by
the village is understood TO have been
the haunts Of Indians, and they must
have had burial places, it is more than
probable that particular place may
have been used for that purpose.
Neither were more than 10 feet from
the east side OF The church, and both
had evidently been buried about the
same time, in fact entirely diSinte-
grated, crumbling TO dust, but the
forms and substance were easily dis
cerniblc.
We learn from the seventeenth am
nuai report of the L. ). Geological
that Vermont, when it comes
to stone, is close up TO the band wag-
ON. In the total production OF stone
of all kinds Pennsvlvania alone leads
US. while in marble we have n big lead
over all Others and are second in slate
and third in granite. The following
are the official figures for 1896: Value
Of stone OF all Kinds, Pennsylvania,
-, jG3, 45I; Vermont, S3,254, 641. Mar
BILE, Vermont, Sl.32l ,59s; Georgia,
S6o9, 229. Slate, Pennsylvania, 81
47.75l; Vermont, S62i,33l. Gran
ito, Massachusetts,, 81 1919, S94; Maine,
q ,400.0 Vermont, Sl,001, lis.
The report, in speaking of the
granite industry says: alt is interest
ing TO note that Vermont is the only
granite producing state which has
increased in output, 80 that
for last year the figures reached a
Reports received by Commissioner
from the different sections of
the state, says the Rutland Herald,
show the number of deer killed dur
ing the open season. which included
the month of October. TO be as fol-
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