Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-11-06
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Bridgewater on Tuesday.
Mark Gibson of South Woodstock
: is looking after the Electric com
pan!'s wires for the present.
o. T. Marsh's paint shop ha
been ,eshingled and in other ways
repaired and improved.
Two Syrian peddIers, accused O
attempted arson at Andover, we've
bound over to the county court ir
the sum of $500 each by Justice
Gutterson this week and were
brought to Jail Wednesday. They
started a fire in an unoccupied barn
and this led to their arrest. Their
names as Deputy Sheriff Thomas
extracted them from the foreigners,
are George Mitchell and Michael
Fairiss.
An old coon has been making his
home in the woods near "the
Poguc' for several years, fooling
dogs and bothering hunters as often
as they have got on his trail. He
makes straight for the water when
started, as coons always do when
there is any water about. and he is
supposed to be the same coon that
led another procession TO tho s.dr."h'
few nights ago. A party of young
men started Il coon and when they
reached the pond the dogs were
casting about for the trail, their
tails between their legs, looking as
sheepish as sensitive dogs can under
such trying circumstances. There
will soon be another expedition Or
ganized tor the capture of the coon
that has been having fun with hunters
SO many seasons. 1t is probably
the identical coon that nearly drown
ed Henry Howlands dog five or six
years ago. The tog-a good sized
one-made the mistake of going IN
to the water after his game and was
rescued with some difficulty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. McKen-
zie of Franklin, Mass, are in town.
Luck was with Selden White Oh
his second deer hunt last week and
he dropped big buck after a two
hours tramp, IN the Plymouth woods.
He went over to Charles Summers
in Ludlow, mile below Tyson, and
from there struck off for the woods
alone. About mile and half
from "Ninevah," little settlement
in Plymouth, he found the deer,
which he stopped with one bullet.
The hunt wasn't over, though, Tor
wounded buck made mighty jump
as Mr.. White approached him and if
the hunter hadn't stepped nimbly
to one side there would have been a
lively and dangerous mix-up. An
other shot ended the deer, which
weighed 22o pounds dressed and
'wonld probably have weighed 900
pounds or more alive. 1t is doubt
less the biggest deer killed III this
part of the state. Its horns had IS
points, Il number very rarely found,
which make the catch notable one.
The deer was taken to Summers and
hung up in the shed adjoining the
house. During the night the
choicest part Of the venison was
stolen, the the,i cutting the body in
twa,- and Juggling off the hind parts.
1t was asbold piece of work and the
people in the vicinity were as much
worked up over the contemplate af-
fair as Mr.. White was. The theft
was great surprise, there being no
suspicion but that venison was as
safe in that part of the county as
anywhere else.
The new dam at the Tho mpson
mill is nearl y ruin and 1t will have
to be entirely rebuilt. On Monday
the sluceway became cloggcd up
and the water rose two feet to the
opening made for the penstock and
rushing through began to gully the
wing of the dam, running down the
bank on the outside of the wing and
undermining the foundation. Eff
forts were made to direct the water
elsewhere, but they failed and the
wing fell, half of the masonry of
the dam itself also going down.
1t is a most unfortunate accident and
one greatly regretted.