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the third or fourth bear recently seen in Searsburg and Somerset, while half a dozen or more have been prowling about the wilds of Glastonbury. By changing the runs of the trainmen on the Connecticut and Passumpsic division of the Boston & Maine railroad it is expected that about 40 families will have to leave Lyndonville and live at Sherbrooke or White River Junction. The new order lengthening the runs of the train hands takes effect the 10th. Fred Madison and Fred Stiner, who were driving south, were arrested in Massachusetts near the state line Tuesday, having in their wagon a calf, several hens and a quantity of vegetables stolen in Stamford. They were taken to North Adams and held to await the action of Vermont officers. The amount of merchandise imported through the Vermont customs district for the fiscal year ending June 30, for consumption in the United States, was valued at $4,277,123. Duties were collected amounting to $752,469.96. The value of merchandise exported from the United States. through the district of Vermont for the fiscal year was $11,224,367. At the meeting of the stockholders of the national bank at Lyndon, held Sept. 27, it was voted to go into voluntary liquidation. Of the bank's 500 shares of stock 428 were represented either in person or by proxy. The vote was unanimous. It will probably require several months to close up the affairs of the bank. The bank was opened for business May 1, 1855. A farewell reception was tendered Judge and Mrs. Wendell P. Stafford at the Fairbanks museum at St. Johnsbury Saturday evening, on the eve of his departure to Washington to enter upon his duties as supreme court judge of the District of Columbia. Rev. Dr. Edward T. Fairbanks referred in the highest terms to Judge Stafford's successful career. and wished him godspeed, and Judge Stafford responded in a graceful manner. Nathaniel Nutter and Frank Kimball of Woodsville, N. H., have contracted with the Deerfield River company of Wilmington for all the logging in the Glastonbury territory which the company has hitherto itself carried on. The contract calls for the cutting and delivering of from 3,000,000 to 8,000,000 feet of logs, to be hauled to the several landings on the Deerfield river and its tributaries. The Deerfield River company will dispose of its large logging equipment now that operations have been transferred to the New Hampshire men. The 71st annual convention of the Universalists of Vermont and Quebec, the 14th annual convention of the Young People's Christian Union of Vermont and Quebec, and the Woman's Missionary Society of Vermont and Quebec met in annual session in the Universalist Church of the Good Shepherd of Springfield Sept 27, 28 and 29. At the state Y. P. C. U. convention the following officers were elected: President, Rev. C. H. Pennoyer of Springfield; vice president. George A. Bates of Barre: secretary, Ernest R. Ball of Bellows Falls; treasurer, Charles Waterman of Chester. Rev. E. E. Marggraf of Derby Line was re-elected president of the convention proper: Henry C. Farrar of Rutland vice president: Rev. Alvin M. Smith of Plainfield, secretary; W. H. Gladding of Barre treasurer. Rev. R. K. Marvin of Brattleboro was a member of the committee on nominations.
