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# Vermont State News.
WALLINGFORD has an old lady who weighs three hundred and two pounds.
ELIOT SPAULDING of Franklin has been taken to the insane asylum at Brattleboro.
A NEW post-office has been opened in Brookline, with Virgil W. Ranney as postmaster.
REV. W. S. LAIRD has accepted a call to the Presbyterian church at St. Johnsbury.
REV. MERRITT HULBURD of Burlington delivers the Decoration Day address at Middlebury.
HON. GEORGE W. HENDEE, the receiver of the National Bank of Poultney, will pay the creditors a dividend of twenty per cent.
A MAN was recently nearly suffocated by gas at the Bardwell House in Rutland. He probably carelessly turned off the gas and turned it on again.
So great is the pressure of business that two sets of hands are employed at the Central Vermont freight yards in Burlington, and work is pushed day and night.
FRANK MCKENNA, fifteen years of age, was drowned in the lake at Burlington on Friday evening. He was rescued as soon as possible, but all efforts at resuscitation were vain.
CASTLETON boasts of the veteran shoemaker. He began the trade in 1816 and in 1820 commenced business for himself, and, though now almost four-score, still sticks to his last.
In a game of foot-ball at the university at Burlington, Tuesday of last week, George D. Griswold of Cambridge, a member of the freshman class, had a leg fractured in two places.
POSTMASTER TAYLOR of Proctorsville says that forty-six years ago, May 16th, 1834, he and a companion rode in a sleigh on twelve inches depth of snow, from West Rutland to East Rutland and back again.
JAMES EVERSON recently purchased a tract of land on the mountain in Pittsfield, for which he paid a nominal sum. It has just been discovered that there are valuable mines on his land. Copper has been found in large quantities.
THE Eagle square manufacturing company, whose shops at Shaftsbury were recently burned, has decided to rebuild a portion of their works at once, and the manufacture of iron and steel tools will go forward without interruption.
GEORGE TYLER has sued the town of Newbury, claiming $10,000 for damages sustained on the highway last fall, by falling from his load of wood when going down the Westgate hill, whereby he lost one arm and was otherwise injured.
THE Franklin county medical society at its annual meeting in St. Albans, Wednesday of last week, chose as officers: President, J. H. Hamilton of Richford; vice-president, George E. Goodrich of Berkshire; secretary, C. G. Fletcher of Sheldon.
THE great scarcity of men to work in the quarries at West Pawlet has caused the introduction of Germans, quite a number of whom have arrived from Castle Garden, New York city. They work well and are sober, quiet, peaceable, intelligent citizens.
GEORGE L. LEE, one of Poultney's oldest and most respected citizens, was buried on the 11th inst. Mr. Lee was a grandson Colonel Lee, one of the first settlers of Castleton, which town he surveyed, and who was well known in revolutionary annals.
JOSEPH CROSS, seventy-five years old, formerly of Brandon, where he was worth a round sum, hanged himself at Chicopee, Massachusetts, Thursday. He had been seen hanging around the coal-shed, where he committed the deed, several times within a month.
A SUIT involving the value of a duck occupied the justice court and all the legal fraternity of West Rutland Saturday afternoon. The plaintiff got the value of the duck and paid his counsel $3. The defendant paid the costs and his lawyer, and all went home satisfied.
THE recently organized Post Warner of Middlebury, together with the Knights Templar, school, and other organizations, unite in the observance of Decoration Day. Two trees are to be set, one on each side of the entrance to the cemetery, dedicated to the soldiers of the revolution, 1812, and of the Mexican war.
J. L. PUTNAM, the Hinsdale bridge toll man, has in his possession, nicely preserved, the silk shoes worn by his grandmother on her wedding day in March, 1779. Putnam is one of the oldest shoe-makers in the country, having worked continually for the late Charles and William Frost of Brattleboro for forty-seven years.
W. E. CLARK, roadmaster on the Vermont Valley railroad, had an escape recently. He was riding down the track between Dammerston and Brattleboro on his three-wheeled velocipede car, when he met the up passenger train, both going at full speed. His velocipede is so constructed that it can instantly be thrown from the track, and this enabled him to get out of the way safely.
THE following patents have been issued to Vermonters: O. W. Bartlett of Brattleboro, reed organ; J. W. Dorsey of Middlebury, and F. Reed of Benson, water tank for milk can; C. A. Mosher of Sharon, dairy bureau; F. Paquet of East Brighton, belt tightener and regulator; W. W. Reynolds of Rutland, poise for scale-beams; J. F. White of Brattleboro, key-board attachment for musical instruments.
An old gentleman of seventy, named Kellogg, was killed at Essex Junction early Tuesday morning by the express from the south. He was driving cattle across the track there, and after getting them across lingered, unaware of the approaching train. He was so deaf that he did not hear the train coming. The engineer saw him standing there, but supposed, until it was too late, that he would get off before the train reached him.
THE Thursday morning express train from St. Johnsbury to Swanton narrowly escaped an accident which might have been very serious. Just as the train was about to enter a deep cut, nearly a mile east of Johnson, Engineer Dan Fulford discovered a large stump on the track. He called for brakes and reversed his engine, stopping the train within a very few feet. A chain was put around the stump and it was pulled back by the engine till it was outside of the cut.
GENERAL J. W. PHELPS of Brattleboro attributes the present violent tornadoes to the cessation, since 1873, of the northern lights, which for more than ten years before had been of almost nightly occurrence. He believes that the tornadoes are electrical, and that their direction is almost invariably from the southwest, and he thinks that they can be in a measure arrested by firing small magazines of powder, or making towering flame of fire upon their approach.
CABOT. Addison Laird, E. H. Clark and Charles T. Adams have each begun work on new barns. They are to be of large dimensions, built by experienced workmen, with all the modern improvements..... Mrs. A. H. Gerry has just returned from market with a large stock of millinery goods Ladies will have ne trouble in obtaining all the fine fixings they will want..... Mr. S. S. Batchelder started for California last Tuesday with his son, J. W. Batchelder, whose health is very poor By the advice of physicians, his father decided to take this journey with him, hoping by a change of climate he might regain his health. He has the best wishes of this community..... Benjamin Preston has sold his farm at East Cabot to Cassius M. Lamberton..... The promise meeting at the Methodist church Sabbath evening was a success and an excellent spirit was manifested. The social meetings have been well sustained since conference. The congregations during the day services are quite large.....J. M. Goodwin has hired S. S. Batchelder's farm for one year and has removed there..... W. Rives Putnam has commenced work on his new house, building it on the site of the old one, which he has moved off.....J. H. Da
