The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 4, 1889 State Notes 1/4/1889 A patent has been issued to Julia A. GRAVES of Fairhaven, for a butter-worker. Three Yorkshire hogs from the Brattleboro asylum farm were recently killed which dressed respectively 739, 564, and 546 pounds. There is a rumor that the Lake Dunmore hotel property, in Salisbury, may pass into the hands of a syndicate of New York capitalists. A Canadian family named LaFOUNTAIN, at St. Albans, contains 12 children, of which the youngest is a mere infant, and the mother is crazy with care and illness, the family being very destitute. Sewell NEWHOUSE, author of the "Trapper's Guide," and a famous trapper of the Utica (N. Y.) valley, is dead. He was a native of Brattleboro, Vt., but in early life moved to that section and lived among the Oneida Indians. He afterwards joined the Oneida community under Dr. NOYES. He was a friend of Eleazer WILLIAMS, the pioneer missionary and alleged dauphin of France. It will be interesting to the many friends of Miss Mary HOWE to learn that she has safely arrived in Paris, and has already begun her study with Madame MAREHESI, who expresses the greatest admiration for her voice and talent, and has received her as a private pupil. Miss HOWE has been also cordially received by Madame Adelina PATTI, who is now singing in Paris, and has given the young American singer her cordial support. Herbert CULVER of Underhill, who died recently, was an eccentric man. The coldest weather a Vermont winter could bring forth, had no terrors for him. His apparel for such occasions consisted of a cotton shirt, a pair of overalls and a straw hat. He weighed between 300 and 400 pounds, and was so large that the pillow and the padding in the coffin had to be removed, and even after this had been done the lid of the coffin could not be fastened down. Gov. DILLINGHAMhas appointed Hon. L. K. FULLER of Brattleboro and Gen. T. S. PECK of Burlington commissioners on the part of Vermont to make arrangements for a proper representation from this State at the centenial clebration of the inauguration of George Washington as presidnet of the United States. Gov. DILLINGHAM and staff have been invited to be present at the celebration, which occurs in New York April 30th, 1889. The fame of Kate GILLETTE, the West Randolph school-teacher, who received a gold watch from Mayor O'BRIEN in response to the note she placed in his turkey, has spread to Connecticut. A Hartford (Ct.) narket-man found this note with a post-office address in his Christmas turkey: Dear Mr. Marketman--Please give this to some good man who wants to marry a good wife bad. I will corrisponde and swop picchures. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT