The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, July 19, 1889 State Notes 7/19/1889 The maple sugar exchange at Brattleboro has handled 1,225 gallons of syrup and 21,500 pounds of sugar, this season. This is the second year of the exchange, and the standard quality of its goods is becoming known. Frank TRIMBLE of Chimney Point, with his wife and only child, a daughter four years old, started to go across Lake Champlain, Sunday morning, to Crown Point. When about half way across the lake a tug-boat and tow of lumber came along, and TREMBLE attempted to hitch to the tow to go up the lake a couple of miles. The small boat capsized and the little girl was drowned. The wind was blowing a gale, and it was with difficulty Mr. and Mrs. TRIMBLE were saved. The largest muscalonge ever taken at Swanton was caught, Wednesday of last week, by Carl ROBERTS, Claude SOWLES, and Louis SUTTER, while trolling, and it took the three to capture the fish. Just as it was landed it broke the gang of hooks and would have escaped, but Lewis SUTTER leaped on the back of the 24-pound fish, and after a terrible tussle, in which he was badly bitten and had a new suit of clothes ruined, he succeeded in over powering the fish, which was four feet long and as handsome as any trout. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT