Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-04-24
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
"IALJ's HIsToRY OF EASTERN VERMoNr."-
This work was issued from the press last autumn.
but the financial revulsion has been the means Of
keeping it out of the market until the present time.
MIR. Alonzo Alden is now engaged, by the advice
Of MI. Hall, in canyassing this county for the sale
of the above book. He will visit MS many Of our
citizens as the limited time allotted for this pur-
pose will enable him to do, and furnish all who may
desire the work with copies at the lowest price
$500. As Mr., Alden is the only person of whom
the work can be obtained those who intend pur-
chasing will do well to Improve the present oppor-
tunity.
No family in this county should be without this
History. Especially should it interest the families
descended from the early settlers, many Of whom
figure largely in the events therein narrated
Further, the history Of our own county and State
should he the first to interest US. 1t more nearly
concerns the world about US and affects our every
day life.
Mr.. Hall has spent six years labor and been at
several thousand dollars expense in collecting and
'SH 'C hihlNlltlS U tnlS IllstOrY, anu In
presenting them to us in an acceptable and endur-
: ing form. His labors are everywhere spoken of in
the terms of highest praise. We feel warranted in
saying that we know of no book among the publ
cations of this age Of so much Importance to the
people Of this county as Halls History of Eastern
Vermont.
WINDHAM County CouRr.-The April Term of
this Court commenced at Fayetteville on Tuesday,
the 18th inst, and closed on Wednesday the 2lst.
The session was unusually short as many of the
leading cases were settled just previous to the COM
mencement Of the Term, and others were settled
Immediately before the time they were called for
trial, thus leaving the Court without business.
There were but five jury trials in which four YER
diets were rendered and in one case the jury did
not agree. The following is a minute of the cases
tried:
Curtis l.. Uilbur VS.. Barnard Lyndc. Action
Of a%ssumpsit on the warranty of horse. Verdict
for plaintiff for $500. A. Stoddard for plaintiff;
Reyes & Howe for defendant.
-Hpdn Alien ys. Letris c. Lorell. Action Of
debt for rent resumed in a lease. Verde, for plain
tiff for $lao.5l. Reyes & Howe for plaitiH; Slough
ton & Grant for defendant.
Geo. j. .dtcherson ya. Geo. Slate. Trcspass for
a horse attached as the property OF Horace Phillips
Verdict for plaintiff for S46.s7. A. Stoddard for
plaintiff; stoughton & Grant for defendant.
ID. J.. Richardson VS.. Daniel Chase. Action
for selling unwholsone veal, the calf alleged to have
been diseased when butchered. The jury did no.
agree on a verdict. Butler & Knowlton for plain
tiff; A. Stoddard for defendant.
Israel Haynes VS.. Uiachester & Lynde. Ac-
ton for potatoes sold. Verdict for plaintiff for
S42.36. S. Z. Flagg for plaintiff C.. N. Daven-
port for defendant.
The following appointments were made by the
Court
royal TYLER, County Clerk.
MARSHALL NEWTON, County Treasurer.
GEO. b. KELLOGG, County Auditor.
$ 3 81; ; H. s: s: e. County Commissioner
John Roberts,
VIM. Harris, Turnpike Lspecfor.
Samuel knight,
Kittridge Haskins of Wilmington, and Chas. b.
Eddy Of Rockingham, were admitted as Att, rneys
and Counsellors to practice in this Court.
IMroRTAYr WILL CAsE,-At the recent term Of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts at Greenfield
an important will case was tried and decided. The
facts in relation to the will were thes Justus
Russell, the richest citizen of Warwick, Franklin
county, died in December, 1856, at the age Of sc,
and leaving IN estate of $25 900, distributed by
will as follows; $500 to his widow, who was hi:
second wife and by whom he had no children; 81.
$40
100 each to two of his daughters and $500 to the
third; $500 to n grandson, son of one of these
daughters; his tan-works and $500 in money tc
his son. William L. Russell, and also the debts du,
the estate by him; $500 each to the wife and dau,
ghter of the son, VIM. E.. and the entire balance
of the estate, amounting to some $40, 900, to viii
liam L. Russell. Jr, son OF the last named anc
grandson Of the deceased.
Mrs. Russell brought the action under the statu,
permitting her to waive the bequest in the will ant
claim ono third Of the personal, and the use of on,
third of the real estate. Rufus Cboate appeared
with Davis x Allen for the plaintiff. The tria
which lasted several days, concluded on MONDAY
with n verdict for the plaintiff. By this decision
she will get nearly or quite $1,000 in money anC
the use of one third of $4,000 worth of real estate
GRooERIrs-Fros & Goodhue have just made III
addition to their already large stock Of groceries
provisions, sc. Without disparagement to other es
tablisnments it may be truthfully said that theil
stock of goods is the largest, richest, and most va
RED OF any grocery store in the State. Their as
sortment of every thing used at the table or in cook
ing Is unrivalled in the country and would do cred
1t to any establishment in the city. Their facilitie,
are such that they can supply other country ira
ders as well as their home customers at the very
! lowest market prices.