Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1868-07-24
State Meas.

IL. d. Snow of Bennington has receiv-
cd a patent for improvement i'm water wheel
regulators.
Rutland is to have steam fire engine,
night patrolmen and large reservoir, in
endeavoring to check the resent rampant
incendiarism there.
Tho corner stone Of the new Seminary
of the Freewill Baptists at Waterbury, was
recently laid with appropriate services. G..
w. Willard delivering the address. The
building is 96 by 40 feet, three stories high.
and will cost $4,000.
"A few days ago a son of John Gordon
Of Winhall, aged four years, was missed,
and after several hours search his body
was found within the wheel that runs A.
p. Graham's mill. 1t is supposed that he
fell into the tlume, and was carried by the
into the wheel.
The Burlington Free Press is out with
a morning edition the bennington Ban
ner has put on new suit and enlarged its
borders; and the Rutland Independent has
changed its form to large uuarto, All
which evidences of enterprise and prosper
ity we are glad to note.
The State Democratic convention was
held at Montpelier on the 18th, Homer
Wheaton, of Montpelier, presiding. The
nominations were as follows: Governor,
John l.. Edwards, of Derby Lieutenant
Governor, Morillo Noyes, of Burlington !;
Treasurer, j. A. Williams of Bellows
Falls. Resolutions were adopted APPROX
ing the nominations and platform Of the
National Convention at New York.
The funeral of George w. Belding, the
young London merchant who committed
suicide under the ignominy of imprson-
ment in a New York Jail, took place at
Johnson, last Thursday. The preacher,
Rev. James Doherty, spoke at length of his
iptpnritNr If ortn nd
large generosity, and mentioned among
his public gifts the donation of 500 year
for the support of children of deceased SOL
diers of the late war. His family will be
cared for by friends in Vermont.
The Trustees of the Vermont Confer
ence Seminary, located at Montpelier are
making earnest preparation for opening
the school there in September. The work
in hand Just now is the building of a large
and conimodious boarding house, capable
of accommodating $50 students. 1t fronts
to the west, on street running nearly
north and south. The front of the build
ing is l44 feet long, and two stories and a
half high. At leach end of this front build
ing is an l. extending back los feet, the
same height of the front; the whole pro-
viding scventy-fve rooms, large and airy,
having good front and side view, with a
half in the rear. There is also a middle l.
the same length as the others, one story and
| half high, containing dining room kitch-
| en-, dc. Two other buildings are to be fit
ted up for students, besides what may be
| provided by private parties. The Trustees
| have added ten acres or more 10 the twenty
acres originally purchased. The main
| Seminary building will not be built this
| season, but the school will not suffer for
| the want of accommodation on that ac-
| count, as there are already provided good
chapel and recitation rooms, which will
| serve a good purpose until the principal
] I'M ia A of tnnp IA.
| ers has already been secured TO take charge
| of the school, which gives assurance of q
| good opening and permanent success.
The friends of the proposed Rutland
/ and Woodstock railroad are to meet at Rut-
! land on Tuesday, the 2sth inst, to further
| their favorite project, and place Rutland on
the grand highway of trans-continental
traffic. Says the Herald of July %: "The
expected completion of the European and
North American Railway, from Bangor tc
Halifax, at the same time with Pacific rail
ways, has attracted public attention to the
necessity of filling in these links in the
great continental chain, by extending d
line due west from Portland to Whitehall
and from thence to Rome, on the New
York Central. The distance from Halifax
to Chicago can be reduced to 1,600 miles
easily condensing the line between Chica.
go and Liverpool to twelve days, and be-
tween San Francisco and London to seven
teen days. The distances of this interven-
ing unbuilt line are as follows: from Port
land to the New Hampshire line, % miles
from the New Hampshire line to the Yer
mont boundary, 81 miles from White
! River junction to Rutland, 46 miles, max
! ing the whole distance from Rutland to
Portland l6S miles, the distance from Rut-
land to Halifax, 764 miles, and from Rut-
land to San Francisco 1924. This is def
mite statement in part, giving view OF
| the great line of railway communication
across the continent, all of which is fully
provided for, with the exception of one
hundred and twenty-four miles from Rut-
land to Woodstock, from Bristol or Frank
lin, n. H., to within so miles Of Portland, }
and the question is shall this be diverted
from Rutland?' That is the question our
northern neighbors ask themselves, and
the general response appears to be, emphat-
ically, No!