Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-03
State Ne7OS.

David NJ. Camp, formerly Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, died last week at
his residence in Derby, aged 50.
The battle flags of Vermont regiments
which have been hanging in the State
House at Montpelier, are to be put in glass
cases and placed in the vestibule of the
Capitol.
AT half-past one o'clock on Wednos-
day morning, fire broke out in Bemis
block, Chester, which with the depot, which
stood adjacent, was entirely consumed.
The building was occupied by Il. Bemis
us dry goods store, and by J. II. Rich
nrdson rs drug store, and Centre Lodge,
No3 30, of /. o. of o. l.. All is total loss.
The odd Fellows are insured.
The s500,000 first mortgage seven per
cent bonds of the NIississquoi Railroad of
Vermont, guaranteed by the Vermont Gem
trail and Vermont and Canada Roads, have
all been taken. The loan was placed upon
the market but a few weeks since, and its
success is an emphatic Endorsement of the
confidence the public have in the guaranty
of the Vermont Central and Vermont and
Canada under the able management of
GOV. Smith.
Under the new consolidation of rail-
roads the central division of the Vermont
Central, from st. Adams to White River
Junction, and the southern division, from
White River junction to CIRCUITS Corner,
will be under charge of Division Superin-
tendent Ambrose Arnold the Rutland di-
vision from Essex Junction to Bellows
Falls, including the Montreal and Platts-
burg, and the Whitehall and .Plattsburg
(northern and southern divisons), will be
under Division Superintendent Co George
a. Merrill the northern divisi~s ESm st.
Adams to Waterloo Canada, and the east
ern division from st. Adams to Richford,
will be under Division Superintendent
John Schrier. The General Superintend-
ent is Gyles Merrill, the general freight
agent John w. Hobart, the general ticket
agent NJ. g. Elliot the superintendent of
mo tive power James NJ. Foss, the master
of the car department Milton Sessions, and
he superintendent of teegraphs C. i. V.
Randall.
The st. Adams Messenger of Feb. "A,
says Hon. w. G. Ferrin, the State Auditor
was in town Wednesday comforting with ex-
Gov. Smith concerning a certain portion of
the State war claims against the General
Government Under the Act of Congress
of July eth, 1861, all these claims must be
presented before the 9th of next July, or
they will be barred. Mr.. Ferrin has been
to Washington this winter and succeeded
in getting certain claims which had been
rejected to be recorded merely as "sus-
pended" and he will collect and forward
the requisite vouchers within the time linn
tied if possible. He learned while there
that many States are filing claims to be re-
i'm bursed FIR State and town bounties, in
Guiding the allowance of 81 a month. We
think ii more than probable that all these
well authenticated claims will some day be
allowed. But it would be work of at
least six months for two clerks to prepare
these claims on the part of Vermont, and
last fall our "economical'' Legislature
granted the Auditor but a very slim allow
ance for clerk hire, so if he should now
should go forward and perform this labor,
he would have 10 do ii at his own expense.
But as the claims amount to several mill
ion dollars, we think he ought to do it, and
we have not the least doubt but that the
next Legislature would reimburse him.