Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-02-09
State Meas.

There are i2l boys in the State Reform
School at Waterbury.
"A lot of 1900 pounds of wool, the re-
suit of several years clip was sold in Gays
Vile, last week, for iilty-eight cents per
pound.
r.. d. Slayton of stowe, weighed pair
of calves on the day they were nine and
half months old, their weight being 1850
pounds.
Mrs. David Crouch of East Rupert,
was burned to death, Saturday, by her
clothes catching fire. She was over 10
years of age.
The Burlington Free Press warns ar
my veterans against a bounty swindler of
that place who signs himself Geo. T.. lIar-
ris." His promises are vain.
Colby Brothers q Co., have decided to
removs their extensive manufacturing cs-
Enlistment from Waterbury TO Reading,
Michigan, during the next year.
Wallace Laird II young singing school
teacher of Goshen, was feeced out ofs51
in u Lowell, (Mass.) saloon, on Thursday,
by some fair but frail maidens.
Tho lumber business of Island Pond is
already about 1000 600 feet, and expects to
get MS much more they have $50 men and
30 horses at work.
Rev. J. V. Lantcll pastor Of the Bap-
fist chur ch at Stamford, received dona-
ton visi. on the evening of Jan. 2ith. The
receipts, exclusive of yearly subscriptions,
amounted to nearly Sl30-mostly cash.
Vermont boasts fcw office holders who
have waxed undulv fat at the public crib,
George in Chittcndcn county, is an cxccp-
ton But feet =! inches in height he
girths feet, weighs 4Oll pounds, and has
gained 20 pounds in the last two months.
Clearly it is time that his successor in Of
| fee be appointed.
News has been received in Middlcbu-
ny Of the death Of Mrs. Solomon Jewctt,
daughter of Phio Jewett of Wcybridge,
who was recently murdered in California,
with her youngest child, by the Indians, it
| is supposed. Her husband WIS absent from
| home at the time, and returned to find his
wife with her throat cut from car to ear
and the body of the child horribly mutt
! lated.
Il. Whitney of Willston has made the
past season from ten cows, 1900 pounds of
| butter. His sales from these cows have
amounted TO the snug sum of SGj1. Add
to III s. sum the price of 200 pounds Of bu.-
ter actually used in the family, and the
sour milk fed to the hogs, and it would in
crease ii by another hundred dollars.
| The ST. Adams Messenger says: eve
are happy to he assured that Gov. Smith is
| in excellent health in spite of the 10 rail-
roads, and three or four transportation
companies under his oversight and the in
terminable travel necessary in looking af-
ter those immense interests. He leaves for
New York tomorrow, and possibly for
New London next day and Boston the day
after, and possibly for the Northern Pacific
next week to return here the last of Feb
ruary possibly"
The st. Adams Messenger reports that
the 700 acre tract on Maquam Bay, recent
| ~ purchased by Messrs. Barlow, Fair
| banks, Jewett and Hatch, lies only about a
mile and Il quarter west from Swanton
| Falls and affords Il beautiful 81 c for town.
| Preparations for bull ding the docks have
| aITtduN 'oiuineuceO. Next SuilHlcr tnc
Lamoile Valley railroad, will be extend
ed to it and we presume the Vermont Il
| Canada will run a branch across to ii also.
The tract is to be laid out for IL village,
W it'll grant for il public square. for a
| school house, for several churches, for Il
fire engine house, and for water works,
and the rest of the land not needed for
wharf purposes will he sold in lots to snit
purchasers and at a fair price. Thc water
of the Bay is deep, hard winds are broken
oil by headlands, and Il small outlay will
make this one of the largest and very best
harborS on the lake. For coal, lumber,
iron, e,c., it will We a more convenient port
than Burlington for all this portion of
Northern Vermont, and we shall he glad to
see it prosper like new Chicago.