Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-19
State Ne7Os.

st. Adams wants q board of trade.
Rutland dtto likewise the establishment
of a market day.
Mr.. Thomas Hill, of Charlotte, had
twenty-three sheep killed, one day last
week, by dogs.
-Shelburn boasts a boy six years old
who weighs one hundred and thirty-three
pounds.
The new graded school house at North
Bennington is about completed at cost
of 10000.
The peg factory at Arlington is doing a
large business. Eleven hundred bushels
of pegs are now made weekly.
Rev. Robert Collyer's lecture on "Clear
Grit" was repeated at Rutland on Thurs
day evening.
Mrs. II. c. Martin of Cambridge, COM
mitted suicide the other day, while in fit
of detection, by taking bedbug poison.
"A third more logs have been got out
this winter by Vermont lumbermen than
ever before.
The Secretary of War has been direct
ed TO make asurvey of the harbor at Swan
ton.
down II crows at one shot, the other day,
which we considered a tall story; but f.
ii. Boardman of West Rutland goes him
seven better.
A travelling agent for gas burners re-
quested the pastor of Il church at Burlng-
ton, to recommend his burners from the
pulpit TO the congregation. Modest agent
A "monarch of the forest l0j feet in
height was recently felled in Newbury.
The log taken from it was eighty-three feet
long, and measured four feet at the butt.
The spring exodus of French Canadi-
ans from over the border has commenced.
Several carloads OF them pass st. Adams
daily, southwark and eastward bound.
Deacon S. II. o. Bosworth of Berlin,
recently sold part of a diseased hog in
Montpelier, and those who ate of it were
| made very sick. Bosworth has been ar
rested and placed under $1,000 bonds for
trial before the county court.
Fifty thousand Fairbanks scales (Sl,-
800, 900 in valueJ distributed among all the
markets Of the world, and measuring the
standards of all nations-Chinese, Russian,
Turkish, etc., etc.,-is the record of the
Messrs. Fairbanks for 1871.
Tie st. Johnsbury Caledonan tells of
a little plot of land in that village which
was sold three years ago for $500. small
house has been erected, and recently one
| half the lot and house were sold for 81, 900,
and the other half of the lot for 5000. This
Is what a railroad does for real estate.
The cadetship at the naval academy
which is at the disposal of Congressman
Poland, will be offered to the applicant
passing the best examination before BEN
jamin IL. Steele of Hartland, A. n. Swaine
of Bellows Falls, Col. Roswell Farnham of
Bradford, and a. T.. Rankin of st. Johns
bury, at White River Junction in the 10th
of May.
More marble was shipped from Rut-
land last year than ever before. The total
amount was $4,000 tons, which would bring
nearly two million dollars on board the
cars The business has commenced this
spring with increased activity, and the
prospect for the sale Of marble the coming
season is very good.
Joe Minor of Fairfield fell into kettl,
Of boiling sap last week Friday, receiving
fatal injuries. The next day his little
grandson, Is months old, slipped and fell
against pan of boiling water and severe
ly scalded him from the wrist to the Shout
der. The child, 1t is though, will recover
Mr.. Minor was 50 years old, and leaves
: widow and children mostly grown up.
DR. T.. q. Jones of Union Village, ha,
been appointed editor of the New England
Eclectic Medical journal, published a
Lewiston, Maine.
Recent patents: Isaiah J. Robinson ant
Henry Fairbanks of ST. Johnsbury, fo
carpenters adjustable level. Samuel Il
> Fitzpatrick Of St. Adams. for railroad ca
vontilatOr.
A new temperance paper has beel
started at Burlington by w. w. Atwater
II is clean and handsome sheet full O
good reading, and deserves support blu
will il get it2
II. T.. Adams of Rutland, was arreste'
. last Thursday ON complaint of the State