Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-19
State Meas.

More than thousand men are employ
cd in the marbe-sawing mills in Vermont
st. Adams built houses enough last
year to constitute large village.
Harper Brothers of New York, own
IL, 900 acres of timber land in Glastonbury,
and are Interested in the railroad.
David r.. Dickey, of Randolph, recent
ly ate four bottles of brandy peaches on
a wager. The money was promptly paid
to his widow.
Rutland has Good Samaritan society
which meets at the rooms of the Young
Mems Christian Association, on Sunday
afternoons.
The first patent granted for corn
planter in this country was TO Eliakim
Spooner, of Vermont, January 2jth, 1909.
The house and barn of Il farmer named
Lamb. in Burlington, were burned on sun
day week, while all the family were at
church, except crippled brother of Mr..
Lamb, who persisted in the flames.
-Castleton expended $4,000 last year for
an engine, four reservoirs, six hundred
feet of hose and other fixtures for the ex-
tinguishing of fires.
Mark Nuttor of Barton, who was Il Sc
lcctman during the rebellion, was ordered
by the commissioners to whom it was re-
ierred, to pay the sum of 1898 60 for funds
that he is said to have cmbezzled while
acting as selectman in procuring recruits
to fill the quota of said town.
The annual meeting of the grand lodge
of Good Templars was held Mt Burlington
on Wednesday of last week, when the fol-
lowing officers were elected and installed;
John b. Mead of Randolph, G. w. c. T.;
Mrs. S. A. Case of Bennington, g. w. V.
t.; Rev. II. p. Gushing Of East Burke,
secretary; c. c. Sargent of Corinth, treas
urer.
The annual encampment of the Yer
mont section of the Grand Army ofthe Re-
public met ut Burlington on the nth inst,
Gen. VIM. w. Henry of Burlington, De-
partment Commander presiding. The an
nual reports were made, ald the following
officers elected for the ensuing year: Grand
Commander, w. G. Vcazey, Rutland; Sen
Tor Vice Commander, Romeo II. Start,
Burlington; Junior Vice Commander, II.
Il. Taylor, Brattleboro; Medical Director,
VIM. p RUSSELL Middlebury; Chaplain,
Rev. Harvey Webster, Essex; Council of
Administration, Geo. II. Kittridge, st. Al
bans, Richard Smith, Tunbridge; ii. f.
Benson, Springfield; Hiram Cook, Hunt
ington; John f. Pratt, Bennington
The address by Henry Hail. Esq, Of
Rutland, at the forefathers celebration in
Middlebury, is very highly spoken of. The
account published in the Vermont Chroni-
Gle OF Dec. 80. says: "Some delay in time
gave the exercises a liberal rs well rs at
tentive house, whom the address of Henry
Hall, ESQ.,, of Rutland, rewarded with a
stirring and worry various illustration of the
| Pilgrim movement, the Mayhower, the
title of his lecture, supplying key to items
| of historical circumstances, widely culled
and well digested. Tho manner of the
speaker is forcible, and the audience were
fortunate in meeting an orator Of our own
State so well furnished and accomplished
in this department Of literary effort"
AS the mixed train which left White
| River Junction for Bellows Falls at u
o'clock, Saturday afternoon, was approach
ing the high bridge at West Claremont, n.
H., it broke apart, three cars behind the
locomotives and as the train ran on to the
| bridge, Tour freight cars loaded WIN humber
and one with hay broke away from those
in the rear and went of. on one of these
cars was an Irshman named Crowley, who
was stealing ride from Windsor to Clare
mont. The distance from the top of the
bridge to the highway below, where Crow
ley and the five cars landed is about loo
feet and the cars were completely wrecked,
but the man, strange TO say, was not Sc
verely injured though a large amount OF
lumber was heaped upon him. The pas
senger car, in which were 10 passengers
and the conductor and brakeman, remain
ed on the track.