Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-19
State Ne7Os.

L. l.. butcher & Sons of st. Adams, on
Friday, shipped $1,000 worth of fly paper.
Hon. Robert Harvey, of Barnet, died
of apoplexy on Tuesday of last week, aged
6s years.
Great activity prevails at the copper
mines in Vershire, and about 300 men are
employed.
The wife OF Benajah Potter of Bennng-
ton, committed suicide Monday afternoon
by cutting her throat. She was nearly six
ty years of age.
p. l.. Chase of Mechanicsville, en-
ploys 25 hands in the manu- facture of the
single article of toy wheelbarrows. He
made during the past year some $4,000.
The wife of Richard Smith of Sudbury,
died suddenly on Friday last, in conse-
quence of having taken strychnine by mis-
take for morphine, to remedy pain in her
side.
During thunder storm at Stowe, on
the 4th, the Baptist church was nearly de-
stroyed by lightning. 1t struck the stee-
pie, then passed down into the interior of
the building, tearing up the pews and do
ing a deal of damage.
Several of the citizens of Randolph
have formed a company for the manuiac
ture of chair stock, and have built a two
story building, 35xs0 with basement cap
ital stock $1,000. They are about putting
in machinery and hope to get into opera
ton next fall.
On Monday, the wife of Aaron Morse
of Barnet, was struck by lightning, during
thunder storm, and killed. Her body
and lower limbs were shockingly mutilat-
ed and burned, her clothing being set on
fire.
The house and farm buildings on the
Richard Jenness place in Sheffield were de-
stroyed by fire on Tuesday. The build
ings were unoccupied, the owner, Mr.. Will
liam Jenness, living in Lake Village, N.
II. The fire was probably the work of an
incendiary.
The people of Reading, in Windsor
county, are beginning to move in the mat
ter of Centennial celebration of the set
Element of that town. The first settler
was Andrew Spear, who came to Reading
in the year l772 and he aud his wife were
for several years the only family in town.
1t has been thought best to hold the cele-
bration in the latter part of August, and the
endeavor will be to make it an occasion of
rare interest to all the sons and daughters
of old Reading.
Chester celebrated the Fourth success
fully and in a spirited manner. There was
tremendous parade of the ar. A. J.'s''
and procession embracing thirty-seven of
ha fnir Il oh # ha I'M
the Union, the fire company, the schools of
the town and citizens. Rev. A. b. Elan
ders delivered the Grafton, and brief ad-
dresses were made by Major Rounds, Rev.
| John G. Hale and Geo. q. Ide of Claremont,
n. II.
The State Grange of the Patrons OF
| Husbandry effected provisional organi-
| zation at st. Johnsbury on the Sd inst. A
| temporary board of officers was chosen
with Hon: e. p. Cotton of Irasburgh, as
| Master.
| In digging cistern for Horace jack
| son, on West street, st. Johncbury, the
| work men found two toads some nine feet
| under ground. Three feet of the top soil
| was loan, and the bottom six of solid clay.
The toads were in the clay, each filling a
hole Just large enough for his body, and in
shape corresponding Herewith. When
first found they were of the color Of the
clay, but the next morning they had as
| sumed the color of toads living above
| ground. After they were uncovered they
| hoped about as other toads do.
| Tho Montpelier Waterman learns thai
the surveying party on the Elmore Pond
route, for the Montpelier and Black River
railroad, while recently running the line in
the region of the George w. Bailey farm
found the compass suddenly thrown into
confusion by the close proximity of iron
ore beds. On inquiry it was found that
extensive deposits of iron ore were found
in this locality forty or fifty years ago
that the lands were bonded and the mine
worked to quite an extent, the ore beinl
drawn to Morrlsville for smelling, wher,
suitable buildings were erected for the pur
pose. The ore was of superior quality
yielding 90 per cent, and making an ex
cellent quality OF steel. Edge tools are still
in use in the neighborhood, Manufactured
from the product of this furnace. The de
struction of the building by fire, togethe
with the heavy cost of transportation, le'
TO the abandonment of the enterprs Sc. Tn
construction of the Montpelier and Blacl
River railroad will doubtless change tn
whole aspect of affairs in respect to thi
long slumbering interest.
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