Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-12
State Meas.

Vermont has $50 Welsh inhabitants.
st. Adams has voted to have water
works, and the village is to be bonded in a
sum not exceeding sl50,O00 to defray the
expense
The Indebtedness ofthe town of Bridge
water is not $4,000, as lately reported.
Take Off $4,000.
Mrs. Lyman Grandey of New Haven
committed suicide March 31st, by cutting
her throat from ear 10 ear with a butchers
knife.
Calvin Ainsworth, Esq, an old and
highly respected citizen of Williamstown,
aud the oldest merchant in Orange county,
died on the Goth ult., of pneumonia. He
was for many years the President of the
Mortified Bank. His age was 80.
The vacancy in The Naval Academy
from Congressman w. C. Smiths district
in Vermont will be filled by a competitive
examination of all candidates at Burling-
ton on the Sth of May, President Buck
ha m, Professor Barbour and DIR. Tenney of
the University of Vermont acting as the
Examining Committee.
Mr.. Caleb b. Clark, gentleman fifty-
ii We years of age, and native of Vermont
led in Bellevue Hospital, New York, on
Friday, from the effects of Il compound
fracture of one Of his legs and other injur-
les caused by an accidental fall on the side
walk.
N. f. English, of Hartland has pat
ented wax wire thread, having, as its
name indicates, a delicate wire in its CEN
tire, to be used in sewing boots and shoes
and other manufactures of leather, canvas,
and so forth.
Colby Brothers & Co., manufacturers of
clothes wrngers at Waterbury, have sold
their business in New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, and all the Southern States,
to a new company organized at Waterbury,
which secures the continuance of the works
at that place
In an aflray in meat market at Rut-
land on Wednesday, growing out of a
wrestling match, William Daniels struck
| one McGinnis on the forehead with meat
ak, telling him to the floor. He then at
tempted to strike him with the edge, but
was prevented by the bystanders. McGin-
mis- will recover.
A bold attempt was made on Wednes-
| day night of last week to rob the First Ma
| tional Bank at North Bennington, of which
| Hon. Trenor w. Park is President. The
outside doors of the safe were blown open
with powder, the second door cut through,
and the safe then bored into and an attempt
made to blow it open. The noise of the OK =
plosion awakened the people of the village,
and the robbers fled, leaving their tools,
safe hel and black curtain for darkening the
room. They could have taken money from
outside of tho inner vault, but in fright
| probably did not discover it. The explo-
sion shattered the walls of the bank, and
the large windows were broken out. This
is one of the largest banks OF the 5.atc, hay
ing half million capitol.
A new method of making steel or
wrought iron from pig metal was described
by the inventor, DIR. V. w. Blanchard, of
| Bridport, at a recent meeting of the Po-
| lytechnic Association in Now York. 1t
consists essentially in oxidizing the car
bon. by blowing a heated blast of air a.
| gainst a thin stream of molten iron drawn
| directly from the blast furnaces and allow
| cd to fall into n cylindrical converting YES
sci, ten feet in height, lined with ire brick
| Only "a light pressure of air would be re-
! quircd, and the size of the stream of metal
| could be regulated by n gauge. The pro-
| duct would be drawn of through an open :
ing situated at the bottom of the converter.
The blast would he slightly inclined up
ward, against the falling stream, so that the
particles of iron would be kept longer In
contact with the oXldiZng agent. The in
ventor claims that by this process he car
produce an article possessing the strength
of wrought and the hardness of cast-iror
| or q teel.