Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-20
State Ne7Vs.

The wife Of George w. Erskineo of Rox-
bury, h ung herself last week Tuesday.
oliver Godditt, a Canadian, % years of
age, was killed by the cars at st. Johnsbury
on Friday.
The dam at the factory of George Schulz
ton, in Derby, gave way during the recent
freshet, causing damage to the amount of
$4,000.
-~Fity-eigbt persons signed the pledge
at the last meeting of the Middlebury Tenn
perance Society.
John Bacon of st. Johnsbury has lost
w horses valued at $500, by congestion of
the lungs.
John King, aged 40, was drowned in a
mill-pond, where he was at work in Geor-
gia, on Saturday. He leaves a wife and
four children.
-John Ryan of Vergennes, aged Ga, for
so years a resident of the town, fell from a
load of hay recently, striking upon his
neck and killing him instantly.
ALI the slate pencils made in the Uni
ted States are made in this state. The sales
amount to from SIS, 600, 900 to SIS, 900, 600 per
year.
United States engineers are soon to be-
gin the work of dredging Otter creek from
Vergennes to its mouth, for which $40, 900
was appropriated by Congress at its last
| session.
1t is understood in railroad circles that
the Vermont Central Railroad nave offered
to lease the Athol and Enfield line as soon
as completed, for ten years, paying 7 per
cent. interest.
The Black river valley fair at Perkins
willie last week, was attended with an unu-
sual number of casualties. A woman was
run over by a race horse and killed, and a
child was hurt so that it is not expected to
live, while several others were badly in
jured.
Henry Come of Rutland, engineer
on a locomotive, recently saved the life of
little child at the risk of his own. The
father Ia poor man, worth only S75, 000,) it
is said, asked the courageous man to take
a glass of soda, as a reward for saving his
child
The organ of the Massachusetts society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals
complains that "Vermont people still con-
tinue to tie calves legs, and transport them
for miles. But the people of Vermont can
not be persuaded to move in the matter q
a law or a Society y
"A grave digger, walking in the streets
of Windsor, CHANGED to turn and noticed
two doctors walking behind him. He
stopped till they passed, and then followed
on behind them. And why this ?" sale
they. 81 know my place in this process,
sion,'' said he.
"A man named Cook, while loading a
cannon at Newport, on the 2Sth ult., on th,
occasion ofthe Republican rally, was Sc
verely If not fatally Injured by its prema
ture discharge. Amputation of the RICH
arm was found necessary. He was ais,
badly injured about the head and face.
AT the request of the Massachusetts so
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails, all freight agents OF the Vermont Cen
trail railroad nave been forbidden to shiI
sheep, calves and small stock in the sam,
cars with larger cattle.
The town Of Stannard, in Caledonia
county, is politically the banner town o
y the Green Mountain State. 1t does no
give a single Democratic vote, and show
an Increase of five votes over 1868. Goshen
IN Addison county, comes next. It's vot
/ was, Converse 70, Gardner /.
-i.ev. William H.. Collier, Epispoca
clergyman at V~ergennes, has in his pos
4 session what is probably the oldest printed
. volume in America copy of the Bib,
printed in l4S9-three years before thi
country was discovered by Columbus. ]
is a beautiful specimen of black letter print
. ing, and is, Of course, very valuable.
Erwin Stiles, son OF Charles Stiles
Pittsford aged II, accidentally shot an
killed himself, in that town, Wednesda
afternoon nth inst, while on a hunting ea
c%ursion.
So The Vermont Central Railroad has oil
~ talned permission Of the courts in Vernon
10 to issue a new loan of about g., 10000
% . This is rendered necessary by the extrao
IS binary expenses Incurred in putting Il
road in thorough repair, and making add
as tons to the rolling stock. To this may
added the loss incurred by leasing Il
10 Rutland and ogdensburg roads, the ear
% ings of which for the past year have n
- covered the expenses and the rental.
y The meeting Of tho Second Advents {
70 their camp grounds at Bethel, which clos
40 on the 9th inst, was in every way a su
20 cessful and profitable session. The atten,
ance throughout was unusually larg
M reaching as high as six thousand on Su