Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-05
State Ne70s.

In Lunenburg not less than 200 tons of
starch are made annually.
Over fifteen thousand bushels of pota-
toes have been shipped from Pttslord sta
ton this winter.
"A Vermont woman who obtained Il di-
vor g at the recent term of the Court, took
her second husband two days altcrward.
A bold but unsuccessful attempt was
made to fire the Herald building at Rut-
land last Thursday morning.
MIR. Aaron Bancroft, aged So years, the
oldest inhabitants in Montpelier, died
March 10Th. He had been resident of
Montpelier since 1914.
A man named Wallace lately hung
himself in Eden with log chain. To pre-
vent his being cut down, as he was on
previous occasion when he attempted TO
hang himself with rope.
Judge Isaac f. Redheld, formerly Chief
Justice of this State, recently went to Ak
en-, S. c., for his health, but lie finds no
benefit from the climate and is not expect
ed TO live many days.
The Green Mountain cheese factory at
Peru worked up i9G, $50 pounds of milk in
"a working days last year, making 57,l4l
pounds of green and so, l24 pounds of cured
cheese. This was at the rate of S.GS pounds
of milk to one pound of green cheese and
90 to one pOunl Of cured.
Mrs. Mary Brockway, of Washington,
aged l0l years and Ii months, died March
9TH. She was member of the Baptist
church ~ years. a sister attended her
funeral 81 years of age, and another i liv-
ing in Putney So years of age. She retain
ed her faculties until within the last few
days. She lived TO see the fifth generation,
four of HON lived in one house.
Measures are proposed for the Portland
and Ogdensburg railroad 10 give up its
White Mountain route TO Connecticut river
and Vermont, and build from Cornish TO
the New Hampshire line, about 10 miles,
and thence join the New Hampshire Cen
trail railroad TO Meredith or Plymouth 43
miles, and connecting thereby with Wells
River, Montpelier, Burlington, st. Johns
bury, Swanton and Ogdensburg.
The Vermont Manulact uring Company
of Mortified are making over 500 chairs
per day, and have. it is said, the largest
wood seat chair mandatory in the Stale.
Hon. Henry Stowell of Cambridge, a
graduate of Middlebury College in 1916, a
member of the Council OF Censors of 1913,
delegate from the third Congressional
District to the Union Republican Nation
al Convention, at Baltimore, in 1864, and
for more than 80 years prominent lawyer
of Lamoille county, died at his residence
in that town ON Wednesday, March 9th,
at the age of "A.
The Vermont Central management
have proposed to the Barre people that if
they will give $4,000, and raise $4,000
more on guarantee Off per cent. per an
nun, the proposed road from Montpelier
to Barre shall be built at once. The propo-
siton has been accepted, and the money
nearly all raised; whereat Montpelier is
happy.
The people of st. Adams are justly jul
| bilant over the establishment at that place
of the great rolling mill enterprise referred
to last week, which will require the invest
ment of $500, 900 OF S4OO,G Geo. The celebrated
arms manufacturers, the Remingtons, Of
| Iion, n. Y, are heavy stockholders, and
S2lO, 600 OF the stock has been subscribed in
| St. Adams. The famous banker, Jay Cooke,
is also interested in it. 1t is in contempla-
ton to have the mill completed and run
ming by the first of next October. 1t will
give employment to a large number of
men-variously estimated at from 100 to
500. Governor Smith, who has had the
matter in charge, was offered stock sub
scription of 100000 if the mill could be To-
Gated at Marquette, Mich, but he preferred
St. Adams, and has had no difficulty in
raising the funds,