Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-08-29
state Tfessi.


Hon. Moody Rich prominent citizen
of Maidstone, died August Is, aged 90 years
and % days.
"A number of young japanese gentle
men are spending the summer in Middle
bury.
1t is rumored that the Central Vermont
Railroad Company have secured controi Of
the Portland q Ogdensburg Railroad.
Rev. w. ii. III. Murray, pastor of the
Park street church, Boston, has accepted
an invitation to deliver the annual address
at the State Fair, at Rutland on Thursday,
September 18th.
-Barnum offers $4,000 for the hide Of
the Lake Champlan serpent, with author
ity to draw upon him for all expenses nee
ossary TO recover the remains from the bot
tom of the lake, where the editor of the
whitehall Times asserts they now are.
Thomas Greenback has refused $4,000
for his factory and machinery therein, in
Guiding his real estate property in Gays
vile, and is now engaged in removing the
machinery and windows in the factory to
Lawrence and Andover, Mass.
Mrs. Snow, widow ofthe peddler Snow,
who was murdered by Stanton Of Walden,
last March, has brought civil action for
$4,000 against Simson, the town agent of
Greensboro, for selling liquor TO the muir
derer.
The eighth annual reunion of the Tenth
Vermont Regimental Association will be
held at the Waterbury Hotel, Waterbury,
on Thursday, Sept. 4, 1873.
Mr.. Labelc OF Berkshire, who is eighty
years old and has been bald for many
years, has new crop of black hair grow
ing, though he has not used any restora-
tive, and after being toothless for years,
has lately cut three new teeth.
Hon. LIKE p. Poland is to deliver the
address before the Lamoille County Agri-
cultural Society, at their annual fair at
Morrisvlle, Sept. is. There is to he a "ba-
by show at the fair, with premiums at 81,
s., and 80.
The monument which the town of
| Pittsiord is erecting on the side of Fort
Vengeance will be dedicated with appro-
pirate ceremonies on Thursday, the 2Sth of
August.
Mr.. j. =. Taylor, late of the st. Adams
consumption. He was gradua, of the
University of Vermont, and was a man of
high personal character and fine literary
tastes.
A franklin county grange of farmers
has already justified its existence by pur-
chasing corn by the carload at discount
of II cents bushel from the prevailing
prices.
Franklin Hooker of Cornwall, who
has been making some nicely calculated
experiments as to the relative merits OF
deep and shallow setting of milk for but.
ter-making, reports in favor of the shallow
pans. An experiment with the milk OF
nine cows, evenly divided, showed diff.
ference of five pounds of butter in favor
of the shallow pans.
The following patents have recently
been granted to Vermonters: Tray TO,
Cloth Finishing Machines, A. Woolson
Springfield. Banjo, J. S. Stiles, Spring
field; Endless Chain for Horse Power
A. w. Gray, Middletown; Water Maya
zine for Boilers, Calvin j. Weld, Brattle
boro Shifting Rail for Carriage Seats
Herman Dressed, Springfield.
The l. of Charles Barncy's dwelling a
Bennington was struck by lightning, las
Saturday afternoon, and Mr.. Barne,
knocked senseess, remaining so until hi
wife and neighbors had extingushed thu
flames and cleared away the bricks of
demolished chimney.