Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-06-06
state Hens.
TUDENT.

Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, is native
of Montpelier
The offices of the Central raiload are
to he removed from Boston to New York.
A fire at Bolton, Monday night, de-
stroyed the Central Railroad Depot and 400
cords of wood.
Prof Henry Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury has recently presented 1000 insects to
the state museum.
The General Convention of the Con-
gregational church of Vermont, will be
held at Middlebury, June 18th.
The Vermont Homeopathic Medical
Society will hold it's 23d annual session at
the State House, in Montpelier, on Wednes-
day, June 1lth.
The taxpayers and citizens of Rutland
in town meeting assembled, Friday night,
refused to vote a lax TO defray the necessa-
ry current expenses for the year.
John Mcmahon of Rutland won the
wrestling championship of the United
States and a purse of $4,000 by throwing
Homer Lane of New York, two in three,
at Troy, N. Y, Friday evening.
Ludlow has organize a stock company
with capital of $4,000, for the manutac-
ture of children's toys.
The Wallinglord cheese factory works
up daily $500 lbs of milk, which makes
twelve cheeses.
VIM. f. Barber of Castleton, sheared
twenty-five Spanish merinos, mostly young
ewes, which yielded clip of 27s lbs, or an
average of twelve pounds and trifle over.
Mrs. Turner of Middebury, who re-
Gently attempted suicide without success,
has just tried the effect of poison upon her
system, and it is "no go.''
-Newbury has "Chase estate" affair OF
its own that is not of the "wild goose" sort.
The Henderson family, about six in num-
Der, have received or are about to receive
some $50, 600 from the estate of relative in
Scotland.
-McMahon, the champion wrestler, was
private in Co. G., 18th Vermont and was
not only good soldier, but acquired so me
reputation in the regiment az an athlete.
lie is now employed in the Railroad Shops
at Rutland
The house and outbuildings of Frank
Williams of Walden were burned May
The remains of Bishop John Henry
Hopkins, first Bishop of Vermont, will be
removed to their new resting place at
Rock Point, June 10th.
Miss Eliza Shepard, town charge at
Greensboro, drowned herself in pond
May 49th. She was about 40 years old.
There is an epidemic among the sheer
in Orange County. nearly every large flock
having lost from ten TO twenty-five or thr.
ty.
AT Il recent sold folks" dance at Nor
risville, the best musician in the orchestra
was said 20 be Dwight Marsh, eighty years
old, who played upon violin two hun
dred and fifty years old.
Darius Jones. of Petersburg, shufiled
oil this mortal coil by means OF a hemp
necktie, recently. He had been in a de.
spondent state Of mind for some weeks
lie was about ifty-fve years of age and
farmer.
AT VerShre last week, fire destroyed
store owned by ii. Cotton and occupied
by ID. n. Kemp Il Co. There was but q
light stock of goods, most of which wer,
saved. The building was not insured.
C. G. Robinson of Ferrsbnrg, one o
the first enmen in Vermont, and a very
sklml musician, had both hands so badl,
frozen last winter that he has been obliget
TO suffer amputation of all his fingers.
j. G. Emerson, of Berlin, mourns thu
loss of three cows. The floor gave way
and five cows all fastened by stanchions
went down INTO the cellar, hanging by thei
necks. Two Of these cows as they wen
down, partly rested ON the three going be
fore them, and were saved alive, although
badly choked.
Upon eXhuming the body Of Eugen
Cook, buried at Bennington, three year
ago, II was found that the body was com
pletely petriiied, and was in full form an,
exact position, as he was when deposite
in his grave. The cemetery has rock
basis of limestone formation, which prob
ably accounts for the singular and uncom
mon circumstance.
Deposits of lead ore extend from Sails
bury northward along TIE west slope of tn
left spur Of the Green Mountains, as fal
at least, as Stowe or Mansfield Mountain
A proper mineral survey would probabl
reveal The metal in sufficient quantities I
be probably worked, especially as 1t
said 10 be highly charged with silver as tn
veins extend northward.