Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-28
STATE ITEMS.

Laurent Ruel of st. Jobnsbury has re-
ceivcd patent for an improved car-coup-
ling.
The annual meeting Of the State Tenn
perance Society will he held at Waterbury
on the third wednesday in Decembcr
The Connecticut and Passumpsic Rail-
road Company are attaching the Westing-
house air brakes TO their passenger cars
and engines.
Two interesting little boys of Chas. ID.
Parker of Orwell, arc seriously i'll, from
poison, received from eating colored candy.
Vermont sent moro cattle TO the Bos-
ton cattle market last week than all the
other Now England States put together
Vermont is the seventh collection dis
trict in the Union in the magnitude of its
imports. lis imports for the last fiscal
year were $40, jj7 900. and exports Sl,43i,-
000
Tho dwelling house of Low Blair, on
Shclburn Point was destroyed by fire
Monday forenoon Of last week. None of
the furniture was saved.
The new st. Alblus Daily Advertiser
has made its appearance. 1t is II clearly,
handsome looking sheet, and we welcome
it TO our cxchangc-hcdp.
-Craltsbnry has voted to bond to the
amount OF eight times the grand list, in aid
of the Montpelier, IIardwick and Black
River railroad.
Mrs. Pike, aged oighty-three years,
wife OF James Pike, resident of GOuldsville,
committed suicide on Wednesday Nov. s.
Cause, partial insanity, brought on by old
age and bodily infrmitics.
Chester Coburn of Crallsbury recently
drove his fathers horse so hard as TO injure
it, and being dishcartoned by the blame at
tatched to him, hung himself Il few DAYS
aiterward.
A store in Hancock, owned aud occupi-
eddy Enoch Back, was recently burned with
all its contents. Insured for $1,000. The
fire was caused by the falling and bursting
OF a hanging Kerosene lamp. Mr.. Buck
was at his desk at the time engaged in
writing, but the flames spread so rapidly
that nothing Of any amount could be saved,
"A correspondent of the Rutland Globe,
writing from St. Adams, says that Miss
Jennie Warner of IIghgale, young lady
of literary tastes and tendencies, has re-
Gently been engaged in writing for the
press with so much assiduity that her
friends have been somewhat alarmed lest
she overwork and make hersel.iIl. Week
before last Miss Warner informed heraunt,
Mrs G. w. Foster ofSt. Adams, that on
Sunday, the on instant, she should 90 TO
sleep and not wake again until the 23d of
November. She charged her aunt to see
tina; is sleep was not mistaken for death,
that her hair he not cut off and she be bur
led. Although these singular predictions
were made with much seriousness, little
heed was paid to them, but at the appoint
ed time she fell asleep, aud up TO Friday
nigl remained in condition scarce dis
tinauishable from death, save for quiet
aAd regular breathing.
An item is Il )ating about the State to
the effect that 40 years ago young man
living in Chester, did a poor unfortunate
woman. some kind office, for which she re-
Gently threw ten thousand dollar bill at
his head The Chester correspondent of
the Bellows Falls Times says: 'Since that
item appeared our young men in INDECENT
circumstances have been looking after poor
girls, with a view TO create a similar endow-
mont fund for themselves. The plan general
" adopted is for two young men to start out
for our quiet and dimly lighted streets and
alleys, one proceeds the other, pounces up
ON the unsuspectins victim (who is also
poor now bat will turn ont mint in 40
years., lifts her mp aud hangs her on pick
ct fence, partner comes breathlessy TO the
rescue, replaces the poor girl upon her feet,
takes a needle and thread and mends her
torn garments and gives her his card. The
villain of course, shares the $4,000 with
his gallant accomplish"