Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-02-14
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Lead ore has been discovered at Ilae La
Mott, which, IL Is claimed, fully equals the
Wisconsin o-e.
j. B. Sanderson's So o at + IL hgate " ss
ou~ned, 'ast week loss 5000, insured 1cr
$4,000.
-Nr Ed ward Johnson. late povl'shA: o.
the Pitts5e.d IN ASST gfmes, has become as
sociate editor Of the Ec !ingion Zee Press.
-Ee7. P. N. Grange, the Agent o t.e
State Temperance Society, has CON nerce
b. labo = in the noICn pa t OF the Sta,e.
"A National Bank "a soon % so into OPP
Grafton at Barre, with capital OF S1C0, 900.
The Orange County Nat ona. Bank at
Chelsea is TO be closed up.
Thomas Kennedy ~ North Duxbu.7,
lately sent s1OO to New York counterfeit
money swindler, and received By express
box containing three bocSs of wood.
The WORK o: clearing the Cornecs cut
| river f o N ice at VIII, + yer junction "
the use o. duain has been abandoned Is
Involving too much expense.
-Fon. Moses Kittredge, o. st. Johns
bury, prominent citizen and some yea 8
since member Of the We root Leg;
ture, died on Sunday last, at tue age OF IL
| years.
--Grasshoppers were discovered in View
bridge, Few days ago, as lively and play
full as ever. The M:ddlebury Register
thinks 1t is justified In Recommending
them as hardy Kind for general culture"
The chair factory, recently burned at
Waterbury, was not owned by the State,
but by w. g. Fairbanks, superintendent
of the reform school, whose loss Is IS, 800
insured for $500.
Lambert Hastings q Sons steam saw
mill at West Concord, embrscing shingle
and clapboard works, was burned q few
nights since. The I; e is supposed % have
caught from a defec We stove. Loss un-
known.
The Ludlow Gazette. speaking o. tae
death o. Co by G. Partch, a BRAKEMAN who
was struck by bridge near Procsorsville
says: "Th!s is the ninth man who has been
injured by the same bridge, and the fifth
who has d ed fron injuries received.
| Bennington Is the last TO have haunt
ed house. A few weeks ago Mrs. Harris
died, and her last words to q ne:Sbbor who
bad ill-treated her were, that she would
haunt her, II there was any such thing in
the other world and since, every night a.
bout IL o'clock, -app.nGs, groans aud
strange Noises are heard. Three families
have just vacated this ghostly tenement.
| Joseph Raymond OF Highga;e vas re-
Gently engaged in cleaning well when tt o
sides caved in burying him out OF sight.
His companions were unable to rescue b: IN
for three hours, and expected to end him
dead, but were surprised 20 discover him
alive 10 feet below the surface and complete
ly sheltered by an srchway of stone, FORM
ed by the falling debris.
| DIR. J. NJ. Currier, Surgeon General of
Vermont, of McIndoes' Falls, contem plates
moving to Burlington, next Spring, where
he intends to devote the Archives of Science
to more popular reading matter and ex-
tend its circulation and usefulness. A
medical periodical is also under contempla-
ton, and the best talent In the state will be
employed in conducting it.
| Active measures are soon to be taken
in Franklin and Berkshire, towards ensur-
ing the construction Of this road from Shell
| don, VT, 20 st Armand East in Canada.
This short proposed road Will give the La
mobile Valley access to Montreal, and
Montreal, by the Southeastern railwa7, q
much shorter railway to Portland ana
Boston. To attain that object, this road of
nine miles of cheap easy grade only re
mains.
The Montpelier Waterman says in he
case OF The village OF West Concord, in
Essex County, there is good Illustration
OF what railroad will do toward building
up a town. The immense forests north
and east o; he village are oe.ng dotted
with mills, each supplied with an efficient
force of lumbermen and teamssers. There
are sixteen o. these mills pouring their
business into the village, tee largest tu-n-
| ing out two million feet a yea, and the
| whole giving employ ment 20 abort 200
men and large numoe- OF horses and o.
en-. The market created by this immense
| business is of inca;culable benefit 20 me
| producers OF the region.