Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-02-27
STATE ITEMS,

There is quite a temperance movom..
on foot in Morrisvlle, and the cbn.' hun
are united to form strong ant.liouo,
ganization.
The Vermont Copper Mining Comma.
at Vershlre arc now employing abou, f.
hundred men. They get out about ei,,,,.
nine hundred tons Of ore per month
The $50 900 stock required to be r,...,
for the manufacture Of emery wbesl,
West Charleston Is nearly all take, 49,,
the prospect is that the works will Son, ~
running again.
S. A. Howard Of Wolcou ba, b..
house for 80 years, and when frs. m,,..i
bought paper Of pins and needles ,,5
though he has brought up four child.
has never bought nor had any Others a.,
has half Of the original now in hi, p,,..
sion.
Tie peg shop At Bethel, a few do,
since, received an order for three tbop,,,i
barrels, OF six bushels each, or eight.
thousand bushels Of shoe pegs. The ,,..
is lust now idle, waiting for repair,
new sixty horse power engine is 10 su,r,
power.
Councils of Sovereigns Of Indg...
have been organized at Woodstock a.,
Bridgewater, by a. Il. Willis, depu,ys
Vermont.
Conductor Darby Of Rutland was Nm.
ed by train of cars at Burlington On s..
urday.
The Middlebury paper mill is Dol
started up again, under the management
oliver Severance.
Richard Grogan Of Rutland, be, i,,.
invited by the Grand Lodge Of Good Tel.
plars, Kentucky, 10 become their Ss.
agent. Mr.. Grogah is already engaged
speak for so nights in the northern bait
this State.
The greatest raid ever witnessed
Rutland was made upon the liquor-,el.1
on Saturday last. The movement wa, /,
auguraled by a committee Of promrs.
citizens, who evidently "mean bushes
About $4,000 worth of contrabind !quh
were conhscated.
Albert and william Buck Of At,iag.
l2 and II years old respectively, 20.
ming on Sunday, and Albert got a feat.
wound, the bullet passing into bis baa
near the kidneys, and coming out lhrJ.a.
the right thigh.
The first civilized settlement 10 W.
mont on the west side of the Green Mix.
tains was on Chimney Point, in the So.
west corner Of the town of Addison. /. "
made by the French in 1871, the sane Va.
in which they built Fort Frederic, Az.
ward Crown Point; and stone windn
which was built and garrisoned there c
stituted an outpost of that important q,
tress while in possession OF the French.
Rutland boasts a debt of sl26, 53G.33 &
increase Of SIS, 900 in the last three ya-
This debt, the Globe calculates, divls
pro rata, would amount to about a d5.r
and twenty-seven cents for every ia
woman and child in the town, or some Z
dollars TO every legal voter. To pay
would require tax Of over three bund'-.
per cen, on the grand list, which is si2E
Yet Rutland has no water department.
water works that are worthy the name.
A couple of burglars got into the 81
of A. w. Tcwksbury & Sons at West IA
dolph on Saturday night, and having 2.
powder in the safe, laid a lot Of bu1
robes, ETC., over it TO deaden the sound
the explosion and then waited till the B
ton train came along, to take advantags
its noise, but the explosion did not ui
place till the train got past, the robes to
tire, and one OF the burglars, named Csi
from New Haven, was captured. The I
was extinguished without much damags
This item is going the rounds of tbei
pors: 1.-THE seal of the State OF VerE-
was FIRST engraved upon a horn drink
cup, with jack-knife, by an English q.
Ger who frequently and secretly viss
Gov. Chittenden. During one of these
its he took 4 view from the West wind .
Of the Governors house of wheat fed
the distance, beyond which was L.
with a solitary pine upon the top, W.
view he engraved upon the cup. TIE G.
graved cup attracted the attention Of I,
Allea, who adopted its device as the So
seal.