Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-01-09
STATE ITEMS.

In Middebury, AZ cents is paid for
washed and % cents for unwashed wool.
-Bnri. +. title, of Huntington lately
committed suicide 10y drowning himself in
mill race near the village. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Hon. w. r. Horrobin, of Bennington,
has lust purchased line residence in CO.
hoes, ~ Y, and will hereafter ma sc CO.
hoes his home.
ID. d. Weeds Office at Sheldon, was
broken into by burglars, Wedne ,day night
of last week. aud large amount of bonds,
notes, and papers stolen from the safe.
f. c. Merrill, of West Charleston, man
uraciurer of the patent composition emery
wheels and saw gummers, has gone into
bankruptcy. His Liabilities are set at S7j,-
600.
Mrs. Martha Delphey of Lincoln, has
pulled one end Of a croSs-cut saw, this s0l-
son, for cutting 1000 spruce logs. Part of
the time the snow was two feet deep where
She was Mt work
L. Kneeand Of Waterbury, has an old
Bible, which, according to its imprint, was
printed at London, by Christopher Baker,
sign of the Tigers Head, A. d. 1915.
Tie huge buffalo formerly owned by
Columbus Smith Of Salisbury, was sold
at the WATERFOWL, Mass, cattle marGet
few days since, for Ice per pound, live
weight. lie weighed about 1910 pounds.
Bailey Hosmer, OF West Windsor,
charged of an assault with an axe with in
tent to kill George IToisington at West
Windsor, juno ., 1873, has been convicted
aud sentenced to State Prison FOX five
years.
A new paper the Vermont Statesman,
| has been started by c. p. Button at Burl-
inG;on.
Mrs. George Fletcher Of South Wood
| stock. smothere1 her infant child with too
many wraps while out sloigh-riding last
W ek.
The $1,000 worth of ale recently seized
from c. y. Meade at Burlington has been
returned, as there was no evidence that 1t
was intended for sale contrary to law.
A fire in Rutland, on the 30th ult.. de-
stroved block known as the "Bee-hive,'
and occupied 10y J. Mclaughlin and Il. w.
Marshall, groccrymen, j. w. Stearns, fuTn-
iture dealer. and several families. Tho loss
was about $4,000, but tho building was
| well insured.
Leonard johnson Of Pawlct is the own
err Of a turkey gobbler that took from heu
turkey six young turkeys and raised them
| He sat six weeks on seven bad eggs, killed
four game ROSTERS and whipped two dogs
all within one wear. lie wcighs24 pounds
| 4 g, ,rty nttaa a. xpmnlinpl Tho
unsclfish devotion Of n noble woman by
travelling all the way from New Brunswick
to Groton, to wed the lover she had ii
seen for eight years, aud found him vel
ded 10 "A farmers daughter, and the lathe
of only six children.
1t is reported that Wilkie Collins, thu
distinguished novelist, has just completed
romance founded on the famous trial
conviction and almost miraculous escape o
the Boorn Brothers, at Manchester. TIL
book IL published by Shepard & Gill c
Boston.
AT the recent term Of the Addison
county court, J. Il. Person of Goshen, an'
Joseph Bushby, of IIinesburg, were eac
sentenced TO three years in the State prison
for horse stealing George SeS ton, Of Bird
port, got two years for burglary; and sew
eIal persons were fined for violation OF TIA
liquor law.
Mr.. L. A. Parks, of Lyndon, has dal
nv OF fifteen half bl ,od Alderney cows, on
Of which is less than two years old. He In
forms the Union that he has sold 3,35S lbs
Of butter for sl,l97.45 or t79.s3 Ter Gov
lie does not count in this the milk anc bu
ter used in his family. He also made IL
pounds of cheese and sold six veal calve
for S57.
, The Windsor county court has in
closed the second trial of turkey sui
The parties reside in East Barnard, wher
, two years ago, two broods of turkeys g
mixed, and the owners couldn't agree az
the number belonging to each. At the las
term OF court the jury failed to agree.
the present term the damages awarded
the plaintiff were $3.50 and The cost of II
suit is about 5000.