Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-05-15
STATE ITEMS.

a meeting of the State gran.e /, n +.
held at Montpelier May nth
If figures don't lie, there wa, ore d.
vorco to every 10 marriage. in The st,o 4.
1872.
There is 4 terrible epidemic Of capl..
rash prevailing at Swanton, which in so,.
cases proves fatal in few hours.
A $1,000 portrait Of Horace Faitb,,,.
has been pr0curel by ci,iz,ns Of 81. Jnb,.
bury, moved by gratitude iowa DIS the A.
nor Of the alheneum building, library A..
art gallery. II will hang in the athcpnr..
An old man actually starved to de,,s
at St. Adams, lately, because be was ds,r
tute ard too proud to ask for aid. IIa NJ.
sick with the lung fever, and when Ma
reached him ii was too late to be of,r,
service.
john Holmes, a carriage maker fl,
johnson, has failed, with liabilities Of oy,.
1900 and $1,000 assets. 4 youny M,
named Foote, formerly Holiness pqnns
has forged his fathers name to paper rs,.
iesenting s27OO, and fed.
The wife Of Michael Carmody Of We,
Rutland, who disappeared, several d,r,
ago, while in an insane tit, has not vet he,
found, though over 400 people have beops
search of her, and she is supposed 10 L,,.
thrown herself into one of the quarry nh.
where the water Is, in some instances, oy..
a hundred feet deep.
MIR. Myrick, of Bridporl, the victim, o.,
the late highway re bbery, has 50 far rallied
IS 10 give Lis physician hope, o. his ut
mate recovery. lie SAYS another ma,
whom he did not know was with Wilsr
and assisted in the attack and rnbberr
The latter has been arrested at Chicago
The Springfield Republican says:
There is an awful warning to young mel
In an accident that happened on Tue,sy
10 a. +. Rankin, Of ST. JOhnsbury, foms,
secretary OF the board Of education, and F,
son-in-law OF Congressman Poland. Il.
was corking a beer bottle by holding To,
bottom of the bottle in his hand and pes
ing the cork against hard surface, wtes
the bottom burst out, laceraling his hand
badly"
John Cader, the grocer rumseler %
Rutland, who was recently sentenced 70
three months Imprisonment in jail, a.!
whose case has been the occasion u s.
much gossip and speculation, was re,esV.
by Chief Justice Pierpo!nt on Wi. q
habeas corpus Saturday, on the ground a
error in the sentence aud the furm OF con.
mitment.
The Rutland Globe mentions thai CO,
Talbot VI Massachusetts,, is a Vermonler-
born in the town OF Dandy, of poor ba
respectable parenisge. His parents ver
Irish Quakers. His father was drive
from Ireland during the rebellion. tie :
a direct descendant Of the earl of Wa!po.e
aud the Stewards
Mrs. William Dnsmoge Of Sutton hs
spent several years labor on quilt, whic
now contains 1894 pieces, each Of whic
differs in color and figure from every oihe,
and some of which show the various fash
ions from Queen Eliza be;h's time down .
the present day. Nearly every state in lib
Union and some of The territuris., tn
British provinces, Mexico and most Of III
South American states are represented (
the quilt, while the flags of many cuunlri-
are pictured, aud one square of the an!
was made in Brigham Youngs family.
Tho Rutland Herald regrets 10 see til
forests in the State fading away so rapid,
Coal kilns are multiplying, particularly
the southern and western counties, and th
destruction of forests is having its ellie,
in climate changes very unfayorable 10 lh
productiVeness of the farms. Fruits en-
crops that have thrived Of themselves, Will
IN half century, cannot now be grow
except by artificial help. The sale of wo-
and coal is profitable enough now, but th
trees are not going 10 last always, and iA
Herald advocates some system of tree ca,
iure.
That large elm in Vernon finds riya
in franklin. This one has history and
record. 1t is in its s5th year, and stand
east of tie road near the residence of J. II
Hubbard, whose father transplanted II igo-
the brook near by. Jack, then a mere boy
for some reason pulled it from its new be-
and threw il away, which, when the SOUR
heard of II, enraged him, and Jack receive
severe drubbing with the Identical tree o
twis, amer which the old man put it aga
in the ground, where il soon took root an
now is tree, Is feet II inches in circum
ference at the base, and IA feet 10 inches !
eight feet from the ground. Jack has wan
dered, but the tree is there, a majestic wild
spreading elm. Can any town in the Sta,
show cleaner record for tree al its sZ
or more rapid growth?