Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-01-30
STATE ITEMS.

The total amount OF deposits in the saw
ings banks of Vermont, is So, 1888, 49,
The Central Vermont Railroad has re-
duced its free pass list fully fifty per cent.
Rev. P. N. Granger of Peacham has
been reappointed Agent of the State Tenn
perance Society.
The Connecticut and Pasumpsc Rivers
Railroad has declared its usual per cent
semi-annual dividend, payable Feb. 2.
The national bank at Irasburgh is to be
removed TO Barton, by vote of the stock
holders.
There was raised in Cornwall about
twelve thousand bushels of onions the past
season. The average price at the depot has
been soc.
&C. Il. Predmore, Superintendent of the
Vermont Horse Stock Company, has sold
his five years old FLY, "Vermont Belle"
to Boston party for 81 200. She is Ethan
Allen stock, from c. A. Hollabird's Ethan
Allen.
George Carr of Waterford, who has
been specializing in cattle, ETC., has failed for
S2j, 900 and his creditors have compromis-
ed for 10 cents on the dollar.
Day & May, dry-goods dealers of St.
Johnsbury, suspended on Thursday, and
will doubtless so under. The creditors of
A. L. Bliss, dry-goods dealers, who failed
some two or three months ago, have been
looking over his books and find $4,000 and
over unaccounted for.
An old lady who is 0S years of age, liv-
ing on the town farm at Pawlet last Christ
mas Eve, called for the eddie and the
bow" and renewed her youth by dancing
around the room with great animation.
The Sixteenth Legislature of the State
of Minnesota contains sixteen natives of
Vermont nine Senators and seven repre-
sentatives. One-uinth the entire Legisla-
ture are Green Mountain Boys.
Mrs ii. I. Hotchkss of Island Pond,
defended herself with a revolver, the other
night, when some ruflians attempted to
break into the house during the absence of
her husband. A ball through one fellows
coat sleeve and one along the knuckles of
another induced them to decamp.
Patents have recently been issued TO
the following Vermonters: Hook Lock
Cutter, Junius G. Goggins and Parkhurst
p. wilkins, Williston; Process for Clean
ing Marble, Granite, etc, Joshua Sawyer,
Mortified.
Gen. Hopkins of Rutland, who grad
uated at Middlebury college in 1923 and
who was clerk of the supreme court and
the courts of Rutland county for 80 years,
died at Rutland on the 2lst. He was adj
jutant and spector-general OF the state
militia from 1888 to 1852.
Mrs. Stephen Goodwin of Castleton
died, few days ago, from the effects of a
terrible burn she received several weeks
ago, by falling upon kettle of live Goals
she was carrying. After her death the rel
atives found, much to their surprise, $1,000
deposited in an old chest, some $500 being
in gold and silver coin. She had been
quietly accommodating this money for years.
The Vermont Life Insurance Company
held its fifth annual meeting at Burlington
the Goth. The business of the past year has
been greater than that of any previous year,
and the income of the company is thir-
ty-four per cent greater than it was in 1872
The company holds SLY in assets to each
81 in liabilities, exclusive of its 500, OOC
capital. Russell S. Taft was reelected
President.
terbury, last year made dividend of ter
per cent on eight months business, and
this year ten per cent for the year, making
twenty per cent in twenty months. BE.
sides this they have carried between IS ,OOC
and $4,000 TO surplus account. This on q
capital of S23 900. Their business amounts
to'about $1,000 per year.
The will of the late Lyman J. McIndoe
of Windsor has been admitted to probate
Rev. franklin Butler and Mrs. McIndo(
are the executors, and Col. Hiram Harlow
of Windsor, and A. n. Swain, of Below!
Falls, are appointed as appraisers. The es
tate is estimated at 5000 1t is said tina
the will provides that S2i,OO is to be di
vided equally among his three children
that the proceeds, good will, and manage
ment o: the Vermont Chronicle is granted
/ to the Association of the Congregations
Clergy Of Vermont, with some benefit t.
the Congregational Society of Windsor, ant
that some similar disposition of the Yer
mont Journal is to go TO the benefit of tn
Vermont and New Hampshire Bible So
cieties.
The rear sleeping-car Of the night ex
4 press on the Rutland and Burlington roaC
was thrown from the track, three mile
NORTH of Rutland, by the breaking of
journal, Tuesday morning, and dragge,
some so yards before the train could b
stopped. There were 25 or 30 persons in tn
car, of whom the following were injured
A. 5. Merchant of Burlington, bruise
around the hip and across the breast Sen
utOr Dickson of New York SLIGHTLY cu