Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-03-13
STATE ITEMS.

Huntington and franklin have elected
women as superintendents of schools.
M. Mcmahon, of Roxbury, was fatally
crushed between the ears and the side of
the depot at Montpelier, on the 4lh.
II. V. Bartlett. factory at Bristol makes
$50 dozen pill-boxes day.
Hiram Barton was elected town clerk
of SALISBURY, this year, for tho 50th time.
The Monitor reports an Irasburgh toad.
stool l4x57 inches, weighing q lbs.
The men employed in the Brandon
scale works have commenced work on full
time.
Burlington has reduced lis liabilities
from S24, 46i to SIG, 233 during the past year.
Suits have just been brought against
the town of Montpelier TO the extent Of
S3G, 900, for damages sustained in conse-
quence of defective highways.
The st. Louis Democrat SAYS that Fred
erick Billings Of Woodstock has bought
$780, 900 worth OF railroad lands in south
western Missouri.
Rutland county had seven academies
in 1916, only one of which is now in oper-
alton.
--zimri Howard Of IIubbatdston rolled
down an ice and rock embnnk ment 20 feet
high in the woods, few days ago, and was
fatally bruised.
A bennington association has been in
the lecture business nine years, and has
los; only sllOO.
Newport boasts a young married wo-
man VINO recently split cora ana haIi OF
Nyoo1 I'm oua dav IaSiIaq dnipo a larro
""ou J." ""e u"N' peN'ueS uo'nS larSe
amount OF "ashlhG' IRONING cIc.
Tue l''e NaI'os b'N'eT' OF burIlngton'
le' ny nus win S-'ooo 10 inc home Tor Des-
u'u'o ohlluren' anu s-'oOo 10 Tue Unitarian
cnurch Oh burlington
-hutus H. Barney, OF Burlington, lett
ny ms VIII s-VOuO 10 the town "i Swanton,
COW TO tue nome al Burlington and the re-
mainder OF his properly, some $4,000, to
relatives ana lriehdS'
There are Two sisters w'o nave lived
within six miles OF each other, near Ben
nlnSIon, for 30 years and yet have not seen
each other in this time, though there is no
i'll -fe0linS between them, they are simply
"odd."
The case Of A. T.. Jeweit. accused Of
making fraudulent entries on the books Of
the internal revenue office, at Burlington,
and embczzling about $4,000, has been put
over to July.
Quite lively fight is going on for the
Rutland posloflicc. bciweca J. Il. Kilburn,
now postmaster, whose commission is about
10 rNr''a, and Albert II. futile, managing
erltor OF tue lieralr. rvt''i@-.s Gnr both
are in circulation.
Manchester is to have a soldiers mon
uinent consisting Of statue Of soldier Of
heroic size. in Italian marble sculptured
by the renowned colorcd artist, Edmonia
Lewis. The town pays $500 towards the
cost, and Judge skinner, of Chicago, the
balance.
The leaders in the late Rutland rum riots
were brought before Justice Marshall, Of
that place, Thursday, and Capt John la
ley, William Whitcomb and Ezra Derrigap.
were placed under bonds To await trial
Three others, who had been arrested, were
discharged for want of evidence against
them.
DR.. L. Vincent Hopkins, youngest son
of the late Bishop Hopkins, is at present
resident of Baton Rouge, La, where he is
Professor "f Natural Science in the State
University Of Louisiana. lie is also AS
sisian; GcOloSis, of the State.
Late Vermont patents: VII lam 5.
B!a sdeil. Factory Point, Coffee Pot; Ho-
sea Nllllrd, Nergennes, Cattle Sanction;
George u. Feed, Springfield, Harp; Will
liam Brooks, Bennington, Fringe Twisting
Machines Charles Il. Ballard. Hartford. VI.
'"u u'''7' w. nun, Hu"I1 A. hlIdfeth,
anu 9.an'eF d. ll"dteth, Harvard, Mass,
''' S'"e- lendefs'
ar arrangement IS 10 be
P'' =" at 'ut runs 10 'uh tue iour
"'''".o "i'.s' d"u 'ne machinery al the
q"1i''s' n''' niue u'S'ant' y Mr. Key
"O!'' VI Nt" i"'A' j. - P"' ~ lhe ma
c"'nerS "hu run II one year Tor S-o'OO.
rue u"e'hns mouse OF Samuel CHINA
"i""' Esq" III Nor'n HYDE Paik, was con-
'uH'eu ny nie M'I'n 1'n' Loss $1,000, on
""''ii 'ne'o IS soo' insurance Most OF the
eo"'e"'s were saved lne hfe look from
'"o 9'o'o P'i' III 'ne '"'c'
!" O'''Ne' h'a'uHl'h Il CO. :
9.'iu 81 'H'''o. was broken open few
n'Bn's ago. ana Sllo IN postage stamps be-