Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-10-06
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VERMONT.

The loss by flre IN New England
during the month of August was $780,
s75, Of which Vermonts proportion is
set down at $76,700.
There are, at present, twenty two
prisoners in Rutland county Jail.
The State Reform School farm at
Waterbury has been sold to DR.. Hen
ry Jones, for $500.
The bnrnt district at Middlebury
is being rapidly rebuilt.
The general term Of the Supreme
Court has been ordered to convene at
Montpelier on the las. Tuesday in DC.
tOOer
jarvis f. Burrows, for many
years one of Vermont's representative
men, and well-known throughout New
England, died at his home in Vernon,
Thursday morning, at the age of six
ty.three years.
A company from the hotel at
Stowe went up on Mount Mansfield
last Saturday and found the snow six
inches deep
The Newfane jail has not contain
ed so many inmates for years as now
the last visitor being one Daniels re
ported a Methodist minister, for rob-
bing the store of 0. G. Fits, at West
Wardsboro.
"A little three-year-old e.n OF Will
liam Robinson, Of Peach"m, while
eating pop corn, a few days since, got
some of the substance into his lungs,
and after struggling six hours died
from strangulation.
The twelfth annual reunion Of
Vermont officers will be held at St.
Adams, on Tuesday, October 10Th.
The members Of the society, and all
Vermont officers and none commission
ed officers OF the army and navy, are
cordially invited to attend. The usual
business meeting will be held at the
Weldon House. at three o'clock, p.
m. The Grafton will be delivered by
Col. Charles J. Joyce, Of Rutland, at
the Academy Hall, in the evening.
MI. II. e Folsom, the new super
intendent of the Passumpsic railroad,
was receiving salary Of $1,000 a
year as master Of transportation. He
now serves IN both capacities for a
salary Of $2,4 400. The company has
been paying $1,000 for the same SER
vice.
john Shannon OF Sutherland Falls
narrowly escaped death Wednesday
night lie took a room at the Ber-
wick house, Rutland, and blew out
his gas on retiring. The smell of the
gas penetrated to the hail and, about
midnight, the servants found him
nearly sutfocated,
Eight citizens of Brattleboro have
given memorial windows, valued at
five thousand dollars, to the new Uni
tartan church
Burlington is to have a grand ri
tie match on the goth OF October.
Two hundred dollars in prizes will be
offered, and the principal. teams in the
State are expected 20 be present
senator Fdmunds has been quite
i'll at Detroit, Mich, and now is ander
the necessity of going to Washington
to consult his physician there.
The receipts Of the late state fair
FL! aha 4aR Hap t$ y ls99 of paying the
Anna F., only daughter of Hon.
Isaac f. Redtie'd, died suddenly at
Stanstoad, Canada, on the 9th ult.
"A malicious buck in Lyndon re-
Gently knocked an old lady over,
breaking her ANGLE. With unusual
considerateness he refused to strike
her when she was down.
john Brasnahan, Of Brattleboro
had both his legs broken, on Thurs
day, by lever
= Shepard, Davis g. Co., one of the
largest lumber concerns, not only in
Burlington, but in the country, failed
on Thursday Of last week. The fail
ure has caused other failures in Mon
treal, Boston and New York.