Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-08-20
STATE ITEMS.

ton, is advertised for sale.
The hay crop is 20 per cent. larger this
year than last, throughout Orleans county
Lewis Sears of Ferrisburg fell from a
load of hay, last week, and was killed by
striking upon stake.
Miss Brewers house in Ilartland was
burned last week. Insured for S4OO
Rev. G. A. Barrett of Port Henry, N.
Y, has been elected Principal of the Cas-
Teton Seminary, in place Of Edward j.
Hyde, resigned.
In Fairfax on the night of August s,
the barn of L. H. Paris was burned. Mr..
Charles Learned lost a horse, two wagons,
three tons Of hay and other property.
Mr.. L. X. Davidson of Perkinsville has
a cat which is twenty-five years of age and
is quite smart Can catch mice nearly rs
well as ever.
is again on IFS travels.
AT the bennington muster, Monday,
the Union engine company of Salem, N.
v, won the first prize and the Ocean of
Chatham, the second. The best play was
2O3 feet, and tho Washingtons of Rutland
played 1872, which was next best.
The completion of the new bridge over
the celebrated Quochec gulf on the Wood
stock railroad was celebrated, Friday, by
an assemblage of 5000 people, with four
brass bands, winding up with grand ball
in the evening.
Over $1,000 worth of struggled laces
were captured at Highgate, Friday, and the
smuggler, a Frenchman named Vincent,
was arrested and held in $4,000 for trial.
C. S. Weeks of Hardwick is in Jail at
ST. Johnsbury, for embezzlng $1,000 from
Mr.. Cutter Of Barton.
-Benajah S. Potter of Bennington was
so seriously beaten by tramps, whom he
refused to lodge the other night, that his
recovery is doubtful.
Katie Fitzgerald. of Moretown, only
seven years old, comes TO the front with a
cradle quilt, little over four feet square,
which contains 1856 pieces. The sewing
was all done by herself.
-McInlear of Wallingford, who was kill
ed by the cars recently, stated just before
his death that he was beaten by roughs and
left on the track.
john Clark of Montreal, aged "a years,
while fishing at Rouse's Point with some
friends, suddenly fell off beam of the
bridge upon which he was standing, into
the water, and before assistance could be
rendered was drowned.
The wife of Richard Dodge of Middle
sex shot her husbands brother, with whom
she had had a suit about some property, re-
Gently, blowing off his jaw and inflicting
probably fatal injuries.
"A barn belonging to Peter johnson, at
Norwich, was struck by lightning on the
night of the 9TH and destroyed, with its con,
tents. Soon after fire broke out in the
town, burning several of the business
blocks, and destroying property to the
amount of $4,000. The fire was the work
of an incendiary.
Mr.. u. G. Hayes, correspondent ofthe
Boston Herald, who has been visiting the
materiaizing Eddy brothers at Spirit Vale,
gives it as his conclusion that their mani
estations are the results of clumsy trick
cry, and that, while only the most credu-
lous can gain admittance TO their seances,
their neighbors generally regard them as
first class frauds.
-Ex-Governor Page of Rutland having
about $3.50 900 of the money that passed
through his hands during the war, when
he was State Treasurer, he has requested
John A. Page of Montpelier, the present
Treasurer, TO thoroughly examine his ac-
counts, which he has done, and pronounces
them wholly correct.
"A. b. Valentine of Bennington, who
has just erected a chimney over 80 feet high,
was surprised TO see boy waving his hat
out of the top, the other day, and, upon in
vestigation, found that the youngsters of
the neiShborhood were in the habit Of
climbing up the inside by means of rods
which run across the wall on one side, a
distance of three feet apart.
Mr.. Henry Williams of Bristol, has
done a sensible thing, and one well worth
Initiating, in giving TO the University of
Vermont his entire collection OF Indian
relics found on his farm. He has also Civ
EN- Professor Perkins permission TO explore
the mounds or hillocks, on his farm.
The ST. Johnsbury granite company,
which was started only a few years ago,
now has more orders than it can attend to,
and within a very short time it has sold
over SlUUUUU worm Oh stone 10 20 WEST
The stone is similar TO the best Scotch
granite, takes high polish, and, being en-
tirely free from iron, is not affected by the
weather.
A horse trot was advertised TO come off
at Waitsfeld, Thursday, and premiums to
the amount of nearly $1,000 offered, and
considerable interest was manifested a
mong turf men in the affair on account OF
the notorieiy of horses advertised 10 be
present. A considerable crowd gathered
there to witness the contest, hen the affair
was abruptly terminated by the gateKseper
running off with all the funds. Pursuit
was made, and he was overhauled, but he
swore he had only $3.50, which he intended
TO divide among those making entries to
the races. The general impression is that
the whole affair was put-up job, aud par
ties that have heretofore stood well as
h0rsemen are implicated.
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