Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-08-06
STATE ITEMS.

jesse Pomeroy, an estimable citizen Of
81. Adams, was probably fatally injured
by fall from load Of hay last Friday.
-Butter at 81. Adams on Tuesday was
quoted as follows: Common to fair. l5I,
1sc. medium to good, 20 TO 2Ic. so!cc.
tions, 20 to 27c. gilt-edge, 2s,.
"A fire broke out in barn adjoining
the residence Of Geo. u. Cheney on Main
street Tuesday evening, consuming the
barn and other out-buildings, and c1nsid.
erably damaging Mr.. Chcney's residence
Insured IN the Vermont Mutual.
AT Montpelier on Tuesday, Daniel X
Barnett, gunsnlith, shot himself fatally
through the head in an upper room Of hi,
house. The cause is attributed TO dcpres
sion by losses in the recent fires. lie leave,
wife and Il son II years old.
A family in Bennington recently laid
aside an iron kettle that had been in use
hundred years.
Col. George a. Merrill ha, resigned hi,
positiou Of Superintendent Of the Pa>uup.
| Sic Railroad, to take effect Sept. !, l.7j.
The Vermont Normal Schools have
during the past school year, graduated 75
| pupils from the first course, aud a from
! the second course.
d. l.. Kent & Co., Of Dorset have been
! awarded the contract for The marble for Tho
| floors Of the Philadelphia centennial build.
| ings Memorial Hall alone requires sixty
| thousand square feet.
A Quechee cat recently gave billh to
| twelve kittens. one OF which struck deah
| blow TO the Old proverb that 'no cat has
| two tails" by producing pair OF append.
| ages of that description.
-Gronnd was broken on the Burlington
and l.amoile railroad, last Wednesday
| DIST, about a milo below Cambridge B1r1
| More work men increasing the number to
| seventy-five, or Whereabouts, VIII be put on
| next week.
In Poslon, Saturday,, Connecticut and
| Passumpsic Railroad stock, preferred, sold
at 80; -, 1881, gil Ogdensburg and Lake
Champion, 80 Rui and Railroad, prefer.
red, 10. The Pasumpsic Railroad passes
August dividend, this year. for the first
time since 1850.
On Saturday last, the Rutland Rail
| road Company, by their solicitors, Simons
and Walker. Of Rutland, flied a bill in
chancery, returnabe at the September term
| Of the Franklin county court, in which
! they pray l,r a recovery Of their road aud
leased roads from the Central Vermont.
The bin, with accompanying documents,
covers over seventy printed pages.
A son born to Mr.. and Mrs II. +.
Waterman, of Tunbridge, on the pad uli..
| ing. lie has a great great grandfather who
is hale and hearty at the remarkable age VI
| lOj wears, whose name is Alexander stan.
ton, who served in the war of 1872, and
! Who is native OF Hartland.
The Messenger learns that a man, in
the employ Of farmer about eight mile,
from St. Adams, on the East Hisheale
| road, was stabbed by tramp Tuesday
night while driving cows from the pasture
| 1t is stated that he was stabbed twice in the
| right arm and back. The rascal succeeded
| in making good his escape. \ number Of
neighbors started in pursuit, and they were
securing the woods Wednesday IN hops
Of securing him.
A little boy went 10 DR.. WheeiCr's, q
few days ago, to have a double tooth pulled
out. He had never mad one extracted be.
fore and was full Of courage. lie sat down
in n chair, but as soon as The Doctor got
his forceps on the tooth, his courage failed,
he wiggled out of the chair aud up against
the wall, when the Doctor fetched it out.
As soon as he was free he gave one yell
and boiled for the door, ran down stairs
and out into the street. The Doctor ran TO
the window TO see what had become Of hi.
patient, when the boy looked up at him,
the tears running from his eyes. aud the
blood from his mouth, and cried out,
"Charge it Doctor" and then started for
home on double quick time.--itJug Cor.
Free Press.