Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-10-22
STATE ITEMS.

Rev. DR.. w. b. Lord of Montpelier has
been elected President of the Vermont His.
torical Society.
Joseph Allard of Mortified fell into
the bark-grlnder in his fathers tannery
Wednesday and was crushed TO death.
Two women of bad repute were tarred
and feathered by the vrtuous male popu-
lace OF Vergennes, the other night.
Rev. Mr.. Chaplin of Vergennes recent
ly caught a string of ten pickerel in Lake
Champaign, the aggregate weight CT which
was 40 pounds.
Samuel Metcalf of Royallon is six feet
10 inches in height and weighs 1874 pounds,
while his wife is six feet high and weighs
300 pounds, and his eight children are all
over six feet high the average height of
the family being six feet five inches.
j. w. Currier of Orleans county has in
vented lazy mans churn. 1t is adjusted
TO wagon, and all man has TO do is TO
put his churn into the wagon box, pick up
his reins, drive half mile and return, take
out his churn, and he will find his cream
turned TO butter.
The Messrs. Hamblin of Bridport lost
seventeen of their best sheep out ola flock
Of twenty-six on Thursday night of last
week. They were killed by dogs, but ii Is
not known whose dogs they were.
The trestle work of the Burlington and
Lamolle Railroad, over Lees river, in
Jericho, was finished on Friday. 1t is
about "a feet high, 600 feet in length, con-
tans lSG, 2sG feet Of lumber, and is admra-
| bly, constructed in every respect.
The number of inmates in the Vermont
State prison is one larger than ever before,
there being l12 men and one woman, with
but lO4 cells for their accommodation.
Work on The new building is progressing,
and it will contain 40 cels-making l6l
cells in all, which ought 10 be sufficient to
satisfy the demand.
The rain storm of Saturday here came
in the form of snow in the country around.
Mansfield and Camers Hump and the Adj
rondacks are covered with snow, as are al
50 the hills around the city. At Jericho,
four inches of snow fell, Saturday night
Burlington Free Press 1sth.
The different religious societies, in
Vergennes, are moving 10 ensure TO the in
mates of the Reform School religious in
struction and Sabbath-scbool privileges,
and many of their best people will have
charge of Sunday school classes of the boys.
| The Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Vermont were in session on Fri
day night at Montpelier for the transaction
of business. The vacancy caused by the
recent death of Hon. ii. b. Smith was fill
ed by the selection of Mr. b. Il. Smalley of
Burlington, a son ofJudge Smalley of the
U. $. District Court.
The third annual reunion of the Ist
Vermont Cavalry was held at the Weldon
| House, ST. Adams, on Monday evening.
| The attendance was not large but the meet
ing was unusually spirited. The follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
| year: President, Lieut.. Eli Holden OF
Barre; Vice President, Capt. Horace X.
Ide of ST. Johnsbury; Secretary, Lieut..
VIM. l.. Greenlear of Winooski Treasurer,
Sergeant Seymour Fl. Wood of st. Adams.
| HORRIBLE MURDER AT BARRE.
Great excitement prevailsat Barre, over
the murder of Rufus Streeter of Washing
ton, an old man of 20, whose dead body
was found, Friday morning, behind fence,
through which it had been dragged from
the opposite side of the road after desper-
ate struggle. The pantaloons were stripped
off, there was fearful cut foot long, as il
with a bowie knife, clear across the abdo-
men, so that the intestines protruded. The
face was horribly mangled, and appeared
one livid mass, as if beaten down upon a
stone. The lower part of the body was
naked. Streeter was a soldier in the Tenth
| Vermont regiment. On Thursday, he and
| Asa Magoon of Orange, with whom Street
err lived, were at horse trot in Barre, and
started thence AFTER dark, half intoxicated.
Magoon was arrested on Friday. He APP
peared indifferent and would say nothing
on the subject. Magoon's two boys, aged 81
and 10, are supposed to have had hand in
the murder, and one Of them has been ar
rested. The team which Magoon and
Streeter were in was found in a schoo!
house shed where Magoon was arrested. 1t
belonged 10 Streeter. Upon one of the
wheels was considerable clotted blood, and
oD the iron step was the plain imprint
where bloody foot had stepped upon it,
On the buffalo robe which they had will
them was also found a large quantity o.
blood. The driving reins were found with
the harness, and where the reins were
handled by the diver blood was also found
A pair of pants known to have been worn
by The prisoner, were also found, upon
which was blood. Upon the boot heel o
the prisoner a slight pool of blood was dis
covered. The boot heel of Magoon fits Tho
track of heel impression found in the
road near the corpse, and also fits other i'm
prints found near the house of Magoon.
When Magoon was asked to account fol
the blood on his wagon, he said he killed q
sheep the other day. His wife being ques
toned about this says he did not kill th'
sheer. The knife which made the ghastly
wound was sought after but could not b'
found. 1t is known that the prisoner ha
for a long time carried long knife, o
which many stood in terror
The spot where the murder was commit
ed ~ only 200 feel from the house OF ont
Mrs. Perrin, woman of bad character
Maeoon and Streeier are known 10 haT'
been al her house during The evening, an'
she is under surveillance on suspicion o
having been connected with the crime.
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