Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-11-19
STATE NEWS.

The Rutland Manufacturing company
is shipping chairs TO Cape Town, Africa,
and San Francisco.
Woodstock Station, on the Central Ver-
mont railroad, was closed last week, and
the side rack is taken up.
Since 1869 the town authorities of Ches;-
ter have expended nearly 500, 900 in repairs
upon highways and bridges, in consequence
Of the freshet in October of that year.
"A further reduction in the number of
employees in the Central Vermont shops at
ST. Adams is announced, owing to tho
financial embarrassment Of tho manage
ment.
The news that the Portland and Ogdens-
burg road was to be completed at once has
drawn over 100 moneyless and hungry
men TO Cambridge where they have to I've
supported 5y the town.
Mrs. Ebnnezer Densmore of Fclcbville.
who attempted TO murder her three chill
dren about three months ago and then dis
appeared, it seems went TO Illinois, where
she has since died, and the body is en-
route home. No particulars OF the cause
or manner of her death have been receiv-
ed.
The Weldon House, st. Adams, with
all its property, will be sold at auction. on
the 9th of December next, in pursuance of
foreclosure of creditors represented by the
st. Adams Trust Company.
Wild ducks are said 10 be very numer-
Gus in Lake Champlain at present, and fur
nish rare attractions TO sportsmen. Geese
are also putting in their appearance.
-Tweny-siN years ago last October
George Edmund, son of George Clark, of
Moretown, LEFT home without his faith
er's consent, and nothing was heard about
him from that day until last September,
when Mr.. Clark had letter from him, and
expects soon 10 welcome him home.
An attempt was made Monday eve
ming, 10 explode the boiler in Demng &
Mead's tannery at Chester, but it was for
tunately discovered in time TO prevent
disaster A recently discharged employe
is suspected.
Montpelier voted on Monday, TO place
her 1000 shares in the Montpelier and
Wells river railroad in the hands of the Sc
lectmen 10 be disposed OF to the best ad-
vantage.
An engine was tipped over and bag
gage car dumped into the ditch, on the Pas
sumpsic road on Friday, by misplaced
switch, at McIndoes Falls The engineer
and liremen jumped and saved themselves
with few bruises.
The wife of James Vosburgh, who
formerly lived at Alburgh, but, some time
since, moved just across the Canada line,
whipped 10 death a five-year-old daughter
Of her husband by former marriage, a
few days ago.
Elisha Cotton of Shelburne is the cham
pion bear-hunter. Since September he has
killed three and caught two others, which
escaped, one by pulling out of log-trap,
and the other by gnawing off a foot that
was firmly held in a steel-trap.
"A green baggage master at Poultney
was blutied by stranger the other day in
TO giving him trunk for which he hadn't
check. The result is that a drummer,
the real owner, wants $1,000 of the railroad
company for his loss.
-Messrs. Leo Newland and Harry Bun
dy, of Hydepark, with the aid of three dogs,
freed yearling bear, on Monday, tho Sth
inst, and killed him. They received fif-
teen dollars bounty, ten dollars for the
pelt and say the grease is worth ten dollars
more; and this beside steak.
Work on the western end of the YER
mont division OF the Portland and Ogdens-
burg Dad has been resumed, and some 400
men will soon be al work between Sheldon
and Johnson. The grade is finished from
Maquam bay TO Sheldon: The company
have been able TO negotiate some of their
first mortgage bonds lately, and have kept
the price up to the point fixed when they
were first offered. Responsible parties in
England are investigating the enterprise
with a view 10 taking the remainder of the
issue. Trains will probably be running
from Portland TO Lake Champlain by July
l, next.
The Vermont board of agriculture will
hold meeting at Canaan, Dec. and s, in
which the New Hampshire board will join.
On the 9th the members of the Vermont
board will participate in the meeting of the
New Hampshire board at North Stratford.
This interchange of courtesies will be pro-
ductive of good as well as OF pleasant MEM
cries. The members of the Vermont board
have no authority to act for, or at the ex-
pense of the state, at a meeting out of the
state, and will attend the North Stafford
meeting al their own expense.
Peter Curley, who is now in the Wash
inglon county Jail at Montpelier as the sup
posed leader of the Barre Bank robbers, is
said to be one of the most brilliant and
heightened criminals on record. He is of
fine appearance, gentlenIanly in demeanor,
well educated and fine musician, especial
ly on the piano. He has amassed several
hundred thousand dollars in the burglary
business by planning his own exploits and
furnishing his paid men with the best out
fits, and has always bought himself off
whenever caught but it looks now as
though he had reached the end of his rope,
from the queer reason that he failed TO get
anything from the bank, and thus has
nothing to restore and make compromise
ON, according to his usual habit. His first
arrest was for a burglary in West Troy,
when lie took $40, coo in cash and Govern
ment bonds from a safe in the Roy shawl
fsctory. He was not punished, however,
and the facility with which he got out or
that difficulty has since been repeated Of
ten. He is supposed to have been the lead
err in eleven bank robberies. Miles, who
is also under arrest for the Barre Bank
robbery, has for many years been in Cur
l." IL