Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-05-14
STATE ITEMS.

The trustees of the State Reform School
have decided to remodel the old arsenal
buildings al Vergennes, instead of erecting
new ones.
st. Adams butter market, May llth |:
Common to fair, Is to IS cents medium TO
good, 20 cents selections 81 cents gilt
edge, % cents.
State Fish Commissioner Edmunds
pronounces Fairfield pend the only sheet
of water in the State fit for land-locked
salmon, and says he will stock it with co.
900 of these fish, if the residents in the vi
cinity will cooperate with him in keeping
people from fishing in it against the law.
Walker Brothers & Co., of Burlington,
are heavy importers of Scotch Granite,
which they buy direct They have just
had landed in New York S15, 600 worth, and
more is TO follow.
The st. Johnsbury Caledonian an
nounces the failure of George II. & j. NJ.
Weeks of Lyndon, for sl25, 900. Their as
lands and mills and mortgages that can
not be turned into money just now to ad-
vantage.
No trace of the man who murdered
Miss Marietta Ball at st. Adams, several
months ago, has been found, to this day,
and DR.. Branch of that village has offered
$4,000 for the discovery of the murderer,
making the whole amount offered $4,000.
Charles o. Shattuck's woollen mill al
Danville was burnt, Thursday, together
with q dwel.ing-house and outbuildings.
The loss is over $4,000. Insured in the
Vermont Mutual for $4,000. The lumber
yard and saw-mill of r. Dearlh, which
stood near the factory, were also destroyed.
Loss 5000; no insurance.
Several fires have aroused the citizens Of
Springfield, to the necessity of having
means for extinguishing fires at hand. A
hand-engne from Troy, N. Y, having
proved inefficient, the citizens, at public
meeting on Tuesday evening appointed
committee TO procure steam fire engine
for trial, with view to purchasing.
There were SO families burned out at
the fire in Montpelier, aud meeting of
the citizens has been held to provide means
TO relieve the sufferers $3.50 raised for the
Chicago sufferers was appropriated for the
purpose. Contributions of money and
clothing come in freely. The merchants
are resuming business as fast as they can
find places. The work of rebuilding will
be commenced at once.
A Rutland physician removed a tape
worm from man recently, which meas
ured the enormous length Of l04 feet and 3
inches, and counted 1857 joints.
Iohn p phair tla % afa
of Mrs. Ann Freeze at Rutland, under his
sentence of hard labor, has beon put to
work with the pegging machine in the shoe
shop of the Vermont state prison.
So The Montpelier Waterman is by no
means certain that the great fire there was
set by an incendlary; and the Freeman
sees "no sound reason to believe that il was
other than accidental"
"A small bird alighted on a circular
saw in Geo. Bonds mill, at Searsburg, re-
Gently, while the saw was running at full
speed. His death was sudden and untime-
ly. This incident is believed 10 be without
parallel.
The slate-penci company at Castleton
have re-opened business, and now ship
from $4,000 to "a, 900 pencils day, besdeS
large quantities of stone dust,
Julia Ihrens, a girl about 10 years of
age, five weeks over from Ireland, and en-.
ployed as a domestic in the Vermont Epis-
copal Institute at Burlington, gave birth to
a child on Monday night, Sd inst. She
strsngled the infant 10 death, then carried
the body to Lake Champlaln, threw 1t in
the water and the next day disappeared.
The affair is undergoing legal investiga-
ton.