Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-01-08
STATE ITEMS.

Rutland is to have firg-alarm tele-
graph.
A Bartonsvllle merchant named Nor
man Gould committed suicide by shoot
Ing himself Thursday morning. No cause
Is known for the act.
The several councils OF The Soverelgns
Of Industry will meet at Rutland, January
sth, 10 organize state council of the order.
REV. II. 4. Fuller, of ST. Johnsbury, IL
to be the Vermont editor of the New Eng
land Journal of Education, sixteen-page
weekly, to commence publication in Bos-
ton, January lst.
A man named Smith, guest al the
Hayward house at St. Adams Bay, which
was burned, the other night, lost 5000,
which he had placed between the mattress
es of his bed for safety and forgot.
The citizens Of Waterbury very gem
crously subscribed 5000, or more, for the
relief Of the teachers and overseels OF the
reform school, who lost their all, and the
ladies kindly volunteered 10 make the gar
ments.
i. l.. Sheldon, secretary and treasurer
Of Rose Cheese Factory Association, at
West Rupert, has disbursed since 1857,
over $4,000 among the stockholders and
patrons fthe factory.
"A mill and stove store at Center Rut-
land c. J.. Hubbard and belonging 10
James c. Dunn, with small covered
bridge, were burned last Friday loss
$4,000. Insured for $500.
William II. Whiting, who died at ST..
Adams, last week, was graduate OF AM
herst college, class of "a. and thencefor-
ward until 1869 partner and co-edtor with
his father, Mr.. +. Il. Whiting, in the con-
duct Of the ST. Adams Messenger.
Charles Atwood and wife, living in the
west part Of Bethel, went TO spend the eve
ming of Tuesday, the Goth ult., at a neigh
boris. After being from home about an
hour, in looking from the window they
discovered their house TO be in flames.
The house, together with It's entire con-
tents, was consumed.
Charles Turner Of Derby, who has
been supposed for over week to be lost
in the woods between Holland aud Derby,
was found alive in the town of Enosburgh
ON Saturday. lie wandered away In at
of insanity.
In volume OF the Work Ing -man's
Gazette" published at Woodstock in 1881,
occurs the following marriage notice: "In
Huntington, W., March 10, by Elder
Huntley, Leopard Hamlin, young me.
chanic, aged % years to Widow Burlington,
aged 40. She is sister to Hamlin'S grand
fathers wife. by marriage with this wild.
ow, this young man has become brother 10
his grandfather ahd uncle TO his father and
mother
Henry Fletcher Of Lyndon has discov-
cred new way 10 prevent cows from
switching their tails while being MIXED,
The manner Of discovery was peculiar.
He lied risky old cows tail to his boot
strap aud proceeded triumphantly to ex-
tract the white fluid. The COW seemed
quite anxious TO accommodate Henry with a
"frlsk," but the strap held lis grasp and
Henry chuckled in triumph. Presently
the COW wanted 10 see something on the
other side Of the yard, and without consult
Ing Henry's convenience, went over there.
Henry went with her, and they seemed 10
be in a good deal of a hurry. The COW did
not stop on the other side Of the yard, but,
buckllng into her best speed, she flew like
top several times around that sloshy
yard with Henry hanging TO her tail by
his boot strap, blowing two foot furrow
in tho barn-yard soil. But in the early
tests Of all inventions, accidents and mis-
calculations will occur, and In this case
that boot-strap was not quite strong
enough to exhaust the cows ambition. AZ
ter few rounds is pulled out when the
COW got away and went to irlsking her tai
wait to observe the effect upon the COW, as
the experiment had given him a toilet job
which had to be attended 10 at once. The
discovery has never beeu patented aud
Henry will give any enterprlslng farmer
half Interest, who will test the merits of