Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-03-10
STATE NEWS.

ST.. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, Feb. 20.
Common to fair, 10 to 1sc good fall win
ter 20 10 25c fall butter % to SOC. a No. l
fall &c.
Montpelier reduced its debt s27, 20G,
last year.
The friends of Gen. w. w. Grout OF
Barton say they will run him for Congress
from the third district, unless he positive
ly forbids it.
"A five year old daughter of Joseph
Jacques, of Westfeld, received fatal injur-
les on the 25th ult., by falling through a
scaffuld. Her head struck upon wagon
wheel, and her skull was crushed in.
The Industrial Works, in Springfield,
VT, are having large demand for thor
goods. They have recently added consid-
erably TO their force, and are now working
fifty hands and run their shops night and
day.
Mrs. j. NJ. Haven, Of Rutland, has
gone to Washington to present to Congress
petition, signed by over five thousand
persons in this Stale, for a commission TO
investigate the liquor traffic in this coun-
try. One-half the signers are voters in
over seventeen years of age.
1t is stated that Bennington will send
TO the centennial, equipped in the CONT
mental fashion, company of 100 men, to
be named after Gen. Stark, Gen. Allen or
Col. Warner, and they will be in camp
several weeks. The whole expense will be
borne by 10 citizens. The Park guard of
80 men will also go, the bills to be footed
by Trenor w. Park.
"A young man in this place, who has
been severely troubled with an infusion of
fluid in the cavity of the chest, was reliev-
cd last week by al incision between the
ribs, and then by means of a new surgical
instrument called asplralor, the cavity of
the chest was entirely emptied of the fluid.
st. JohnSbury Cdledoman.
st. JOhnsbury village has contracted
with the Vergennes Machine Co. to put in
IFS water works at an expense of $50, $40.
The appliances will include one No. l
Flanders pump with capacity of supply.
ing 100000 gallons each twenty four hours,
and one No. pump, with capacity of sup
plying 100000 gallons each twenty four
hours, 20 hydrants and six miles of pipe
no NHlabo 10 W uiS duu I6-ull tue tTeHcu-
es, and furnish the pump house and power.
Catherine McGlnn deliberately muir
dered her six years-old son with poison, at
BridpOri, last week, and then attempted to
take her own life. She was employed by
Mr.. N. b. Phelps in his hotel aud she pro-
cured the poison of Mrs. Phelps, the lady
of tho house, on the pretense OF wishing to
destroy bed-bugs. On the morning of the
murder, Mrs. Phelps heard The woman
and her child talking before they were up,
and the mother remarked, Don't make so
much fuss" Soon she carried him down
stairs, and Mrs. Phelps, noticing that he
was not well, asked what was the matter.
The mother coldly replied that nothing
allied him but worms. She then carried
the boy back, and reported that he was
"beiier." TIE mother went about her
work, but in a short time, Mrs. Phelps
found her In her room vomiting, while the
boy lay dead on the bed. She exclaimed,
"Kale, your boy is dead" Il know it,"
responded the woman, and then she threw
her arms around Mrs. Phelps neck and
asked her forgiveness. The mother cannot
live, ii is thought, and she refuses all nour-
ishment Mrs. McGinn had difficulties
with her husband, few years since, and
was divorced from him.