Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-22
VERMONT ITEMS.


There are 1929 taxable polls in Yer
mont.
S. w. Carer's house in Crailsbury was
burned Friday night, with most of its con-
tents, two barns, two sheds, &c. Loss
$500 insurance $1,000.
"A lad eleven years old, at Hawley,
Franklin county, hanged himself Friday
night in fit of anger at being corrected
by his parents for some slight offence,
or Vermonps 196 Congregational
churches only "a have settled pastors. The
church memberships 1907, of whom 1910
joined by profession last year.
The fish-kit factory and board mill of
Aldrich & Barrett, in Bradford, and the
grist mill owned by Horace FAIR, were en-
tirely consumed by fire, with their con-
tents, Sunday night.
There is suspicion of fraud about the
failure Of the industrial works at Spring
field, as stock not included i'm their state
ment is found. The whole affair is to be
investigated.
The second annual meeting of the Wo.
mans Christian Temperance Union of Yer.
mont will be holden at bennington, on
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. q and So,
1876.
The trial Of Iatro, the Highgate mui-
derer, will take place at tho present term
of court. lie has made no confession since
his first, and will not say anything about
the murder.
"A freight train bound NORTH and the
Montreal express passenger train, going
south, collided few miles below ST.
JohnsbLry, on the Passumpsic road, on
Friday. There were quite number of
passengers ON the express train but all es-
capped serious injury, though some were
slightly bruised or cut.
The citizens of Dorset propose to erect
next year monument to mark the site of
the house of Cephas Kent, in which the
Council of Safety held several meetings.
John A. Robinson of Troy lost gold
locket at Centre Bennington four years ago.
1t was found recently in a field that has
been plowed twice since the locket was
lost.
-Audrew La Page, alias st. John, the
"lost man" of Montpelier, has not been
found as reported, and the authorities of
Montpelier have offered a reward for infor-
nation that will lead to his discovery.
Barre boasts of four lawyers who do
not use profane language, tobacco, or strong
drink in any form.
The "town system" of common schools
is in operation in only seven towns in YER
mont.
Senator Edmunds started for Ohio
Monday morning, TO assist in the cam
paign.
Two children of Charles Ryle of Waits
field wero at play in a cart body, Monday,
when they accidentally tipped it over, and
one of thom, aged five years, was caught
under it and killed almost instantly.
The equity OF redemption of the Indus
trial works company's real estate at Spring
field, was sold Friday, for the benefit of
the creditors, to c. ID. Brink & Co., for 1871,
the mortgages amounting to $1,000. The
personal property, consisting of machine
ry, printing presses, paint stock, lumber
and other stock finished, unfinished and in
process of manufacture, was sold to Samu-
ell Afford, Jr., for about $500.
Hayden, the Derby Line murderer, has
been indicted for murder by the grand ju-
ny at Irasburg, still refuses 10 see any one,
and appears TO feel remorse that is sell
uom Witnessed ny person OF MS cnarac-
ter. He will mako no defense, and persists
in refusing 10 employ counsel. He says
that he wants to be hung, and the sooner
the form of law is gone through with the
better satisfied he shall be. Major Charles
o. Brigham, one of Hayden's victims, has
recovered sufficiently 10 sit up, and the
doctors consider him out of danger.
The Flanders Pump Company have
just put up successfully one of their $780,
OO-gallons-per day pumps, at st. Johns
bury, with seven miles of street mains.
The mains were subjected TO pressure of
1876 pounds 10 the square inch on the trial
Tuesday last, and all remained firm. The
cost of the entire works was about $500
the price paid the Flanders Company for
their machinery being $4,000. Experts
who have examined the work declare it
perfect, and free from any infringement.