Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-12-22
VERMONT ITEMS.

lie has made an assignment and expects to
pay 33l cents on the dollar.
Messrs. A. w. Gray q Sons of Middle
town shipped a lot OF their threshing ma
chimes 10 Chill, last week, and will ship
load to Germany before long.
In the court at Woodstock last week, a
Mr.. Rounds recovered 1858 damage and
costs against one Colburn for improper in
timacy with the formers wife.
The dwelling OF Erastus Jeweti, far
mer at Pownal, was entered Thursday
night and $4,000 in money and securities
stolen.
Ono OF Castleton's farmers has recently
filled an order for ten gallons of maple syr-
up for friend in.Soulh America; another
has just shipped quantity of butter TO
man ia Panama, and still another supplies
a family with butter in Alabama.
All over the State there is great COM
plant of the drouth, the ground having
frozen without the usual fall rains. Many
farmers anticipate long time of drawing
water, or driving stock TO streams.
"A woman named Dempsey of Fairha-
ven was killed by falling down stairs the
other night, leaving 10 small and destitute
children.
Seth Bannock of Falrhaven was killed
recently by being thrown from wagon
and striking on his head on the frozen
ground.
-Eliaken Amedon, who represented
Winhall in the Legislature Of 1874, died at
Bondville on the 3Oth ult., aged about 70
years.
Mr.. wager Of Bellows Falls was ser.
ously injured a few days ago by being
caught in the machinery of the Fall Noun
tain Mill, and L. L. Fay was badly hurt
the same night by being thrown from a car
rage by runaway horse.
The Vermont State Teachers Assoca-
ton will hold its annual convention in
Bennington on the LIST aud I'd of February.
The occasion bids fair TO be one of unusual
merit.
Among the dodgers at the station house
in Worcester, Mass, the other night, was
Vermonter named Henry Wade, stand
ing six feet six and quarter inches high,
weighing 1876 pounds, and only twenty
years of age. Wade in the judicial scales
be was found wanting.
st. Johnsbury counts up twenty law
yers, fifteen ministers, and ten doctors, but
does not claim that they are all REGULAR"
in either profession.
John Sullivan of Cambridge borough
was choked TO death on the Sd ult., while
at dinner, piece of beef lodging in his
throat.
The rewest method of robbery comes
from Farhaven, where a farmer on an-
swering midnight knock, saw a paper
thrust under the door threatening TO burn
his buildings if he didn't hand out S.. The
frightened granger thought he saw through
the keyhole big man loaded with pistols,
and Immediately passed the money under
the door.
1t is reported that Rev. l.. D. Hopkins,
whose financial operations at ST. Johns
bury have given him an unpleasant notorie-
ty, has nearly recovered his health and will
soon return TO that place from his retreat in
Canada. He promises somorevelations.
Rev. DIR. Hodge, prominent Baptist
minister, formerly settled in Vergennes,
died last Sunday at East Charlotte, after a
brief illness, of typhoid pneumonia.
The weather-wise predict thirty-six
snow storms for this winter-which we
hope and trust is not a fair count. II tits,
let us pray for 4 canvassing board TO go be-
hind the returns.
Mary Pagan, a girl about is years of
age, died in Rutland the other day. of neg
lect, the room in which she lay sick being
without n fire and SO cold that glass of
waller had frozen solid.
In Fairhaven, last Thursday evening,
Mr.. j. P. Perkins went into the drug store
to purchase some yalerian. The clerk, by
a stupid and criminal blunder, gave him
hellebore, of which Mr.. Perkins took a
teaspoonlul, and in few moments he was
a corpse.
The old railroad machine shop just
ives: of the stallion house at Mortified, took
fire little before ten o'clock, ON Thursday
night, and burned to the ground, leaving
tho oil bare walls and smoking ruins. 1t
was occupied by the Vermont Manufactur-
ing company, and used as a chair factory,
giving employment 10 some thirty hands.
1t is reported that for fifteen or twenty
miles along the swampy shores Of Lake
Champlan at its south end, the water has
been so low and the land so dry during the
latter part of the summer and through the
early fall as TO allow the farmers in those
sections TO cut and gather thousands OF tons
of wild grassy
Six years ago the ST. Johnsbury Gale
DOMAIN was sued for libel by DIR. ]. S. Du-
rant of Danville, who put his damages at
the sum of $4,000. On the 9TH inst. the case
was withdrawn; the defendant giving
judgment in one cent damages and paying
the cost of the supreme court.
Among the indictments returned by
the grand jury which has just come in al
Bennington, is one against the court house
and Jail in Bennington. Although these
buildings are less than six years old, they
find that tho Jail structure admits OF the
passing in of intoxicating liquor to the
prisoners, and implements 10 cut their way
out Complaints OF insufficient hues tt
carry off smoke and afford ventilation &c
both Jail and court house, reclte that II
case OF fire there is but one meagre avenue
Of escape for the prisoners, etc., etc. The
buildings cost $50, 900, and have since beer
repaired at an expense of $1,000.
AT 81. Johnsbury, the other day, there
was sad case of death by scalding, In thu
family of Mr.. James Rogers, workman
in the granite shops. Mrs. Rogers, while
doing her washing, placed her two iilll'
children in another room, but just as SUI
had finished she yielded 10 their entrealie
and let them in, but before she bad remov
ed the last pail of hot water, which rested
on the slove hearth. On reaching 10 re
move boiler the pail by some means go
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