Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-01-28
STATE NEWS.

M. A. Smiths new house at Woodstock
was burned, Wednesday evening; loss
$4,000, insured for S25O0.
"A son of interna-revenue collector
Dana will open an Office at Montpelier,
while Mr.. Dana himself will ROMAN at
st. Johnsbury.
Ono of the Fairbanks Scale shops at
ST. Johnsbury, was burned Friday after
noon. Loss $4,000; fully insured. 1t
will be rebuilt within month.
The gang of railroad thieves, which
have been plundoring the Central Vermont
Railroad freight in the vicinity of White
River junction, has been discovered and
broken up. Several arrests have been
made.
"A very singular accident occurred at
North Bennington, the other day. A
young woman, while putting her shoe on,
had her foot on chair, when her foot slip
ped Off and broke her leg just above her
ankle.
Marcia NJ. IIutchinS has gained a YER
dict of $1,000 and costs in suit against
W. S. Morrill, for breach of promise, tried
at Hyde Park.
Plymouth has a boy four years old who
weighs one hundred pounds and can lift
that number of pounds with neatncss and
dispatch.
Mr.. James Dodd returning TO Grand
Isle Friday, from shopping expedition to
st. Adams, drove into u crack in the ice,
lost all his goods, iroze his feet and narrow
ly escaped with his team and his life.
John Haley, a night watchman on the
Central Vermont railroad, at North Mart
land, was run over and killed Wednesday
evening, by some train between North
Hartlaud and IIartland. Several trains
passed over his body. He leaves a large
family.
Mrs. Gersham Cheney Of Rutland, has
in bloom a Gala lily standing on stalk 81
inches high, that measures across the top
of the flower four by seven inches. The
length of the flower is eight and one.halr
inches.
Joel o. Durfee, 25 years old, was killed
near Montpelier, Friday, by log rolling
off wagon he was driving.
Charles Joiner, of Royalton, while
asleep, stepped from potato car while the
train was in motion, near South Ashburn-
ham, Mass, on the Cheshire Railroad, Fri
day morning. Both his arms were urok en-,
and lie was otherwise severely injured
lie was taken home on the express train,
Saturday.
AT a village meeting in st. Johnsbury
last week, it was voted to instruct the trus-
tees to bring water into the village by
aqueduct, and from such place as shall
be found to be the most practicable, and TO
pay for the same 10y bonding the village in
a sum not exceeding S75,OOO
Gov. Peck has authorized Il. p. Wal
ton to continue the publication of the rec
ords OF the governor and council. Three
volumes have already been issued, bring
ing the record down to the admission of
Vermont into the Union, and three more
will complete the record to the abolition of
the council in 1896, making almost COM
pete documentary history of Vermont.
"A countryman visited one of our
stores, yesterday, aud made careful ex-
animation of some infants wardrobes,
with the evident intention of purchasing.
One OF the lady clerks in order TO assist
him in the selection, asked him whether
the babe was boy or girl, to which he in
nocently responded, az can't tell for few
days yet" The clerk subsidized, while the
countryman continued TO price the differ
cnt articles.-Rutldad Globe.