Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-19
VERMONT ITEMS.

2Itn.
The best apples-fall and winter-are
selling in Grand Isle at 81. 30 to SO per barrel
The crop is large.
The sixty-frst anniversary of the mar
riage of Mr.. and Mrs. Roswell Pierce was OBJ
served at Lyndonville last week.
There have been 81 deaths from diph-
liberia in Ferrisburg, town of about 100 in
habitNnts, since last spring
The contract for the new state workhouse
at Rutland, has been awarded to Edward P.
Libby of Farlee for $34, 600 the work to be
done before October |, 1878
Hon. NJ. II. Cook of Casteton has re-
ceiyed an autograph letter from Queen Vic
toria, acknowledging the receipt of letter
from him in regard TO the war in the East.
The Central Vermont Railroad Company
have applied to Chancellor Royce for an in-
! junction restraining the Woodstock Railroad
| Company from crossing their tracks at White
/ River Junction
A New York gentleman has pledged the
annual interest of S25. 600 during his life. and
the full principal at his death, to endow the
professorship of political economy at Middle
bury College.
The work on the foundation of the new
Howe scale works at Rutland is rapidly pro-
gressing A number of contracts have been
made and the entire buildings will be under
contract within few days.
The plan of the new North Church, Mt
St Johnsb iy. contemplates a brick or stone
ediice, 30 feet long by so wide, accommo-
dating about 1000 persons, and containing all
the modern improvements, Mt n cost of nearly
| $4,000.
In the north part of Greensboro there are
! two large granite powders. only few rods
| apart one of them containing 600 cubic feet,
| which ara 81 dplipotnly Ynieal M, ptbnr lrr,at
powders that they can be rocked back and
| forth by the hands
One of our State exchanges has a story of
farmer who found potatoes in which whole
colonies of beetles had made themselves com
Portable homes by eating out the inside of the
potatoes and stopping up the holes by which
they entered.
The defalcation of II. II. Bailey. the St.
| Alhans collector of taxes foots up some 81
! 600. The town has brought suits upon the
| bonds and attached all the visible property of
the sureties, and it is believed that enough
has been secured 20 cover the probable losses.
The counsel of the Derby Line wife-mur-
derer, recently convicted mt lrasburg, have
filed exceptions, based on allegations and af-
tidnvits that one of the jurors expressed con-
vctons of the prisoners guilt before the trial.
| The exceptions cannot be argued until August
next year
The annual meeting of the Vermont Sun
day-school Association and Teachers Institute
will be held in the Congregational church at
| Bennington. October. - - aud -, 1877.
Prof. w. Il. Sherwin, of New jersey has been
secured as conductor of the institute. Each
Sunday-school in the State is entitled to send
two delegates.
Franklin Fairbanks and Luke q. Spencer
of st. Johnsbury have just received II patent
for an improvement in platform scales for the
use of cloth manufacturers. by its use man
ufacturers can see at glance by placing
roll of cloth on the platform, just what the
cloth will weigh per yard and the aggregate
weight of the entire roll
An attempt is being made to revive the
Hardwick and Mansfield railroad project.
The road would be Ii miles long, without
many curves or grades, and connect the
Montpelier and Wells River and the Portland
and Ogdensburg railroads at Hardwick. The
route was secured in 1873, but there il little
except talk as yet.
There is a small stream Of water in Viii
Jamestown which takes its rise on the east hill
and runs west until it gets within about a mile
of the hotel known the Spring House
where it divides into two streams. One run
ming south. finds its way to the Connecticut
river and Long Island Sound. The other runs
north, by way of Lake Champlain and the st.
Lawrence.
The Bennington Battle Monument Asso-
citation have appointed A. b. Gardner NJ. f.
Huling Charles NJ. Bliss, II. G.. Root and
Rev. Isaac Jennings a committee TO devise a
plan to raise the SjOn which is necessary to
secure the State appropriation for $1,000
and the State aid of Massachusetts, for $500
and New Hampshire $1,000. The committee
will ask aid from Nermonters and others resi-
dent outside of the State, rs over $40. 600. eX-
elusive of the States appropriation of FS2000,
was raised in Vermont for the centennial eel
cbration. The monument will not be taken
in hand until the 5000 is raised as no funds
are now available and no plans will be con-
sidered.
Mrs. Noah Fisher who has been indicted
at Montpelier for adultery, has had q career
Five years ago she was married to Mr.. Fish
er at Boston, her maiden name being Nina
Luce. She was dashing. but rather coarse
woman, and spent her husbands substance
recklessy She persuaded her husband to
sell his farm and buy hotel in Moretown,
from which shortly after she eloped with his
bartender and went to Canada. A few years
after she returned to her husband, and they
removed to Montpelier. Last winter she again
eloped with Frank Kendall, one of her board
ers and since then has been operating at
Lcominster, Mass, as n clairyoyant, under the
name of Mrs. A. X. Grout. Not long ago she
returned TO her husband again and obtained
his forgiveness, but the district attorney pro
cured her indictment, and she and Kendall
, now languish in Jail awaiting trial.
Prof Collier of Burlington who has had
, in his possession for chemical analysis. por-
tions Of the remains of Mrs. Ezra Smith OF
Vergennes, who is suspected of having been
poisoned by her husband and Mrs. Champlin,
woman with whom he is alleged to have
? been criminally intimate, reports to the au-
thorities of Vergennes through DIR. Kidder
that n partial examination indicates that the
woman had undoRbtedly been poisoned, and
advised that the suspected parties be arrested.
Smith is deacon of the Baptist church. has
1 considerable property, is member of very
influential family, and a man of considerable
influence himself. Up to within six months
not a whisper had ever been uttered against
Dea Smiths good name, but the destroyer
came in the person of Mrs Mary Champlin,
e who some six or seven years ago was resi-
dent of North Adams, Mass. and while there
4 got mixed up in scandal matter with North
|, Adams husband. Noannouneement of arrests
in the case has yet been made.
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