Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-07-13
VERMONT ITEMS.


Tho brick walls for the new building Of
the Vermont Life Insurance Company of
Burlington are rapidly going up.
While ]. B. Stewart of Clarendon was
mending fence few days ago nail flew
and struck him in tho eye, entirely destroy
ing the sight.
AT the Whitehall, N. Y, hose tourna-
mont, on the Fourth, the j. w. Crantons,
of Rutland, took the first price, In 1:2ll,
and the Il. G Bakers, of Plattsburgh, N. Y,
the second, in l:2l2.
The widow Hartshorn died at st. Johns.
bury, July I'd. She was born in Danville,
Dec. 20, 177O, being of the age of 100 years, 6
months and days at her death.
Charles Winn of Danville, who sold his
educated pig" last fall for two hundred
dollars, has recently commenced the task
of educating seven weeks old pig, aud al
ready has him well advanced in the science
of numbers.
The women of Bennington have organ
lied centennial commission for the pur-
pose of adding TO the celebration an exposi-
ton of Vermont industries, and hope to
make this an interesting feature Of the cele-
bration.
The Central Vermont railroad will
make half-fare rates to passengers attend
| ing tae Bennington centennial celebration,
and other lines will probably make a SINH
| lar reduction. The hotels will furnish the
veteran soldiers board for Sl.50 to $3.50 a
day.
The first train from st. Johnsbury to
Burlington over tho Portland and ogdens-
burg and Burlington and Lamoile rail-
roads ran through Friday, July 9Th, with
Governor Fairbanks on board. Regular
trains are running on the road this week.
The recent report OF the death of Mrs.
Molloy, the temperance lecturer, was with
out foundation in fact. The lady has been
dangerously i'll, but has so far recovered as
10 be able TO deliver a temperance address
at Cambridge, Sunday evening.
Rutland has been looking into the mat
ter of its insane paupers and finds that of
the seven persons confined in the Vermont
asylum, whose keeping the town has been
paying, only one has legal settlement in
Rutland, the others being chargeable to the
State. The result will be saving TO the
town of about $1,000 annually.
A romantic suicide has recently taken
place at Fayston. Daniel Wheeler and a
Miss Adams of that town were engaged to
be married, but on going for certificate
found they must wait few days until she
became eighteen years of age. Then under
advice of meddesome friends she broke the
| engagement, whereupon he went off and
shot himself dead. Miss Adams went as
chief me urner at the funeral and declares
that she will kill herself.
George Metcalf of st. Johnsbury was
arrested for selling liquor TO the four young
men recently drowned in the Passumpsic
river, but escaped from the officers to Can
ada. He ventured to attend a horse trot on
the 4h at Barton, and was captured, taken
to st. Johnsbury, convicted of 10 first often
ces, fined $40 and costs on each, amounting
in all TO s195, and committed TO Jail until
he pays up. He evil be likely 10 stay there
till pardoned out.
Johnsbury.
As O'Brien's circus was leaving YER
gennes the other night, one of the employees,
John Maylon, of Geneva, N. Y, while ly-
| ing on the ground in drunken stupor, was
run over by one of the heavy wagons, and
three of his ribs broken. Surprising him
to be merely intoxicated, some of the men
laid him in the baggage wagon, where he
was found dead soon AFTER