Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-05
VERMONT ITEMS.


The annual meeting of the Vermont
branch of the Woman's Board of Missions will
DO held in st. Johnsbury, Oct 81.
Cornelius Alternately of Bristol was in
stantly killed. Monday morning. by being
thrown under the wheels of load of lumber
he was on.
A grain house belonging to Dorus Parma
lee of Bristol fell from its pegs, one night last
week, and, bursting open, scattered about
thousand bushels of grain.
Steel rails have now been laid over the
Central Vermont from st. Adams to n short
distance of Montpelier The total relaying
this season, will be ffty-seven miles
Commissioners Cushman, Rogers and
Stone made an award Saturday of $1,000 dam
ages to the Central Vermont railroad for the
crossing of its road by the Woodstock railroad
at White River Junction, Vt.
The expenses attending the Bennington
centennial celebration amount to little over
the balance was raised mainly by subscription
among the people of the State.
H G.. Eddy of Spirit Vale, Chittenden,
aud Stepl IN G.. Baird, who lives in that vi
cinity were brought up Friday for assault
with intent TO kill, on Hiram j. Huntoon and
his wife, Mary G. Huntoon, who is Eddy's
sister.
Mr. Harvey Reynolds, in Whipplo Hol-
low, Rutland, has picked and shelled from ten
hills of Lima beans, ten quarts of beans
which is at the rate of 1j1 bushels and eight
quarts to the acre, which would amount, after
deducting the cost of raising, to SiSi.S0.
The editors of the Clipper and Democrat
of Burlington had rough and tumble fight
Friday evening" kicking and rolling in the
mud until separated. A personal item in the
e Dsxt1,
ltemen" were arrested and the aggrossor suf-
fered fine and costs of prosecution.
A suit in chancery has been brought by
the Rutland railroad company to determine
the question whether that company or the
Central Vermont company shall pay the taxes
assessed against it, II will be heard by the
supreme court next February.
A fatal malady has broken out among the
cattle at Rousc's Point, n. Y, and Prof. Ores
sy of Amherst, Mass, who visited the place
last week, pronounces it the Texas cattle dis
ease 1t is feared that the disease may come
over into Vermont, and one report has it that
there have already been two cases in Swanton.
The successor of the late Rev. William II.
| Lord, ID. D.. who occupied the pulpit of the
Bethany Congregational church in Montpelier
for over - years, and who died last March,
was ordained and installed Thursday The
new pastor is Rev. John II. Hincks of Bridge
| port, Conn. He is graduate of Yale College
and of the Dartmouth Theological school.
In the Franklin county court, on Satur-
day. the jury gave verdict for 1855. - and
| costs in favor of Joseph Corliss against eX-
Gov. Smith for injuries sustained by the
| plaintiff on account of his horse being fright
ened by savage dog belonging TO the de-
| PENDANT
The Chittenden county court occupied a
week in trying contest over the will of Lyd-
in Mech The old lady devised her property,
about Sl5, 600 to Abby Maria Hemenway and
Bishop de Goesbriand for Catholic charities.
| The heirs contested, on the ground of undue
influence and lack Of mental capacity. The
jury were charged in favor of the will, but
after being out day and half disagreed.
While Pascal Merrill of Reading was try
ing to dislodge a small tree which he had fell
| ed from the tops of some other trees the
| butt shot backward and caught his head be-
| tween the body of the tree and the stump,
and there held it until life became extinct.
| Merrill was alone at the time and how long
he remained in this terrible position can new
| er be known.
"A Central Vermont official who was trav-
cling over the lower end of the Harlem EX-
tension on a hand-car, and paying mp the in
| debtedness of the former road to station
| agents, track-men and others, had his car at
| tached by an igdnant school-tax collector
the other day. He left the property. and,
riding to the next section i'll a carriage, char
tered another hand-car. The tax was about
SIS and the attached property valued at $40.