Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-08
VERMONT ITEMS.

st. Albans's grand list is 81, 1858, 4O5, an
increase of $40, 376 over 1876.
John p. Phalr now acts as hall.boy in
the main prison at Windsor.
Pierce Slarksboro was fatally kicked
by horse at New Hagen, Saturday.
The store of Hubbard & Fay, in Fay's
block, Windsor, was burglarlously entered
Saturday morning and clothing valued at
some $3.50 was distracted, together with
about IS from the cash drawer.
Charles p. Allen, the only surviving
sou of the late Hon. Ira II. Allen, of Iras-
burg, and nephew of Ethan Allen, died at
st. Adams, Thursday, aged SO years.
DIR. Julius Y. Dewey of Montpelier,
president Of the National life insurance
company, and well known throughout
Vermont, died Tuesday morning, aged 70
years.
The ninth annual convention Of the
Vermont State Spiritualst association will
be holden at the Wilder House, Plymouth,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June sth,
9th and 10th.
The Home for Destitute Children has
recently received tie nice sum of about a
hundred dollars from two recent presenta-
tons of the Allegory of the Great Repub-
lie before Burlington audiences.
Mr.. ]. Q. Hoyt, Of New York, has re-
signed as director of the Central Vermont
Railroad Co., and Otis Drury, of Boston,
has been chosen in his stead.
Monday, June 4lh, was the Que hun
dredth anniversary of the convention which
met at Windsor in 1777, and gave our com
monwealth the name of Vermont.
"A Burlington gentleman says that
Stacked lime is sure death TO potato bugs.
He sprinkles it upon the vines and uses
about n barrel after it is Stacked TO the acre.
Frank Prescott of Orange, 10 years of
age, was killed in saw-mill on the 2sth
ut., by being caught in the shaiting. His
skull was fractured, four ribs were broken
and one foot entirely crushed. He suryiv-
ed his injuries but three hours.
The article which brought upon the
editor ofthe North Troy paper, Miss Had
locks wrath, rawhide and rotten eggs, was
a piece asserting that Miss Hadlock, dur
ing the illness of her father, served his reg
ular customers with liquor.
"A suit has been decided in the Wind
sor county court against Henry Gravelln,
the condemned Weathersfield murderer,
for $4,000 for burning a set OF farm build
ings belonging to Horace Weston of Wind
sor. This suit was brought for the benefit
of the company in which the buildings
were insured and saves them the amount
Of the insurance.
The June term of the Caledonia county
court began at ST. Johnsbury on Tuesday.
There are several important cases to be
tried, among others that of Mrs. Emma
Young for the killing of her two children
at Newark last winter.
The track on the Burlington and La.
noble Railroad is now laid as far as Jeri.
cho, nearly half the length of tho line, ant
on Saturday the locomotive Lomoille made
her first trip 10 that place, an event which
the people of the town and vicinity duly
celebrated.
Mr.. A. C. Rowland of New York il
painting Secretary Evartss farm at Wind
sor. The farm is in the middle distance, q
river runs in front of it, and on the RICH
are haymakers with mountains behint
them. The trees are assuming the tints o
early autumn. The picture is one of th,
largest the artist has lately painted.
Mr.. III. c. Tower of Clarendon, who's,
terrible afIliction by the loss of his two
children with bis house and household eff
fects, has been noted, has received mos
substantial expression of the sympathy o
his townsmen in the shape of purse o
nearly 5000, raised by subscription.
-Chas. Smith, of North Londonderry
who makes quite business of hunting anC
trapping, caught three bears in as many
traps on what is known as 'Stratton noun
tain," in the town of Winhall, on Monday
2Sth ult. He will realize S45 in bounty
besides the skins worth at least IS apiece
much less sum than they would hav,
brought, if taken earlier in the season.
Mr.. Charles Belcher has received an(
sold two thousahd and sixty-seven pound
of butter, the produce of five Jersey COW
owned and kept by l.. r. Skinner of Tun
bridge, VT, in the year ending May 1st
Worcester county farmers must look Il
their laurels.- Worcester (MdSS.) EUenin!
Gazette.
This years commencement programme
of the University of Vermont is as follows
Baccalaureate by President Buckham
Sunday, June "a, with evening address t.
the society of Religious Inquiry by Rev
DIR. Alvah Hovey, president of Newton
(Mass.) theological school; Tuesday, alum
nj address by Robert S. Hale of Elizabeth
town, N. ", and poem by DIR. S. S. Cut
ting of Brooklyn, N. Y, with the medica
departments anniversary in the afternoon
and address by DR.. George Dunsmore G
st. Adams and medical alumni address b.
Prof. S. w. Thayer, and in the evening ju
nior exhibition; Wednesday, commence
ment day. The exhibition in the Par
Gallery of Art will include fine collectio
of oil paintings, by distinguished Ameri
can artists.
"A good crop is anlieipaled in nearl.