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

st. Alliance Butter Market, Oct lG.-At-
tendance fair, receipts light. market quiet
prices on selections firm. grades weak Quo
tatiOns Common - to Il cents good to
choice Is to - cents selections 30 cents per
pound.
Silver is being found on W. SCOTS farm.
in Newport, at the rate of $500 to n ton of
quartz. A shaft one hundred feet deep will
be sunk Immediately
The nth annual reunion of Vermont of
ficers. appointed for October 10Th at ST. Johns
bury, is postponed to Dec. 18th at the same
place.
The marble bust of Judge Collamer made
for the State by Preston Powers, has arrived
at the State House in Montpelier, from Italy.
When pedestal is prepared, it will be placed
i'll the Governors room.
On Monday afternoon of last week an
eleven-y ears-uld son of Rev. 4. Elliott, of
Ripton. was caught in "A swiftly revolving
shaft of Mr. Elliott's mill, and before it could
be stopped the lower part of his body and
limbs were completely torn to pieces and scat
tered about the mill, causing instant death.
Ripley d. Fishers three large barns. near
MiddlebupS, filed with hay and grain, Were
burned by an incendiary Friday morning
loss S2jOO, insurance $1,000.
Prank Patch of Greensboro Bend courted
II farm on which they were to settle, took all
her savings. some $500, and then ran away to
Canada with young girl.
The Harlem Extension Railroad between
Bennington and Chatham Four Corners has
been re-opened, under the presidency of II.
C. Root, of New York, the difficulties with
the towns along the line having been amicably
settled.
On "Wednesday of last week the citizens
OF Royaton celebrated the Tooth anniversary
of the organization of the Congrc gationHl
church Of that place, and the fortieth anniver-
sary Of the ordination of the pastor. Cyrus b.
Drake, D. D., with appropriate exercises.
The attendance upon the occasion included
many distinguished persons from abroad
At o'clock Monday morning MS L. W.
Knapp and wife of Mortified were entering
Montpelier village on the way TO Gilmore, to
give testimony in m important law suit, they
were shot ut by some unknown person. The
horse Jumped. and the tssailants then struck
Mrs. Knapp with n club, inhicting Il severe
scap-wound over the left eye. The police
We're promptly on hand but no one was found.
A Jay woman became disguised with the
wo-k done by the hired man in her husbands
absence turned him of, and began work her
self, digging fifty bushels of potatoes in two
half days, besides milking eight cows and do
ing the work of the family. She is delicate
looking lady, weighs only Ok pounds, and is
% years or age.
Camp, the state prison convict who es-
| capped by tmneling under the wall II years
! ago and was only caught and returned after
| II years of liberty, has been digging away at
| the same game, and was caught last week
when he had got to within foot of liberty,
and had his haversack packed with provisions
and clothing.
An item on our first page makes mention
of thu suspected murder, by poisoning, of
Mrs. Ezra Smith of Vergennes who was tn
wife of Baptist deacon of hitherto good
name and standing The latest development
| in the case was the arrest of Dea, Smith and
his parlmour. Mrs. Champlin, which took
| place at Burlington at midnight ON Monday.
| They are charged with the murder of Mrs,
| Smith, and the evidence against them is said
to be conclusive. They were hand-cufled and
| lodged in Jail, and on Tuesday We're taken TO
the Addison county jail at Middlebury.