Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-07-27
VERMONT ITEMS.


spirits.
1t is claimed by friends that DIR. Theo-
polls Clark of Tlnmouth, aged 81, is the
oldest physician In existence
Dudley M. Davis's dwelling house,
barns and oulbuildings at Derby, were
burned by an incendiary Thursday morn
ing of last week. Loss $4,000; insured for
$500.
Taft q Son of Uxbridge, Mass, have
bought the long idle Proctorsvile wooden
mills, and will soon begin running them.
-Craltsbury claims youth of 20 who is
six feet and nine inches high.
Joel Trull aud wife of West Burke
have just had their golden wedding, Rev.
John Woodman, who married them so
years ago, being present.
White River Junction had a rain-storm
last Friday, unequaled for many years in
severity. Three inches of water fell, wash
ing away the highways, suspending travel
and badly damaging the crops.
Joseph Roberts, aged % years, one of a
gang of thieves who have been extensively
operating in Waitsfeld, has been arrested,
and conlesses having taken property be-
AOhkihb W ANbhNOhips hoONbihl
cendiary fires recently thought 10 have been
the work of tramps, are row believed 10
have been set by Roberts and his gang.
Hiram Lathrop, of Topsham, has forty
five acres of potatoes planted in one lot,
and challenges competition as 10 the pros
pect of a large crop. He paid $500 for phos-
plate of lime for use in the hills.
1t is announced that the meeting of the
Vermont Editors and Publishers Associa-
ton at Bennington, during Centennial
week, will be held during the day and eve
ming of Tuesday, August IA. Hon. L. p.
Walton, of Montpelier, will deliver the an
nual address and Rev. o. G.. Wheeler, of
Grand Isle, the poem.
The house and barn on what is known
as the byron Buttertield" place, about
two miles southwest Of Ludlow village,
were burned, Tuesday, July 18th. The
house was unoccupied and the fire probab-
~ orig mated by carelessness or design.
Some eight tons of hay belonging to Mr..
Boswell were consumed. Insurance on the
buildings $500.
Geo. w. Hines, for several years lead
ing insurance agent at Burlington, has
been arrested on the charge of embezzling
funds belonging to the companies he rep
resented. The amounts aggregate over
$780, Hines was Northumberland in
New York regiment during the war, and
an inmate of Libby prison.
H. L. Bixby, OF Chelsea, with the help
of his hired man, caught recently in one
day two bushels and three pecks of grass
hoppers. They did so by taking long
strip of cotton cloth fastened and set up
edgewise nearly in the shape of a triangle
or the letter V, with a hole dug in the
ground at or near the angle; then with
large and long brushes drove the hoppess
into the trap they had set for them.
"A Mrs. Hinckley of Chelsea, aged 96,
was tipped out Of a wagon and probably
MORALLY hurt by her tipsy grandson, who
has been fined $40 and costs.
DIR. Walter Carpenters brick house on
Malletls bay, near Burlington, was burned
last week Wednesday loss $500, insur-
ance $1,000.
-Johu Lewis, aged 16 years, was drown
ed while boating with an excursion party,
in ShoI cham, the 10th.
A. j. Walker of Hartland, a war vet
eran, felt i'll in the bayfield, recently, and
sat down on a cart-stake that ran some
eight inches into his body and killed him.
Joseph Goodwin of Burlington, who
recently mysteriously disappeared and was
found at Port Henry, attempted 10 drown
himself by jumping overheard from a
steamer on Saturday, but was rescued.
The Methodist church at East Lyndon
was dedicated, the 18th, with sermon by
Rev. w. II. Puffer. The cost ofthe church
was 81 800, and there is no Indebtedness.
Edward Gilmore of 81 Adams, aged q,
unmarried, fell from freight train Mon
day evening, between the cars and had his
shoulder crushed and broken, with wounds
on the chin and head, occasloning his
death.
Nelson Puller Of Sheldon shot himself
dead through the head, perhaI accidental
ly, leaving a family for the town TO sup
port.
Rutland is arranging for three days
trotting meeting in August with purses of
$1,000.
-Varin BalclI, a robust farmer of Ches-
tor, was arrested, the 18Th, for numerically
beating Frederick Hull, a boy of nine
years, with an apple.tree bough. The little
fellows back was completely discolored by
marks of blows, and was pitiful 10 behold.
Balch was fined $40 and costs.
The cost of the Vermont division of the
Portland and Ogdensburg railroad and
equipments is 100000, and its bonded
debt about $4,000 a mile. The length of
road from Lunenburg 100 miles, but, though
the road runs across a stale famous for its
ranges OF mountains running north and
south, it goes along the streams in such
manner as 10 avoid steep grades. The new
route is claimed to be so miles shorter from
the West TO the seaboard than any other,
and consequently will compete for the
through freight.
The glasshoppers initst many Of the
farms in st. Adams and some neighboriDg
towns. They deyour all the leaves of the
grass that remains uncut, make the pas
lures almost as barren as deserts, riddle the
corn fields, eat off the wheat heads, and
even invade the potato fields. Strange as
1t may seem, some farms are almost wholly
free from them. Turkeys are in great de-
mand as exterminators. II Is fortunate
that half or more of the hay harvest is Sc
cured, and that frequent rains are helping
the growth ofaftermalh and pasture grass.
A final decree in the mortgage foreclos-
ure suit of the Vanderbilt estate against the
Harlem extension railroad was issued Fri
day by Judge Dunton, at Rutland, order
ing that the title be vested August L, in the
Union trust company as trustee for the
bondholders. The suit was begun in 1870,
to recover $500, 900 which Trenor w. Park,
who owned the road from Rutland 10 the