Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-07
VERMONT ITEMS.

Alexander Fullington, an old gentle
man of North Cambridge, broke one OF his
legs for the third time last week.
The apple crop in Orleans county has
not been as good for many years as it
promises TO be this year.
"A St. Johnsbury mau bought a mare,
that could trot in 2:35, paying s525; he
kept her five days and sold her to Boston
man for 81, 500
"A seven-years-old son of A. II. South
worth, of Fairlee jumped from window
twelve feet TO the ground, while asleep.
The fall did not awaken him or seriously
injure him.
The two Rutland dailes Lave CONSOLE
dated in one under the name of the Her.
AID and Globe. The statement is made that
the Globe has sunk $4,000 since it was
started four years ago last Spring.
"A Bethel sugar orchard has a natural
| curiosity. Two rock naples, about eight
inches through, standing three feet apart,
| unite in one trunk four feet from the
ground. The union is perfect, there being
no seam visible.
The ownership of the fUur-horse turn
| out in which the President rode at Ben
nington, is at last settled. 1t was not the
property of Mr.. Billings or ofW. C. French,
Esq, as the Woodstock Standard informs
us, but of Mr.. Geo. L. French, livery sta
BILE keeper, of Woodstock, who FURNISHED
the team and drove it,"
The steamer Montreal, belonging TO
the Northern Transportation Company,
plying between Swanton, VT, and Platts-
burg, n. Y, on Lake Champlain, was
burned Monday night, those sleeping on
board barely escaping with their lives
loss $4,000.
The Bates House at Rutland was dis
covered on fire about o'clock Tuesday
morning and came near being destroyed.
The origin of the fire was from the fire.
place off the reading room, where fire
had been made for the first time the eve
ming previous. Damage by fire slight, but
by water thrown in the building il will ag-
gregate $780,
The announcement is made that the ef-
forts of Brandon people. to take SOC, 600
worth OF the Brandon scale company's stock
have failed. N. T.. Sprague agreed to take
half the stock and public meeting was
held to raise the additional $4s, 900. Only
about sl2, COO were raised, aud the time was
not extended. The papers have been sign
ed transferring Mr.. Sprague's stock in the
Howe Scale Company, to Gov. Page, and
the works will be removed TO Rutland.
Mr.. Sprague will put in other business as
SOON as the scale works go out.
"A man who gave the name OF Thomas
Miller, threw himself under the engine of
a train at Arlington, on the Rutland and
Bennington railroad, last Saturday and
both his legs were so badly broken and
mangled that they were amputated. Death
ensued the same evening. The suicide was
an intelligent looking man, about S5 years
of age, and neatly dressed. He said he
threw himself under the engine to get out
of the world as he hadn't friend in it.
While their parents and neighbors
were attending service Sunday evening in
| a mel ghboring school house, Dana Boyd's
two boys, aged 5 and 9, living a short dis
lance south of Hartland Four Corners, play
ed with matches in the barn and acciden-
tally dropped one on the hay, setting every
thing in a blaze. The oldest boy escaped
and ran for help, but before succor could
be obtained 1t was impossible to enter the
burning building. The father frantically
| chung to his Oldest boy, while the mother
was almost crazed with grief as the otLer
child persisted in the flames before their
very eyes.