Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-07-20
VERMONT items.

ers resident in Worcester, Mass.
A colony Of IA persons is about lie aving
St. Johnsbury for Texas, TO engage in
farming.
Stowe claims TO have found its 10l-
years-old Mrs. Mcmahon scrubbing away at
her weeks washing the other day.
1t is said that the late Rev. DR.. Hall of
Bloomington was the first teacher who
used blackboard in common schools.
DR.. Leroy NJ. Bingham, of Burlington
has been commissioned by Gov. Fairbanks
an assistant surgeon in the First Regiment
N.G.V.
The friends of John p. Phair are selling
his photographs for The purpose of raising
means for his defence, in case new trial
is granted him.
Edward II. Phelps, City Engineer Of
Burlington, has accepted a responsible po-
siton on the engineering staff OF the Pana-
ma Railroad.
Mrs. p. +. Sweet Of Burlington wants
10 see the equal of her fuchsia which at
present bears oil full blossoms aud 725
buds.
Work upon the new Fletcher Hospital
at Burlington will begin at an early day,
only few details remaining to be agreed
upon.
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson is about to
erect monument over the remains of his
father, William Emerson, in the old White
Church at Centre Rutland.
--Orman Flanders, young man q years
old, of Orange, committed suicide the Sth
by hanging himself with a check-rein. No
known cause for the act.
A hail storm visited Cornwall the 9th
destroying much corn and vegetation gen.
orally, and running the onion crop which is
usually very large and remunerative in
that town.
Mrs. Bates, widow, whose husband
was formerly leading citizen of Benning-
ton, was run Overland instantly killed, Sum
day, by train on the Hoosac tunnel route
near Pownal. She was 60 years old.
B. G. Corser of ST. Johnsbury has been
appointed postal clerk on the Springfield,
Mass, and Newport through line, to sue
coed Geo. F. Savage. Mr.. Corser has been
for years a merchant tailor at ST. Johns
bury.
The directors of the Sullivan County
Railroad have voted unanimously TO term
mate The contract with the Central Yer
mont, fixing the lst of August next as the
date determination.
The Vermont division OF the Portland
and Ogdensburg Railway was formally
opened Tuesday. Governor Fairbanks,
who has been an active promoter Of the en-
terprise, drove the last spike in the town
of Fletcher, the point of junction between
the two ends ofthe road.
Mr.. Hosea Welch of Groton celebrated
the 4th inst, by moving in field with his
oldest son, his oldest grandson and his old
est great-grandson, and ii was agreed that
his swath was the best in the lot. He is in
the 9lst year of his age.
John L. Watt, well-known tailor of
| Windsor, aged 6s, who disappeared on Mon
day of last week, was found in his shop,
| Thursday morning, dead, having probably
been there several days. No indications Of
foul play could be discovered, and the cause
of his death is unknown.
| Norwich University has received an
application from young lady to enter the
next Freshman class. Capt. Curtiss, the
President, was at first somewhat disturbed
| at this new development OF the marching
| intellect of woman, but his soldierly gal
lantry would not allow him to refuse, so he
replied that if the fair applicant was willing
to comply with all the regulations in re-
| spect to wearing uniform, drill, etc., she
would be admitted, provided she passed tho
examinations.
| Rev. and Hon. A. j. Samson of st. AL
bans is reported to be deiaulter 10 an
amount estimated at last accounts, at SlO,-
900. Samson is a minister of the Congrega-
| tional denomination, though he has not
preached regularly, was formerly judge OF
| probate. and has of late years been much
occupied in the settlement and administra-
ton Of estates, in which his supposed de-
falcation occurred. 1t is said that his crook
ed transactions will date back to the period
of his judgeship. A large number of the
business men of the town are on his bonds,
and there is much excitement over the mat
ter.
A historical document of much value,
which has long been considered lost, has
come TO light in the original manuscript
record ofthe constitutional convention Of
Vermont, held at Windsor, July 8, 1898, to-
gether with copy of the constitution as
amended in manuscript, printed by Alden
Spooner. The document, in the handwrit-
ting Of the secretary, Lewis r. Morris, was
sent from Cornell Bluffs, Ia, by Horace
Everett, who loaned II to the town of Wind
sor for use at the recent commemoration,
and it contains complete list of the dele
gates and officers, with the full record OF
transactions by some 1872 members. Thos.
ChitteHden of Windsor was president, and
L. r. Morris of Springfield was secretary.
The convention was opened on The Sd OF
July and closed on the 9th, and the record
shows that the members worked straigh
through the Fourth, both forenoon aud af-
ternoon, as If itwere not Independence day.
1t is hoped that the document may finally
ibe deposited with the papers Of the state
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