Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-10
VERMONT ITEMS.

IL. II. Woodland, the landlord of the
South Royalton House died last Monday
morning.
Hon. c. W. Willard of Montpelier has
left the Hot Springs, Ark, improved in health,
and is spending n short time in Washington
Since the passage of the national bank
rupt act, S1l petitions in bankruptcy have
been filed in this State.
A relic of Hubbardton battle was recent
ly discovered in the shape of n bayonet which
was plowed up, six inches below the surfncc,
near Mount Zion, in Fast Hubbardton.
The post-ofiice at Castleton has been in
the same family for the last fifty-fve years.
Samuel Moulton having held it thirty years.
and his sons, Cullen and William, ten and fif-
teen years respectively.
A four-years-old son Of Halsey l.. Rug
giles of Lyndon Center broke his arm in two
places and dislocnted his elbow, while playing
with grindstone the other day, his mittcn
catching in the gudgeon and winding his arm
around the inch shaft clear to the elbow.
Edward Collins, a workman on the Free d.
lay quarry ut East Dorset, was instantly killed
recently by mass Of rock fifteen feet long,
which fell distance Of - feet, crushing him
to death
Dexter Johnson of West Burke, 30 years
old was adjusting the saw guide of the board
lnutlllt III HIS MN llt bNllti hAls Nhfh A1
was caught in the machinery, thrown upon
the saw and mangled so that he died the next
day.
The post Office Mt Swanton Centre has
been discontinued. and one again established
at Swanton Junction, with Charles Roberts rs
postmaster One has also been established mt
West Lincoln, with Milton j. Stearns as post
master.
ST. ALDANs BurTEB AfERKEr, May With
| fair receipts and large attendance, the market
| was dull and lower. Butter brought 10 TO lG
cents per pound, according to quality selec-
tons, II TO Is cents per pound, with few
fancy diaries bringing something higher.
In Williston, a small house has been built
for the accommodation Of tramps. When the
tramp puts in an appearance he is escorted to
the shanty, fed and lodged over night and
dismissed in the morning. The arrangement
has worked well.
The Bennington Banner says that Henry
| G.. Root and Charles NJ. Bliss have been ut
work in Washington recently among the Yer
| mouters there and have secured pledges OF
| 81 900 to the monument fund, with the prob
ability Of its increase to some II, 800.
The St. Adams Advertiser says We
| learn from Il reliable source that there is a
movement on the part of several parties who
were prominent in the late Fenian brother
| hood IN this place to again put the organlza-
ton in working order with an eye to the con-
| tingency of n war between RUSSIA and Eng
land This is not sensational, but something
which may be relied upon
Mrs. Obadiah Lille, of Bethel, who died,
the other day, at the age of - years, was the
last Of seven sisters in family of - children,
nine of whom have died at an average age of
| over 10 years OF four surviving brothers,
the oldest is -, the youngest &C, and the ag
| gregute of their ages is 3l2 The aggregate
ages of the thirteen up TO the present time IL
go years.
Religious items The Congregations
Church at East Hardwick extends "A call &c
Rev E. c. Gordon. Rev. Geo. J. Plat OF
EliMbethtown, n. Y, supplies the pulpit Of
the Baptist Church mt St Adams for three
months. =. The Universalist Society at Wes
Burke have paid up debt of about SGOt
within the last month. The Methodist Churcl
! Mt Mortified has voted to have free pews
Rev. Ira ID. Burwcll, pastor Of the Hncsburl
Baptist Church, has resigned. and moved Il
his SaNton's river farm on account of i'll
health.
A Washington ID. Co. correspondent o
the Burlington Free Press says The FRS
Congregational Church, and the only one o
this denomination in the city, has now
membership of more than eight hundred
lhls church Is uhuer the liStoIal chhIBe
DIR. j. +. Rankin, formerly of Vermont, an'
aside from the large debt incurred i'll building
@ house of worship, is in n very prOsperou
condition. its membership having been in
creased several hundreds during the past tw,
years. Among the founders Of the churcl
may be mentioned names of three Nermontor
who are now sleeping under the shadows o
the Green Mountains, viz: Deacon Silas II
Hodges. of Rutland Deacon William Wheel
err of Poultncy, and Deacon II. T. White, o
Bennington.