Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-14
VERMONT ITEMS.

Montpelier has organized military COM
pany of fifty-one men.
Rev. N. ~ Glazier has resigned his pas
torate OF the Baptist church at Montpelier.
A Westmore sheep gave seven pounds of
milk at milking, recently, and from the
mix three-fourths of a pound of butter was
made.
Tho last Sunday in May Cpftsbury and
Greensboro and the adjacent country were
visited by the severest hailstorm known for n
quarter of century. Great damage was
done to the crops and many fields Of grain
had to be resown.
In the county court at Woodstock, Vim.
+. Warby has been sentenced to eight years
in State prison for horse stealing. Frederick
A. Warden to four years for horse stealing,
and William Bryant to ten months for lar
ceny.
The steam engine in the saw-mill of II
Phinney, of Holland burst Thursday evening,
driving the engineer through the side Of the
building and scalding boy and man badly.
Part of the boiler was thrown entirely through
the roof
George Carpenter of Newark recently
eloped with Mrs. Charles Coles, their COM
bined funds amounting to 10 cents. They
walked to Island Pond where the woman
took the train and rode out the money. She
then trampcd to Cootcook, p O., and waited
there for her lover to come along.
The Addison county court grand Jury has
indicted James Ii. Batchclder, the Middle
bury forger, ON -four counts, and Frank At
kins, foreman of the Kaolin works ut Monk
ton for a murdcrous assault on David Calvin.
n former workman, not long ago. The trial
of Deacon Ezra p. Smith, the Nergennes wife
poisoner is in progress this week.
The failure of West a. Brother, at Airing
ton, is one of the heaviest that has been an
nounced in this State since the panic Of 1873
and the liabilities are said to be 800, 600 or
more. Two or three banks lose by them, aud
n large part of the people in the vicinity had
their savings invested with them
President Hubert of NIiddlebury college
delivers the annual sermon to the graduates of
St. Johnsbury academy on Sunday, and the
graduation exercises will occur Mt Academy
hall on Friday evening. Seven of the class
go to Dartmouth, one to Yale, two to Amherst,
and one to Wesleyan, while the others are un-
decided.
-lncendiaries attempted to burn the Stark
house, Banner office and other buildings in
the business portion of Bennington last
Thursday night. They robbed n poddlers
cart of $500 worth of goods, filed it with
combustibles, and, placing it in a barn adj
joining the buildings, started fire, which for
tunately went out
On Friday John Brown, while crazy from
drink, entered the school-house in the Kelley
district. in Dandy, about three miles west of
Dandy Borough and assaulted the teacher a
young lady, who screamed for help, her
screams bringing to the rescue Mr.. Kelley and
son, who live just across the way from the
school-house, when Brown Immediately left.
The teacher tainted, and the Kelleys were
busy with her few moments and did not
look after the assailant during that time.
When ut liberty they searched for him, and
found that he had jumped off from the bridge
across Mill Brook into the water and was
drowned 1t seems that Brown had been on
drunken spree for some days