Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08
VERMONT ITEMS.

The ice closed over the broad lake at
Burlington on Wednesday night of last week.
Levi Underwood, prominent lawyer of
Burlington, is said to be afflicted with soften
ing Of the brain.
DIR. W. L. Worcester, formerly of Bur
lington, has been appointed assistant supcrin-
tendent of the Michigan insane asylum.
Fairbanks & Co., of st. Johnsbury have
been awarded the contract for supplying the
government postal service with scales for the
present year.
The diphtheria is abatng in Ferrisburg,
whore it has made such frightful rayages and
not a single case is now known to exist in the
town.
= Mrs. John Hull of Ludlow celebrated her
9Oth birthday on Thursday by an old ladies'
party, the average age of those presen; being
% years.
The Montpelier and Wells River Railroad
makes very good showing, its net earnings
for last year being S27,GGi
Charles Knapp, who had wife in Beth
lehcm, n. H., and married another in ST.
Johnsbury the other day, is in jail.
Congressman f. L. Woodbridge of
Nergennes has been appointed states attorney
for Addison county, in place of George II.
Chapman, recently deceased.
MIR and Mrs. n W. Scott of Glover, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Upham of Winooski and Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan Sherwin of Reading are three
happy couples who have recently celebrated
their golden weddings.
The number of crows that make their
roost in piece of woods in Pomfret this
winter is said to be beyond estimate. They
come in vast fiocks about sunset, and, in the
morning, after great deal of crow noise and
confusion, leave and are seen no more during
the day
j b. Ladoo of Westfield, has birds
nest, which he found in the woods a few days
ago. containing an old bird and four young
ones the latter apparently not over three
days old. The bird is of a slate color, with a
brownish yellow tinge on the tip of the wings
and tail
The Manchester journal of last week tells
story Of large flock of robins" which are
spending the winter in u valley in that town.
near George Bartons, and make the hills re-
sound with their music every pleasant morn
ing"
Il Nershrre man who recently attempted
suicide because n married woman who had
promised to elope with him changed her
mind, thoughtfully chose as the text for his
funeral sermon Rev. xvii: I, And the an
gel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou mar
vel | will tell thee the mystery of the wo-
man, etc.
The North Bennington women have pro-
vided the young men with II handsome read
| ing room in the former bar and billiard room
of the Bennington house.
When Mrs. Luther Adams of Morristown
returned from sleigh-ride with her little six
months-old girl baby the other day she laid
the child on a lounge, and, turning to pick il
| up a few minutes later she found it dead.
There was a meeting of Passumpsic and
Southeastern railroad officials at Montreal last
week, but it was not successful in settling the
differences between the corporations, and SC
the Southeastern officers win hereafter man
age their road themselves, Independent of 9th
er lines.
The papers are telling the story of
thirsty Bennington county man, who during
an attempt to enforce the liquor law adopted
the ingenious device of burying barrel o.
liquor in his garden, over which was grown
bed of sage. tin tube run from near tn,
top of the ground into the barrel, and by tn
aid of n small hand pump a bottle could b.
filled from the barrel in a short time, while Ii
was at work in the garden, without exciting
anybody's suspicious. When the barrel be
came empty ii could be easily refilled througl
the tube in the night.