Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-11-29
VERMONT GTEMs.

Mlddlebury college has &c studonts y
seniors seniors, 10 juniors, ~ sophomores and %
The bennington Baptsts dedicated their
new church last week, and at the Same time
cleared of q debt of $4,000.
Mrs. Andrew Buchanan of Rvegato diod
recently from the effects of dose of poison
taken IN tho night by mistake for a dose of
medicine OO'e Vi
Sheriff 1. NJ. Trip, of AIiddleburv. is 70
De superintendent Of the House of Correction
Inc institution is to receive its first batch OF
prisoners next Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Barton of Chester
recently celebrated their golden wedding.
At st. Adams ON Wednesday Henry Pei
kle, carpenter, fell from scaffolding md
broke his hip so badly that it is doubtful il
ne ever fully RECEIVERS from the injury.
The Saranac Horse Nail Company. which
has been in operation at Vergennes for the
iast Two years, has removed to Plattsburgh
Ny. ''00' 3D.
Rev. Rowland S. Cross, lately pastor of
the st. Johnsbury Centre CONGREGATIONAL
church, has accepted call to Aoka, Mimi.
William Rawson of Craftsbury, aged PC,
committed suicide recently by placing the
muzzle OF gun TO his ear, pulling the trg-
ger with his toe and blowing his head to
pieces.
The Univorsalst church, at White River
Junction, is rapidly approaching completion.
and will be ready for dedication early in De-
cember. The Universalist State missionary,
Rev. j. N. Farnsworth, will have charge of
the young parish for season.
L. d. Turrell, prominent and respected
citizen of Burlington, dropped dead on the
street Saturday evening of heart disease.
The Rutland Daily Times. which com
menced publication October 29th last, has,
for want OF support, suspended publication.
sixteen numbers were issued. The paper
was an evening daily.
e. II. Slayton, of South Woodstock, has
a sheep with perfect miniature mouth inside
one of its ears-teeth, tongue, and all COM
plete, which opens and shuts when the sheep
chews her cud
During Thursday and Friday last twenty
boats came into Burlington laden with some
thing like two and half million feet of lum-
ber-a pretty good indication of the improve
ment of the lumber trade there.
"A young fellow has been swindlng peo-
pie in Franklin and Orleans counties by col
lecting funds for circulating libraries, each of
which he said contained ffty-two choice
books valued at fifty cents apiece. The only
books his subscribers have received, are of
the Lakeside Library" edition, valued at
about five cents each.
The Free Press says that work on the
Fletcher Hospital at Burlington is now prac-
tically completed, and the trustees are decid-
ing upon the style Of furniture to be adopted.
The hospital will probably be formally opened
about the first of the new year.
The Portland and Ogdensburg inward
mail train was thrown from the track at
BOWS crossing, near st. Johnsbury, last Fri
day morning, by broken rail, ditching the
passenger and express cars and killing Israel
j. Curricr of Wolcott, while Mrs. George L.
Waterman of Hyde Park was seriously, and
Miss Mary Trainer of st. Johnsbury slightly,
injured.
e. C. Hayden, the Derby Line wife muir
derer, was refused new trial by the supreme
court at Montpelier last week. The opinion
in the case was delivered on Friday morning
after the reading of which Judge Barrett
sentenced Hayden to be hung the first Friday
after the first Tuesday in January 1SS1-the
intervening time to be spent in hard labor in
the State prison at Windsor, with the excep-
ton of the last three months, which is to be
passed in solitary confinement
The $40, 600 fund left to Bakersfield by
the late Peter b. Brigham of Boston, with
the provision that $50, 900 should be used for
school purposes and SO, 900 for keeping the
cemetery in repair, has been paid over to the
town. handsome school building has been
erected with the $4,000 given the town some
time ago by three Boston sisters, Mrs. ia
cobs, Mrs. Kendall and Mrs Hankinson.
The divorce statistics of Vermont for
1877 show an average of one divorce to every
II marriages. against one to every 81 (nearly) in
1862, the increase in divorces in that period
having been pretty steady. Of the l75 grant
ed in 1877, PC were for adultery, 80 for doser-
ton, 70 for intolerable severity, and II for
refusal to support. Brutality toward wives
seems to be on the increase, or else is more
easily proven as n ground of divorce, the
number of cases granted for this cause hav-
| ing nearly quadrupled in lG years.
1t is said that Vermont stands at the
head of the New England States in the rela-
tive proportion of her agricultural to her to-
tai population. Over fifty per cent. of all
who are engaged in all occupations are engag-
ed in agriculture, while the percentage thus
engaged in Maine is less than forty i'll New
Hampshire thirty eight, in Massachusetts,
less than thirteen, in Connecticut about TWEEN
| ty-two and in Rhode Island about thirteen
per cent
Hayden, the Derby Line wife murderer,
now under sentence of death, came out with
Il "a lOuI- hNstlbAlthb III NLS A'ooNpAA
| Journal last week. in which he enlarges at
length on the alleged "treachery" on the part
| Of his relatives, and his expectations of do
| nestle happiness which were blighted on the
| day of the crime. OF the murder itself he de-
clares he has no recollection whatever and
| expresses a hope of being reunited to his
1 dear wife" in another world. A gentleman
| who has always known Hayden tells the Bur
| lington Free Press that this statement is a
tissue Of lies from beginning to end, that
| his treatment of his wife was of kind
(which it would be courtesy to call brutal, u
| and that when asked in Irasburgh jail, after
he had shot her, if he had any message to
send his dying wife, he said Eyes, tell her
| I'm d glad shot her and hope she IL die. "
A few weeks ago q little girl in st. Albans
| who had Just recovered from diphtheria, was
I taken by her parents to visit a family in q
| neighboring town. She slept with the chill
dren in that family and shortly afterward
three or four of them were taken with the
malady, and some have since died. The fam
lily permitted relatives and neighbors to visit
them, and the result is several cases in the
| neighborhood. They had public funerals
| even keeping the remains of one child an un
| usual time, waiting for another to die, so AZ
| TO bury them together, and this also spread
the contagion. The physician was not pow
erfully impressed, as some physicians are not
with the contagious character of the disease
therefore he did not take the necessary pre-
cautions for the protection of the neighbor
| hood or of his own family, and the result II
that one of his own children has died ant
another is dangerously ill.-St. Adams Mes
senger.
The INTERNATIONAL REVIEW for November