Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-01
VERMONT ITEMS.

--Burlington's total loss by fire last year
was only about 5000.
March 18th is Vermont's centennial day
for this year that being the Tooth anniversary
of the meeting of the first State legislature Mt
Windsor.
The town of Wolcott raised Is or 20 tons
of hops, last year. with disastrous results, the
price obtained being less than the cost of
picking
Mis- lie Francs exhibitions at Rutland
have created great enthusiasm among the
women Of that town, many of whom are Wig
orously practising walking and private rink
is talked Of
A Hyde Park school maam tried to cure
some of her pupils of smoking tobacco by
making them drink some water in which some
old pipes had been boiled. They were made
sick and their parents mad
A Vermont sheep-raser who has been
prospecting in Georgia thinks that the state is
especially adapted to the raising of sheep,
and that the wool crop could be made much
more profitable even than the cotton.
The missing daughters of Mrs. Bliss of
Fairlee, whose death by suicide was at first
feared have been heard from in New Hamp-
shire, Nellie being at work in Concord. and
Ida, with a little week-old SON. at the Woods
vile town farm.
A novel feature of the eternal punish
ment discussion was the jumping up of Lud-
low Irishman in church on recent Sunday
evening to protest against the clergyman's
description of hell.
A Castleton Frenchnan is the father of
seven children, all of whom are married
grandfather to SO others, and great grand
father to two more.
The shipment of choice merino sheep
Co.. Al n. l. i
which recently started from Shoreham for the
West, contained ~ of these animals, valued
at So, 600.
Rutland has two new papers, the Leader,
which is an edition of the Brandon News, I'M
der the local management of Henry Clark,
and the Inquirer, democratic paper edited
by " c. Meyerhofler.
At Derby Line, the other day q young
man. named Palister, Of Compton, 2. O., was
instantly killed, by being caught in an engine
in a steam saw mai. His head and one arm
were severed from his body.
Mrs. La Plant, the mother OF ten living
children, the Oldest thirty-fye years old and
the youngest FIVE, recently married one La
Faun, aged about nineteen, and the happy
couple started for Plattsburgh, n. Y, TO spend
the honeymoon.
Edward Tatro, recently sentenced to
death for the murder OF Mrs Alice Butler of
Highgate. is now said to have repeatedly mar
rated the particulars of his crime to his fellow
prisoners, and his confession thus made
stamps the crime as ore of the most horrible
and revolving on record.
A soldier from Plattsburgh, N. Y, nam
ed William Mead, was frozen to death at
Windmill Point in Alburgh last Wednesday
night, after applying unsuccessfully for lodg-
ing at several houses near by. lie was alb
sent on weeks furlough and, his money
having given out was making his way home
on foot The inhuman cruelty which left n
man to freeze 20 death on a bitter winter
night within 80 feet of warm fire, causes no
little indignation against the community in
which the event occurred, but it comes too
iTte to bring the poor man back to life.
A man named Whmmet, who ran OF Il
precipice, and went down with his team load
ed with slaves. nearly POO feet to the ice, Just
above East Middlebury, a few days ago. is
now reported as likely to recover. 1t is al
most miracle that he could have escaped in
slant death in going down such place, catch
| ing, rs he did, from tree to tree, and as often
being knocked off by the falling lunches of
slaves from the load above, where the horses
and sleigh were caught in tree fifteen or
twenty feet from the road above. His
last fall was about twenty-five feet upon the
| ice where he WaS found and cared for