Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-22
VERMONT ITEMS.

james III. Batchelder the forger, has final |
ly been bailed out of the Middlebury Jail
Mr.. and Mrs Ethelhert Lewis of Poultney. |
celebrated their golden wedding Monday eve
ming
William H. Jaquith's saw mill and chair |
stock factory at Weston has been burned; |
loss 5000. insurance $1,000
A notable temperance revival is in prog
ress at Derby Line. A temperance union has
been formed, with $50 members.
Secretary of State Eyarts has just sold |
from his Windsor farm two yokes of oxen
that weighed $3.50 and 1851 pounds, and two
cows that weighed 400 pounds each
A few days ago Frank Dumas, North
field youth of If years, had his face badly
torn by the bursting of gun.
The Burlington republicans have re.nom-
mated 10 ID. Hatch, the present incumbent,
for II third term ms mayor, and nominated II.
o. Wheeler, a prominent young lawyer, for
city judge.
A suit has been commenced against the
Southeastern railway by the Connecticut and
Passumpsic to recover Sl00,0O0
Lake Champain is frozen over again.
Only twice since 1850. when il did not close
at all, has it remained open 50 latc-in 1854
and 1870.
-Ex-Cashier Bascom has assigned all his
W
don national bank.
It is said that more cousins have inter
married in the town Of Dandy than any other
in the State. All the families in the town are
now related in one degree or an other
Cornwall has musical prodigy in Milo
f. Benedict a frail and light-complexioned
youth of II years, who displays marvellous ex-
ecution and delicacy of touch on the piano,
much of the music he plays being Of his own
composition.
1t is now intimated that the a,vages of
diphtheria in Burlington during the past
year have been due to the fact that the sewers
discharge within the breakwater, while the
water supply Of the city comes from the same
portion of the lake.
Five notorious thieves, man named East
man and his two sons, from Charleston. and
Henry Gooche and Frank Bean Of Monroe,
n. H.. who have stolen buffalo robes, harness.
es. and any thing else they could, carrying
their plumber into Canada and smuggling
back liquor. which they peddled about Orleans
county in pint bottles have been arrested and
committed to Jail at st. Johnsbury.
Emma Young, who murdered her two
children at Newark n year ago and remained
! in iail till June when she was adjudgcd in
sane by Superintendent Bancroft of the Con-
! cord ~ II. J asylum and discharged has just
Il
"A prolonged search for a father
A long standing quarrel between DIR.
Parker, a prominent member of the Ptacham
| Congregational church and the pastor has re-
shifted in n protracted hearing before the
| church, which has communicated the doc
tor and vindicated the pastor by an almost
unanimous vote.
The dwelling of George Ptase Of Char
lotte was burned to the ground. at midnight
last Monday, Mr. Pease and his family barely
escaping with few articles of clothing The
fire took from an ash barrel, near the shed,
burning the shed first. with n large quantity of
wood.
VIM Merriam. an extensive Glover farm
er counts up the following ~ the products OF
his farm in 1877: Pounds of sugar 1000
pounds of butter 1900 tons of hay, 300
other fodder, b tons bushels of wheat, 100 !;
bushels of corn, $50; bushels of oats 800 !;
bushels of barley. 800 bushels of potatoes,
700; bushels of roots, 800; pounds Of pork,
1000; value of other products not enumerat-
ed above, Sl21.jO; received for cattle and
sheep sold $500. The market price of these
products counts up to about $1,000.
AT Danyille last week, while Mr.. O. n
Colby was Telling trees in the woods large
spruce tree fell in n contrary direction from
what he intended and whe" it came down it
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lay near, dislocating his ankle joint and break
ing the bones so that they protruded from the
flesh In this condition he was held fast, and
no help near. Although his cries for help
We're heard a great distance none recognized
them MS of person in distress. Finding that
he was not likely TO receive assistance he took
his ny, chopped the end Of the log off which
was about twenty inches through and thus
freed himself, and then cnwled on his hands
| I l.. hut
short distance before he gave up in despair.
In this condition he was found by a man hap
pening along who took him to his home II
will be seYerll weeks before he will be able to
be out.
-Richford has mysterious poisonous well,
which has made large number of people
sick-2S in all. II. j. Scarf, a prominent cit
izen of the town has died, and the three re-
naming members Of his family are in dan
gerous condition. None of the water has
been used for some time. but the cases OF
what is called gdStre eRterie fever continue
notwithstanding the efforts of the physicians
Some of the liquid was sent to Burlington
but, as Prof. Collier is in Washington, no anal
ysis was made. The presence of organic
matter in large quantities is suspected.
Later and fuller investigation into this east
shows that a large well opposite the American
house on Main street, the common water sup
| ply OF the nelghborhOod, had been polsOnei
by filth from ditch near by, and was tn
cause of the disease This ditch dug betweei
the well and the road, for the purpose o
draining the latter received the emptyings o
sewers from five houses besides the surface
of the vicinity, including the filth around
tenement occupied by two families of yer.
unclean habits, who emptied all their refus
at the door, even when person was sick witt
r typhoid fever in December 1t was so nea
e the well that the loose stones which forme
the latter's wall We're laid bare when it wa
opened. After heavy thaw about Januar
30 the water was rolled with the wash of thi
u Presidential neighborhood, and the sicknes
). broke ont, being confined mostly to the house
y which the well supplied. Among those i'll ar
, three persons in Eden, 30 miles away, Mr.
c. W. Searles of Newport, and two girls Twin
a mile or two out of Richford, all of whoI
We're visiting in the village about the time c
Il the thaw and drank the poisoned water
II analysis of the water has been reported ye
,. although samples have been sent to sever
a scientific men.
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