Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-09
VERMONT ITEMS.

Recent rains have raised lake Champlan
several inches.
At Roxbury, the other day Mrs Mason
Shepard laid her little girl eight months old,
on the bed, and in some way it rolled on its
face and died Of suffocation.
George Runnels of Moretown was run
away with and badly hurt the other day, and,
when his son started out to bring home the
wrecked wagon day or two after the horse
stumbled and he was thrown out and proba-
bly, fatally injured.
AT North Pownal, the other day, Thomas
King, n railroad employee, killed himself with
an overdose of laudanum. He was suffering
from dysentery, and reckessy swallowed the
whole prescription.
The congressional candidate in the Sec
ond Michigan district is DIR. l.. II. Thomas,
of Reading. DIR. Thomas is native of Ran
dolph, in this State, and is the manufacturer
of Thomas's writing ink.
The Free Press says that the Merchants
National bank of Burlington. United States
Depository for the State of Vermont has re-
ceived from the mint ton of standard silver
dollars to be put in circulation
st. Adams Butter Market. Aug. g. The
market was dull, receipts light, and prices as
last week; the quality of butter was poor.
Butter sold at 10 to IL cents per pound Sc
lections, lG to II cents per pound.
Dexter Goodell, of Calais, who died the
other day, was a veteran of the Mexican war,
having served under Gen. Scott, and he also
saw about three years service in the late war,
being member of the 18th Vermont
Last Thursday morning freight train
ran over and killed small child named Mac
Mahon on the Central Vermont road in Viii
liston. The engineer, rounding n curve,
could not sec the child in season to stop the
train.
There is undoubted evidence that some
of the quails imported last year and turned
out in Rutland, have returned to their breed
ing ground in Rutland. Several broods of
half-grown quails were found before the Quails
turned ont this year had time to hatch their
young
During last Thursday nights storm the
barn of Elisha Howard of Milton. was struck
by lightning and totally consumed with all
its contents, including horse, COW, guam
tity of hay, farming implements, etc. The
house of c. L. Wolcott, in the same village,
was also struck within twelve feet of a light
ming rod but no great damage was done.
Here is pretty fair hit on somebody
from the local correspondence of the Man
chester journal Ivan Amburgh's circus and
menagerie will exhibit at Factory Point,
Wednesday, Aug. nth, and your Manchester
Depot scribbler had better hide under his bed
during that day, for we understand that the
managers of this great show are looking for
Darwin's missing link"
On recent evening" Jack Spencer, tav-
ern keeper at West Concord, rode horse in.
to pit in the village which was dug to place
hay scale, and received severe injuries. His
jaw was badly broken-fractured on both
sides and in front-and in addition to other
injuries his throat was cut so as to necessitate
sewing up. The night was very dark and
Spencer matched it by being very drunk. He
now solemnly promises never to drink or sell
liquor again.
A Montpelier man went into a store, the
other day. leaving his horse and buggy hitched
outside The horse being of an inquisitive
turn of mind, rubbed his bride off and at
tempted to find his master. He went up the
steps from the street to the front door and en-
tered the store. The door being narrow, the
buggy was left outside on the sidewalk with a
broken whifiietree The horse finding no
man in the front store, proceeded to the back
room where he was met by his master, who
led him out
A terrible family tragedy startled West
Randolph Saturday morning, Mike Winn
who lives near the village and is about ~
rose about 1 o'clock and shot his wife and
| sleeping 1O-months-old infant with a revolver
which he bought on Friday, for the purpose
he said of killing some theiving squirrels in
his barn. His eldest child, boy of IL,
awakened by the noise, came down stairs and
narrowly escaping with his life, gave the
alarm. The murderer fed Immediately and
hid himself in some bushes near the railroad
bridge where later, when his pursuers track
| ed him to the spot, he shot himself dead. Mrs
VIM has since died, but her babe may re-
cover. She was about 2S, and had been mar
ried - years. Her husband generally con-
sidered peaceable man, is supposed to have
become partially insane over business troub-
les, and evidently intended to kill his whole
family, which consisted of the members al
ready mentioned and two little girls, MS he re-
Gently said that he wished that they were all
out of their misery"