Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-19
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The Richford poisoned well is to be filed
up instead of being used again, as was re-
ported.
Cold mining in the town of Stockbridge
is to be resumed this season on larger scale
than ever before.
Mr.. Silas W. Cummings has recently
been appointed general passenger agent Of
the Central Vermont railroad
A movement is ON foot to build q Metho-
dist church at Sandgate, and $1,000 has al
ready been subscribed for the purpose.
Burlington is to have "A new opera house
through the liberality Of John p. Howard,
Esq, a wealthy citizen of New York, and
native of Burlington.
Rev. A. NJ Folger, pastor of the Metho-
dist church, st. Johnsbury, has been COM
PEELED to leave his charge on account of i'll
health, and has gone to Boston for treatment.
-Isaac Bowman, of McIndoe's Falls, has
contracts to drive l0,OO0,0OO feet Of lumber
down the Connecticut river this spring ZONE
of it going as far as Hartford, Conn.
The Vermont conference of the Metho-
dist church will meet in Woodstock. the first
day of May aud hold over the following Sab
bath, Bishop Gilbert Haven presiding
The fast express train between Saratoga
and the White Mountains, will be put on
again this season, and its time will he quicker
10y ut least two hours than last year.
DR. L. Sawyers barn at Springfield, with
n large quantity of hay and farming tools
was burned by probably incendiary fire Sat
urday afternoon.
Essex, with population of 1000 people
has 30 persons who are over 10 years of age
of whom 10 are over so, and the oldest is o.
james NJ. Furman of Bethel on Friday
l.. 4. IL
from eating poisonous weed in his hay. The
animal was 10 years old and valued ut $1,000
"a In Fer.sburg, the other day. was wit
messed the unusual sight of n man and his
great grandson chopping wood together. Hi.
ram Peck is the patriarch's name, and his age
is 81 years.
Hiram Weeks of st. Johnsbury. who was
recently reported to have absconded with
$40, 600 of trust and borrowed funds. has
turned up in Boston, where he has been Sc
riously i'll for over week, and denies that he
had any intention of running away.
Henry Austin and Peter Fountain of
Winooski agreed II years ago that the survi-
vor of the two should make a water-tight
brick grave for the body of the other when
ever he should die, and Fountain has Just had
chance to keep his word.
Stowe is said to have an enterprisug far
mer who for four or five years has brought
all the water used in the family. and also to
water quite n large stock of cattle out Of
well upon IL ladder.
The border railroad war" is believed to
be over at last On Monday trains on the
Southeastern railway recommended running
through to Newport, and the people along the
line are jubilant over the resumption of tray-
el.
The passenger train employees of the Cen
trail Vermont railroad will be uniformed about
May /. The suit will be of navy blue cloth
and brass buttons with the words Central
Vermont Railroad" encircling the buttons.
The caps will be of the United States Navy
regulation pattern.
james Mcdonald of Rutland has been
awarded the contract to furnish stone for the
base of the enormous elevator to be erected
by the Hudson River railroad company at
Sixty-third street, New York city. The spe-
cifcatons Of the contract call for 300 yards
of building stone which will be taken from
the quarry Mt Willsboro and probably cost
! over $50, 900.
-Swanton has a curious scandal. farmer
named Loukes, who has a wife and four chill
dren and is a leader in the Methodist church
attempted to run al with the servant girl of
his minister. Rev Mr.. Hyde. the other day.
but the latter interfered and compelled him
| to deposit sum of money in the bank for
the benefit of his family before clipping
Loukes now questions the legality of Mr..
Hyde's interference and has sued for return
of the money.
V. Rich, Of Shoreham, has "A ram that
sheared, last year, twenty-five pounds I'M
washed wool. which. after being thoroughly
cleansed, weighed eight pounds six and one
half ounces. The ram weighed after shear
ing, last year, l02 lbs, and after sheariug this
| year. los lbs. and his fleece 81 pounds As
| his fleece this year is to be sent entire to the
! Paris exhibition, it will not be cleansed at
present, but there is little doubt it would
yield over nine pounds of cleansed wool.
A teacher in one of the St Adams Sun
| day schools was endeavoring to explain to the
infant class the theory of the watchful care
and goodness Of God. She used the familiar
| figure of his fatherhood, and said Now if
| you were playing in the yard and should fall
| and hurt yourself, your father would run out
and pick you up" A bright little seven-year-
old spoke up and said NO, he wouldn't
my father wouldn't-he's too lazy" The
truth of the remark is said to have made it
douby amusing.
Jericho is excited over the mysterious
disappearance Of Bertha, the daughter of Hi
| ram Davis. n well-known citizen, and her lille
| gitimate child. She was soon TO appear in
the Chittenden county court in a suit against
Fred NJ Hutchins of Essex charging him
with being her childs father and seeking to
make him support it, and foul play is feared.
A stranger pretending to hire her to work in
the Westford hotel took her away Thursday,
and all trace of her has since been lost.
In Burlington, dreadful accident occur.
red at the corner of Maine and Battery streets,
the other day, under the following circum-
stances One of the upper windows of ten
J ement house in the location indicated was
held partially up by a cOld-chisel of some
eight inches i'll length and of proportionate
size. Some one raising the window still high
er up knocked out the chisel and it fell on
the outside, striking IA little child, two and a
half years old, Michael Grace by name, who
stood under the window at play. The child
hearing IA noise, looked up, and the chise
struck with the sharpened end on his fore
head, just over the right eye its weight and
the distance it fell, (2G feet, making the
blow one of tremendous force. The skull
was penetrated aud the brain oozed out. Tn,
poor little sufferer survived over week 9TH,
accident happened on Thursday, April ith)
death not taking place till Saturday