Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-08
VERMONT ITEMS.

A Pomfret lady has parrot that correct
~ whistles the first strain of Yankee Doodle
-Four carloads Of sheep started from
Niddebury for Texas last Thursday morning.
Senator Edmunds has been chosen orator
for the next anniversary of the Associate
Alumni of Barre Academy.
Gideon Fem of Rutland who lives with
his newhew, Edward Fem, was robbed of
5000 by burglars one night last week.
Hon. ]. Gregory Smith of st. Adams
will deliver the address at the fair of the
White River Agricultural Society at Bethel in
September.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius l.. Eldridge of New
Haven, and Mr.. and Mrs. stephen Hanks of
East Bethel have recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversaries.
The premium list of the Vermont State
Fair to be held at Montpelier, September 3,
10 and H. 1879 has been issued. Persons
desiring a copy can address Henry Clark,
Secretary, Rutland.
Samuel Place of North Fairfax has some
,cons which were grated into his apple trees
on the 18th day of last April and are now
bearing apples of good size. One ripe apple
fell from one of them the first day of August
The house of George Howe and the Dea-
con johnson house on Court street, Middle
bury opposite the Jail, were burned Monday.
The contents of the houses were saved.
A large adder was recently discovered in
an apple tree in Quechee having evidently
been attracted there by nest of young robins
The snake was killed and two of the young
birds found in its throat.
-Ex.Iieut. Gov Levi Underwood of Bur
lmgton was discharged last week from the
Concord N. H., insane asylum, where he had
loon .iupa Eelruarv nf last vnar He - IL,
excellent health, both physically and mental
ly.
The Boston Herald remarks that "Our
distinguished agricultural Marshal Banks will
address the Barton, VT, fair people, Oct. l,
and tell them how beets and other garden sass
are made to thrive on his Waltham planta-
ton"
S NJ Stowe and wife of Middlebury
were thrown from their carriage by the break
ing of a wheel last week Thursday evening,
aud Mrs. Stowe was dangerously hurt about
the spine.
Il T.. Knapp of Middlebury, james C.
Barrett Of Rutland, and Loveland Munson of
Manchester have been appointed a committee
to examine candidates for appointment to
West Point to fill vacancy which will occur
in June, 1880.
The Burlington Free Press says that
Roger L. Chase, ex-editor of the ex-Sunday
Crucible, left town suddenly last Saturday,
taking the carly morning train. He gave no
intimation to his friends of his intended de-
parture nor as to his objective point, and left
his business affairs in the utmost "confu-
SION"
The receivers of the Portland and Ogdens-
burg railroad, Vermont division, have con-
tracted with n. C. Munson TO fill the trestles
do the masonry and complete the ballasting
of the road, and Mr.. Munson is already on
the line with large force of men, locomo-
tyes, and some sixty dump cars.
Friday afternoon last as w. H. Foote, of
Brookyille, was driving hay wagon down
hill with one horse, the horse suddenly turn
ed and threw the wagon over The rack fell
on Mr.. Foote, taking of his right ear, and
otherwise badly bruising and injuring him.
Clark French, employed by Mrs Daniel
Taft at Barre, was seriously kicked by colt
which he was beating the other day. His
nose was broken, an eye knocked out, and his
forehead crushed in, SO that / pieces of bone
have been removed.
General orders No. II from ''Headquar-
tiers Veteran Soldiers Reunion" announce
that The next reunion of the Veteran Sol
ders of Vermont will be held on the Pros
pect Park Grounds, at Montpelier, on the GOTH
2lst and 22d days of August, 1879, and the
Camp will be designated as Camp Redfeld
Proctor" Details will be given in future or
ders.
Three young ladies from Caledonia Coun-
ty have recently been accepted rs missionaries
under the American Board, and are to go to
their fields of labor soon namely, Miss Laura
Chamberlain of Peacham to Sivas Turkey,
and Misses Mary and Martha Litch of Rye
gate to Ceylon.
At Stowe, the other evening, a young
woman working in b. f. Kidders family was
reading in bed, holding the light in her hand,
when she fell asleep and dropped the lamp
on the bed, setting the clothes on fire. She
screamed for help, which arrived in time to
save her life, though she was badly burned.
1t is said in the northern part of the
State that the recent advance in the Canadian
tariff has resulted in great deal of smuggling
into Canada, cotton goods, crockery, hard
ware, and nearly every kind of manufactured
goods being carried across the line in farmers
wagons.