Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-18
VERMONT ITEMS.

Mr.. and Mrs Garry Munger of Colches
ter celebrated their golden wedding on the 9TH
inst.
1t is estimated that 10 600 people attend
ed the temperance celebration at Iyndonvillc
on the Fourth.
There will be temperance camp meet
ing at Mortified, August 10, 20 and u, with
prominent speakers.
Five Illicit stills have recently been cap
tured in the town of Cornth, and at one of
them the deputy marshal was fired upon in
true "moonshiner" style.
Fine salmon have been taken ut two diff
ferent points on Lake Champlain recently,
the result, evidently, of Seth Green's stocking
of the lake with those fish few years ago.
DR.. A. NJ. Caverly an old and respected
citizen and popular physician of Pittsford,
and author of the history of the town, died
last Friday of pneumonia, after short ill
ness.
Human Owens, convicted at the present
term of Caledonia county court for adultery,
was sentenced last Thursday to State prison
for two years.
Last Thursday, Arthur Van Clette of
Mddlebury, aged six years, was eating cher
ries when a stone lodged in his throat and he
nearly choked to death. A physician relieved
him but did not remove the stone Sunday
evening, the stone got in his windppo aud he
died in II short time.
Harvey Powers of South Ryegate was
probably fatally hurt Saturday by broad ax
from high beam in James Nelson's barn
falling on his head. His skull was smashed
and two arteries were cut
Mrs Eliza Parker, widow of Joshua Par
ker, of st. Adams, hanged herself on We'd
nosdny. Depression of spirits, occasioned by
the loss of her husband, was the cause.
A woman living in Berkshire has been
badly poisoned by drinking the milk of COW
that had eaten potato tops sprinkled with
Paris green. Though in a critical condition.
hopes are entertained of her recovery.
Rutland people are building a road to the
summit of Kilington peak, nine miles away.
An Irishman of Springfield named
Looney. has been sentenced to the house of
correction in Rutland for three months, for
beating his mother, aged 90.
A woman working in n farmers family
near Burlington has been fatally poisoned by
| washing pair of overas which the farmer
has worn while applying Paris green to his
| potatoes. The woman had a cut or two on
| her hands into which the poison penetrated
| with such effect that death soon resulted.
DIR. o. II. Morehouse, while fishing in a
| brook near Sudbury the other day, found a
| large turtle whose shell was completely COW
cred with moss. Having some curiosity to
| know how thick the moss was, he caught the
turtle and with sharp stone removed the
moss, when to his surprise he found the shell
| bore the date of 1888.
There was a severe hurricane and thun-
| der storm ut Wells River and across the river
| in Woodsyille, n. H.. on Monday evening
about six o'clock. Hail stones two inches in
diameter fell, crops and vegetation were de
stroyed and torn to shreds, one-third of the
| glass in the neghborhood was broken, large
trees were torn up, fences were destroyed,
houses unroofed and barn blown over.
An eight year-old boy from Milton, who
had been visiting in Burlington, was placed
| by his uncle on train in that city for his re-
| turn home last Friday, with a caution not TO
leave his seat till he reached Milton. Soon
after the train got under Roadway, however,
the little fellows hat blew OF, and, ignorant
or the danger of such an act he rushed 10
the platform and jumped off. The result
was a broken leg, and he was taken back to
Burlington and properly cared for.