Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-17
VERMONT ITEMS.

On Tuesday a fire was reported raging
on the mountain on the north Of Rdeys sta
ton near Waterbury, which threatened TO de-.
strov nm extensive tract of lumber north M
Mansfield mountain.
Mark Harrington, employed about the
barr of Dud'cy Davis Of Derby, fell Monday
morning fourteen feet into tue cellar striking
on his head lie died in two hours.
-Froghting business is said to be very no.
tive on Lake Champlain, and there is a great
demand for boats Mt increased freight rates.
At the terrible railroad accident near
jackson, Mich, last Friday, Moses Gray and
William Elkins of Troy, were kined, and
William Bugg of the same place had his right
leg and hip crushed.
Near North Pownal, last Saturday Eliza
Bennett an aged unmarried lady, was run
over by train on the Troy and Boston road
losing both legs and an arm. She died two
hours after the limbs were amputated.
Many farmers arc losing potatoes by rot
Out of about 100 bushels dug by Mr. Albert
Knight Of Shrewsbury, only 10 bushels were
saved.
St Adams butter market Oct lI-Tho
attendance was good, receipts light, market
quiet and prices the same as last week. Com
mon butter sold at H. to Is cents per pound.
good to choice, 20 to % cents selections. ~
cents, and fancy lots II shade higher.
A large fire has been in progress in the
Cornwall cedar swamp for the past week
Two men while ditching there set fire to
stump, and the dry underbrush and muck ig-
nited Immediately. A force of forty men
were at work at one time trying to stay its
progress.
A competent young woman teacher from
West Rutland, engaged by the Castleton
L f1V min Nhu 1..s.
refused admittance to the school house at the
beginning of the second term because the
committee had discovered that she was 10
man Catholic. The girl can however, collect
her salary for the whole time.
A vermont Atwood Merino sheep
breeders club" has been organized at Middle.
bury with Z. S. Stowell president and George
Hammond secretary the membership to be
strictly from Vermont. The trade in fancy
sheep is looking up. Two thousand dollars
was recently given for buck, and $500 was
paid for half interest in another
Fires dwelling belonging to Mr.
Barrett in Royalton was burned on Sunday
Loss $500. The barns and contents of Rich.
ard Burke of Duxbury have been burned
Loss $500 insured The chair shop Of W.
W. Marshall at SALISBURY was burned Friday
evening; loss SIS, 900, insured for SjOOO-
On Saturday evening n baln owned by b. NJ.
Davis of Richford was burned together with
colt, hay aud grain, supposed to be the
work Of an incendlary. Insured for ; 200.
The general term OF the supreme Court
wi" open in Montpelier, on Tuesday, Oct 9S
During the term the first annual meeting Of
the State Bar Association will be held The
| programme will include an address by Hon.
| f. j. Phelps, the president of the association,
the reading Of paper on the life and char
acter Of the late Lucius b. Peck, by Hon b.
F. Fifield on the life and character Of the
late Samuel S. Phelps, by Hon. J. W. Stew
art and last, but least, dinner at the Pa
| yilon Hotel.
The Caledonian says Last Wednesday.
| Mr. A. W Abbott Of West Barnet, with his
wife and ten children, and Mr. Gilmore Nor
rison of Ryegate with his wife and eleven
children. came to St Johnsbuly and were
| photographed in family groups. They came
| to town in four horse coach, and a two
horse coach, and at first were supposed to be
some Sabbath school eXcursionists. The old
est of the children was about - years old and
they were a happy, bright appearing crowd.
| The fathers and mothers are middle aged men
and women, and are evidently happy with
their families The mothers are cousins.
The Vcrgennes correspondent of the
! Springfield Republican has the following
| Frederick Douglass visited Nergennes in
1872 to speak on slavery, and, stopping for
| dinner at the Stevens house the boarders re-
| fused TO sit at dinner with negro Moreover,
prominent merchant, Byron Murray, now
| proprietor of the Clarendon Springs house,
Indignantly left the table, though he was as
sured by friend of the abolition party named
John L. Barker, that he, Murray, wouldyet
be glad to sit by Douglass's side. Last year
the citizens of Vergennes elected a negro as
their chief of police, and no better man could
have been chosen. And upon the steps Of
the same hotel where Douglass was refused
his dinner a leading resident of Monkton was
rotten-egged by the citizens for expressing
'anti-ngger' sentiments.