Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-22
VERMONT ITEMS.


At Ripton two inches of snow fell upon
the mountain, on Saturday.
A. II. Rollins of Springfield, 32 years old,
was impaled on n wagon stake the other day,
and probably fatally hurt.
The Caledonian Jail is without an occu-
pant for the first time in many years.
j. II. Wallace, editor of wallaces Month
ly, New York, will deliver the address at the
State fair.
The Orange county fair occurs at Brad
ford Sept. 23-5.
"A now three-story dwelling house of NJ.
l.. Kelsey at Burlington, nearly completed,
was partly burned Saturday insured for
$4,000.
The Central Vermont is about TO place
steel rails on the entire portion Of the line
known as the Montreal and Vermont juno
ton section.
" II. Griswold of Felchville, is afflicted
with 1Sl boils. His chances for recovery are
small.
The Rutland firm of Mason & Palmer
ready -made clothing dealers, have gone into
voluntary insolvency, with assets of 5000
and liabilities Of about $500.
The farm buildings Of Richardson q Co,
at Groton Pond, with their contents, were
burned Saturday. Loss $4,000 insured for
$1,000
One Campbell of Sutton, postmaster,
merchant and deacon confesses to debauch-
ing his young ward and approprating her
money.
The lumber trade at Burlington is report
cd rs far better in this and the preceding
month than at the same season in any previ-
GUS year.
"A Hydevillo firm recently sent a car load
of roofing slate to Monravia, Liberia to be
used in covering Methodist missionary
church.
A young man, deaf and dumb named
Rowe, was run over and killed by train on
| the Montreal X Vt. Junction road Tuesday.
The Free Press remarks that a notable
| feature of summer travel in Burlington this
season is the extraordinarily large number OF
Southern visitors. Every day a score or so
of people from Memphis, New Orleans and
other Southern cities are registered at the no.
| tells
There is q man in Peacham who is We.
mad. He supposed that neighbor's hog
| had broken into and trampled down his grain.
| Aiming himself with a club, he ambushed
the hog and dubbed him so that he died.
And now the neighbor smiles when he con.
siders the dead hog belonged to the clubber.
Justin White stole a horse and buggy al
Bristol the other day and drove of into the
mountains He was pursued and the prop
erty recovered but he escaped. Then two
officers donned fishermen's clothes, took their
tackle and spent two days in trout fishing,
| looking for the thief at the same time. When
White became hungry he came to them for
food and they quietly arrested him.
The trade in Spanish morno sheep is
improving and four car loads were shipped
Mt Mid6lebmJ in one week recently, II.
| Burns of Antonio, Tex, coming for car
| load of fine animals. George Smith of Adj
Olson disposed of fine three years-old buck
for 500, which approaches the old-time
| prices.
Mr. d. L. Mullen, his wife aud Miss
Murphy of Troy, while driving across bridge
at West Rutland Thursday evening of last
week, were precipitated through the struc-
ture, by its being torn up for repairs, and
there being no light in the vicinity to warn
people of the danger. Mrs. Mullen had three
ribs broken and was otherwise injured, while
Mr.. Mullen and Miss Murphy were also Sc
verely bruised.
The result of Saturdays hose race at
Bennington was as follows Eagles of Green
field, Mass, minute ~ seconds; Mechan-
les of North Adams, Mass, 1909 Mobiles OF
Cambridge, N. Y, 100 The prizes were
800, $50 and SO. The Eagles" have tax
en- 500 in prizes since the 4th of July.
Rutland has suffered some loss 10y the
rains of Saturday night and Sunday. A large
amount of ditch was opened for the new wa
| ter-piPes. Two teams fell into this Saturday
night, and Sunday long piece of it oaved in,
and an uncovered sewer burst open, cauAine
some damage.
At Ludlow, last week Wednesday, Mr.
and Mrs. Orson Packhurst of Albany wert
| ont l~ix,ipr, xsitI H. al
of Ludlow. In passing through the gulf in
Weathersfeld, the pole strap broke, precipi
tating the carriage upon the horses, which
Immediately became unmanRgeRble and RAJ
| down the mountain road at terrific speed
wrecking the cal !'age and seriously injurinG
the whole party.
Mr.. Stephen Dunbar n worthy and re
spected citizen of Fairfax sixty years Of age
committed suicide Sunday morning by hang
ing himself i'll his barn. He was a member
of the Methodist church of long standing
and the father of a large family. The terri
BILE deed is supposed to have resulted from
mental alteration caused by domestic trouble
Two Waitsfeld old maids, named Smith
called ON n carpenter by the name of Cutter
the other day, TO have him do some work fol
them. Suddenly one of them, who is subjec
TO insanity, seized hammer and attacked til,
man. This was taken from her, when sh,
assailed him with chisel, cut off his ear anC
probably fatally wounded him in the neck
laying bare the jugular vein.
During high wind Thursday Afternoon
| of last week, the house of Thomas Boyce o.
johnson took fire and was entirely burned
The sparks went half q mile and set fire t.
Il. G. Cristy's shed containing hay and wool
which was burned down. From there tn,
fire jumped half mile farther and burned
Mr.. Horne's house, barn and sheds, with
new threshng machine belonging to Charlei
Mum Cristy's loss is $4,000, insured fo
$1,000. Mrs. Cristy was made crazy by the
excitement.
The new academy at bakersfield, recent
ly erected at an expense of So 52G was dedi
Gated ON the 18th, the exercises of the occa
sion being lengthy and interesting. Address
es were make by President NJ. II. Buckhan
and others. The money for the building Of
this academy was contributed by Mrs. Saral
b. Jacobs, Mrs. S. Jane b. Kendall and Mrs
Roxana b. Hankinson of Boston. The acad.
envy is endowed with $40, 900 which was be
queathed by the late Peter b. Brigham OF
Boston.
The bad weather prevented visit to the
Bennington and Saratoga backgrounds by
the monument associations directors, Satur.
day who had further meeting and appoint
cd this committee to devise method for pro
curing the monument plan Z. j. Phelps OF
Burlington, ex-Gov. b. f. Prescott of New
Hampshire. ex-Gov. Alexander II. Rice OF
Massachusetts, r. W. Park and A. b. Gard,
ner. No definite action will be taken by the
committee until October, when they have a
meeting at Boston.