Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-05-30
VERMONT ITEMS.

Horace G. Reynolds a Georgia farmer
recently cut his throat while insane, and died
few days after.
A Brandon canary is rearing brood of
blue birds. A blue bird made a nest near the
house, and after Matching out her brood, was
caught by cat the young blue birds were
given to the canary, which had recently lost
her own young ones, and were received by
her with all the tokens of motherly affection
Mr. Lyman g. Camp of Montpelier, who
died the other day, had been married over GO
years, and his is the first death in his family
consisting of himself, wife, and eight chill
dreu.
The men employed in the freight car
shops at st. Adams have oatmeal and water
several gallons being mixed at time and kept
cool, which they drink freely in warm days
without fear of injury.
Martin F. Ordway of Chelsea, has the
banner lots of ewes. Only four out of one
hundred failed this year to have lambs Nine
ty.six ewes have 100 living lambs. The breed
is graded Cotswold.
Reuben j. Cole, an old and respected
citizen of Poultney, committed suicide by
hanging last Sunday morning. For nearly
two years he had exhibited signs of mental
arrangement, caused by long and severe
sickness.
At the annual meeting of the Central
Vermont railroad company, held at St AL
bans on Wednesday, 21st inst, 1857 shares
were represented, and the old board of direct
ors was reelected without opposition.
Twenty school children in the little viii
hge of Newark, in Caledonia county, were re-
Gently seized with n severe type of diphtheria
in Il single day, and one of them died on the
third day after. The physicians attribute the
outbreak to the fact that the children drank
from brook near the school house which
takes the wash from barn yard a few rods
above.
At Alburgh, on the 18th inst, small boy
threw a stone at some section men passing on
a hand-car at full speed. John Blair, in at
tempting to dodge the stone, was thrown for
ward on the crank of the car, which threw
him over the crank and in front of the car
The car which had in it about five hundred
pounds of tools and iron, and two men, pass-
ed over him, one of the wheels running over
his head cutting it badly. The car was thrown
from the track.
"A party of ten or more youthful burglars,
aged from II to %, and belonging to good
families, has been discovered in the stad old
town of Royalton. They were soemnly
sworn to secrecy, and their Operations, -
nine or ten in number, have been upon stores,
shops and dwellings, Five of the boys have
been arrested, and considerable of the stolen
property has been found.
The papers in the north part of the State
ARE cautioning the farmers TO look out for tho
potato bug poison man. The latest swindle
occurred in Stanstead, Canada. A man sold
ten cent packages, warranted sure death to
potato bugs, no risk of poisoning animals rs
with paris green" The packages were not
to be opened until time to use them. One
victim having three opened one and found
two square blocks of wood, on one of which
was written place the bug on this block and
press firmly with the other"
The Free Press says that the Mary Fletch-
er Hospital at Burlington is amply demon
strating it usefulness now "a days, the
cliniques of the present term of the medical
college calling thther large numbers of pa
TENTS. On Wednesday of last week Prof
Roosa operated in over 40 cases of eye and
ear diseases. The rooms in the main build
ing are now all full with two patients in Il
room, and it has been difficult for several days
past to get in beds as fast as they are called
for