Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-31
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prisoners, there being eighty-sx inmates.
Ground has just been broken for a new
veneer factory at Newport.
A horse was killed at Newport Centre re-
Gently by eating Paris green.
st. Johnsbury has a poultry club which
will hold its FIRST exhibition the last of Deem
Der.
Francis Haddock of Albany seven years
old, while playing recently with n loaded
horse pistol fatally shot his sister Elizabeth,
10 years old.
-Freighting on Lake Champlain is active,
and there is great demand for boats at in
creased rates.
A Montpelier man exhibited at the local
fair three packages of butter from the same
churning, but under different marks, and got
first premium on one, second on another,
while the third was condemned as poor
The largest block of granite ever quar-
red in New England has been taken out at
the lately developed Woodbury. quarries
1t was $50 feet long, 10 to Is feet deep, 10
feet wide weighed 1850 tons, aud required
G73 wedges with 80 pounds of powder to start
it,
The Montpelier manufacturing compa-
ny's works have been purchased for $2j 600
by the former directors, Fred +. Smith L.
Bart Cross, James W. Brock, A. o. Cum
minis and f. Scribner.
Last Thursday night the carriage house
of Mr. John j. Van Sicklen of South Burling-
ton, with a phaeton, Gfty bushels Of wheat
and quantity Of farming tools, was totally
destroyed by an incendiary fire. Loss $1,000
insurance $500.
Christ church Mt Montpelier has called
Rev Howard f. Hill of Ashland, Mass, to be
its rector.
Joseph Tatro a Pownal Frenchman 5s
years old. had his arm broken aud was terri
bly, bruised on Monday night near the state
line, by highwaymen, who robbed him of
S75.
The Passumpsic railroad is reported to
have leased the Vermont division of the Port
land and Ogdensburg railroad.
The oldest inhabitants of Addison county
claim that the drouth has never before been
so severe. Some farmers are obliged to drive
their cattle two miles TO water and must even
go further for water for family use.
Thomas LEsperance of Burlington, 30
years old, fell from IA sail boat on Lake Cham
plain Sunday evening and was drowned.
A Bates-house guest at Rutland blew out
his gas Monday night, and was discovered
just in time to escape sutfOcation.
A nine-year-old son OF DIR. G.. W. Colby,
of Sutton, was kicked by playful horse he
was leading, last week Wednesday, and lived
in much agony until Saturday, when he died
st Adams Butter Market. Oct. 2s-The
attendance was good, receipts light and mark
It booming Butter sold at IS to 30 cents
per pound with higher price paid for
some fancy lots in small packages general
price, % to % cents.
Rutland had a grand jubilee over its new
typrEp m, tho 9Th iuplu1iuff "a ittgY
ton Of the new hydrants, force of stream,
etc, a procession of its fire department and
grand banquet in the evening.
Geo. L. Russell of Rutland. RECEIVERS
$1,000 damages because the supply Of water
for his mill was lessened by being partly di-
verted to village use.
George b. Walker, landlord of the st.
Johnsbury House, has boarded up the hotels
front door and windows and covered the
sign with black cloth, because he was prose
cuted for liquor selling.
Tho report comes from Addison county
that wells, springs, cisterns and small streams
are dry. and farmers living from two TO three
miles from the lake drive all their stock 10
the lake for water, and are obliged to draw
from there all the water used in the family.
A young man by the name of Lowering
of Richford, recently attempted to commit
suicide by taking Paris Green Emetics saw
ed his life.
Two inches of snow fell at Cambridge
last Friday morning and there were three
inches at the summit of Mt Holly.
The State Reform School at Vergennes
has one hundred and twenty-five inmates
one hundred and two boys and twenty girls
Rutland is to have Uniyersalist society,
with preaching once in two weeks under the
direction of the State missionary.
st. Johnsbury is to have a new paper,
the Index, published 10y \. j. Howe of Thct-
ford.
Henry Delorme. Of Burlington, an in
mate of the Reform School at Vergennes,
while engaged in gathering walnuts from one
of the trees ON the grounds, fell a distance of
twenty feet. frncturing his right wrist, and
breaking almost entirely OF all the fingers Of
his left hand at the lower joint making the
amputation of all the fingers IA necessity, rs
the bones, ligaments and all the arteries were
severed
The Rutland Herald a Globe tells of a
young man of that place who attended u
sesnce at Spirit Vale recently, and when the
spirit hands began caressing his ears, nose
and knees he elevated his foot with SO much
suddcnness as to bring further manifestations
TO a close When the lights were turned on
it was discovered that the medium was bleed
ing at the nose, which organ had come in con
tact with the young mans boot.
Forest fires in West Ferrisburgh have in
the last few weeks burned over GOO acres of
land, mostly valuable timber lots, and are
still raging
The state temperance convention will be
held at Vergennes November >. The two
principal hotels, the Stevens house and Frank
lin house. have taken out their bars and an
nounce that they have quit the sale of liquor.
In the Washington county supreme court,
Saturday morning, Judge Barrett sentenced
Lyman Potter of Marshfeld TO five years in
State prison. Potter was tried in September,
1878 for adultery with his step-daughter,
which continued year after year until three chill
dren were born, all of which occurred with the
knowledge of respondents wife and the moth
err of the girl Judge Barrett WAS very Sc
we're in commenting upon the atrOcity of the
crime, and gave the respondent the extreme
penalty of the law.
Josiah Seaver of Waitsheld recently ar
rested for incendiarism, has made written
confession before Magistrate J. II. Hastings
that he set the following fires April, 1871,
j. c. Towle's barn and dwelling May, 1877,
G.. w. Fulsom's barn and II cows; October I,
1878, Y. s. w. Fairs entire set of buildings
October Z 1879, L. Il. Joslyn's three barns
and several cattle October u, 1879, r. II.
Barnard's two barns October %, 1879, f.
W. Bisbees entire buildings. Seaver declares
that he had no motive, but a mania, and
could not resist the impulse. He was upon
the most intimate terms with all the above
parties all living in Watsfed. He was COM
mitted to Washington county jail in Mont
pelier in default of $4,000 bail Sewers age
is 49, and he was recently married.
A man calling himself Wesley A. Haines
of Portland Maine and claiming to be can
wasting for Portland newspapers, stole horse
belonging to Martin Campbell of Berlin on Sat
urday night, 18th inst, took the horse to Mont
pelier and put up at the Bishop Hotel early
Sunday morning. The horse was recognized
and the fellow arrested Sunday night. He
waived examination and was committed TO
;aI "a, 1afa,lt % GaOO ba;1 Tho eama man