Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-21
VERMONT ITEMS.
JOHNSON DocToR ACCUSED OF CRIMINAL NAL
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JOHNSON DOCTOR ACCUSED OF CRIMINAL NAL
PRACTICE.
Miss Flora V. Heath of johnson died
Monday night under circumstances which
warranted post-mortem examination, which
was made Tuesday and resulted in unmistaka-
BILE evidence of recent pregnancy and an UNI
skillful surgical operation. The girl had lived
for the past five weeks with DIR. NJ T.. Smith,
homeopathic physician, and sent note to
her mother Saturday, informing her Of her
sickness Her mother found her very low
and took her home. Flora then said that DIR.
Smith had given her chloroform, and when
she revived she felt as though she had been
torn to pieces. A warrant was issued for the
arrest Of DIR. Smith, and he is now IN Jail.
The feeling against him runs very high.
A RUTLAND BANK TELLER ADsCoNDs AND LEAVES
$1,000 SHORTAGE IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
William c. Brown teller in the Rutland
county national bank at Rutland, has alb
sconded leaving "A deficiency in his accounts
of about $1,000. He had been for nearly 10
years in the employ of the bank and up to a
very recent date enjoyed the fullest confidence
of its officers and customers. For a little
time back however, he had become some
what dissipated.
The Montpelier Waterman corrects the
statement that there were excited threats of
lynching at the examination of the Meaker
murdercrs, and says the dense crowd which
was present on the occasion was as qIiet
and orderly rs it is possible for such gath
ering to be.
--Richford physicians report that there are
now but ten cases of diphtheria in that town.
and that they do not anticipate a further
spread of the disease.
james Stewart, a colored man, had one
of his legs so badly injured by being caught
in some machinery at the rolling mill in St.
Adams on Monday that amputation was nee
essary.
1t is said that since the first OF January
| over one thousand persons have left northern
Vermont to make new homes in Kansas aud
Nebraska.
MIR. and Mrs William Butler of Castle
ton were married 80 years ago and their fam
| lily consists of 10 sons five daughters, i6
grand children, and 4 great grand children (;
of the boys were in the army at the same
time during the late rebellion and all but one
of them are still living. Mr. Butler is 81,
Mrs. Butler is II aud they bid fair to see
many years yet.
At Essex Junction last Tuesday morning g
Newton Kellogg, an esteemed resident of the
place aged upwards of - years, was killed by
the cars at the railroad crossing, north of the
| depot, by the northern bound New York ox-
press Mr. Kellogg was crossing the track
| and did not see the train nor being totally
deaf, did he hear the warning whistle of the
| locomotive.
A wind storm, which was almost n cy-
| clone, swept over Orleans Co. last week
Monday evening, unroofng barnes, over.
| turning trees and doing much minor mischief.
A new barn in the edge of Westmore was lift
ed bodily and dashed in pieces.
| T. R;vly ~ Fact Rr,nl al
committed suicide last Saturday by drowning
herself in a watering trough in the barn yard.
| She had been suffering two or three days
| with headache, but the act was altogether un-
expected
Col f. g. Buttorfeld of Saxtous River
delivers the Decoration Day address at Man
| chester.
At Brandon, last week Charles son of
w. F. Bromley Russell, was found drowned
in II small stream back of the house.
A house and barn were burned on the
night of the 9TH inst, on the place belonging
to Mrs. Electa Wilder, in the southwest part
of Plymouth, near Shrewsbury line.
Providence (R. l. J parties are prospect
ing in the vicinity of Swanton for meer-
schaum, with encouraging results, it is said.
Col. John b. Mead delivers the Decora-
| ton day address at BrOokcld
The one hundredth anniversary of the in
corporation of the town of Northheld will be
| appropriately observed June 10
The grand list of the town of Middlebury
contains 93l names and only four persons
! have n list exceeding one hundred dollars
each.
Frank McKenna, a boy of IL, was drown
ed last Friday while fishing off a wharf at
Burlington.
At st. Adams ON Tuesday the price of
butter ranged from II to Is cents per pound
Gov. Proctor has bought the Powers
farm, near the marble company's works at
| Sutherland Falls, comprising large house
and barn, and 2GO acres of land.
| In the great railroad case of james Il.
Langdon and others against the Central Yer
mont railroad company and others, brought
to test the priority of trust bonds and other
securities of the road, heard before the Su-
preme Court, last October, the opinion of the
court has not been fully completed, and no de-
cision will be made before the next general
term in the fall
Nathaniel II. Eaton, editor of the North
Star, died in DanVlle on the 18th inst, aged
60 years. About - years ago Mr.. Eaton s
father began at Danville the publication of
the North Star, which he continued until his
| death, when he was succeeded by his son,
who has ever since been its editor and pub
Usher.
Nelson Lyman of West Glover made
1900 pounds of sugar from 400 trees the
past season. lie sold 300 pounds for S2lS.-
| ~.
The great scarcity OF men to work in the
slate quarries at Wsst Pawlet has caused the
introduction of German immigrants quite a
number of whom have arrived from Castle
| Garden, New York. They work well and are
| sober, quiet, peaceable and intelligent