Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-14
VERMONT NEWS.


The Smith murder trial at Burlington
last week ended Friday evening with YER
dict of not guilty and the prisoner was dis
charged. On the 23d Of October, 1879,
Smith, the husband of the accused woman,
and his father-in-law, Wood, had some diff
Guilty about the use of horse and wagon.
Wood pointed a revolver at Smith, who threw
him down. Mrs Smith came up with re-
volver and Smith grappled her. In the af-
fray Smith was shot in the lungs, abdomen
and wrist, and died two days afterward.
Wood and Mrs Smith were tried in October,
1880, and convicted of murder in the second
degree, but the Supreme Court granted new
trial. Wood died July 3, 1881. At the open
ing of the recent trial Mrs Smith pleaded
guilty to manslaughter, but subsequently re-
tracted and pleaded not guilty.
AN UNCOMFORTABLE CLIENT.
-Teynen, a welshman, known as the
"Poultney barn burner" was tried in Rutland
last week and j. b. Phelps and George E.
Lawrence were assigned to defend him.
While they were visiting the prisoner, at the
House of Correction, with a Welsh interpre.
ter, Teynen left the room and shortly appear
ed with loaded 16-shooting carbine which
had been standing behind a door. He aimed
the weapon at his counsel, but before he
could fire it the interpreter seized him from
behind. 1t is said that Teynen is crazy. His
counsel probably thinks he is
Forbes writes the Boston Journal that
''the Western Union will soon have a rival
telegraph company operating in this state.
The new company is called the Canada Mu-
tual and has its head Office in Montreal from
which city it is now constructing line of
wire TO New York city. The line enters Yer
mont at Richford, reaching st. Adams via the
Misssquoi railroad, and will follow along the
Central Vermont road through the state, and
offices will be established in the towns through
which the wire passes.
The North Star Of Danville has suspended
again after precarious existence since its
change from a Democratic paper under Geo.
W. Eaton's proprietorship last year.
The musical festival held at St. Johns
bury last week, with Carl Zerrahn as leader,
was a success The chorus numbered some
200 voices, comprising many singers of note
from towns in eastern and northern Vermont.
The new opera house which Gen E. II.
Ripley has built on the site of the former one
at Rutland, erected by his father, which was
burned six years ago, was opened for the first
time Monday evening, by the Florences, in
The Mighty Dollar" The new hall is very
complete and handsome in all its appoint
ments. Its seating capacity is 77S.
Essex item: The greatest sensation at
the fair was when Mrs. o. Brown lost her
eight months baby, having allowed strange
lady to take it, but after almost two hours
search it was found.
The annual meeting Of the Vermont His
torical Society will be held at the State House
in Montpelier on Tuesday p NJ, 18th inst.
The capital stock of the First National
bank of North Bennington will be reduced
November LIST from $500, 600 to $3.50 600
All the officers will retire, and the manage
ment will devoive on Cashier S. b. Hall, I'M
der advice of the directors.
Snow fell in several places in the state on
Monday night.
Peter Marcu,t Jr., 80 years of age,
teamster, was thrown from his team at Mont
pelier, Wednesday night, by defect in the
highway. His neck was broken, killing him
instantly.
The oldest inhabitant," somewhere up
the State, recalls an early freeze, similar 10
that of last week, which occurred on the Both
Of September, 1884, when the potato and
apple crop was nearly ruined in many locali-
| ties in Vermont.
u. S. Attorney Haskins is in attendance
ON the United States Court at Rutland. The
case now on trial is that of the United States
VS.. b. p. Hall. The defendant, who is a res
| ident of Castleton Corners, filed claim for a
| pension on the ground that he was injured at
Vicksburg, Miss, so that his sight was par
TALLY destroyed. The prosecution claim that
the defect in his eyesight existed prior to his
| entering the army