Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-01
VERMONT NEWS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Andrews of North
field have recently celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of their marriage.
St Adams had the severest storm Of the
season last Sunday. Snow fell all day, leav-
ing five or six inches on the ground The
storm was quite severe through the Lamoille
valley. On the st. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain railroad there were snowdrifts
five feet high.
The catalogue of the University of Yer
mont shows 10 students, of whom nine are
young women, coming from 10 states and
territories. The medical school has over 40
students from IL states.
Peter Wyman, an esteemed citizen of
Factory Point, aged 20, was found dead near
his buildings about two o'clock Saturday af-
ternoon. He had just returned from the de-
pot with load of lumber, and hitohinR his
horse, had partly finished unloading il, when,
It is thought from over-exertion, he died of
heart disease.
The amount taken by the burglars who
broke into the bennington post office last
week was 81, 559.07 in postage stamps, $40
in currency and between S25 and $40 in sill
YER All indications are that the burglars
were professionals, two in number.
The cupoa at Thaddeus Fairbankss res
idence at st. Johnsbury is being reconstruct
ed in order to accommodate a large and valu-
able telescope.
The Woodstock post Office fight termi-
mates in the appointment Of James H. Muir
dock to succeed l.. o. Greene, who has held
the place for twelve years past.
1t is stated that weathersfield man OBJ
tanned divorce from his wife at the last SEES
sion OF the Windsor county court and that he
has lately remarked his divorced wife The
different steps have been taken within twelve
months, and the bride is not yet II years Of
age.
The st. Adams village school district has
nine schools, eighteen teachers and 1881 pu-
pills enrolled, and its expenses for the last
year were Sl1,9
Harlan p. Hale OF Waterford was arrest
ed in Lowell, Mass. Tuesday afternoon, on
suspicion of having attempted to poison the
entire family of young woman who had re-
fused his attentions.
-tev. A. Heath, Methodist pastor at
Pittsford, was struck by a rifle bullet while
sitting at his window a day or two ago The
ball struck the lower jaw, taking out piece
of bone, passing through the neck and being
extracted from the side opposite. The shot
was fired from a rifle at some crows at a dis
lance Of half mile
1t is reported that land looked salmon of
nv OtSOihihB Pieuhiui III Lake
Champain. The lake was stocked with these
fish some five or six years ago by the Yer
mont State Fish Commission.
The Park Guard of Bennington has been
dissolved and new company is being form
ed there.
"A large number of violators of the pui.
sance law at Rutland, who had appealed to
the county court, but neglected to enter the
appeals, have been paying up their fines
within the past few days, and the places
where the liquor was sold have been posted
under the nuisance law. The parties against
whom the places have been posted cannot
open again unless they file with the proper
authorities bond with sureties, conditioned
that they will not sell any intoxicants therein
contrary to law o..