Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-08
VERMONT NEWS.

st. Johnsbury village spent $40, 200 for
schools last year, and has elected two women
on the prudential committee.
The expense of the st. Adams fire de-
partment for tho past year was S1724.32;
there were fifteen fires causing loss Of $11,-
GAS, on which the insurance was $44Os.
The Maiden, Mass, Gun Club has leased
for FIVE years the Misssquoi marshes near the
mouth of the Missisquoi river, for the pur-
pose Of hunting and trapping.
The owners Of the Van Ness House at
Burlington have leased the property to U. A.
Woodbury. and W. f. Bowman. Capt Wood
bury will take no active part in the manage
ment and the hotel will be in charge of Mr.
Bowman.
L. b. Hubbard has sold the Ludlow
Tribune to L. G.. Allis of Moodus, Conn,
who continues its publication.
A Newport young lady, by curious &C.
cident, recently swallowed q common sized
shawl pin to which was attached quite long
chain and crescent. Up to this time she
has experienced no serious harm from the
pin.
"A young child of Pierce Fleming of
Pittsford was fatally burned on Tuesday
night of last week, by it's night clothes catch
ing fire from a CANDLE while il had beeu left
alone in its bed chamber.
There are now one hundred aud thirty
convic;s in the State Prison-a less number
than for many years.
The Montpelier savings bank and trust
company has assumed'and will pay the state
tax of of per cent on its deposits, thereby
releasing the depositors from taxation.
Joseph Evarts, one of the wealthiest res
idents of Georgia, died at home ON Saturday
morning, of pneumonia.
A suit under the civil damage act, by
which sellers of liquor are made liable for in
juries received by buyers from the effects OF
intolication, has been brought by the heirs
of the late Chauncey Richards against d. p.
Moore, hotel proprietor at East Berkshire,
damages being set at 50, Richards was
returning from the hotel one day last fall,
when he was thrown from the wagon and
killed.
George Gregwire a halfbreed, aged 40
years, was arrested pit Newport Centre last
week. and held for trial, for a felonious as
sault upon his little nine-yenr-old daughter
1t was not his first attempt of q similar kind.
"A FIRE on Monday afternoon destroyed a
barn belonging to William E. Greene, OF
Vergennes, together with some 10 tons of
hay, three COWS and yearling Jersey bull
In Vermont there are but fourteen per
cent Of foreign born inhabitants, less num-
Der than in any other New England state.
According to the recent census bulletin, the
state enjoys the distinction of being the only
state in the Union which doesn't number at
least ono Asiatic among its inhabitants.
The thirty-third anniversary of the ad-
vent of modern spiritualism was celebrated
by the Spiritualsts of Vermont by holding a
convention at Essex Junction, last Saturday
and Sunday About 100 were present.
Mrs. Gibson of Montgomery, 80 years
old, committed suicide while insane, by hang
ing, last Friday. She left the house in the
night, walked to pasture near by and hung
herself from the limb of tree.
VIM. Blythe, an employe of the st. Al
bans rolling mills, was drawn in TO the ma
chinery. for saving of and removing new
rolled rails to the hot bed, last week, and IA
tally crushed.
There have been % deaths from diph-
liberia in Montpelier since the disease became
prevalent there in September.
Addison has organized town fire insur-
ance company under the law Of 1880. Five
directors have been chosen, and % farmers
have pledged themselves TO insure in it for
five years, on condition that the company is
able to secure insurance to the amount of
100000.
-Middlebury's missing cattle drover, Tom
Shackett is now located near the Kansas line,
and last week two of his creditors left for
Kansas to interview him.
AT Swanton. the other day, a two-year-
old daughter of Myron Kidder while playing
ON the floor, fell into a pail of boiling water
and was so terribly scalded that death soon
ensued.
Owing to dispute regarding the con-
struction of certain points in the tax law, the
listers of the town Of Georgia have refused to
act, and the selectmen have called a meeting
to elect their successors for the 18th.
49, Through the liberality of a distinguished
citizen the agricultural prizes offered to far
mers' boys by the Vermont University for the
best yield of corn and potatoes will be con-
tinued another year.
Woodstock has recently had lively tilt
under the nuisance act o. G. Kimball, a
prominent druggist, was prosecuted for viola
ton of the law and q sensation was created
by the summoning of leading temperance
men, church members and Sunday school
workers TO testify in the case. The trial oc-
cupied the whole day at the town hall. Many
witnesses disclaimed any connection with the
liquor traffic, while others caused no little
merriment by confessing that they had
bought liquor Of Kimball and bringing out
bottles of bay rum and other strange fluids in
proof. Several clear violations of the law
were found, however, and after being out two
or three hours the jury brought in verdict
of IS offences. The court entered up judg-
ment of $3.50 fine and 1881 costs, and the
resDondent took an appeal