Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-12-30
VERMONT NEWS.
RANDOLPH NORMAL SCHOOL.


The program for Commencement week.
Jan. l-G, is as follows; Sunday evening,
sermon before the graduating classes, by
Rev. l.. o. Sherburne, White River junction /;
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, examination
OF the under classes; Wednesday, oral exam
ination of the A class, with teaching exer-
clses; Wednesday evening, address by Gov.
Farnham; Thursday evening, competitive
speaking Friday afternoon, exercises Of the
graduating class.
The Peacham Congregational church is
IN trouble and badly stirred up over charges
Of plagiarism against its pastor.
The big Barnard panther recently shot
is the innocent cause of trouble among the
parties who had h hand in his taking of As
has already been stated, unconscious of the
value OF his prize, the man who shot it sold
it for $50, and he is now disconsolate The
father of the boy who first saw the beast con-
slders himself aggrieved too and has sued
the present owner of the panther for DANA
ges.
&C. II. Carpenter of Enosburg took 5000
pounds of honey from 80 swarms of bees the
past season.
The Burlington Free Press knows of a
Vermont man who has invented a submarine
boat run by electricity, which will run %
knots per hour through the water in any di-
rection, up or down or at an angle.
Albert Wilson, a young man at work for
the livery stable OF f. f. Wilson in Bethel.
was killed Monday by being thrown from
load of wood.
burlington has 100 drummers employed
either 10y home concerns or houses in New
York or Boston, and they organized last Sat
urday the Burlington commercial travellers
association" They give their first banquet
at the Van Ness house tomorrow evening.
1t is reported that the famous suit of
Alexander Stewart against Judge Hilton has
been satisfactorily settled out of court.
The Central Vermont railroad company
will hereafter carry grain, flour and lumber
to all points on its line at Boston rates, and
promises to meet on this basis any reductions
made by the Vanderbilt lines.
According to a recently published census
bulletin the wool clip of Vermont for 1880
was 437, 991 heeces, weighing 2,54S, PIG
pounds-the average weight of the feeces
being .. 81. But two states in the Union show
higher average-Illinois, 5.s7, and Nebras-
ka, CAB. The average of all the states was
4.42.
Gov. Farnham has appointed and com
missioned Prof. Mead of Middlebury, Chas
E. Putney of st. Johnsbury, and President
Buckham as Normal school examiners for the
first, second and third Congressional dis
tricts, respectively.
Ben. D. Bckford of Wolcott, who recent
ly married the daughter of a wealthy citizen,
was arrested last Saturday for forging his
father-in-law's name to a note for $75. The
father-in law bailed him and Bickford went
back to the enjoyment of his honeymoon.
Richard II. Leslie, alias Leslie II. Scriv-
ems, formerly a conductor on the Rutland
and Bennington railroad, who was arrested
several months ago for robbing the mails on
that line, and jumped his bail, has been re-
arrested at Chattanooga. 1t is said that he
has two wives in New York.
John, aged 10, son of Mark Adams of
Danvllle, was drowned last week while skat-
ing.
The poultry sho W held last week in Bur
lington was up to those of former years and
full of interest to the poultry fancier. Some
forty exhibitors had fowls on exhibition.