Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-12-16
VERMONT NEWS.

The annual winter meeting of the Yer
mont Dairymen's Association will be held at
Rutland, Jan. IS, 10 and 20.
j. b. Southworth, principal of the Yer
mont seminary and female college at Mont
pelier, is reported failed and has called n
meeting of his creditors. Liabilities, SO, 900.
He offers 40 cts.
As George Parker and Zeb Carlisle of
Bridgewater were out hunting on the same
hill recently, without knowing each others
presence, they both saw partridge from op
poste directions, and both discharged their
guns simultaneously. One shot from Parker's
gun passed through young Carlisles ear
Levi Scott Of Craftsbury, whose memory
embraces nearly everything he ever knew,
tells the Barton Monitor that on November
H. 1927, snow fell to the depth of two feet,
and that terrible wind followed, which made
the roads impossible for several days. The
weather continued very cold till January,
when warm weather commenced, which CON
tnued till spring. The sugar was made in
February, and the wheeling was good in
March, with an early planting season.
-Joab w. Daley, dealer in millinery and
fancy goods, at Fairhaven, is reported to
have failed and absconded with liabilities of
about $1,000.
H G.. Burleigh & Bro IS steam saw and
planning mill at Larabees Point was burned
on Monday night, about midnight.
The unsatisfactory business relations be-
tween the roads forming the Central Vermont
line between Boston and Rouse's Point and
st. John, P. O., over which the business of
the Grand Trunk and the Ogdensburg and
the Lake Champlain roads is forwarded, has
been ended. A traffic contract has been sign
ed by representatives Of the Central Vermont
and Northern and Lowell and Concord rail-
roads by which the roads between White Riv-
er junction and Boston, SO far as business
controlled by the contract is concerned, are
to be under tie management of tho Central
Vermont. The contract provides for the con-
struction of freight and passenger cars, to be
owned in common, and to be marked "Bos-
ton and Montreal express Vermont
line" The time between Boston and Mon
treal is expected to be shortened.
The following deaths of aged persons
have recently occurred: Mrs. Ansel Chad
wick, at Granville, aged so years. Mrs. A.
Dustin, at Jonesville, aged SO years Steph-
en- Wiley at Sutton, aged II years Widow
Dunklee at Sutton aged 81 years Mrs. Jane
L. S. Hibbard, at Bradford, aged 10 years ;
VIM. Parsons at Chester, aged so years ;
Randolph Sprague, at Plymouth, aged 81
years; Salvin X. Collins, a former resident
of Montpelier, at West Bedford, Ind, aged
50 years. Rev. Warren s. Emery, formerly
a Methodist clergyman in Rhode Island, died
on Sunday last, at West Burke, where he re-
sided.
All old Vermont soldiers will be glad to
learn that through the good offices OF Col.
Geo. w. Hooker, Sergeant-at-Arms Of the
National House of Representatives, backed
by the Vermont Congressional delegation,
Gen. George ]. Stannard has been appointed
assistant doorkeeper of the House.
Patrick Downey died recently at Castle
ton, where he had lived hermit's life for 25
years. After his death roll of $1,000 in bills
on the Castleton Mutual bank was found Sc
GREETED in his bed The bank discontinued
business in 1859.
Kittredge, the crippled dealer in intoxi-
cants, from Newport, who served term in
the House of Correction, has recently died
the same man about whom so much was said
in the papers. He was rendered perfectly
helpless by rheumatism.
Judge Pierpoint's condition has changed
decidedly for the worse.
Royal Cummings and L. p. Thayer have
started new paper, the Sun, at White Riv-
er Junction.
The Farbankses at St. Johnsbury have
made and sold more scales this year than in
any previous year. Their orders since Jan.
have aggregated 63, 900 scales.