Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-22
TEMPERANCE CAMPAIGNING.


The third annual encampment of the
union temperance camp-meeting associa-
ton of Vermont will be held at Lyndonville
July 81 90 and 20. Three addresses by en-
inent speakers will be given each day, inter-
spersed with prayer, experience and praise
meetings and with temperance love feast on
Friday morning. Wednesday will be under
the direction of the church, the Womens
Christian temperance union and the state re-
form club Thursday will be known rs
Good Templars' day" Friday will be "Gov-
ernor's day" and Gov. Farnham will preside.
The music will be arranged as a special feat
ure Of great interest. The railroads will give
reduced fare
"A barn belonging to Henry Sears of
Monkton was burned by lightning on the
10th.
Henry Esselton, aged 81, was drowned
last Sunday morning while bathing in the
Otter Creek in Waltham.
The premium list is out for the State
Fair to be held at Montpelier, September
Hi inclusive.
j. E. Wheelock of Milton, who attempt
ed suicide a short time since, is in fair way
to recover.
Mrs Alvin Smith of Wlliamstown, who
has been blind for several years, fell down
the cellar stairs the 9th inst, breaking one
leg and fracturiug her skull, causing her death
in four hours after the fall.
of the 941 graduates from tho acade-
mical department of the Vermont University
during the 81 years of its existence, Ga have
become physicians, 1913 clergymen and 359
lawyers.
DR. Geo. W. Cotton of Woodstock died
on the 18th of apoplexy, aged 3S years. He
was younger brother of ex-Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Cotton of Irasburgh, and served as a
musician during the war.
Robert L. Lincoln, Secretary of War, has
been invited to deliver the annual address at
the State Fair.
Isaiah Bacon, a cook on the Connect
cut River Lumber Company's drive, was
drowned at Alcott's Falls on Tuesday. This
Is the first man lost on the drive this season.
lie was a single man, about 90 years of age,
and native of Maine.
William O'Brien of Searsburg formerly
amember of the Legislature, died at Benning-
Ion Tuesday from injuries received in
drunken row at Hoosick, N. Y, Monday.
William H. Keefe of CohOes has been arrest
ed for the murder.
1t is expected the addition to the work
shop of the House of Correction will by next
week be nearly enough completed so that 1t
'"u oe occupied.
A ten-years-old son of John Mckenzie of
south Burlington was run over by moving
machine, the other day, and had both feet
nearly cut off. An elder brother was riding
.ae machine and the boy in play threw some
thing at the horses. They took fright and
ran, throwing off the driver and turning so as
" run over the boy.
Three cars of freight train going north
ran Oh the bridge, about one hundred feet
arlghr over Lulls Brook, at North Hartland,
tuesday morning. One brakeman was on
Tue cars and went over with them, but was
not fatally injured.
Clark Northop of DaIville has two
!eSr-old son who last February was taken
SlIh paroxysms of choking. Since that time
mere has been great difficulty of breathing
suu symptoms of consumption. Last week
le doctors made an incsion and inserted
Noe and four days after the operation
mas mass was eoughed through the tube looking
IKE bunch of cotton fbres. The mother
men remembered the ohild's having the bits
a. yarn from a tidy fringe in his mouth one
Jay and this accounts for the circumstance.