Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-07
VERMONT NEWS.
SHOCKING CASUALTY.


drunken carousal occurred on Sunday morn
ing on Jones Brook, Moretown, about five
| miles from Montpelier. The circumstances
are as follows: Mr.. and Mrs. Rock, old poo-
pie, live with and keep house for Samuel
| Wright an old man. On Saturday night,
they celebrated New Near's by getting drunk,
and both men went to bed in an unconscious
condition, leaving Mrs Rock alone. Moth
! ing more is known definitely till about A.
NJ, Sunday, when the neighbors came in and
| found Mrs Rocks dead body burned to q
crisp, and the chair where she was sitting
! burned and a hole burned through the floor.
! She had dragged herself some fifteen feet to
! the door, and was found there dead. Meth
err of the men had walked up when the neigh
! bors arrived, and could give no information
| The indications were that she was smoking
and dropped fire in her lap, and being too in
toxicatod to help herself was burned rs above
! described The room presented n sckenng
| spectacle. The floor was covered with blood
where she had crawled to the door, and her
suffering must have been terrible.
Three cars on the down train on tho
Bennington and Rutland railroad left the
track between North Bennington and the
state line Monday morning, shaking up the
passengers badly, several being quite serious.
! ~ hurt. One of the cars went down an en-
baukment and landed on top Of rail fence.
jerome A. Sponord, freight agent Of the
Troy and Boston railroad. had his shoulder
probably broken, and SALISBURY man
named Wentworth had one of his ears shaved
completely of. Both these gentlemen were
thrown bodily through the water closet par
tition as the car rolled down the embank-
ment.
The Burt Melvin block in Vergennes,
which cost S2SOO several years ago, has been
.pll a., A.rpafn.g national hank fpr
$500.
C. NJ. Balls house Mt Springfield was
burned Saturday night; loss $1,000; insur-
ance about $1,000.
Capt n. Il. Proctors house in Burling-
ton was burned Saturday. But little Of the
contents were saved. Insurance $4,000.
The Home for Destitute Children ut
Burlington received on Monday the sum of
$500 as New Years gift from John =.
Howard.
The Central Vermont car-shops at St
Adams, which usually run on short time dur
ing the winter season, are crowded with work
this season and are running on full time.
Mrs Stevens, one Of the old residents Of
St. Adams was buried Monday morning
She was the grand daughter Of Commodore
Bainbridgc, famous in the war of 1872.
George p. Foster, for many years pro
prietor of the Union House, Montpelier
dropped dead of heart disease, Saturday
morning. lie had Just returned from New
Years ball at Mortified, aud was apparently
in good health. lie WAS about fifty years
old
At the meeting of the trustees of the old
Norwich University, newly named Lewis
College, held at Northfeld Friday, Colonel
Charles II. Lewis, LII. D.. Of Boston, was
elected president OF the college, and Clarence
l.. Hathaway, NJ. s., NJ. d., OF Boston, vice
president.
A dwelling house aud barn owned and &C.
cuped by Peter Labourin, at Enosburgh Falls,
were entirely consumed by fire about five
o'clock Sunday afternoon, with all their con
tents No insurance. The fire is supposed
to have caught from the stoyepipe.
At Underhll Centre Friday night, as
Mr. and Mrs. Terrll attempted to drive
across the railroad track in front Of An APP
preaching train, their sleigh was struck by the
locomotive and both were summary thrown
out. Fortunately, however Mr.. Terril re-
ceiyed but slight injury and Mrs. Terrill none
at all.
st. Johnsbury. with population Of
:, 500 and grand list Of 81, 335, 3O2, spent
but -, $50 on its municipal government the
past year, of which $4,000 was in permanent
improvements, 81, 29S for its fire department
and only 5000 for its police.
The st. Adams rolling mill after run
ming the whole of the past year for the man
ufacture of steel rails from English Bessemel
steel blooms, is shut down for necessary IT.
pairs preparatory to resuming operations.
The employees of the Central Vermont
railroad have library association, which has
just held its annual meeting at st. Adams.
The report of the treasurer shows Sl3j III the
treasury, after paying out sol. library is
to be opened on the sth, and the new cata-
logues show over ., 100 volumes Member
ship is 80, and yearly reading Sl.5O.