Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-18
VERMONT NEWS.

The Orleans county listers will meet in
convention on the oath inst
Colonel John B. Mead is to deliver the
address at South Royalton, Decoration Day.
John Trudo, now SO years of age, has
been a town charge of Burlington for 81 years,
and seems good for 21 more.
The sd annual meeting of the American
Institute of Instruction will be held at st.
Adams, on the 9Th, 9th, 18th and sth of July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Willard of Pawlet
celebrated their golden wedding last Satur-
day.
Daniel Aldrich of Holland, dropped dead
in the street at Derby Line, Tuesday while in
conversation.
Bennington is soon to have French
Catholic church.
Abraham W. Whiting of Rutland, aged
50, died on Sunday from the persistent use of
nitric acid for the removal of corns.
In Granville on the 7th inst, John Kerr,
while telling trees in his sugar lot, was in
stantly killed by limb of q tree falling on
his head.
The Vermont Fish Commission have Just
placed thousand smelts from Lake Cham
plain in Lake Memphramagog
MIR. Wayne Bailey, railroad commissioner
was married at Montpelier on Tuesday, to
the bridal pair were waited on at their home
in Rutland and presented with some hand
some pieces of silver ware.
st. Johnsbury has voted to continue its
liquor agency, but to publish the names of
those buying of it.
Windsor is fortunate in her reported small
pox case. 1t has proved to be but mild case
OF varioloid, and did not even extend to other
members Of the family in which it occurred.
The First national bank of North Ben
nington has taken measures to reduce its cap
ital from half million to 800, 900, and con
sequentiy retires its circulation to the amount
of $500, 900.
1t is expected that the Glens Falls Shirt
Company will have its new factory in st. Al
bans ready for manufacturing purposes in a
few weeks. 1t expects to employ from 800
to 800 hands, as business demands.
The Middlebury Journal office has been
closed by the sheriff, and it is reported that
the editor, F. L. Smith, has fed, leaving his
partner, W. j. Fuller, to meet the liabilities,
which are said TO be very largely in excess of
the assets.
The present number of students in the
medical department Of the U. V. NJ, Bur
lington, is 1876, of whom 40 are candidates for
the degree of M. d. at the coming commence
ment
AT the st. Adams rolling mill from 10 to
80 tons of steel rails are now being turned out
daily.
The house of Mrs Rebecca Pooler of
Fairfield, was burned last Friday. Loss
$1,000 insured.
Pat Malloy, who escaped from the Jail at
st. Johnsbury in September 1879, and who
has led the sheriff chase ever since, has final
ly been arrested in Illinois and returned to his
old quarters.
AT the Stannard Caledonia Co. town
meeting, no man could be found to serve
as lister, and after a long and exciting contest
the meeting adjourned. The grand list of
the town is $500 and It's population 25l.
The official statement of the affairs of the
firm of Henry w. Mason d Co., of Winooski,
of which the head is now a fugitive at Mon
treal gives the total liabilities as 500, 700 and
the assets $3S, 900, leaving a deficiency of
about S2S, 100 Mason's operations have alb
sorbed the total capital and profits of the
business, and it has all been done in two
years, as an inventory taken about that time
showed the concern TO be in a aourishing
condition. What Mason did with the money
cannot be ascertained.