Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-04-28
VERMONT NEWS.


Articles of association have Just been filed
IN the Secretary of States office, under the
General Railroad law, of the Canada junction
hallroad Company. The capital stock is
subscribed for, and the first assessment Of 10
per cent. thereon has been paid in by the
stockholders. The following Board of Di-
rectors have been chosen Hon. Bradley
Barlow, ex-Gov. Horace Fairbanks, Col A.
b. Jewett and f. A. Metcalf The road has
been surveyed and work will be begun at
once on the line. The new road is to run
from the present terminus of the southeast
extension to Frelighsburg just over the Yer
mont border, through the towns of Berkshire
and Sheldon to Sheldon Junction, Vermont.
there connecting with the st. Johnsbury and
Lake Ohamplain and the Missisquoi roads.
The new line will be eleven miles in length
and will give this section of country n Mon
treal connection.
Van Amberg Hood was killed at q saw
mill in Albany last Saturday
AT JeIersonville, Wednesday, A. j.
Thomas, suffering from dependency, shot
himself twice with revolver the balls lodg-
ing just above the heart. Tho wounds will
probably prove fatal
Emma, aged 80, daughter of Eber Rice. a
farmer of West CRANKY, while temporarily
deranged, jumped into bonfire, on Wednes.
day evening of last week, and was so badly
burned that she died in few minutes. John
Gilfoy, ca years old poor and insane from
illness, hanged himself at New Haven on the
same day.
The death is announced, in his eightieth
year, of Col Orson Perkins of Woodstock
father of w. o. and II. S. Perkins, the we'll
known musical composers and conductors.
The new NJ. Z. church at St. Adams Bay
was dedicated last Saturday. Rev. Merritt
Hulburd preached and made an appeal which
secured the payment of the floating debt of
the church.
"A Frenchman employed in one of the
West Rutland quarries was killed on Saturday
by the fall of mass of ice upon him.
The stockholders of the First national
bank of Chelsea have voted to reduce capital
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Two roughs named Written and another
named James Williams got into a fight with
gypsies at Beartown, q remote district in the
town of Sandgate, Bennington county, recent
ly, over a dog fight in which one of the
gypsies was fatally shot and one of the Whit
tens shot dead. The other Written Is under
arrest, but Williams is still at large.
-Fox's hotel at Woodford City was totally
destroyed by fire on Monday, together with
the contents aud the barns and outbuildings
During the evening the proprietor Ezra
Crawford, while descending the stairs, slipped
and allowed a lamp he was carrying to fall,
thus firing the building Loss, about SO, 900 !;
insured.
-Huldah Sargent Robertson of Randolph
was born April 30 1779 She is still living,
and will therefore be 1903 years old if she lives
until Sunday. She is in good health for one
of her years.
The Bradley Fertilizer Company of Bos-
ton has suad William A. Cutting, Secretary of
the Board of Agriculture of Vermont, claim
ing 500 damages on the ground of al
legged public disparagement of their manufac-
lures. The plaintiffs suit was brought by
Judge Poland, and is returnAble to the Circuit
Court of the United States in May.
Rutland held its municipal election on
Wednesday. John b. Page was chosen presi-
dent and the rest of the general village officers
were reelected The only contests among
them were for the municipal judgeship and
street commissioner, L. w. Redington con-
testing the first against Judge Evarts and j.
w. Champion being nominated by a caucus in
opposition to Il. N. Patch, the present incum-
bent Tn, ward trust les chosen embrace
three Republicans aud four Democrats.
The Castleton post office was entered last
Friday night and the safe robbed of 800 or
more.
1t is believed that a clue has been found
to the murder at Sutton, P. O., on the Canada
line. 1t seems that last summer two men,
purporting to be brothers, appeared there
and hired ont at haying, and then disappear
ed without beginning work. 1t is believed
that the younger of them was murdered for
his money, and that it is his body which was
recently found in ravine as related last
week.