Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-02-03
VERMONT NEWS.


DEATH OF HON p. d. MASON.
Hon H. d. Mason of Richmond died at
his farm residence in that town on Wednes-
day morning from a stroke Of apoplexy, be
ing the third which he had received within
twenty.four years. Mr. Mason was well
known in the state and was prominent dali
ry farmer and considerable of Il politician in
the Republican ranks. He had been town
representative county senator and member
of the state board Of agriculture. He was
delegate to the Chicago convention which
nominated Lincoln in 1860. Since the organ
ization of the Vermont Dairymen's associa-
ton in 1863, Mr.. Mason has been its presi-
dent, resigning the office, however, at the
last annual meeting in Rutland, January 20.
Jonathan Powers, a much respected citi-
zen Of Bradford, died instantly Of heart dis
ease on Saturday. He was 73 years old, and
leaves q widow and two daughters.
The customs district of Vermont collected
lila, OBS in 1881, against $9G4 $50 in 1880.
There were %, 81 entries, the merchandise
being valued at ST. 714,S13 Of which $780,
435 was free of duty
-Middebury has started an organization
called the citizens league for the suppression
of crime.
Rev. James Cameron, aged Ga, pastor of
a Presbyterian church at Oakland, Cal, and
formerly resident of Burlington was fatally
poisoned recently by his wife, who gave him
carboc acid to drink, having mistaken it for
a tonic
--Diphtheria of a malignant type is raging
in Franklin Orleans and Caledonia counties.
The st. Adams Messenger is indignant
because Of a statement that has gone the
rounds Of the press that there was a process
sion in that village on the reception of the
news Of Guiteau's conviction, and says it is
not true. But it is true that the Montpelier
Band gave the Waterman Office serenade
and played on the street when the news was
received here. -Argts
The international hay press company is
soon TO begin manufacturing its presses ct
West Randolph.
The Fletcher free library at Burlington
now contains $4,000 volumes, of which about
500 were added last year
Ia the Dedham, Mass, house of oorrec-
ton there is a man claiming to be James 7.
Powers, a Unversalist minister who has
preached at Ludlow and Woodstock in this
state The loss of his wife and his property,
he says, drove him into vagrancy.
When the Central Vermont railroad was
built j. X. Booth of Burlington worked as a
common bridge hand. Now he is the largest
| timber limit owner In Canada, owning 1925
| square miles, or l, 423, $50 acres an area
| equal to more than one-fifth Of the state of
| Vermont
Rev. Henry Fairbanks is to erect at St.
Johnsbury building for the use of the Young
| Mems Christian association.
An East Hardwick druggist has just paid
| $500 in settlement of a suit brought by the
| husband of woman who was nearly killed
by poison through the druggists mistake.
Ell. Gov. Proctor and his son and daugh-
/ H., F-1 Nlat- N-fy,
-Donnelly and Crowley, so horribly burn
ed by molten iron at Burlington last week,
are dead.
Henry Bowers, suspected of robbing a
mail car at Montpelier, was delivered to off,
GERS Monday by Joseph Bower, in whose
barn he had been hiding since Thursday of
last week, when warrant for his arrest was
issued Both feet and hands were frozen.
e +. Greeuleaf has been appointed dep
uty collector of internal revenue for the Bur
lington district vice W. L. Greenleaf, who
succeeds j. F. Richardson, deputy collector
of customs at Burlington, the latter taking
charge of the st. Adams custom house.
Burlington has been scandalized by the
doings of three college students, who accord
ing to the Free Press took three girls of re-
spectacle connections with whom they had
been coasting at late hour, to a college
room, where tipsy revel, to call it by no
worse name, took place, lasting till after
midnight. The collage authorities took the
matter promptly in hand, found out the facts,
and expelled the guilty young men. The two,
of both sexes, who are believed to have been
the leaders in the affair, were from distant
states.
Edward Dodge of Chester, while chop
ping in the woods half mile from his home,
last week, cut of part of his left foot, and
walked the whole distance home for assist.
ance.
About noon on Wednesday some boys
playing on empty platform cars on the Cen
trail Vermont railroad track at Burlington, sci
them in motion, when Peter Cabsna 10 years
old, standing between two cars, was fatally
crushed.