Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-04-21
VERMONT NEWS.

putand has had three cases OF small pox in Pat
,d ipmily one patient died, but the other two ro-
nNoS u No further danger Is feared.
W., Gary a pauper living at the Northaeld town
@ lately set FIRE to his bed, and also started fires in
r5 oher places in the house. which were discovered
W, rough-andtumble fight eusued, in which Ca
ou, ra,eyed broken head aud other INJURIES which
have since proved iath'
-,ru or MAN FORMERLY PROMINENT IN VERMONT
Hon. VIM. c. Wilson, aged 10, died at Rochester
,,irn sunday, and will be buried at Bakersfield, in
ilis si,te to-day. He was born at Cambridge and
ai been assistant judge, member of the assembly,
J states attorney for Lamollle county, state senator
~ franklin county and from 1866 TO 1870 was Judge
If the supreme court OF the state.
nev. A. r. Wilson Of Hamilton, N. y, has accept-
dacall from the Baptist church at Chester, and be-
ens bis duties May 7.
while boiling sap last Friday, Freeman Walker Of
STAFFORD had shock Of paralysis and died in half an
A child In Forrlsburg caught one Of its fingers in
o coss Of clothes-wringer and It was cut OF at the
6rst joint
., increase its capital stock at once to 100000, its
nrescnt capital being f2OO,OOO.
1obn j. Myers sues the town Of Rutland TO recov-
tiO0O taxes paid under protestin 1881. Myers gave
~ 90 list last year, claiming to be resident Of Cleve-
~ I and The listers doubled his list in accordance
l l1't lie claims that the "doubling" clause of
be law is unconstitutional
Row J. K Richardson Of Rutland will deliver the
nscoration-iay address at Bennington.
The Methodists Of st. Adams Bay dedicated fine
,ct church Sunday. The structure was begun six
years ago and is all paid Tor.
Rev. Thos. Teller OF the Baptist church at East
poutney resigns.
NIrs richard Strong Of waitsheld, aged about 70,
Gently met with a serious accident. She was attend
IN, The sugar arch while her gathering sap,
md her clothes taking hre she was burned nearly to
the waist.
Having provided for the payment OF the debt
tss5ON on their church edinoe, the Congregational
pcope Of Lyndonvile held thanksgiving festival
last Thursday evening.
Evidences found in car Of lumber, which re-
Gently arrived at Burlington from Michigan, showed
mat man had made the journey Of seven days lock-
"a mn therein, living crackers and cheese and
Ing bis car fare by the means.
There are now 1O2 convicts in the Windsor prison.
Mrs Emeue Meaker, the Waterbury murderess who
seuteuccd to be executed in 1885, is kept locked up
In cell on account Of her uginess and lighting pro-
pensities She recently attacked a warden in vigor-
ans manner and fought like wild cat. The officials
are not anxious for further tusses with Mrs Meaker
and propose to keep her where she can mediate un-
disturbed.
A compromise has ended the suit for $500
brought by Mrs b. f. Levin against the owners Of
the Junction drug store at White River junction for
selling her husband rum which caused his death.
Having got the rum last month physician pre-
scription Levin drank himself full on his way home
aud was killed by falling from his wagon. The Wild
ow takes $500 and drops the suit.
-Phio Hatch Of Woodstock, president OF the Wind
Co. Mutual Fire Insurance company, is dead aged
IS
Carlos CARPENTER a promi nent citizen of Barre for
years past, died April TO- aged IS. He was orgi-
nay citizen of Orange, which town he represented
several years in the legislature, aud he or
twice elected senator from Orange county.
As Dana House of waitsheld was tying up his
COWS Sunday, one of them struck at him with her
horns and gored his eye out
The President has nominated Loren B. Heard for
postmaster at Springfield.
THE STATUS OF THE RUM WAR AT ST. Adams.
"A correspondent says: Nothing ever created
greater furore, and died out more completely than
The great liquor sensation in st. Adams last Deem
Der. The sole remnant Of this is about dozen
prosecutions against st. Adams liquor sellers, which
pending in the county court in session here.
number of these have ostensibly been set for trial.
but your correspondent has reliable information that
none Of them will be pressed. There has not been q
liquor prosecution for over three months, the four
hotels sell openly and there at least twenty hotels
and groggeries in town where the ardent is sold in
open defiance of the law and with the taci consent Of
the authorities, who know, as does every one with
eyes and ears, the exact state Of the case.
MURDER IN CANADA, JUST OVER THE VERMONT LINE.
The dead body Of unknown man was found by
two children, a few days ago. in deep ravine in SUIT
ton, p. O.. about Ave miles from Rchford this state,
which seemed to have been carried to that spot for
cOnceament. letter found in the clothing indicates
1t to be that of young EDglshman who was looking
for lands to settle upon in Canada, but the body was
so decomposed as to leave trace OF its identity.
The letter. the clothing and all other appearances in
dicate that the victim a man Of good class, and
there is no doubt he murdered for his money and
his body carried to the place where 1t found for
concealment. One story is that two girls, working in
hotel at Sweetsburg, Sutton, last fall, say
they heard cries Of murder one night, and window
raised upstairs and body thrown out, which was
Immediately carried away. They tried to raise the
window, but could not, and so frightened that
they dared not leave their room till daylight, when
they at related the circumstance to lawyer, who
advised them to keep silent for the safety of their
lives and to quietly leave the hotel This they did,
and about the same time q missing, and he
has not been heard from since
Gov LONG PARDoNs THE REV. J. O. POWERS.