Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-29
State AFFAIRS.

George A. wattless knitting mill at Ben
nington was burned Friday loss $25, 900,
insurance S22, 500
The directors of the Passumpsc rail
road company have decided upon n reduc-
ton beginning March l. Of 10 per cent in the
pay of all employees except the following +:
Engineers, who are reduced 10 cents per
day; fremen and brakemon, eight cents ;
local baggage masters, ~ cents; conductors
and through baggage masters So per month.
The wages Of section men were reduced j IN
uary l.
--Bsauman Butler of st. Johnsbury has in
vented two machines for village use, which
seem to promise well. One Of them is a snow
pillow for sidewalks, the other an ingenious
continuance for sanding icy walks. OF the
latter machine, which has been bought by
st. Johnsbury village, tue Oaledonian says
Tits n large box on runners to which horse
is attached, aud on being drawn along the
snnd in tho box is evenly sfted on the walk.
The operation eau be performed AZ fast rs
the horse can walk. Mr.. Butler is a bene-
factor His machine where used will save
many hard falls and broken bones"
"A father and son named Bell at Fairfax
have been held for trial for assaulting each
other. The father, II is alleged, threatened
to kill his wife because she wouldn't make
over her property TO him, and attacked her
with a club. The son, 10, attempted to de-
fend his mother disabled his fathers arm
with q blow, and, then, with his mothers
help, held the father till help came. Public
sympathy is with the boy who has found
bnl in $4,000, while the father remains in
Jail.
Tho Burlington Free Press has been fig
uring up the local pay.rolls and says that
$1,000, 900 year Is paid for labor in that
city. The Shepard q Morse lumber company
paid 81 GA in October, the J. II. Gates cot.
ton mill $1,000 and J. Il. Booth S7GGS.
Gen Baxtor's estate is to be settled In
the Rutland probate court, his widow and
son being administrators.
The Rutland Herald says that Judge Ev-
erts and his sporting friends are Tin the
height Of elysian bliss" few days ago
flock Of over 80 quail were seen sitting in a
circle head outwards around an old stump
in the woods north of Rutland. The Judge
believes they are part Of the 100 quail i'm
ported by Gen. L. II. Ripley and himself
nearly two years ago aud turned loose on the
hills about Rutland Other hocks have also
been seen recently, and Messrs. Everts and
Ripley are 30 flattered at their success with
these birds that they will import 300 more
this spring
Matte, year old daughter of Prof l.
W. Durham, superintendent of schools at
Bennington, died last Friday She had been
in feeble health several months, but the i'm
mediate cause Of death was the excitement
caused by the burning of the Wattles mill
Hon. G. s. Palmer, recently nominated
for associate justice Of the Dakota supreme
court. was formerly state attorney of Chit
tenden county. He represented the town Of
Jericho in the Legislature of 1880.
March meeting over the question Of the To-
cation Of its proposed memorial hall building
The western mail train on the ST. Johns.
bury and Lake Champlain railroad jumped
the track near Hardwick Tuesday. Two cars
went down the bank and one woman was
slightly hurt.
"A sleigh load OF 20 school children upset
at Burlington Tuesday and the driver, Sid
ney E. johnson OF Winooski, was probably
fatally injured. Several of the children were
hurt, but not dangerously.
N II. Perkins, a brakeman on the St
Johnsbury and Lake Champlain railroad, fell
from a train at North Concord Monday night
and was killed.
Rutland has organized citizens law and
order league with Judge Barrett as president
"A little boy named Bishop of West Burke
climbed up on the window stool the other
day, got his fathers powder flask containing
about half pound Of powder, and tried the
experiment of turning some on hot stove.
The explosion which followed mangled one
arm and burned his breast and head terribly
Steps have been taken to organize a say.
ings bank at st. Adams.
%. S. Bliss of Georgia has obtained a
patent for a combined wooden and wire fence
1t is said to be cheap and durable.
james Searle OF st. Albans bled to death
from his nose the other day, physicians be-
ing unable to control the hemorrhsge.
st Adams is to be connected by tele-
phone with Burlington, Middlebury, Rutland
and the towns in the eastern part of the state
Meyer was held for the grand jury at St.
Adams Wednesday for the murder of Her.
mann Krauser on Lake Champlain. Kraus-
er's body has not been found and probably
will not be until the ice breaks up in the
spring.