Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-07
STATE AFFAIRS.
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State Finances.
STATEMENT SHOWING THE REVENUE AND DIS
BURsEMENTs OF THE STATE OF VERMONT FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JULY 81, 1885.
RECEIPTS.
Cash hand and in banks Aug. /, 1894, i1s,149 40
Income from Agricultural college fund, $3.50 90
" Bennington Battle Monument fund, GOO 90
From supt. Reform School, labor OF pupils, 2,427 20
- state Prison, convict labor, 9,sl1 90
" House Of Correction, 1852 G8
Savings banks and trust companies, In
spector's account, 706 80
:. Railroads, commissioners account, 5ss 70
Fertilizer companies licenses, 800 90
Foreign insurance companies, 2,l5G 10
=" Judges Of Probate, 12,9ll 90
County Clerks, 2i,l7G CO
Income from Huntington fund Ais 80
Proceeds partial sale OF Huntington
fund securities lGl,sl0 81
Corporations, tax for 1894, N2,Y42 SO
Temporary loan, 1900 90
Interest on bank balances, lO32 as
Sundry Receipts, including Barnum and
$1,000 each, N''''' 476s 80
$3.50 77I "a
DIsBuRsKMEsrs.
Debentures of the Gen1 Assembly 1884, t6IisO 10
Income Benn. Bat. Mont fund paid to L. X.
Graves, Treasurer, G0O 90
Extra state pay TO soldiers, 224 "
Interest paid on Agricultural
College fund, 1890 90
" paid on temporary loans, 2,193s
to towns on u. s.
surplus fund 754 Gs- /, O7s 40
Auditors and Court orders paid, 326,2lg AZ
Temporary loan paid, H6,sl037
Cash in banks, 2Osl4 IL
Cash on hand, 2,345 90
Total s6so, IA a
LIABILITIES.
Agricultural College fund state bonds
falling due June 1899, interest
payable TO the College semi
Liability to towns for U. 3. sur.
plus fund aud to soldiers, for
unpaid balances, 10000 90 l55,bOO 90
REsoURoEs.
Cash on hand aud in banks, s29, 100 90
Estimated amount of tax from Corpo-
rations for the coming year, 100000 w
Estimated amount from the tax OF ten
cents on the dollar on Grand
List Of 1885, assessed by the ,., ~.
Legislature, 10000 %
Estimated proceeds from sale Of balance
Of Huntington fund securities, $4,000 %
Total S4sl 100 "a
VIM. II. DUBOIS,
State Treasurer.
GEO. E JOHNSON APPOINTED CLERK or THE u.
s. COURT IN PLACE OF sMALLEY.
Col. h. b. Smaley having, since his APP
pointment AZ collector Of customs, resigned
his other federal Office Of clerk of the U. s.
district and circuit courts, for the district OF
Vermont, Judges Wheeler and Wallace have
appointed Mr.. George f. johnson, for thir-
teen years past deputy clerk. as clerk. Mr..
Johnson entered Col. Smalley's Office in 1871,
and in 1872 was appointed deputy clerk, and
since then has done most of the work of the
Office. He is, of course, thoroughly familiar
with the duties, and the appointment, which
was generally expected, will be a. generally
satisfactory.
A bad smash-up occurred four miles west
of st. Johnsbury last Friday night on the Yer
mont division of the Boston d Lowell road.
A mixed train drawn by two engines ran into
a wRshOut, smashing both engines and six
cars. Frank Place, a fireman, was caught by
the leg between his engine and q rock Joe
Reed, an engineer. was badly burned or scald
cd about the face, and Fred Lawrence, the
engineer, and Dan Gotta, the fireman of the
forward engine, were killed. Howard Harri-
son, a brakeman, detached the passenger car
and came to st. Johnsbury for help over the
down grade, no engine being needed. A
wrecking train with physicians was dispatch.
to the scene and brought back Reed and
Place. The engines we're piled one on top of
the other. The shower which caused the
wash out was the severest in st. Johnsbury
this season. The bodies OF Lawrence and
Gotta were secured few hours aftsrward.
The engineer was badly crushed and cut
about the face. Gotta was caught under the
wood from the tender and WAS evidently
drowned.
A large fire ragged yesterday in the yard
of the international lumber company at New
port, and was not under control until 2, OOO,-
900 feet OF lumber we're destroyed.
The new Methodist church at West
Randolph was dedicated Wednesday. Rev. b,
X. Pierce, d. D., of Boston, editor Of lions
Herald, preached the sermon.
Six tons of red raspberries have been
ahinna1 hu daily fhEounh ha
from Newport. They go TO Boston to be
made up into shrub, canned goods, etc,
The President has commissioned Dudley
@. Brown postmaster at Brandon.
Aunt Dolly White OF NewbuTy celebrated
her l02d birthday recently. She has lost her
eye-sight but her mind is clear, and she re-
peRts poetry and scripture with precision.
Edward Norton, 20, died suddenly at
Bennington on Monday, of rheumatism Of the
heart. MIR. Norton was prominent in bust
ness circles and known through the country
as senior of the firm making Bennington
stone. ware. He was for more than forty
years leading man in Bennington.
bennington will furnish two representa-
tiVes to the Legislative reunion in the fall who
were members Of the Legislature In 1927,
IIiand Hall and LELAND Fairbanks.
The Rutland county historical society
held its sixth annual meeting Saturday near
the battlefield of Hubbardton and the old
military road to Ticonderoga.
Foxes killed 30 turkeys for one Bethel
man and 32 for another in single day last
week.
There we're shipped from North Troy
GOO pounds OF raspberries one day last week.
Spear d Packard of Randolph will ship
10 thorough bred Merino sheep to Montana
this week
There is birch tree on a mountain near
Woodford which measures p feet in circum.
ference.
The government has sued John b. Page
and W. IL. II. Owen of Rutland, bondsmen
for George II. Owen, recent consul 10 Messi-
ma, Italy, for an alleged shortage in his &C
counts of about $1,000, which Owen claims
he paid for the care of INDECENT soldiers, but
which the government now disallOws.
The safe OF s. l.. Smith, storekeeper aud
and postmaster of North Pownal, was broken
into on Thursday night of last week by burg
lars, who blew open the safe and secured
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