Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-07-16
STATE AFFAIRS.


q II. Wells and Gov. Proctor visited Ben
nngton on Wednesday OF last week to look
over the Park place, which has been sng-
gested as a desirable location for the soldiers
home. Col. Estey and Gen. Grout, the other
members OF the committee appointed by the
trustees to investigate the matter Of site,
were unable to be present Maj. A b. Val
entine, who is one of the board OF trustees
for the home, met Gen Welles and Gov.
Proctor and the party spent couple of hours
in inspecting the Park place. II contains POO
acres, 100 Of It being level meadow land, and
a building which can easily be fitted up to &C
commodate 80 inmates. The place was deed
ed to corporation known as the Park
Home, " the donor intending to endow re-
treat for aged women. Maj. Valentine II one
n the trustees OF this corporation. and as the
home was never endowed, proposes that it be
given for a soldiers home. 1t originally cost
SO 600, and with the extensive improve
ments on it, will make a vslusbe gift. Maj.
Valentine suggests that it also be made per-
manent camp ground for the Vermont militia,
for which it is admirably adapted The COM
mittee were given to understand that If they
decided TO use it, the place would be decided
to the state free of cost. Although not cen
traly located this is the best offer the trustees
have had and it is likely to be accepted, pro-
yided the next legislature will provide for the
maintenance Oh = nome lltTt- II viii require
about $4,000 of the $40, 600 already appropri-
Rted by the state to ut up the buildings.
Prof. Slagers summer school of Ian
guages opened at the University of Vermont
Burlington, on Monday.
A Boston architect named Boydeu has
/ looked over the ground for the proposed Uni
versalist church at Rutland, and will prepare
| plans for stone building.
William Streeter, employed at McIudoe +
Falls in George Van Dykes mills, got entan-
| gled with the gearing few days ago, and re
manned there an hour before he could be got
/ out Both his legs had to be amputated.
On Tuesday, Fred Durgin, the youngest
brakeman on the Boston aud Lowell railroad,
| Vermont division, had his body cut in two by
falling under the engine near ST. Johnsbury,
and lived but two hours after the accident.
The Burlington yacht club begins its an
nual cruise to Plattsburg, N Y, and north
ward July %
Five divorces we're granted at the recent
term Of Orange county court, and two or
three applicants we're put over until next
term.
A three years old son of T. Larking fell
into a pail of hot water at Waterbury Mon
day, and died soon after In great agony.
Large shipments of wool of the new
the state, the price paid being FROM 20 to %
cents.
Gerry Crassett's large barn at Water
bury worth $500 was burned Wednesday
fully insured
A great furore has been stirred up a
White River Junction on account of the sui
against Van Wess Spaulding, proprietor Of
the Junction house, for illegal sales of intox
icsting liquor. Spaulding was placed unde
$1,000 bail and the trial was to have takeI
place last Wednesday, but the case was set
tied by his pleading guilty to twenty offences
aud paying a fine of $3.50. This with til,
value of the liquors seized, makes the tota
amount of the penalty about $3.50
David Kellogg, young lawyer of Nov
York city, while visiting at Bennington Cen
tire, was taken i'll last Sunday, and, being lef
alone, disappeared. He is believed to hav
wandered away during temporary aberra
ton of miud.
The Rutland electric light company me
Tuesday and elected officers. The compan,
will buy at once 1875 horse power higl
speed engine and expect to have the light
in operation inside OF four weeks.
w. II. Gilmore, who runs a marble dus
grinding mill at West Rutland, will use hi
machinery to grind eolored slate into powde
to be used by New York paint firm.