Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-09
STATE AFFAIRS.

Sarah Deforge, keeper Of a house OF III
fame at st. Adams, shot Joe Souci, hard
character, dead early last Saturday morning,
Souci at 8 o'clock was in angry conversation
with the woman who sat in the second story
window while he stood on the ground. His
body WAS found lying near the front-gate,
with bullet in the brain, but the woman
had disappeared. She was caught ut noon
hiding under a hay. NOV in her fathers barn,
close by the acene Of the murder. She has a
husband, who is now at work in Worcester,
Mass, who left her on account Of her evil
ways He was greatly distressed by the news
Of the crime, end will try to gain possession
Of his ten years old daughter who lived with
the mother. precisely similar crime oc-
CURED on or very near the same spot In st.
Adams eight or ten years ago, when man
named Flanders was killed.
The law firm Of Farnham Il Chamber
lain at Bradford has dissolved, ex.Gov. Farm
ham buying the whole business. Mr.. Cham
berlain will go west
-Maior Scion Eaton, who died on Sunday
in Addison, at the age Of ~, was graduate
of the university of Vermont and the Har.
ward law school. He commanded a company
in the Second Vermont regiment at the bat
tie OF Bull Run, and soon after the battls
was promoted to be ina or. He contracted
malarial fever on the Peninsula and was
Obliged to return home, where he did eiItc-
tive work as a recruiting officer.
Sir Tbaddeus Fairbanks OF 81. Johns
bury met with quite a serious accident last
week Thursday afternoon. lie stepped out
into the vestibule Of his house, and slipped
or lost his balance in some way and fell
spraining his left hip badly.
About . O'Clock last Saturday afternoon
L iward Hammond and three boys aged re-
a.
into Otter creek by the caps;zing Of their
boat, at point opposite the Haven spring,
about two miles south of Rutland village.
The party had been bunting muskrats and as
they we're floating leisurely home the current
threw their boat against a submerged stump
at bend in the stream. The three boys
swan ashore, but Hammond oung to the
boat and WAS drowned.
Hon. Hiram Clark of Williston commit
ted suicide on Saturday last, by hanging him
self with scarf suspended over a hook in
a closet adjoining his room. Mr.. Clark had
suffered periodically, in former years, from
mental alteration, and the deed WAS undoubt
eddy committed while suffering from an un.
expected attack OF this nature. Seventeen
years ago Mr.. Clark was sent 10 an institu-
ton for the insane, but returned completely
restored in mind, and has been free from
mental alteration until quite late, for twelve
years. 1t is supposed that the sudden return
of the malady was due to overwork. He was
one of the most active and influential citizens
Of the town.
The Passumpsio railroad suffered badly
in last weeks freshet, The worst washout
was just atove Passumpsic, where there was a
gap OF 100 feet which the water poured
through and quarter Of mile of track was
render useless. Until a trestle could be put
across, trains f. o Wells River to st john
bury we're run to SCOTS, N H., via tbs Bo
ton, Concord and NJ, ntreal railroad, thence
over the Boston and Lowell Vermont vi ion
The Acting Comptroller OF the Currency
has authorized the Weldon National bank Of
st. Adams to begin business with capita
Of 500 600