Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-06-18
STATE AFFAIRS.

The wife Of Gen. Sherman will pass the summer
at Burlington, and will attend the summer school OF
languages there with her daughter and ABOUT ~
friends.
Il. p. Morton has offered to donate 70 Mddlebury
college $4,000 provdeda suhcent additional amount
be raised TO enable the trustees to found PROBES
sorshlp Of modern languages.
Frank Taylor's grocery store at Waterbury was
broken open Friday night OF last week, The safe
was blown open with dynamite and $50 in silver taken
The explosion heard by several persons, aud two
men were seen going towards the depot ~ dayngh.
The hotel At Middlesex broken open Just before
and a watch aud money taken from the prOprietors
clothes at the head OF hrs bed.
The dead body Of man found at Springfield
Monday decided At the inquest TO be that OF Pat
rick Hickett of Chester aged 90 years. He has been
missing since May 49, He was drunk when last seen
Thomas Emond, employe Of the Dorset Marble
company, had miraculous escape from death last
Saturday. He was working on the edge OF a marble
quarry when the steam gauge to an engine broke and
Jumping back to avoid the clouds of steam, he fell w
feet into the pit the hrst so feet Of the fall was
broken by steep incline, at the end OF which 10
and escaped with shattered ankle.
Lake Memphremagog IL to have grand regatta
June 10th. Teemer the American champion, and
Ross of England will row single shells for purse Of
5000 John mckay Of Halifax, N. g., and James Ten
Eyck Of Worcester Mass, are also matched for SIN
gle scu and the latter viii try again to row with
Laing Of Montreal.
An old Mlddlebury farmer named Merrill Bling
ham drawn into game OF cards with some
strangers the other day on his farm He was Induced
to bet $500, when the men grabbed the cash ana
escaped
Rev j. X Fuller closes his pastorae over the Ba-
kersheld Congregational church on July !.
An eight-year-old daughter Of Henry Austin Of
Rutland fell down flight Of stairs on Thursday Of
last week and received what is feared VIII prove Ia
! tai injuries
Joseph Mace who disappeared mysterlousy at
| White River Junction, wa6 heard from Saturday
! through letter TO Mrs. Mace, which he wrote from
Indiana and directed to Lebanon N H., where he used
to live. He wrote that he bound for Kansas City
where be expected to get job. His son-in-law has
gone to bring him hack. Mace has been successful In
gaII int he hUt
steam grst mill at white River Junction. and the care
of 1t has perhaps been too great strain upon his
mind
The Central Vermont railroad company has secur-
| ed q perpetual lease of the Ogdensburg aud Lake
Champlan road, connecting with the Central Vermont
at ROuses Point, N. w. aud running west to Ogdens-
| burg, ilS miles The leased property includes the
boat line from ogdensburg 70 Chicago, and gives the
! Central Vermont through line from Windsor and
White River Junction TO that western port.
The Orange county court now In session at Chel-
has decided TO call special grand Jury to ndtc
Mrs. Sloan, the child-murderer Of STAFFORD. There
s no longer any doubt to the facts Of the murder.
The soans are young couple and very poor. One Of
their little children died last winter aud was reported
to have been smothered TO death was Thought that
the child smothered by the mother. Mrs. Sloans
confession Of Mondays murder is rambling. She
killed her boy, she says to spite her husband with
whom abe had q quarrel the day before. II appears
that put the body into the sluieeWay as far IS she
could, then took pointed piece Of rail and damned
1t with great force several feet into the cuyeft where
there but one-fourth of inch more space than
| the diameter of the child's head.
Harrington, one Of the early judges Of the state will
take place at Clarendon, Saturday July 81. Judge
Wheelock O. Veazey Of the supreme court will preside.
The commemorative address will be delivered by Hon.
Hoyt II. Wheeler, judge Of the United States district
court oliver johnson, one Of the abest Of the anti
slavery advocated expected to be present. basket
picnic will be served at noou followed by the address
and remarks by prominent men.
Five tramps broke into freight ca standing on
the track at Montpelier Junction, Friday night Of last
week, and, with pistols aud knives dehed the railroad
employees to get them out. On the arrival Of freight
train the hands succeeded in routing them. Two Of
the gang afterward captured at Montpelier and
the officers pursued aud captured the other three
They were desperate gang. One slipped the hand
cuffs and tried to escape; smother jumped from
swiftly moving carriage with the handcufs on hil
wrists aud officers fired three shots above his head
and about to shoot him down before he stopped
All are IN Jail. They Attemb tied to wreck freigh
train by throwing distractions the track but failed
H. W. Love, the alleged journalist aud lawyer o
Rutland, does not seem to be making much progress
toward his coveted admission to the bar The objec
tions to the man rather than to his atainments
aud the latest about him will hardly couciliat
the committee having his admission In charge. On
item Is that client whom he sued for legal service
has recovered SIS ia costs against Love- and the othe
is that Love lately had a knock-down fight with Nj
chAel Quinn, & well-known livery man, when he wen
to collect claim against Quinu's son. Both mel
were badly bruised, but they were alone aud no on
knows who began the row.