Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-11-29
The Fairbanks store burned at ~.
lObusbury,


was burned with all its contents The
stock of general merchandise carried was
one of the largest in northern Vermont
The origin Of the fire is unknown one ac
count attributing it to spontaneous combus
tion and another to rats and matches The
building was a very old one and its loss is
not serious, but the loss on stock is in the
vicinity Of 5000 The insurance covers
about one half this amount. Work was at
once begun to rebuild the store
An attempt was made to fire the Fair
haven Era Office last Friday morning 10y
stuffing oily rags into a hole in the wall
and setting them on fire.
The funds to start Young Mems Chris
tian association at Bennington are not
forthcoming. only $500 Of the necessary
$1,000 having been subscribed.
A girl of II who died of typhoid fever
at her fathers home in Wells last week,
left a husband little older than herself
and a baby nine months old.
A council of Congregational churches
will be held at Rutland tomorrow evening
to formally recognize a Swedish church
which has recently been organized at Cen
tire Rutland.
The annual catalogue of the Vermont
university at Burlington, shows a total of
1873 students in the academical department
divided as follows Seniors, % juniors
80 sophomores, 20; freshmen, 56 special
students, O. There are l4j in attendance
upon the winter course for farmers and
1877 in the medical department, making an
aggregate of 40 The classical course has
been made more complete by the founding
Of fa prnfaegprebin pf ItraaE mill Ia
Prof j. R. Wheeler at the head and the
establishment of several elective studies
There are more Vermont students in the
college than ever before.
Mrs. Cole of East Arlington, aged 81,
and Mr. Oatman, aged -, were married
last week
Fred Hammond of Springfield has been
granted patent on a self registering scale.
When any article is placed in the scoop or
on the platform of the scale, the balance
runs out automatically and stamps the
weight on a strip of paper.
The Central Vermont railroads special
market train carried 4j0 tons of Thanks
giving poultry to Boston last week.
Several dwelling houses and business
buildings at Williamstown were burned
last week at loss Of $ll 900. The build
ings were Mrs Emogene A. Flints house,
used as a grocery, the new hotel owned by
the Williamstown granite company, and
the store of Simons x Gale, occupied by G.
NJ. Seaver. j. NJ. Seaver's dwelling and
j. Lind's store were slightly damaged.
Newell Haskins and Hollis Atwood of
Lincoln were arrested Friday night for
making counterfeit coin and passing it.
Haskins was examined at Middlebury Sat
urday before United States Commissioner
johnson of Burlington and held in $500 for
the grand jury. Atwood is a town pauper.
John McDevitt, aged 80 an empluye of
the Vermont Marble company at West Rut-
land, fell from the bank into one of the
deepest quarries in that section last Friday
morning. His body was terribly mangled.
The attractive new Baptist church that
| has Just been completed at Hydeville was
! dedicated last week Thursday. Besides the
auditorium there is a Sunday school room
and kitchen, and the whole is neatly fur
nished, including an organ Its seating ca
pacity is about $50 persons. Rev. j. A.
! Webster of East Poultney has been called
to the pastorate.
Henry +. Cunningham, principal Of the
parochial school at St Johnsbury, has sued
/ Matthew Caldbeck for libel, in the sum OF
$1,000. The alleged libel consisted of let
ter which Caldbeck printed in the Republi
can, claiming that it was written by Gun
ningham The case will be called in the
Bennington county court next month
| This is the outcome of newspaper contro
versy between the two parties on the paro
chial school question.
Five thousand dollars worth Of poultry
was sold at Vergennes last week Thursday