Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-04-11
STATE NEWS.


for the annual reunion Of Windsor county
veterans to be held there August l.
Several Burlington ladies thoughtfully
carried flowers to the patients Of the Mary
Fletcher hospitalon Sunday and sang Easter
music.
The Free Press has reports from various
parts of the state which show that Yer
mont trout have not yet got ready TO bite.
Hon Henry Perley, one of Hardwick's
Oldest and most prominent residents died
last Saturday evening of pneumonia He
was for several years one of the assistant
county Judges and was for many years
the principal trial justice of the town He
had held nearly all town and county offices
and had settled many estates.
c. f. Orvis of Manchester tells of his
private efforts at stocking the streams
about him with trout. He began last year
with putting in the fry of the brown trout,
which grows more rapidly than the com
mon brook trout He also grows the brook
trout, and this year has As, 900 of them TO
put out He will greatly enlarge his hatch
| cry next.yea He says that these private
hatcheries will increase, and be of great
| help in attracting people to the New Eng
land hills
James Fuller. a car repairer, met his
/ death in a dreadful way at Newport last
/ Friday Two or three freight cars had
| been run on a siding and he was living I'M
/ der one Of them. at work on a broken
/ brake. with body partially across the rail,
| and having no idea that the cars were to
/ he moved just then however. the main
/ part Of the train back ed down to couple on
/ 10 these cars and ~ this way he was caught
under the wheel which passed over his
/ bent leg, crushing the bones just above the
ankle and close 10 the hip joint. He lived
only few hours.
As Mrs B. C.. Hall and a six years-old
daughter Of Peter blair were crossing the
river at Enoshurgh Falls last week Thurs
( day afternoon. they broke through the ice
/ and the little girl was drowned. Mrs Hall
was rescued in an exhausted condition af-
/ ter being in the water nearly half an hour
Building operations have already actively
begun at Bennington, and promise to be
extensive during the year. Up to the
present time arrangements have been made
/ for the erection of 20 buildings, and twice
/ that number will probably be built.
/ Edward Tatro, au employe at Fonda's
| lime kiln in st. Adams, was very badly
burned last week Thursday by an unex-
| pected blast while he was drilling in a hole
] lTou " llCu II W Us supposed Tue AplbslNt
| had all been removed Pieces of the rock
and large quantity of powder were blown
into his face, entirely closing his eyes and
| terribly burning his face.
! Geo. 7. Mooney, postmaster at St. Adams,
died of pneumonia last Friday, aged ~
He was appointed by President Cleveland
and had six months of his term left to
serve His administration of the Office had
been excellent and satisfactory. There
are four candidates for his place, Melvin
Hopkins, the present assistant postmaster,
among them.
Ex-Gov. Hendee will be the president of
the DAY at the Morristown centennial cele-
bration which takes place on July 1. Other
participants will be the historian and orator,
H. H Powers: toast-master, Philip H.
Gleed: and poet, Rev. P. B. Fisk, all of
Morrisville. The town was first settled in
the spring of 1890 by Jacob Walker of
Bennington and his brother
A st. Adams despatch to the Boston
Journal estimates the total amount of ice
cut in Vermont for outside contractors at at
least /, 600, 900 tons. On Lake Champlain
alone at least 1000 men have been employ
ed. and a million dollars has been paid to
local workmen. The amount cut in New
Hampshire is probably still greater. An
army of men has been employed in cutting
ice On Lake Winnipesaukee, and the ship
ments from Lake Village alone have aver
aged hundred carloads day for several
weeks past 1t is said that to transport
all the ice that has been cut and stacked
would require $50 cars a day from May to
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