Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-04-18
STATE NEWS.


from Windsor county, died last Saturday.
Middlebury is to have % electric street
arc lights, at a cost of $1,000 per year.
The soapstone business at Perkinsyille
will be more than doubled this year. A
new mill is to be erected at once for saw
ing the stone A rail. Lear and dunn have
been arranged for clearing the ledge. and
other Improvements are in progress. which
will make it one of the best quarries in the
country.
W. j. Nagg Of Miles Pond, while saving
slabs at Hazen's mill last Saturday tripped
and Tell upon the revolving saw The back
of his arm was laid open from the shoulder
to the wrist, and the bones of the elbow
were badly sawed
Inc Newport express says that Mrs. NJ.
A. Fox Of that town, aged over 90 has
within the past five years spun over 700
Knots OF flax. If in a single thread it
would be nearly thirty miles long. 1t has
been woven into cloth and worked up into
household linen.
Arthur Mckinney Of Jay, Orleans county,
was arrested few days ago on the charge
OF smuggling liquor and other goods His
bail was fixed in the sum ofsS20O. and being
unable TO secure bonds he was committed to
Jail.
Gen Charles Williams of Manchester
\. H., has presented large United States
flag TO the school at Perkinsvile
The stockholders of the old national bank
Of Rutland, chartered in 1899, have voted
to close up its affairs Dr. John A. Mead.
the cashier, has been instructed 10 dispose
of its assets by May 81
Forbes estimates in a St Adams despatch
to the Boston Journal, that the seasons to-
tai product of maple sugar will only be
about half the usual crop of 1900. 900
pounds. The prices feel the effect of the
small crop, good tub sugar selling for 10
cents, cake sugar for - to -, and syrup
from 80 cents to 81 CO.
Middlebury college has been in existence
ninety years. The coming commencement
promises to be one Of unusual interest. 1t
viii then graduate the largest class it has
for years.
Two fourteen year-old BOYS of Stowe
were playing on a veranda one day last
week, when one fell off, breaking both
bones Of the leg at the ankle, turning it
around. At his direction the
other boy set it so that the doctor, who was
called later, did not change it.
Frank Robinson, formerly of Rutland,
was instantly killed in a quarry at Perkins.
vile last Friday, his clothing being caught
IN a gear
The Newport Express mentions that a
Coventry man brought to town last week
barrel of the incest stirred maple sugar,
and received $2O2j cash for it. 1t was
destined for the president of western col
ege, native of Orleans county, who has a
Keen appreciation of the pure maple and
nothing else will satisfy.
As George Donahue, aged nine years, of
West Derby, was leading COW on Wednes-
lay, with rope around his body, the COW
vas frightened by some boys and began TO
'un, dragging the lad and injuring him so
'adly that he died on Friday night,
James Sherman Caswell, the murderer
# George Gould, who was tried at the pres
mt term of county court and found guilty
f murder in the second degree, and Mrs.
aura Gould, wife of the murdered man,
we're married Wednesday through the bars
t the Washington county jail by Hiram
|. Huse, justice of the peace, and one of
he counsel for Caswell at the late trial.
he ceremony was very quietly performed,
OF even the jailer knowing of its occur
ence.
The decomposed body of an unknown
IAN was found Tuesday near the Cold river
! Shrewsbury.