Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-01-17
4EBORO, FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1890.
STATE NEwS.
Edward a. sowIcs FIned fer Csstempt
Of NomrI.

STATE NEWS.
Edward 4. sowIes PIned fer Csutenp
Of Court.
Edward A. Sowles of st. Albans, former
president Of the defunct First Natona
bank of that town, and member of the
Franklin County bar, was fined 5000 for
contempt Of court by Judge Wheeler in the
United States court at Rutland last week
The fine and costs amounted to 5000. The
case is an unusual one. aud has excited much
interest in western Vermont, where the re
spondent is well known 1t arose on the
sale, by United States Marshal Robinson, of
property belonging TO Margaret B Sowles.
wife OF +. A. Sowles, the respondent in
this case. The judgment upon which the
execution was issued was an assessment up
on Mrs. Sowless stock Of the First National
bank OF st. Albans, now in the hands of
Receiver Writer'S Of which bank, as stated
above, Sowles was president at the time of
its collapse. This Judgment was rendered
by United States District Judge Wheeler.
at the adjourned session of the court for
the February term, 1889 At the time Of
the sale there were q pieces of real estate
in Franklin county that were sold on this
execution. Mr.. Sowes claimed that the
execution was irregular and void, and the
real estate was involved in litigation and
subject TO his marital rights as husband
! and the rights Of the legatees of Hiram
/ Bellows, from whom this property came
| Mr.. Sowles issued notice warning ~ in
which was set forth his claim and the rreg
ularity and illegalty Of the execution and
the proceedings by the marshal under the
execution, and forbidding the marshal and
the receiver to make sales, and of any pur-
chase or bid for the same He was present
at all the sales, distributing this "notice
warning" and personally forbidding the
marshal and all persons from dealing with
the property in any way.
The result of Mr. Sowles's acts was that
of the 81 pieces offered for sale, only five
pieces were bid off by any party excepting
the person who bid it in for the benefit of
the bank. When these facts were certified
to Judge Wheeler, the judge issued an order
that Mr. SOwles be notified TO appear be.
fore the court at Rutland TO show cause
why he should not be punished for con
tempt Of court, with the result as above
stated. The respondent was represented
at the trial by Hon. Henry A. Burt of
Swanton and Col Haskins Of Brattleborl }.
District Attorney Pumley appeared for the
government.
The Annual Grand Army Rncam pmenI
The call for the 23d annual encampment
Of the Vermont department. q. A. r. has
been issued by Commander Tracy. 1t will
be held in Rutland Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Jan. % and 90 The occasion promises
TO draw together an unusually large mum
Der OF veterans. Gen. Russell A. Alger,
commander-in chief, will be present. with
members Of his staff and among other dis
| tinguished visitors expected to be in attend
| ance are Secretary Of War Proctor and
/ Col. Neazey. There will be a grand camp
| tire at the town hall on the evening Of the
! 2Sth, and many prominent veterans in ad-
dition to those named will speak The local
Grand Army men are preparing to enter
tain at least 800 veterans The Vermont
department numbers 1Ol posts and some
$500 members, the largest number in its
history.
The Rutland musical association will hold
their next festival the first week in June
for three days, and will give six concerts
/ Carl Zerrahn will be conductor, and the
Germania orchestra Of Boston has been en-
gagged.
Mrs. w. f. Burt's dwelling house and
millinery store at Enosburg Falls, Burt &
| Potter's hardware store and the d. A. Har-
vey block were burned Monday. In the
latter building were Rublee Bros drug
store, office and manufactory of the Ken
dali company patent medicines, and Mrs
Tillotson's tenement. The cause of the fire
is supposed to be the explosion of a coal
stove in Mrs Burts store The loss is quite
heavy and the insurance is $4,000. A shoe
shop adjoining was destroyed to prevent
the spread of the fire.
At Tunbridge last Friday, while some
| lumbermen were working on a steep hill, a
log, two feet in diameter and 26 feet long
got away from them aud rolled with in T.
creasing velocity down the hill and against
the village school house Several children
had a narrow escape from injury or death
and girl nine years old was slightly injur-
| cd. 1t is a brick school house. and a por-
tion of the west wall must be rebuilt
Barre's new directory gives the town a
| population of 900, with SO granite dealers,
% quarries and seven polishing mills.
The town of Springfield, says the Wood
stock Standard, is undergoing a new rail
road excitement. When the Central Yer
mont completes its survey from Windsor to
Bellows Falls, it is said the company will
begin one from Windsor through Ascutney
vile, Amsden, Perkinsville, North Spring
field and Springfield, to connect with the
main line at the mouth Of Black river.
This will afford transportation facilities for
one of the finest sections of country in
Windsor county. Agricultural wealth and
manufacturing opportunities are abundant,
but transportation facilities have been in
adequate, the cost of freighting to the near
est railroad station being heavy.
C. f. Taylor of Middletown Springs.
formerly postmaster at Pawlet, committed
suicide recently.
Albert Whitcomb, the weathest man in
Bethel died last week, aged a. His will
gives over $50, 900 to charitable and public
purposes in Bethel and Stockbridge, his ma
tive town.
A large barn on a farm in Walcott own
ed by Lt.-Gov. Woodbury., was burned a
few days ago, with several head of live
stock belonging to the tenant.
The Burlington Free Press says: The
statement going the rounds of the press
that Rev. Miss Kingsbury, who will deliver
the next Memorial day address at Cam
bridge, is the first woman in Vermont to
fill that position is mistake as Mrs
Amanda Newcomb, daughter of General
Thomas, delivered the Memorial day ad
dress at Warren last May, and so far as is
known bears the distinction that inadver
tently has been accorded TO Miss Kings
bury.
The Clarendon cave, says the Poultney
Journal, is a remarkable cave on the south
west side of a mountain. The entrance i:
two and half feet in diameter and 81 feet
long, and opens into a room 20 feet long
l2 feet wide and 20 feet high In the
north end of the room is passage 40 feet
in diameter which leads into a room 80 by
20 feet. 1t has not been visited much of
late years, but it is a remarkable freak oi
the natural world.
The Congregational parsonage at Eas
St. Johnsbury was burned last Friday night
with barn and outbuildings. Workmer
we're repairing it and the fire is supposed
to have caught from the stove after tn,
workmen left.
Rev. Edward Kellogg of Richford, nov
in his SSth year, is a son of a soldier of tn,
neutrality-suspicious. the only one now lv
ing in Vermont.
Rev. John w. Chapman, a Middleburl
boy is now living as a missionary in Alaskl
and is stationed far in the interior away
from all civilization. At his solicitation
saw mill was recently sent him to supply
pressing need. While on the vessel tina
carried it up the Yukon to its destination
one of the men on board asked Have thel
man to run this saw mill up there al
Auvik !" The answer came, mo, but tina
minister is a Vermonter."