Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-03-20
STATE NEWS.


be built at West Randolph the coming sea
son.
Prof Pierce has been elected principal Of
Goddard seminary at Barre ~ place of
Prof. Maulsby, resigned
The larger part Of the S2ooo0 required
for the proposed shoe factory at Chelsea
has been raised
The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs
Willard Estabrook Of Lyndon Centre was
celebrated last saturday
There are two couple, IN the state who
have been married - year,-Alr and Mrs
Northup Of Williston aud Mr. and Mrs
Spear of Highgate.
Swanton voted to exempt the Barney
Marble company from taxation for five
wears on condition that the company spend
during the coming year not les, than $50
600 in Improvements. The company con
templates building new >jO.ulu mill
The Green Mountain creamery at Jerl-
cho has been sold to the ST Albau- syudt
cate The latter intend, to establish -epa-
rators at Cambridge. Cniorhil and uder
hill Centre. and from all these place, the
cream will be loaded ON "rrcau car and
taken to st Alhan>
Andrew J Burnham and Jane. VI Kent
of Montpelier have sued Sheriff L. u Miles
of Newport for 5000 damage, each for
false imprisonment They were arrested
in Washington county in 1857. charged
with perjury. and were confined in the Or
leans county jail The law provides that
prisoner must be committed to Jail in the
county in which he is arrested
4 Grand Army man named McCue. from
Leominster, Mass was enticed into a dive
on Wales street at Rutland SATURDAY night.
filled up with liquor and robbed Of the $40
pension money which he had drawn that
day. Four men were arrested and fined
for furnishing the liquor, aud they will al
so be prosecuted for robbery. Another
row occurred in the same dive saturday
night, in which Ludlow man was badly
wounded.
There are l6l case, ON the docket at the
present term of the Washington county
court, - being liquor cases and - divorce
cases Some Of the divorce cases are ere
ating much gossip especially that Of Mary
/. c. Wilder VS. Geo. II Wilder of Mont
pelier Wilder Is only - year, old and Is
the son Of a prominent resident Of Mont
peiier. His wife Is the daughter Of IA
wealthy Rhode Island man, and her age Is
%. They were married in Boston three
years ago, and have lived in Montpelier
She charges intolerahle severity, with the
privilege of changing the cause Of action to
adultery. Another case Is that Of Laura
\. Caswel vs. James :. Caswell the muir
derer of George Gould The couple were
married through the jail bars Just before
Caswell was sent to state prison for life
The Rutland Herald is making interest
ing reading Just now with the war which II
is waging on Henry H, Smith, the clerk of
Rutland county. The Herald charges that
Smith is a man Of such offensive moral
practice and standing that it is an alfront
to the community for him To be retained in
this office Its allegations are. IN brief.
that Smith relations with woman v HON
he took into his Office aud then into his
home, more than two years ago. were such
that his wife left him, going 70 live with a
son in Baltimore, and has never since re
turned. Last summer Mrs Smith. whom
the Herald describes as a woman Of high
social and personal standing brought a
suit for divorce, which Smith met with a
counter suit, charging his wife. against
whom no other word of scandal was ever
heard with the grosseSt offence and tax
ing pains to publish the complaint in the
most conspicuous way possible IAN this
made IA scandal heard throughout the state
Mr. Smith was socially ostracized in Rut-
land and dropped 10y business associates, 80
etc The judges of the county court and
the lawyers having refused or neglected
to act in the matter, the Herald publishes
each day a blank petition asking for
Smiths removal. These petitions are be
ing largely signed especially 10y the won
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