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

Hereafter the town meetings in the towr
Of Randolph will he held at West Randolph
Carter, the St. Albans bigamist, has beer
sentenced TO two wears in the state prison
All the public accommodations at Bran
don. including the restaurants, have beer
closed on account of the liquor prosecutions
Stephen Church Cutting of Lunenburgh
aged "a, late Of Concord, died recently
from injuries received by a fall on the ice
A bank is to be organized at Hardwick
and large part Of the $50, 900 capital
stock has been secured.
The mailing business of the Wells, Rich.
ardson company at Burlington amounts "a
from $50 to $500 daily, and requires 30 to
40 mail bags.
The Methodist church at Ferrisburgh
Centre was dedicated last week Friday,
and $1,000 was raised to wipe out the church
debt.
The project of building a bridge across
the river at st. Johnsbury is being discuss
ed IL is estimated that it will cost $50,
0O0
Harvey w Bishop, hotel proprietor at
Newport, has been sentenced to three
months in the house Of correction and to
pay fine of $500 for liquor selling.
A committee has been appointed to make
arrangements for the centennial celebra-
tion of Lyndon, for which $500 was ap-
propriated at the late town meeting.
The railroad bridge over the OK bow p,
south of Middlebury, took fire last week
After hard work the fire was extinguished,
but the roof was burned away.
Two Fair Haven store keepers had a
war on prices. and hostilities continued for
week. On Saturday night Pillshury s
best flour was being sold for S4 - a barrel,
and granulated sugar for five cents pound
Martin Flint, an aged and prosperous
farmer of Brookheld, became violently iu-
sane one day last week and attacked his
family with butcher knife. He was final
ly secured aud was taken to the asylum
Rev. A. J. Hough of Montpelier gave his
lecture on "How to get there" at the
church at Olcott Falls last Friday night,
aud the collection that followed extin-
guished the church debt of $1,000
Judge Wheeler has rendered a decision
in the United States circuit court in the case
of Girard b. Allen and others rs ex-Gov
Horace Fairbanks. The decree is that the
defendants executors pay the plaintiff $3.50
81, without costs. The suit was for So
600.
The large granite hill in Chelsea, known
as Brocklebank mountain, lying in that
town and in Tunbridge, has been bought
by party of wealthy men, who are to de
velOp large granite quarries, and to build a
branch railway connecting with the Pas
sumpsic road
d. Mackenzie has been appointed pur-
chasing agent of the Central Vermont rail
road. Mr. Mackenzie was formerly CON
nected with the Central Vermont, but for
the past eight years has held important po-
sitions with the Mexican Central and Pa
cific Shore line.
New Haven is highly excited over the
suit for damages by James 7. Ledwick
against Charles 7. Smith for $4,000, for Sc
ducing Lille NJ. Ledwick, his wife, and
alternating her affections Smith was
obliged to furnish bail in the sum of $1,000,
and several of the wealthiest men of the
place became his bondsmen.
The store of Fred R French at Hartford,
occupied jointly by himself and X. A.
Quimby, jeweler recently from Windsor,
was entered by burglars Thursday night of
last week and 90 watches and some jewelry
stolen. The entrance was effected by re
moving a large pane of glass from the front
window. The work is thought TO have
been done by amateurs.
Misses Lydia Hartig and Nellie A. Barnes
of Moody's Mortified, Mass, training
school, being employed by the Vermont
Missionary society to do house visiting and
to hold cottage meetings in neglected dis
tricts, are reported as being very success
full in their work. They are now located
in Lamoile county.
Bert Hunter, aged 23, of East Poultney,
took his mothers bank book one day last
week, and went to Rutland, where he pre-
sented it at the Marble savings bank and
asked to have $500 paid over to him. He
was told that he must have written order.
He asked to have an order drawn off, say
ing that he would have his mother sign it.
He soon came back with his mothers sigma
ture to the order, and the $500 was paid
over to him. He has not been seen since
He also took from home two SEQ bills which
his mother intended to deposit in the bank.
Twenty-siX years ago a man living in
small town in this state fell a victim to the
California fever, and leaving his family
near Montpelier departed for the Golden
state. After being in California year he
sustained an injury to his head, which rem
dered him insane, and he was placed in an
asylum for several years. On being re-
leased he was unable to get any trace of
his family, and he supposed them all to be
dead. The family had long before given
the father up for lost A short time ago
the man learned through an accident that
the family were all living, and he came
East. first searching out his daughter, who
was married, and resided in Buffalo, n. Y.
From Buffalo the man came directly to
Randolph, where he found his wife, and
the couple were reunited after a separation
of 26 years. The mans younger daughter
was living in Paris, France, and the son in
Florida.