Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-23

lie three buildings were In
sured for $1,000.
Hardwick premises to rival Barre as
booming granite town. Forty substantial
houses have been built in the place within
the past two years. Six or eight concerns
are now engaged in the granite business
there and are shipping the stone to all sec
tions of the country.
A young son of Lester Mills of Groton
had beechnut lodge in his windpipe Oct.
l, which the most persistent efforts failed
to remove. lie was taken to the medical
college at Hanover, n. H., last week TO
have an operation performed, but died of
strangulatiOn last Wednesday.
Z. f. Fowler of the firm of White &
Fowler of Burlington, was assisting vet
Urinary in the care of horse on Sunday
when a pail of scalding water was over
turned upon his left arm When his under
shirt was removed the skin and pieces of
flesh came with it from the whole length of
the arm.
Wilcox Brothers of Bridport have bought
the entire flock of - Shropshire sheep
owned by l.. b. Harris of Lyndonville.
The animals are all importations from Eng
land, and were bred by A. E. Mansell,
secretary of the Shropshire association.
Among them were four ewes which took
the first prize at the royal show in Eng
land.
Mrs. Agnes ID. Arcambal, the founder
and manager of the Detroit house of indus
try, an institution to aid discharged con-
victs, is the daughter of Hon. William &.
Harrington, leading lawyer of Burlington,
and was born in that city in 1882 The
building cost $40 600, and is the result of
many years of labor on the part of that
lady.
Bristol is rapidly becoming an important
centre for the sale of farm products 1t
is said to be the best butter market in Adj
olson county, and eggs and dressed poul-
try are bought in large quantities, one
buyer having shipped about 2000 pounds
of dressed poultry during this season. Last
year 75,OOO worth of potatoes were bought
at Bristol.
Mrs. Kingsland of Burlington, aged ID,
was asphyXlated by gas last Saturday
| night. She was unconscious for "a hours,
although the physicians worked over her
most of that time. She has only partially
recovered consciousness, and it is doubtful
if she lives. 1t is supposed that she turned
the gas on during the night and then went
to bed, forgetting to turn it off.
Edward Kilbourn and Miss Minnie Smith
were driving from Poultney to Raceville,
n. Y, a few evenin Is ago to attend reviv-
al meeting, when their horse took fright at
a lantern and started suddenly. The car
rage was overturned, and both were thrown
down ten-foot cmbankment. Miss Smith
died from conclusion of the brain, and Kill
bourn is now i'll with brain fever
The roadbed of the Bristol railroad is
Il n L
thoroughly revised the bridges and other
works and the road as whole will be
great improvement upon what Bristol peo-
pie had figured to build. A siding nearly
a quarter of mile long, on the east side
of the station at New Haven and running
thence north, is one of the additions TO the
original plan.
The death in London, Eng, of John II.
Hodges has been recently announced. He
was a son of Hon Geo. +. Hodges, at one
time member of Congress and Tor several
years president of the Rutland railroad.
John IL. Hodges graduated from Trinity
college in 1858 and for many years was a
member of banking firm in New York
city. He was also known among the artists
of the country.
The Vermont Good Templars, at the
| Rutland last week, elected these grand Of
fcers Chief templar, c. IL. Hayden of
Essex; councillor A. l.. Aldrch of West
! Burke; vice tempar, Mrs. 5. a. Case of
| Rutland; superintendent Juvenile templar,
Mrs. 5. V. Avery of Burlington; secretary,
| c. ID. Edgerton of Mortified; treasurer,
Il. \. Hatch of Stratford; auditor, \. A.
Niles of Morrisville.
At the annual meeting of the Vermont
medical society held at Burlington last
week these officers were chosen: President,
| Charles $. Caverly of Rutland; vice presi-
dent, A. c. Bailey of West Randolph; sec
rotary, ID. c. Hawley of Burlington; treas
urer, d. G.. Kemp of Montpelier; auditor,
! c. +. Chandler of Montpelier; executive
committee, c. 5. Caverly, ID. c. Hawley
and f. r. Campbell. Obituaries of the
late DIR. A. H. Chesmore of Huntington
and DIR. c. l.. Allen of Rutland were read
The celebrated will case of Hezekiah b.
Smith, the Burlington county, \. j., mil
| lionaire politician and manufacturer, was
decided by Chancellor McGill at Trenton,
y. j., Tuesday. The result is the estab-
lishment of a school for young mechanics
at Smithville, according to the provisions
of the WILL and the failure of the widow
AMI children of the dead man to share in
the estate. The chancellor caustically
criticised the conduct of Mr. Smith in de
sorting his wife and children and installing
Agnes GilkerSon as mistress of his home.
This case will be of especial interest at
Woodstock, where Mr.. Smith formerly
lived and where his family are well known,
Joel Benedict Harris, well-known Rut-
land man, died in that place last Monday.
He suffered a stroke of apopleXy on Thurs
day on the train while returning from
Springfield, Mass, and never regained
consciousness. He was born i'm Sterling,
Conn, and became a civil engineer and
afterward a railroad contractor, doing
work for the New York New Haven ~
Hartford, Boston IL Albany and other
roads. For several years he lived in
Springfield, Mass. He came to Rutland in
1862 and for % years carried on a car
wheel and general foundry business under
the name of the Rutland foundry company.
In 1882 his business was reOrganized as the
Harris manufacturing company, with Mr.
Harris as president. He was also president