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

IL iOA iullfg CuOObs WIFI SEVERAL sentences
to the house of correction.
A charter has been granted for lodge
Of Odd Fellows at Proctor.
James Bateman of Rutland had one hand
badly crushed while coupling cars.
Samuel Moore of Wells River has raised
2O2 bushels of corn on an acre and half
of land.
The $1,000 for the creamery at Wells
River has been subscribed and a site chos-
en- for the building.
1t is stated that the water in Otter creek
is on the average two feet lower than it was
eight or ten years ago.
George Chapman of Middlebury had an
arm broken while moving large ram.
The animal fell upon him.
Frank Harding had both legs broken last
Saturday while assisting i'll putting a safe
into store at St. Adams.
Rev. +. G.. Lyons of NObleboro. Maine.
has accepted call to the pastorate of the
Baptist church at Middlebury.
y. b. Rogers of Lyndon Centre raised
375 bushels of early Maine potatoes on
seven-eighths of an acre of land.
Walter Burke of East Albany was
knocked down by barn door and badly
injured. His condition is still serious.
Business was lively in the police court at
Rutland on MONDAY, six cases of intoxica-
ton and four of breach of the peace being
disposed Of
Mrs. Kiet of Lyndon was splitting wood
when the axe caught in the clothes line
above and came down upon her head,
making bad wound.
Hugh II. Baxter has given land near the
Baxter mansion, in the northern outskirts
of Rutland, for public park, and it has
been accepted by the selectmen.
1t is estimated that Bristol Starksboro.
Monkton and Lincoln have raised $50, 900
worth of potatoes this year, and the apple
crop in those towns will exceed $500 bush
els.
Company b of the Thirteenth Regiment
and Company G of the Sixth Regiment
held their reunion at Moretown the l4th
inst, with large number of the veterans
present.
The streets of Nergennes are to be light
ed by electricity, Mr.. Briggs of Brandon
having agreed to furnish 20 arc lights of
1000 candle power at a cost of $50 each for
the year.
Vermont has lost its only regularly or
dained and settled clergywoman-Rev Ny
ra Kingsbury, who has been settled over
the parish at Fletcher and who has now gone
to Maine.
Mrs. Edward Mayhem of Fairhaven was
taken with bleeding at the nose one evening
last week and the physicians efforts were
unavailing, death resulting the following
morning.
While workmen were moving collins
from an old cemetery in West Derby the
unusual weight of one of them led to an
investigation, in which it was found that
the body was petrifed.
An interesting program has been pre-
pared for the annual meeting of the Yer
mont non-partisai W. c. T, T., to be held
in the Congregational church at Waterbury
next Wednesday and Thursday.
A fashionable wedding was that of Pearl
Freeman Blodgett of st. JOhnsbury to Miss
Clara Columbia, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
| George Brainerd of Montpelier, at Christ
| church in that place ON Wednesday.
Alfred Turner of Rutland a member OF
the junior class, won five prizes at the re-
cent athletic games at Amherst college
! This was the best showing of any student
and gives him the title of college athlete.
Burglars entered the railroad station and
| pOstottice at Green's Corners, Sunday
night and blew open the safe, from which
| they secured SIP in cash, $50 worth OF
postage stamps, and several pieces of jew
elry.
The Porter admission prize of $50, Offered
for the best entrance examination to Am,
herst college, has been awarded to William
j. Boardman, '95, of Barnet, who prepar
ed for college at the st. JOhnsbury acad
envy.
The grand jury of the Washington
county court have reported 30 more tru,
bills, making a total of about 50, besides
about 20 informations filed by the state
attorney Numerous liquor cases are to b,
brought up.
An organization known as the RUTLAND
County Citizens alliance has been com
pleted at Rutland. 1t is composed of II
local branches The Farmers leagues
which had been organized in four towns
have given up their charters and merge,
with the alliance.
Patrick Kennedy, young man who's,
parents live at West Rutland, fell 80 fee
last Monday in the slate quarry in tn
south part of Poultney in which he wa
employed, sustaining injuries from whicl
he died in a few minutes.
The celebrated case of Miss Thirza A
Carney of Middlebury for sending obscen
matter through the mails, was ended il
the United States court at Rutland las
week, Judge Wheeler sentencing her t,
pay fine of $3.50 and costs.
The general term of the state suprem
court began its session at Montpelier OF
Tuesday. There is an unusually lon
docket, II cases in all, from Chittenden