Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-05-22


several other of the clergy. The exercises
were conducted by Rev. Mr.. Graves, the
missionary through whose efforts the $500
for the erection of the church was raised
1t is stated on good authority that the
wholesale destruction Of fish by the use of
dynamite cartridges is being carried on by
persons in Winooski, and the attention of
the Vermont fish and game league has been
called to the matter.
A fire in a shed adjoining Hickoi d Co. IS
box factory on Pine street at Burlington on
Thursday evening of last week, did $500
damage.
Gov. Page has recently won a suit in
New York. A year ago he sold $1,000
worth of hides to a New York dealer,
whose notes were endorsed by a baker
The leather man left his creditors in the
lurch, and suit was brought against the
baker for the amount of the note.
A granite quarry has been discovered on
Bird mountain in Castleton, the product of
which resembles the famous Quincy granite
but is harder and composed of a mass of
crystals of different cOlors, red purple and
white, with many other shades down to a
deep black.
The Brandon Italian marble company is
getting out Of its quarries a large quantity
of the finest clouded marble, and the p
gang mill is being crowded to its utmost in
order to fill the orders wanted. The COM
pany now employs about go hands and has
all it can do to meet the demands for the
products of the quarries.
The safe in Homer Thompson's store at
Underhill was blown open one night last
week and about S4j in money taken. En-
trance was effected by breaking a window
pane and lowering the upper sash. The
work is thought to have been that of ex-
perts.
Hugh II. Baxter, vice president of the
Baxter national bank, is Rutland's largest
taxpayer, having grand list of 800, 13j.
Mrs. Mary II. Dana of New Haven has
the largest collection of oil paintings in
Addison county, having $50 different pic
lures, all the work of her own hands
John X. p. Pine of Lansingburg, y. Y.
president of the eastern New York agri-
cultural fair, has one of the finest stock
farms in western Vermont, on the shores
of Lake Bomoseen in Castleton, on which
he is laying out Il half-mlc track for a trot-
ting course. He also has a large stud of
valuable horses. some of which are in
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Francis Richardson. proprietor of the
well-known Willoughby Lake house, stu
ated on the beautiful lake of that name,
in Westmore, died suddenly last Friday af-
ternoon. While sitting on the piazza of his
hotel he was told that his barn was on fire
and he Immediately hurried to the stable.
The fire was eXtinguished, after which he
was found dead on the barn floor He had
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Richardson had conducted hotels at Little
ton, Woodsville. Sherbrooke, p. O., and
other places He leaves widow and one
son.
The body of James Clark was found i'm
a pool of water beside the highway at Lyn-
donville, Sunday morning. lie was last
seen alive Saturday evening, when he left
his boarding place, which is near where he
was found. He was subject to fits and
probably was taken with one and fell off
the embankment He was formerly an en-
gineer on the Passumpsic railroad, and was
man of considerable property.
The Lake Champlain Yacht club held a
meeting at the Van Ness House at Burling-
ton on Monday, when an organization was
effected for the coming year, with w. c.
Seward Webb rs commodore, j. Gregory
Smith president and lIoratio IIickok chair
man of the executive committee.
The body of Charles y. Glaise. the
young baker who was drowned i'm the
Worcester branch at Montpelier, April IL.
under peculiar and suspicious circum-
stances, was found floating in the Winoo-
ski river near Montpelier Junction last Sat
urlay.
George +. Morse, for II years conductor
and engineer on the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad, has been promoted to the
position of trainmaster of the road, and
has charge Of the Montpelier yard.
The stock of the Lang IL Goolhue man
ufacturng company of Burlington is to be
increased by l20 shares, the Sl2, 600 to be
used in the construction Of new buildings.
Angus Mcdonald aged 40, a polisher in
the Cutler d Burnham granite polishing
mill at Barre, was instantly killed and ter
riby manglcd last Saturday. He was a
new man in the mill, and climbed ladder
to put a belt upon pulley, when his cloth
ing was caught in the Shafting, and he was
drawn into the machinery i'm an instant
The accident is peculiarly sad, as he had
a family of wife and six young children.
Thomas w. Wood of Montpelier for !
years president of the national academy OF
design, was chosen president of that socie-
ty at the Goth annual meeting in New York
last week. Mr.. Wood has been an artist
from boyhood, and studied in Boston, New
York, London, Paris, Florence and Rome.
His specially is portraiture and scenes in
American village and country life. He had
won wide distinction before receiving this
new honor.
The Vermont Marble company of Proc
tor has recently made six of the largest
marble columns ever turned out in the
United States. The columns are 10 feet :
inches long and feet 10 inches in diane
ter They are each made from one solid
piece of marble, turned in lathe, much as
wood and metal are turned. These col
umns are for use in the construction OF
| Wing hall, Princeton college.
The Clarendon and Pittsford road, pro
iected in 1885, has been completed from
Pittsford to Rutland, distance of II miles.
1t will be used principally by the Vermont
Marble company, which owns the entire
plant.
Frank Carter, employed in the lime
works at Swanton, was killed by a dynam-
lite blast on Monday. After the blast had
been touched off the men ran as usual to
the tool house 200 feet away, but piece OF
rock weighing several pounds was thrown
| through the open door, struck the floor and
glanced upward, hitting Carter crushing
his face and neck and severing the jugulal
vein.
Mrs. Lupine of Plainfield was thrown from
a carriage last Friday, receiving serious in.