Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-02-27
STATE NEWS.

The President has appointed Charles II.
Montgomery to he postmaster at West Ran
dolph, aud W :. Hitchcock is the new
postmaster at West Haven.
James W. Flower aud wife of West Rut-
land celebrated their golden wedding On
Thursday Of last week.
A mau has been travelling through the
north part of the state, imposing upon
Grand Army men. He pretends to he col
lecting material for soldiers history, and
asks the soldiers to sign their name TO an
order. to show the authority for publishing.
In II few days the man who signed the order
receives a Slj book, which he is told he has
made a written agreement to take.
The town of Westford is out of debt and
has S646 in the treasury. Last year it had
debt to the amount of $3.50
Gov. Page has presented the fire depart
ment Of Morrisvile with $50 in recognition
If services at the recent fire at Hyde Park.
The body of Jed j. Rock, aged "a, was
found Saturday night at the corner Of East
and School streets at Nergennes, with two
bullet holes in it, one of which had pierced
the heart 1t is thought that he committed
suicide.
The latest reports show that the Vermont
division of the Sons of Veterans consists Of
4s camps, with 1884 members.
The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs, John
Liberty of Nergennes was celebrated last
week Thursday.
Charles Teho Of Williamstown is s. years
of age lie has % children all living, %
of them being girls These children are by
two wives and the youngest is three years
old. Mr. Tebo has 800 living descendants,
children, grandchildren and great-grand-
children.
G. r. Barnes, a freight brakeman ON
the Ogdensburg * Lake Champlain division
of the Central Vermont railroad, was killed
Saturday morning by an overhead bridge
at Alburgh Springs.
The fishing rod factory of T. H. Chubb
at Post Mills, in the town of Thetford,
Orange county, one of the most extensive
establishments of its kind in the United
States, was bnrned Monday evening. The
/ fire caught in the varnish room, and the
destruction Of the building and its contents,
including much valuable machinery, was
very rapid. The covered bridge across the
river was also burned. Chuhb's loss Is
upwards of $50 00O with insurance of
| 900.
Rev. DR.. Albert II. Bailey, who died re-
Gently at his home in Sheldon, was the old
est clergyman of the Episcopal church in
the state He was ordained by Bishop
Hopkins in 1916, and had lived and la
bored continuously in Vermont ever since.
He was held in universal confidence and
esteem, and was frequently honored with
responsible offices by the church which he
served so faitlknlly.
The sixth annual reunion and banquet Of
the Boston association of the Vermont
Methodist seminary of Montpelier was helC
last Friday evening at the American Hous,
in Boston.
Col Franklin Fairbanks has presented
the First National bank of st. JohnsburS
with fine crayon portrait of Gov. Fair
banks, who was president Of the bank from
January, 1886, until his death in March
1888.
The Rutland Herald says that George f
Kihling, who is in the house of correction
under 90 years sentence from the Wind
sor county court for liquor selling, is EN-
ployed as one Of the boxers in the marble
shop, and carries himself in quiet and or
derly way. When he first came TO RutlanC
he talked freely about his sentence anC
said he expected to be pardoned soon, bu
of late has said little about it. He wa
convicted of 1l5 offences, his case heinl
aggravated by the fact that he had so 10
Gated himself as to demuraize the Dart
mouth college students The only compan
ion case TO this is that of Bridget kenned,
Of Rutland, who WAS sentenced in 1882 u
about 30 years imprisonment for liquo
selling, but was discharged after serving
80 days,