Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-22


maker, and leaves a wife and one child.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbell Gilbert of Fairfax
have celebrated their golden wedding.
Silas Tevyaw had his right arm cut off
while running saw in the tub factory at
Montgomery Centre.
George f. Blair's barn at Shelbulne was
burned, with contents, including four cows,
on Thursday of last week.
The Wells & Richardson company of
Burlington expended over $4,000 for
postage during last year.
Harrison w. Smith, Morrisville veter-
an, has been granted a pension of $40 a
month, with S170O back pay.
Franklin X. Haven, aged to, for over 40
years a leading merchant at Nergennes,
died suddenly Tuesday from heart disease.
Wilder IL Co. have finished their seasons
work at Victory, They have cut $780,
600 feet of logs, all of which will 90 to Oh
colt Falls.
The village trustees at st. ,Johnsbury
have closed contract for a steam pump
which will have a daily capacity of l, j00,-
600 gallons.
c. NJ. Hazen of West Rupert has sold
his stallion JadrOn, by Quechee Lambert,
to r. HoXis of Gulph, y. y; reported
price $1,000.
Gen. Grout is confident of getting on to
the statute books before the close of the
present session the bill to establish mill
tary post on the line of railway between
Burlington and Highgate.
The outbuildings, including the laundry
and carriage house, of the TichenOr place
at Bennington Centre, were burned on
Thursday of last week, but the historic
old house was saved after hard work.
Patrick Mclaughlin, employed in the
Central Vermont car shop at Rutland, had
his right hand badly cut by circular saw,
which struck between the four fingers and
went down through the hand nearly to the
wrist.
Hon. Charles f. Benton of Guildhall,
clerk of the Essex county court, was
stricken with paralysis Wednesday of last
week, while in performance of his duties
at the court house. He is not expected to
recover.
The Brandon Investment and Guarantee
company, which has a capital stock of $50
600 and was chartered by the legislature at
the session of 1888, organized on the 9Th
inst. with Frank Briggs as president and
w. f. Scott as secretary.
In the Rutland county court, in the case
of Mrs. Ellen S. Morrissey against w. II.
Hughes of Granville, n. V, to recover
damages for the death of her husband, a
verdict for $1,000 was rendered. The suit
was brought to recover $4,000
Louis Lilies dwelling and two barns
near North Bennington, on what is known
as the Richard Henry place, were destroy
ed by fire recently, with contents, includ-
ing several head of live stock. The whole
property was insured for $500.
Walter Pickering, who stole watches and
other goods at Richford, has been sentenc-
ed to states prison for three years and six
months, and Charles Hurlbert of Highgate,
who obtained goods under false pretences
at st. Adams, will devote six months to
hard labor.
The Hardwick Gazette is responsible for
the statement that the daily edition of the
St. Johnsbury Republican is to make its
appearance May 1st 1t will have an $500
telegraphic service, and will be issued at
an early hour, in time for distribution on
the morning trains.
Henry Miller, probably the largest land
owner in the San Joachim (Cal) Valley.
was forty years ago butcher hoy in Yer,
mont, with scarcely a dollar of his own
He individually controls over 100000
acres now, and is believed to be worth be-
tween $50, 900 and $40000,00O.
Brakeman Hubbard of st. Adams fell
while coupling cars at Essex Junction on
Thursday of last week, and several cars
passed over his left arm, necessitating am
putation four inches from the shoulder.
A rib was broken and he also sustained in
ternal injuries. He has a wife and two
children.
Prof. George F. Wright, d. D., of Ober-
lin, in recent address to Princeton theO-
logical students, stated that he spent the
first 10 years of his pastoral life in an OBJ
scure parish of northern Vermont, doz-
EN- miles from railway station, on a sala-
ry of only S4OO. The place to which he re-
ferred was Bakersfield.
The Woodbury. Granite company of
Hardwick has taken the contract to build
a cemetery vault at POughkeepsie, n. Y,
which requires 230 tons of granite, 30 tons
of sawed polished slate, eight tons of Rut-
land Italian marble, 20, 900 hard brick, 20
600 New York glazed brick and 5000
worth of brass work.
Col. Stephen NJ. Pingree died at the sol
diers' home at Bennington, Tuesday, of can
Ger OF Ine throat. lie was lieutenant colo
mel of the 4th Vermont regiment in the re-
bellion and a member of Lincoln Grand
Army post of Hartford. He had practic-
ed law in Hartford since the close of the
war.
DR.. Hiram A. Cutting, aged 90, who had
been for % years postmaster at Lunen-
burgh, died at that place on Monday of APP
opleXy. He was well known in scientific
circles, being member of several scientific
and medical societies. He was formerly
state geologist and secretary of the board
of agriculture. He made numerous dis
coveries in microscopy and has been
member of the Smithsonian corps of OBJ
servers for many years.
DIR. M. Augustus Jewett, who for the
past II years has been physician in charge
OF the asylum for the insane at Danvers,
Mass, has been confirmed as United States
consul to Sivas, Asiatic Turkey. DIR.
Jewett comes from long line of physi-
clans. His grandfather was physician
and surgeon at st. Johnsbury. His father,
Dr. Fayette Jewett, was a physician. DR..
Jewett was born at Sivas, where the consul
lar office is located. He came to this
country in 1860 and lived in NeWbury.