Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-18
THE VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY MARCH

1887 she was arrested for adultery and
S400 was furnished, when she left and her
bondsmen paid. She is now i'm Jail awaiting
the action of the county court.
The search for the body of Guy Palmer,
the young man drowned while relocating
off Charlotte, has been abandoned. A sub
marine diver from New York, who made
five unsuccessful descents into 50 feet of
water, reports that there is a strong current
at the point where the body went down.
which had probably carried it far away.
A report of the fire insurance business of
the state in 1891 shows 81 companies to
have been engaged i'm the business. The
showing is one Of the worst ever known in
Vermont, the companies having written
S4j, 496 ISL in risks, receiving in premiums
S6Sl 1904, and paid out in losses S67S, 607,
leaving balance of S32D7 for expense ac-
count.
A party of toboggancrs at Burlington
met with serious mishaps one night recent
ly. One of the toboggans ran into a tree
and II. +. Lewis Of the Vermont university,
was knocked senscless. The following to-
boggan colided with the same tree and
Miss Annie Sherburne of Pomflet, a mem
Der of the Vermont university freshman
class, had her arm broken.
Five young desperadoes tarred and feath-
cred Elmer Ford, simple fellow, at West
Randolph the night of March /, and at
tempted to treat the married daughter of
John Witherton in the same manner. The
names of the parties concerned in the out
rageous affair have been ascertained, and
the case will be laid before the grand jury
at the June term of Orange county court
John F. Winslow, a wel-known native
of Bennington, died at Poughkeepsie, n.
Y, last week. He was a man of marked
inventive genius and with Erastus Corning
and John \. Griswold introduced the man
ufacture of Bessemer steel into this coun-
try. A the works i'm Troy, y. Y. he made
the first steel rails in America. His name
will, however, go down to history as the
builder of the Monitor, the Yankee cheese
box which defeated the Merrimac
The death at Tinmouth last week of Hon.
Levi Rice, removed man whose loss will
be felt deeply in the town and surrounding
county. Along with many local offices
given him lac had served repeatedly as rep
resentative of his town and as county sen
ator, while a. juror and foreman of grand
inquest he was prominent in court matters
He leaves wife, and three sons, the eldest
promising attorney Of the Rutland coun-
ty bar.
\. f. Spaulding of Mortified has re-
Gently received a patent on a hand power
drill that is capable of boring a clean and
straight hole into solid granite at the rate
of three inches in depth per minute. This
contriyancc is finding ready sale Upon
a similar framework hr is now fitting "A
hand poliShrr and will soon have a COM
bincd and interchangeable hand drill and
polishing machine that will mean many
less hours of hard work to manufacturers
of stone.
The Corona Marble company's property
w. {. Fletcher March 10, to +. G.. Swim
nington of Rutland for Sl1 300. subject to
a mortgage of $4,000. This property
originally cost 500, 600, and this sale will
pay about one-half the floating indebted
ness of the corporation. 1t has been given
out that new company will be formed
and the quarres and mill will again be
started up.
The matter of an iron bridge for Middle
bury seems not to have been settled by the
vote passed by the town at its annual meet
ing as those in favor of stone bridge
claim that the town had no right To rescind
the vote, taken at a special meeting in Jan
uary, to build stone bridge If it could be
done at cost to the town not exceeding
$1,000, because it was not placed in the
warning. These voters claim that the town
is not bound by the contract made by the
selectmen. and propose to call another
meeting to reconsider the matter.