Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-01-13

Bennington spent $500, 900 in new build
ings and improvements during 1892, in
GLIDING $4,000 for the elegant new Put
nam opera house.
Internal revenue collections for the dis
trict comprising Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont, for the year ending Dec. 81,
amounted to $llS,SS3.73.
Henrietta Clark, the wife of Henry Clark,
a prominent newspaper man, who was for
years editor of the Rutland Herald, died at
Rutland Monday, aged SO.
Robert Williams fell 40 feet in one of the
Hughes qLarres at West Pawlet a few
days ago and sustained compound CON-
minuted fracture of the leg.
L. b. Harris of Lyndon Centre has just
received ii Shropshire sheep from England
to be exhibited at the Worlds Fair. They
are the finest ShrOpshires ever shipped to
the Eastern states.
Sibley & Places store in Essex junction
was burned Thursday evening of last week.
The fire caught from stove-pipe. A part
of the stock was saved. The building was
insured for $1,000 and the stock for $1,000.
Rev. Albert w. Dickens, of Ticonderoga,
has accepted call to the Congregational
:
Pillsbury, assistant pastor of the Maverick
church, East Boston, Mass, to the Congre-
gational church at Newport.
Charles II. Fuller of Montpelier has re-
signed as quartermaster of the First Regi-
ment Vermont National Guard, after SER
vice of over IA years He has been val
liable official and his resignation will leave
vacancy which it will be hard to fill.
Coadjutor Bishop Michaud has informed
the Pensioners of St. Mary's congregation
at Burlington, that $4,000 is necessary for
the completion of the spires of the cathe-
dral in which they worship. The congre-
CATION numbers upwards of 26OO families.
There is considerable talk in regard to
the suit which is to be brOOght by the Sc
lectmen of Rutland against West Rutland
to recover $1,000, which they claim is due
Rutland according to the agreement at the
time West Rutland became separate town
The statue of Justice, modelled after Ada
Rehan, the actress, for the Montana state
building at the Worlds Fair, is to be cast
at the foundry of Judge II. II. Hibbard, q
former resident of Bethel. The statue IL
to rest on base of solid gold worth $3.50,
000
~ 70 lHdl pup Soo'i's
from $751; 900 to 100000 will be built a
Milton. A firm has asked the town to APP
proprate money for building mile of rail
road to the proposed site, and specla
town meeting will be held the 10Th TO SCI
what action will be taken.
The value of merchandise passing thu
customs at the port of st. Adams for 1885,
and entered for immediate consumption
was $l,546, 045, an increase over 1891 o
S3jB,S97. The duties during the yea
amounted to 1896, 672. l5, an increase owe
iS9l of $Sl, 534.l ID, and over 1890 of 500,
9tS.72, or nearly 100 per cent.
The first reunion of the surviving mem
bers of the 18th Vermont regiment will b,
held in Rutland February IA and Is next
during the annual encampment of the de
plrtment of Vermont &. A. r. Invita-
lions to attend the reunion have been sen
70 all living members of the regiment who's
Whereabouts are known. Gen. l.. q
Kingsley is president of the organization
Hon. Alfred r. Savage, who has jus
been elected speaker of the Maine hOus
OF representatives, is a native of Ryegate
ne was for many years principal OF tn
Northfeld academy and prominent in Ma
sonic circles. He is city judge of Auburn
Me, and has frequently been member q
The legislature. lie was for two terms su
preme dictator of the national suprem
lodge of the Knights of Honor, which Ina
gwen him reputation throughout til
United States.