Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-01-20


Lyons bought a ticket to Wallingford. A .
few days later Harding announced that lac .
was going West with his wife. He left his +
wife at Montreal however and it is sup ,
posed that he Immediately joined Mrs Ly-
ons. Mrs Harding Is now at Montreal,
and has received a letter from her husband .
declaring that they were never married.
Before leaving Burlington Harding con-
verified his property into cash, and it is
thought that he took about $500.
The house of Mrs. Florence Richardson
at West Charleston was burned last week
Wednesday with most of its contents.
Leslie NJ. Hunt, aged y, was killed by a
falling tree in Maiden one day last week
He was son of O. 5. Hunt of Barton
The business men of st. Adams are to
raise $1,000 to insure the success of the
state tiremen's tournament, to be held
there next summer. ve----
The trustees of the Troy conference acad-
envy at Poultney are raising an endowment
fund of $50, 900 for the institution. Among
the largest contributors is John II. Gould
of Rupert.
1t is claimed that the dependent poor
families from Proctor, Chittenden, Hart
land and Shrewsbury have been sent to
Rutland, where they at once called for aid
from the authorities.
Subscription books of the new savings
bank and trust company were opened AT
Barre last week Thursday. The capital
stock was to have been $4,000, but $40
600 was subscribed in one hour and $780,
600 raised in short time. The books
will remain open nine days,
no II
County Musical association was held at
1 Newport last week. There was a chorus
of POO voices. The artists were H. &.
Blaisdell of Concord, y. H., director, with
his orchestra; Martha Dana Shepard, pi-
anst; Elizabeth Hamlin, soprano; Thorn
as l.. Cushman, tenor; d. NJ. Babcock,
basso, all of Boston; Lillian Whittier Hurd
of Lowell, Mass, reader.
For the third time within few months
report has come from New York of the
arrest of Red Austin, supposed to be
the crook who swndled two farmers in
Addison county. Austin is the leader of
a gang of confidence men whom ii is said
have accumulated a fortune of $500, 600
within few years. They have operated
in nearly every state in theUnion.
T. n. Vail received, at the Chase farm,
lttol Tiludy, w ltul'ii hbblC iploCo, plObd-
bly, the best in the state of the classes,
says the Lyndon Union. They consist of
three PercheronS-a stallion weighing
20J0 pounds, and two mares weighing 2000
each also II French coach horses-a stall
lion weighing 1850, and II mares. This
stock came from NJ. w. Durham, of
Wayne, ILL.,, the largest owner of register
ed horses in the country.
The new electric plant at Burlington
will be located on an island in the Winoo-
ski river near WinOoski village. Dams
will be built to the shores and there will
be a fall of % feet, developing about $500
horse power. The power will be transmit
ted to Burlington a distance of three miles,
by wire. The capital of the company is
t, 100000 and $685. 900 has been paid in,
DIR. w. ). Vincent is the manager of the
enterprise.
The Lyndonvlle Journal has this item in
its Wells River correspondence: "Unclt
, Sam Moore holds a note given him by one
Houston of Wisconsin, in 1864, for $500
on which there has been over $4,000 in in
terest paid. 1t was given for a farm, AM
today the farm could be sold for $50 1000
The note is completely covered with in
! dorsements, and if not paid soon Sam will
have to add more paper as there is no room
for more Endorsements on it..
Fred lombard, Wallace Conley and lie
ander Savoy entered the house of Mr. and
Mrs. Bombleau at st. Adams Friday, Bonn
, bard claiming the right of possession. Th'
three ruffians attempted to eject the fam
lily and their belongings. Mr. Bombleal
was beaten about the head and thrown out
I doors, and his wife was similarly treated
I and thrown into the wood-shed. She il
5 now in serious condition. The assail
: ants have been arrested and will be prose
cuted.
= For several months farmers at MOntgom
i cry found their horses and cattle suffering
from injuries which had been inflicted il
n the night. Will Stevens was arrested
e charged with cutting the threats of horses
but at the last term of court his case wa
e allowed to pass. and he regained his libeI
It ty. The depredations have been renewe
S of late, several horses being found wit
d their threats or tails cut. Tracks in tn
a snow, with the peculiar marks of the shoe
worn by Stevens, have been traced to tn
n hotel where he is employed. He has bee
?, rearrested and held in the sum of $4OO
= The Winooski Clarkes, who claim to b
4 direct descendants of Oliver Cromwell
If were not successful in their attempt I
}, break the will Of their rich New Yor
cousin, Richard 4, Clarke. Mr.. Clark
le was for many years a restaurant keeper i
70 Maiden Lane. He retired from bushes
N during the sixties, and lived at the S
ir Nicholas Hotel up to last June. He die
} June 10, and bequeathed about S250,O0C
At almost his entire fortune, to Mrs, AeXaI
der Schell. The Winooski cousins brougl
., action to break the will, alleging undue il
~ huence upon Mr.. Clarke; who was over {
i, years old when he made the will. Mr.
,s Schell denied the charge and set up in d.
20 fence that she had been a friend and favo
- tie of Mr. Clarke from her girlhood.