Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-11-22

The blacksmith shop and dwelling house
of Henry King of Craftsbury was entirely
destroyed by fire Saturday mornings also
the blacksmith shop of William +. Farr.
The King family, who lived over the shop,
just escaped with their lives, losing nearly
all their clothing.
Geo b. Nichols, 70, for many years a
leading Boston merchant, who died in that
city last week, was a native of Weathers-
field. He received his education at the
district schools of his native town and sub
sequently at Meriden academy. He went
to Boston in 1886.
A. b. Jaquith of Woodstock tells of
remarkable yield of corn from a single ker-
mel which came up by chance in his patch
of beans last summer. From this kernel
of western corn grew up four stalks, which
bore three ears of twelve-rowed corn, and
on these 1856 kernels were counted.
y. T. Phillips, the veteran newspaper
reporter of the Barre Enterprise, closed
his work with that paper last week. Mr.
Phillips has had the distinction OF being
the oldest reporter in Vermont, and will
be 81 years old in January. He will report
local happenings for the Burlington News.
The appeal of the Rutland railroad
company from the judgment of the Frank
lin county court in favor of the Central
Vermont railroad was dismissed in the
supreme court of the United States Mon
day for want of jurisdiction. The contro-
versy was as to the payment of state taxes.
Reliable witnesses say that a moose was
seen north of the village of st. Johnsbury
last week. One man saw the moose on
the west side of the hill where the observa-
/ tory is situated, and another saw the ami
NAL the same day on the other side of the
| hill. He was probably a wanderer from
| the northern Maine and New Hampshire
woods.
! Dr. Hamilton, secretary of the state
board of health, has decided that without
| a doubt the sewer on College street caused
| the typhoid fever cases among the students
of the Methodist seminary at Montpelier.
| DR.. Smith, the principal, has expressed
! his unwillingness to reopen the school I'M
til the drain is fixed. All of the fever pa
tients are recovering.
Abel Mix Phelps of New York, sur.
geon in the Fletcher hospital at Burling-
ton, has been sued for $4,000 for malprac-
tice on Minnie Belle Ellis of Barre. The
plaintiff claims to have gone to the hospi-
| tai to be treated for a disease of the right
, hip and she alleges that on June 20 her
left hip was operated upon and parts OF
the bone removed. The girl is still in the
hospital.
The Roman Catholics of White River
junction recently held a fair, to which
Amos Barnes, proprietor of the hotels
Brunswick and Vendome, Boston, contrib
uted many valuable and beautiful articles.
I The amount realized was $3257, leaving
| $500 Indebtedness. Soon after this result
was known the priest received a check for
| $500 from Mr.. Barnes, who is a Protes
tant, to pay the balance of the debt.
A train on the Passumpsic railroad mar.
rowly escaped going into the Connecticut
river a mile below Hanover last Friday
afternoon. A perpendicular cliff of huge
rough lodges hangs over the track at this
point and on the other side an abrupt EN-
bankment, 70 feet high, drops to the river
Huge fragments of the rock had fallen ant
lay within and beside the track. TIL,
train was driving around a curve when i
struck the powders, SCATTERING the pilot Of
the engine, and shaking the cars up badly
The whole train trembled, but held to the
rails.