Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-03-18
General Vermont News.

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Shelburne, is dead.
Michael Arcand. aged 73, OF Burlington,i 1.
dead OF cancer OF the lip.
A Creamery is to be started at East Charles.
ton. Land for it has been bought.
The Hiram Atkins house on Elm street
Montpelier, has been sold for $500.
j. b. Divoll of Rockingham has u COW that
Is giving forty pounds Of milk IL day.
II. V. Woods OF Brandon is No. ST in tn.
list OF bankrupts in this state under the new
law.
The Rutland liquor dealers were unex
pectedly raided on March 3 and large hau
m ade
Sergeant John J. Dunn OF Troop G. Thirt
cavalry, has just died at Fort Ethan Allen,
aged ~.
The sale OF the Rutland h Fitchburg com.
blnation mileage books was discontinued on
March /.
ceived gift OF SO volumes from II. p
Schuyler.
+. r. Phelps, the sash and door manufac.
tnrer at Bellows Falls, has been declared =
bankrupt.
Ms. $. A. Barber OF Bellows Falls is
dead, aged 80. She was life. long resident
OF Rockingham.
Rev. L. ID. Bacon OF the Essex junction
Congregational church has resigned to 90
to Detroit, Mich.
The date OF the Donahue- o Neil wrestling
match at Montpelier has been changed from
April to April l3.
D. q. Almond OF Williston is in Jail at
Burlington charged with the rape OF his
wites young sister.
Mrs. Orah P.Clark OF Westminster is dead
nS ID IS. She was the daughter OF Frederick
Ptmber, and born In Wells.
Cavendish is proud OF Il boy 10 years old,
named Harry Bemis. who has sawed three
cords of wood in one week.
The grOcers and meutmen OF Burlington
will hold their tenth annual banquet on
Thursday evening. March 23.
There were 10 marriages, 26 births. and "a
deaths in Lincoln in 1898. There were no
deaths from grip or pneumonia.
Postmaster Foss OF Vergennes has moved
into his new and handsome off1ce. There
are $40 call and about 100 lock boxes.
The annual town meeting in Westminster
will not be held till March 81, as the warn
ins was not legally posted for March Z.
L. i. Jackson left Island Pond several
weeks since and has not been heard from
since. Many are interested in the case.
Pickle Asseltine of Burlington, who
has laid In the county Jail some months, has
confessed to stealing and been sentenced.
Fred Ranney Of Burlington. who had both
feet badly frozen In the blizzard early in
February, is just able to walk around the
house.
l.. 8. Lovejoy OF Proctorsvile, has % lambs
the number are white, the remainder are
black.
The Bennington county convention Of
'. +. 5. 9. K. met at Bennington March 10.
The services were held in the First Baptist
church.
w. Z. Smith OF Smonsville, who was in
jured In the railroad accident at Larrabee's
Point. has been paid 500 damages in full
settlement
Fred Bixby, who was arrested recently on
charge OF an assault upon Mrs. Barney
Foley at her home. was held for county
court in $1,000 bail.
John Dwyer has gone to Camden. N. j.,
to work on the pOstofflce building there. for
which the Vermont Marble company is fur
nishing the marble.
The county court docket contai = list of
Il divorce cases to be heard at lne March
docket has ~ cases.
- ttoNCiCI udlIlcu W u6blOCk WAS
hel up by two strangers on the Connecti-
cut river bridge the other day at Brattle-
boro and compelled to pay toll.
Otis Harwood, who lives on Whitney hill.
Brookline. and who is past 80 years Of age,
walked from his home to Newfane and part
oil the way home, distance OF over 10
miles.
Mrs. Jennie Sweet SutlifY, who died re-
Gently IN Lawrence, Kan, was born In Bris-
tol on Dec IA, 1881. She married William E.
Sutliif In 1855, and the next year went to
Kansas to live.
Ludlow sold $3723.4s worth OF intoxicat-
ing liquors last year, all for medicinal pur-
poses, at a profit OF S570.49. The towns
poor cost sil49.s5 to support and the town
is $252O4 worse off than a year ago
The three young men who attempted to
break up lyceum at Gassetts are wiser to
the tune OF the following bi Is assessed by
the court: Leroy Perkins, $l3. .25; Clarence
Austin, $l6.25; Arthur French s16.O5.
The resignation OF DR.. Page as superin-
tendent OF the state asylum ut Waterbury
has come about in very quiet way. Even
the supervisors OF the insane did not know
OF 1t until 1t was announced by the trustees.
Governor Smith, Lieutenant Governor
Bates, and Speaker Haskins were In Mont
pelier recently and signed the laws passed
ny LILO lcB VI 4ooO. 1uNlE OFFICIAL
signatures were required to be placed upon
S5 acts.
letter received by E. p. Woodbury. of
Burlington, from his brother, Major Charles
L. Woodbury., states that he has been sp-
pointed city engineer Of Santiago and chief
engineer OF the province OF Santiago. The
letter also states that board ut Santiago
commands from $50 to $75 per week. two
frie eggs are sold for 80 cents and eggs cost
80 cents per dozen.
w. p. Hyde OF Brandon started for Wash
inston, d. c.. and will go from there to
Manila. Mr.. Hyde enlisted in the late war
as member OF Company G OF Brandon, and
served In the hospital corps ut Chick amauRa.
He has since been given q position as hos
pital steward and will be assigned to one Of
the government transports plying between
San Francisco and Manila.
curious discovery was recently made
by the workmen who were repairing the
Boston Il Maine steamer, Lady OF the Lake.
which has run on Lake Memphremag for
the last thirty years A gold rivet was found
In the steamers bow which was placed there
by the late Sir Hugh Allen OF Montreal
when the boat was first built. The rvet
was four inches long and must have cost
originally about $500.
Mrs. Rosaline Peck OF Barabo, Wis.,, the
ITSt Wulte woman 10 cross the Bar0DO
Bluffs. recently celebrated her 9lst birthday.
She lives with her daughter, Mrs. N.Wheeler.
who was the first white child born In Madi-
son. Mrs. Peck was born in Middletown
Rutland county. Vermont, in 1903. and was
married to Eben Peck In 1929. They
went to Wisconsin in 1887 and
located in Madison. where they built
the first log house and opened
tavern, where they entartained many dis
tinguished men OF that tinesS In the fall of
1889 Mr.. Peck and his wife and brother Lu-
ther, started with horses and drove to the
foot Of the Barabo Bluffs, where they we're
to follow an Indian trail for seven
miles on foot and on horseback to reach
their claim In Barabo Valley. Two white men
had preceded them and had begun to erect
q cabin. Other settlers followed and thus
the foundation for the present prosperous
city OF nearly 1000 inhabitants was laid.
During the gold excitement In California in
lS49 Mr.. Peck went west and was not heard
Of afterward. Before the coming OF physi-
cian to Barabo Mrs. Peck treated all the
sick and performed other charitable duties.
As the city grew her lands increased in
value and what land she has left ia IN nidIv