The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-03-30

year total $93,143. The estimates FIR
nearly all the departments have been
slightly cut from those OF last year.
A tree which by its rings was shown
10 De over a century old was felled
recently on the farm of F. b. Dutton
IN Pomfret. The trunk, entirely sound
made five fourteenfoot logs and one l2
loot log OF best white pine. Eighty-two
feet from the ground the tree was ~
inches In diameter and the butt log, AZ
inches in diameter, measured over
1000 board feet.
Mrs. Merritt Lee, of Hyde Park. re.
Gently melted two-pound cake of sug-
ar that was fifty years old. 1t wa.
made by her first husband, Eli Wis
well, In the spring of 1858, and dated
at the time made. II was in good con-
dition, had not granulated, but vas
hard and decidedly sweet. although
made before the day of evaporators.
She also has on hand some sugar over
twenty years old.
Frank Bickford of Waterbury who
had been in Washington county Jail
since last Friday In default of bail on
the charge OF alternating the affections
of Mrs. Philo h. Chase of Waitsfield.
was released Tuesday after signing
an agreement to pay Chase a certain
sum and to leave the state. Bickford
started in the evening for Jacksonville
Fla, and Mrs. Chase returned to live
with her husband. The suit for $4,000
brought by Chase will be dropped
Several specimens of pork have been
received at the state laboratory OF hy-
giene, Burlington, for analysis. These
specimens came from Bristol and vic
Unity where several cases, of trichinae
poisoning have been reported. This
poisoning comes from eating pork that
is infected with certain germ that
| enters the human system and finds
lodging In the muscles, where ii
thrives and becomes very painful af-
| Fiction, often incapacitating the pat
lent for work for more than year
and sometimes for life. Meat infected
with the germ cannot be detected
with the naked eye. Several cases OF
this kind have been found before in
and around Bristol.
An unusual condition of affairs was
disclosed In Chittenden county court
at Burlington Thursday afternoon
when the case of Eva Thammer, alias
Eva Farrell VS.. Louis Thammer, alias
Louis Tenner. petition for apnulmen,
of marriage was heard. The petition
ler, an intelligent young Syrian, resides
| in Burlington. According to the petit
ton she was given intoxicants b,
Thammer who took her to Morrisville
N. Y, where marriage ceremony wa.
performed by the Rev. Father Granout
ter OF that town. Thammer repres
ented to the clergyman that the cir
was unable to speak English. Tn,
marriage occurred one and one-hal
years ago. Father Granoutter testi
fed in the case in Chittenden count.
court. The girl also told her story sa.
ing that Thammer was practically
stranger to her when the ceremon
was performed and that her condition
was such that she had no recollection
of what took place at the priest
house. A statement to Miss Farrel
from the Rt. Rev. Henry Gabriels, bisl
op of Ogdensburg. N. Y, was introdu(
ed as evidence. In this communicat
ion the bishop notified Miss Farrel
that following an ecclesiastical hear
ing, the alleged marriage was declares
null and void by the episcopal cour
Of Ogdensburg. The prayer Of the pt
titiOn was granted and decree of al
: nulment was entered. Hammer di
, not appear In the case.