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STATE NEWS ITEMS. David Roberts of Burlington has been appointed receiver of the First National bank, lately suspended. Ernest Kendall was sentenced Tuesday at Burton to state prison for six years, for robbing a house at Shelburne. A. G. Safford, Esq., of Burlington, has accepted an invitation to deliver the Memorial day address at Bakersfield. Ratchie & Warden's store at West Barnet was entered Saturday night, and money and goods to a considerable amount were stolen. The Central Vermont camp meeting at Northfield will commence June 23, and and the state temperance camp meeting at Morrisville, on August 19. A steam tug 119 feet long and 20 feet beam, capable of towing 30 boats from New York to Albany in 40 hours, is expected at Burlington to work on the lake. A young man named Long, at work in a saw mill near Plainfield, was struck by a chain used in hauling logs Tuesday afternoon aud thrown upon a circular saw and beheaded. In tearing down Ryther's old building on Main street at Brattleboro recently, a copper penny coined in 1835 was found, on one side or which is a turtle bearing a hnge safe and on the other is a donkey with the motto, "I follow in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor." This pen² ny figured quite prominently in the Van Buren campaign. The house of M. F. Burke, in Bartonsville, was struck by lightning recently, and considerably damaged, the electric fluid playing some curious freaks with the crockery in the pantry, and about the house. No flame was started, and no one seriously injured. The house was well supplied with lightning rods, but they were cut and torn off by the bolt. Mrs. Lyman Barber of Fair Haven, who died the 14th, from the effects of a dose of Paris green which she took the day before, admitted to her friends that she intended to have killed her daughter, and endeavored to induce her to go to the woods with her for that purpose, but the daughter declined to go. She confessed, when dying, that she "wanted to kill her SO she would not be left alone." The Ides have commenced work on the foundation of their new grist-mill. The old foundation will be used with some improvements to be added. The building will be 55x30 and 70 feet from bottom of frame to ridgepole. The frame will be of heavy timber and put together to sustain all the machinery and grain which can be crowded into it. This, we believe, will be the first roller grist-mill in Vermont. On the afternoon of Apr. 17, a train was wrecked at Fairlee Mountain by a large stone which heavy rains had washed across the track. The train was composed or coach, baggage and smoking car, and contained about twenty passengers. The engine was thrown off the track and entirely ruined. The baggage car turned half way over and lay partly on the track, while the coach stood on the road-bed. The engineer and fireman were badly bruised. No passenger was seriously d injured. Col. John B. Mead of Randolph has sold all but two of his Red Polled herd a Two cows and one calf sold for $1200 to go to Dayton, O. Thebull Romeo brought n $600 and goes to Hartland, Wis. The e July bull called Volney brought $300 and Simkins $500. These with 15 head of 11 cows and helfers were taken by Ellwood r & Murray of Maquoketa, Iowa, who proe pose to cross them on Shorthorns, thus t insuring a deep red Shorthorn without is horns, of increased milking and superio beef qualities. The 51 head were al
