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Weekly News Smmary.
Vermont.
THE late Hon. Bliss N. Davis of Danville
left an estate of about $12,000.
ST. JOHNSBURY claims the handsomest
Masonic headquarters in Vermont.
THE new Baptist church in Putney was
completed and dedicated a few days ago.
A COUPLE of Bristol men recently shot a
one hundred forty-four pounds black bear.
THE Central Vermont shops at Rutland
are working on nine and one-half hours'
time now.
THE charter of the National Bank of Lyn-
don has been extended twenty years, to
March 23, 1905.
A CENTRAL VERMONT woodshed and
three hundred cords of wood at Swanton
were burned Saturday.
THE Vermont Merino Sheep-shearing Asso-
ciation will hold a public shearing at Mid-
dlebury, beginning March 31st and con-
tinuing three days.
COOMBS, the Westminster West fire-bug, at
county court last week, pleaded guilty to
one fire and was sentenced to state prison
for three and one-half years.
THERE are seventeen patients at present
in the Mary Fletcher hospital. The accom-
modations of the hospital have been taxed
to their utmost during the present winter.
THE village of Swanton, with only eighteen
hundred inhabitants all told, has more than
one hundred persons sixty-two years old
or more, and their average age is about
seventy-two.
A NORWICH man, who recently returned
from Mount Vernon, brought a white oak
lath from the banquet hall of the Washing-
ton mansion, and his friends are having the
wood made into charms.
THE estimated cost of the proposed iron
bridge at Winooski will be about ten thou-
sand dollars, the town of Colchester paying
one-fifth of the expense, the balance to be
furnished by Burlington city.
THE supply of coal brought to the port of
Burlington amounts to about sixty-five
thousand tons, or six hundred fifty boat
loads, annually, of which thirty thousand
tons are consumed in that city.
KNOWLTON & JACKSON of Brattleboro
have bid off eleven different government
contracts for carrying the mails, most of
which are in New Hampshire. They have
also put in bids for thirty others.
A HOUSE in Salisbury, belonging to Albert
Spencer of Boston, was burned on Sunday
morning. The most of the furniture was
saved. The house was insured. The fire is
supposed to have been incendiary.
UPON the complete opening of the Canada
& Atlantic railroad it is expected that a
lumber yard and dressing mill will be es-
tablished at St. Albans, and that the rolling
mill will be converted into this use.
THE increase in the number of farms in
Vermont between 1870 and 1880 was five per
cent, which was the smallest increase of
any state in the Union. The largest in-
crease during the same period was in Da-
kota, which was 913.7 per cent.
BRADLEY's building was burned Saturday
night at Bennington. It was insured for
$5,500. Noyes' building was slightly dam-
aged. The occupants are insured. The
losses are not as large as at first supposed,
and are probably covered by insurance.
THE Mary Fletcher training school for
nurses opens at the Mary Fletcher hospital
in Burlington, May 4. The course of instruc-
tion will consist of lectures, recitations,
demonstrations and practical teaching at the
bedside upon all topics which come within
the province of an experienced nurse.
H. C. BURWELL of Bridport, who was
awarded two sweepstake prizes for sheep at
the New Orleans exposition, is the same
breeder who took the sweepstakes prize on
sheep at the centennial exposition in 1876,
and the five first premiums at the state fair
last fall. Mr. Burwell's prize money at New
Orleans amounted to nearly one-half of the
entire sum offered for prizes in the sheep
department.
THE listers of Caledonia county met at
St. Johnsbury last week Wednesday, and
fixed the following rates of value per grand
list basis: Oxen, four and one-half cents
per pound; cattle, three-years-old, four
cents; two-years-old, $16; one-year-old, $8;
cows, $28; sheep, $3; swine, four and one-
half cents; bees, $5 per swarm; colts, three,
two and one-year-old, $65, $45 and $30 re-
spectively; wool, eighteen cents per pound;
hay, $10 per ton.
THE Montreal court of appeals issued a
mandate Tuesday of last week, ordering a
meeting of the shareholders of the Montreal,
Portland & Boston road. Receiver Hen-
dee of the St. Albans bank regards this as
an important decision on the bank's behalf,
since it will facilitate the sale of the bonds.
He is now advertising for bids on the bonds,
which it is hoped will be disposed of by
midsummer, and a substantial dividend de-
clared to depositors.
THE St. Johnsbury Young Men's Chris-
tian Association will occupy in about two
weeks its new building, the gift of Profes-
sor Henry Fairbanks. The right side of the
building is fitted up in a store, offices and
tenements. On the left, the association
home proper, is a gymnasium, reading-room,
parlors, and large hall, and rooms for the
secretary and janitor. The association was
organized in 1855, with twenty-one mem-
bers, which had increased to two hundred
fifty in 1882.
C. W. GRAHAM, the taxidermist, says the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian, is constantly
making additions to his collections, so that
a visit to his rooms on Main street is always
of interest. Among the latest curiosities is
a chicken sent from Rhode Island, having a
double body-with two wings and four legs
-but with one head. A rare animal re-
cently received is a Brazilian sloth. A par-
ticularly interesting specimen is a small
kangaroo, with a young one in its pouch. A
porcupine brought from England is of spe-
cial interest, as showing the difference be-
tween the porcupine, which is not found in
this country, and the native hedgehog.
Other Localities.
A TERRIFIC Explosion, caused by coal dust,
took place Friday in a mine at McAllister,
Indian Territory, by which eleven miners
were instantly killed. Their bodies were
all recovered.
THE excitement over the senatorial can-
vass in New Hampshire is steadily growing,
and indications all promise that it will cul-
minate in one of the hardest fights ever
known in the legislature.
THE Armour Packing Company of Chicago
has received another cable order from the
British war department for eight thousand
additional cases of canned beef, represent-
ing about 650,000 pounds.
HANLAN was defeated on the Paramatta
river, Sidney, New South Wales, Saturday,
by Beach. The latter won by six lengths.
Twenty thousand persons saw the race.
The excitement was tremendous, and the
people almost killed Beach with con-
gratulations.
FREDERICK SEYMOUR WINSTON, president
of the New York Mutual Life Insurance
Company, died from paralysis Friday night,
at Fernandina, Florida, where he went two
months ago, to escape the March winds. Mr.
Winston was a native of Ballston Springs,
N. Y., and was seventy-nine years old.
POSTMASTER GENERAL VILAS has author-
