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# State News.
The Bates House at Rutland is soon to be sold by auction.
A foot of snow fell, up in Lamoille county, last Friday.
St. Albans has a new opera hall which will seat 700 persons.
Twenty of the 241 towns in the State have women school superintendents.
The House of Correction at Rutland has 58 inmates-51 men and 7 women.
There have been 35 cases of diptheria at Waterbury and three deaths from the disease.
Gilman L. Grant of Stockbridge was crushed to death under a load of wood, Nov. 24.
A daughter of P. Gilrain, aged 5 years, was killed at Rutland the other day by the overturning of a mortar box, which fell upon her.
George Knowlton of Rochester fell from his barn the other day, striking upon his head and shoulders. injuring him very severely, but not fatally.
Charles T. Ennis, a colored St. Albans barber, was found dead, on a recent morning, near the railroad shops in that place. Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause.
Frederick Billings has increased his gift to the University of Vermont at Burlington for a library building from $75,000 to $100.000. The foundation is already laid and the building will be put up in the spring. It will be of sandstone.
C. L. Hinds and wife of Chester went to Cambridgeport to spend Thanksgiving and when they returned discovered that their nephew, Howard Hinds, who has lived with them the past two months, was missing with between $100 and $500 left in the house.
Edward Sheple's store at Waterbury was broken into early Sunday morning. The safe was drilled and the handle blown off, but not opened nor any money taken, except a dollar or two out of the change drawer. Two men were tracked to the 4 a. m. train, where the trail was lost.
Norman Taylor, the locally noted Plymouth pie-eater, who trained himself for a runner over his native hills, has at last won a professional sawdust race, a 50-mile go-as-you-please at Philadelphia, Thursday. Taylor had made 66 miles at 20 minutes short of the 12 hours and the other contestants gave up. Taylor is 53.
The trustees of the Southeastern railway have instituted an action against ex-Governor Hendee, receiver of the St. Albans bank, to recover $800,000, representing that amount of bonds of the Montreal, Portland & Boston railway placed with the bank for safe keeping, which the receiver now refuses to deliver.
This story comes from Bennington: The immortal story of "the frogs and the boys" was admirably exemplified the other day as a painter stood on the top-most rounds of a 40 foot ladder, and looking down from his dizzy height, saw a small boy tugging hard away in the endeavor to pull down the ladder. If the urchin enjoyed the prospective fun of seeing a mangled painter come tumbling to the earth, the knight of the brush was stirred by an exactly opposite sentiment. Presently about one pint of Atlantic lead of the consistency of cream descended upon our youthful hero's cranium. A snap bug could not have cleared the circle of danger with any more alacrity than did the whitened and bespattered meddler. With a sorry glance at his jacket, he dashed around the nearest corner exclaming, "I'll tell ma!"
