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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-
