Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-08-02

MORE owiNDLING.-Mr.G George W.Wil-
ton' of Waterbury, was somewhat surprized
at receiving early in the present month, let.
ter through the post Office, containing SlOO
In spurious bills. The bills purported to
have been issued by the mechanics Ex-
change Company. New York, payable at
the bank Of ST. Adams, Vermont. and bore
date Dec 10, 1899. j. Reedart and w. X.
James, the first as cashier and the second ms
president, we're the names signed upon their
face The letter reads as follows
New York, June goth, 1899
Slr-l received yours this day. and have
sent you aoot sent for in the New Haven
steamboat inclosed. You wish TO nom the
lowest prise for 5000 nclose me s27 and
will send you that amount. You had bet
ter send soon, as they will be all gone. for
they go like hot cakes, and then there will be
no more Of them.
Yours Resply. MIC
Mr. Wilton sent the spurious bills TO the
police Of this city.
Of course these Mechanic EXCHANGE
Company issues are vllainous frauds. put
into circulation by parcel of designing
knaves with view Of swndlng honest, fair
dealing men Of business, and others-Tbere
is no such institution as the "Mechanic's Ex.
change Company" We trust the police will
ferret them out and tina, the law NAV reach
all those who have aided in giving birth to
all such frauds Wy Erpyess
Col. STANTON, Assistant Quarter master
General. and surgeon T. G. Mower, OF the
U. S. Army, arrived at this post on Monday
last. Under their direction site has been
selected for the location OF hospital, off.
GERS quarters & barrock, on an extensive
scale, and the work has already been com.
menced. The buildings are to..be!erected on
the extreme south Of the government
grounds.-Platts. Republican.
What does This meant AT the late Court
in Columbia County Ohio, Churchill C.
Cambreleng sued Joseph Cable and some OF
his Loco friends at New Lisbon, on a note
for S400, advanced some years since, we
suppose, to start the Patriot then conducted
by said Cable. c. c. Cambreleng was n
Loco-foco member of Congress fIom the
City Of New York. and chief fiddler for the
party in Congress. Canton (Ohio) Repu5.
lican.
A gentleman died lately in Bradford. in
England, who bequeathed FIVE hundred
pounds sterling to his widow on the condi-
lion that she should marry again within six
months after his decease. She is said to be
handsome IN person and of an amiable dispo.
siton-and it is thought she will have no diff
fculiy in finding person who will be will
ling to assist her in fulfilling the condition
Of her husbands will
Among the passengers in the Great Yves.
tern, are Col Nudge and other gentlemen
appointed by the British Government as
Commissioners on the Northeastern Boun.
dairy question.
A frightfu famine is prevailing on parts
Of the Western and Southern coasts of Ire.
land. The subject has been called up in
Parliament
The Liverpool Mercury states that Gen
eral Skrzynecki, the heroic leader of the
Poles during the last attempt OF that brave
people TO obtain their independence, has been
appointed to command the Egyptian army.
John Maryland, boy of II or Is. who
robbed his brother. in Mobile, of between
5000 and $4,000 in notes and specie had
been followed to London, and there arrested
There was fatal explosion at the ST.
Hilda Colliery, in South Shields, by which
sixty lives were lost. s