Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-05-09
News, Notes. and Varieties.

sash and cnsings, and mn iron roof The lower
story will be occupied for Post Office and the mn
per for n Custom House and the necessary Offices
Gen. Lyman p. White was the contractor
John Frost, who was recently mmurcd in ,bo
Grand Isle County Jail for the robbery of A Mr.,
Mott Of Alburgh, diedin prison, On the ooh MI
of smallpox. lie was young man, and has IA
rents living in Grafton, N. II.
The five leading post-oflices in this State mr..
Burlington, Montpelier, Brattleboro, Rutland and
st. Johnsbury, in the order named We believe
the first four have Postmasters appointed by IN,
President. the income to the incumbent being ovor
$1,000 per annum each. The income Of the s.
Johnsbury Office is $054.62, and the net revenue
to the Department, $l.ias.32
We can well recolect when almost every octorc-
marian living was either a revolutionary pensioner
or the wife or relict Of such parsonage. This
worthy and thrice honored race is now all bnt or
tinct. 1t is now but seldom we see the announce
ment Of the death Of such, and still more seldom
that we meet with them. We believe that there ar,
but two such living in this County. Mr. Nathan
Lounsberry, who served in the war Ofthe American
Revolution, died in Clarendon on the 2Gth ult., at
the age of l0l years and months.
Mrs. Asahel Wbitcomb, Of Burlington commit
ted suicide two weeks since by taking strychnine.
She was about 60 years age. Unfounded ru
mors affecting her character, is supposed to have
been the exciting cause Of the deed.
Fayete Thompson, the thiefwho robbed the Office
Of the Rutland s Burlington Railroad, and CON-
mitted other exploits in tina. line, an account Of
which we Published last week, was arranged in
Court, plead guilty, and was sentenced to a four
years course in the Institution at Windsor, under
the Presidency Of Col Harlow.
Vermont is fast becoming good state to emf
crate from, if We may judge by the numbers who
are daily leaving for the West But then who
blames them. Some of them are getting along in
the world finely, either making piles of money or
getting into offices Of distinction. A. p Pritchard,
formerly Of Bradford, has been elected, almost
unanimously, County Judge in Wisconsin and
Geo. n. Paul has been elected Mayor of some grow
ing city in the same hourishieg State. I. ]. D.
Fuller, of Maine, recently appointed second Audi
tor ofthe Treasury, is also Vermoner; so is s.
We respect their political principles.
The Patriot has friend at Washington, who
informs that journal that Lewis s. Partridge ofNor-
wich, has been appointed United States Marshal
for the District of Vermont We cannot see any
particular necessity for rotating out the present u-
cumbent. Certainly no man can discharge the du-
ties Of the Office any better. But then it is really
none Of our business 1t is presumed that whoev-
er may get it that The "organ' will declare the ap-
pointment to be Every malicious" There is some
consolation in knowing that much
Under q new arrangement the Northern section
of New York, with Vermont, is to compose dis
trct, to the charge of which Col. Samuel North is
allotted.
The American House at Fitchburg, Mass, is
soon to be opened under the auspices Of Vim. w.
Gomez, who is well known to many of our Vermont
! neonie We sneak frefnrfv from a~na-;a..os ~.
the old Fitchburg Hotel, in years past when we
assert that Mr.. Gomez will make the American
House one of the best hotels in the country His
roast beef, turkies. and plum pufdings have left
very agreeable impressions upon our memory in
days of "auh lang syne.''
A sarcastic lawyer once inyeighing against
learned philologst, whom he charged with possess
ing mendacious habit, said that he had this ad-
vantage another person whom he also accused
Of the same vice. "that he was able to lie in more
languages than his unearned neighbor - neat
HIT certainly-provided it was just.
By the enabling act of the last Congress the peo-
n ofM 10 oil dol
LIST, to constitutional convention, which meets at
ST. Paul July 18th. The convention will first vote
on proposition to adopt the enabling act, with the
boundary lines therein affixed, and must then pro-
coed to frame state constitutions; which being &C.
cepted by the people, will give the state its own in
;ernal government and representation in Congress
next winter. The republican party is rapidly or
ganizing for the delegate election, and is confident
of its ability to control it,
The quantity of maple sugar made in this State
the present season, is unprecedented. In several
OF our exchanges we have met with items which we
subjoin In one district in Berlin, 10 900 pounds
OF sugar have been made from IS orchards, en-
bracing 5000 trees Capt. Carey, of Woodstock,
gathered 90 barrels Of sap from 300 trees in one
week. Messrs. Durham made 275 pounds of SUI
gar from 1870 in the same time. d. Pierce made
between 400 and 500 pounds from lis trees in six
days.. W. Bliss of West Fairlee, made 81 pounds
nice, dry sugar from ~ quarts fsap of the white
maple.-Sias Smith. of Albany, made, during the
season, s69 pounds of sugar from 200 trees. lie
made 65 pounds from so pals of sap-Martn
Griffin, of Newport, made 700 pounds from 15(
trees.-The Orleans Standard thinks that 60 ,OOt
pounds have beer made in that town. We thinl
that over 100000 pounds have been made in VIII
mington.-Amasa Cummings, of East Montpelier
made 22O0 pounds from 45O trees.-G. W. Cham.
berlin, of Wells River made 1875 pounds from 800
trees.-Harry ROys, of Huntington, made $50
pounds from 100 trees.
D four friends in this region will send in their
statistics we shall take great pleasure in publishing
them, The man who has made the most sugar from
a given number of trees shall have the PHOENIX one
year, gratis.
The New York Journal Of Commerce announces
several new frauds and Photographic counterfeits