Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-04
News. Notes, and Varieties.

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The recent session of the Legislature of Rhode
Island has embraced a period Of eleven wteks-the
longest session ON record in that State, says the
Providence Journal. II is to meet again ut New
port on the last Tuesday in May. The great work
of the session has been the revision Of the public
laws. A vote of thanks to Governor Hoppin was
unanimously passed by the Senate, for the ability,
impartiality and dignity with which he had presi-
dcd over the deliberations of that body. Members
of both parties united in this testimonial.
Peter Plato, q man Of color, and an old resident
Of st. Albans, says the Messenger, aged about ~
years, died suddenly on Wednesday of last week in
a fit of a~poplexy. He had been a very industrious
and honest man, and had accumulated consldera-
bic property, which, for want Of legal heirs, Will
90 to the town. lie died before the confirmation
of the rumor that the Supreme Court of the nation
had decided that no man of color can become a Cit
izen Of the United States. 1t ia to be presumed
that such a decision cannot effect him in the future
world.
The bill of q man who with his wife stayed at
Washington Hotel one day and two nights, and had
a parlor and bedroom, during Inauguration week,
was Just $40. The reason there were no rats at
this house probably was that they could not afford
to stay there.
Mr.. n. Tyler of Westford, owns a calf 20 months
old, which weighs 1920 pounds; and Mr.. Willard
Cutler, of Montpelier, has a pair Of oxen five years
old which weigh 4i50 pounds.
A correspondent Of the N. Y. Examiner says:
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Gone of the novelties in Iowa City is n Sunday
School in a railroad car. 1t is of a recent origin,
and numbers about so scholars. The railroad de-
pot being three-fourths of q mile from t3wn, and
II new settlement having sprung up around it, the
school accommodates children who are remote from
any other. Efforts are being made to interest all
denominations in the enterprise"
The Common School Convention, called to meet
in Rutland on the 9th ult-, is postponed on account
of the session Of the Court. Another convention
will he called to meet at the earliest day that will
suit the convenience Of the Secretary Of the Board
of Education.
That spicy little sheet, the Ludlow Bloier, is in
the hands of the sheriff. In the last number we
find the following -
''To THE FRIENDS AND PATRONS OF THE BLOT
rER.-Being appointed Coroner over the defunci
Biotier, we beg leave to report the following YER
dict-'Came to its death by the violent hands Of
the Sheriff, together with the inability Of the Print
er, under the circumstances, to keep the breath o.
life in it,
The Sheriff has nabbed everything, made q clear
sweep of presses, paper, and fixtures, even to oui
Derii, who was sold, with the rest, for the enor
nous sum Of FIVE cents per pound.
r. S. WARNER
A steam boiler exploded, Tuesday evening, ii
wooster's saw mill at Trenton, n. Y, and killed
workman named Rand.
A reward of $1,000 is offered for the apprehen
, sion of James Fowler, who murdered Brady Phelps
a lawyer, at Gallatin, ILL.,, March 10th. The law
yer had a case against Fowler, and the latter threat
cned to kill him if he went on with it. They me
at the Justices office, and there, without a wor
/, having passed between them, and while Phelps wa
STOPPING to light his pipe, Fowler gave him on
blow with a heavy whip handle, breaking in hi
skull and knocking him l~ifeless into the FIRE. Fowl
er escaped.
There died lately in the province of wilma, Rus
iiss q Astonishing G Sse y Kf'fss7s'ssetsa Years Ts and { month,
. An old Russian soldier died in the Russian pro,
e ince of Kieff in 1874, at the age of 1853.
n A new expedition is reported to be fitting out
New Orleans for some point in Central Americi
4, 1t is believed it will make its first demonstrate
$ on veraqua, a province Of New Grenada betwec
e Costa Rica and Panama. Considerable funds ha,
been raised for the undertaking, which will be col
Quoted in concert with Walker.
A tcaspoOnful Of copperas, dissolved in wat,
and mixed with the animals food, will cure Il
hog cholera.
1t is stated that the counsel of Mrs. Cunning
ham and Eckel are confident Of their acquittal {
the charge of murder. They say that they are n
only able to establish their clients innocence, b.
to give the name Of the actual murderer, and sho
how the deed was done.
n The Salem Register mentions that a gentlemr
in that vicinity cam near being choked, a fe
nights since, by swallowing his teeth while aslee
&c A surgeon arrived in time to save him by takir
them from his throat with an instrument.
h Gen. Scott has resumed his position at Washing
ton, from whence he has issued orders assignir
Gen. Wool the command of the Department of Il
East, with head quarters at Troy; Gen. Twiggs Il
W Department Of Texas, and Gen. Clarke that of Ca
ifornia.
= On account of the prevalence of scarlet fey,
among the pupils, the Trustees Of Mount Holyol
Seminary have decided to bring the term to a clos
The exercises are to be resumed after q few weeI
y vacation.
A newspaper writer, initiating the preyalei
practice among some editors of putting eyerybod
IS who has shown them the commonest ~civility, "f
their courteous and gentlemanly conduct, T" retur,
his thanks to ''the parson and proprietors of Il
stone church," in a city he had visited, ''for Il
privilege of promenading up and down the brot
aisle Of the same. on Sunday last. in search of
seat, unmolested."
q There is a telescope comet now in the mort
western part of the sky, moving eastward. 1t WI
observed through the large equatorial of the n
tional observatory at Washington on Friday nigh
The dwelling house of Mr. Hutchinson near Ma