Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-10-31
News, Notes, and Varieties.

The Armory at Windsor has again been saluted,
and some fifty hands has commenced work. The
event was honored by the citizens Of Windsor by
firing salute.
The extension Of the Connecticut and Passump-
sic rivers railroad from St. Johnsbury to Barton,
30 miles from the former place and only l6 miles
from the Canada line, has been completed and will
be opened for travel on the LIST of November. The
stockholders passed it, however, last wednes-
day, to attend their adjourned annual meeting in
Barton, and all seemed to be pleased with the sue
cess which has thus far attended the enterprise of
connecting Boston and Montreal by new route
the Passumpsic road making a connection at the
Canada line, when completed to that place, with a
q road already in operation to the st. Lawrence
river. The directors report that the earnings of
the road between White River Junction and St.
Johnsbury for the last fiscal year, have been S175,
1856, of which II 1906 remain the net receipts
Henry Keyes Of Newbury has been reelected presi-
| dent
Tuesday evening, of last week, the house, shed
and barn of e. C. Lewis, at Montpelier. on School
street, (late Union) were burnt Furniture main
! ly saved. Insured.
| Gen. Pierce is going to take pleasure trip to
the Madeira Islands. With the graceful courtesy
which power Lay easily show to weakness, Pres-
dent Buchanan has rendered his fallen predecessor
in Office the use of the steamer Powhattan for his
journey.
Patrick Hayes, widows only son, was acci-
dcntally shot and killed at Manchester, N. H.,
while cunning with other boys. And James Dur
fee, q Taunton lad, was fatally wounded by sim
liar occiden..
The Republican editors of the Boston Traveller
have been pretty thoroughly sifted out. No less
than five Of the abest anti-slayery writer's in the
country, who became connected with that paper
when it swallowed the alias and Chronicle-two
of the best Republican journals in the State-have
one after the other, dissolved their connection will
that establishment, yiz-Robert Carter, Charlie.
C. Hazewell VIM. S. Robinson, Samuel Bowles
and Edward G. Parker.
There are 22l undergraduates in Amherst col
lege-52 seniors, 40 juniors, 81 sophomores, and
81 freshmen; 100 are from Massachusetts,, "a from
} New York, l6 each from New Hampshire and Con
necticut, from Maine, each from Vermont ant
Pennsylvania, 4 from Missouri, 2 each from Obi,
and Indiana, one each from Rhode Island, illinois
; Wisconsin, New Brunswick, and Greece.
BENZ. p. Fske of Beverly, member of the jun
, ior class of Amherst College, met with q seriou
and probably fatal accident on Wednesday forenoon
He went out in tho morning, in Company will
another student, to gather nuts, and fell from
tree, in consequence of breaking of limb, in
juring the spinal column so badly as to wholly par
alyze the lower part Of the body Medical assis
lance was procured as soon as possible, but iitl
!, hope is entertained Of his recovery.
s A Scarecrow has been invented by down-east
err so terrific and hideous that all the crows in tn
4 neighborhood are busily engaged in bringing bac
h the corn they stole year ago
It Mr.. wyon, the designer for the Royal BIRTHS
! Mint, has been engaged to furnish designs for
Canadian silver currency of dollars. halves. quar-