Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25
News, Notes, and Varieties

over Jacob Scott by 23l majority, In Cbittendep-
Charles A. Seymour, Of Burlington, /, elected In
Rutland, Barnes Frisbie Of Middleton has flo
greatest number Of votes In Windsor, n. T.
CburchiN 10 reelected.
"B- ". b. writes to the Rutland Herald Of
the 18th, from Castlcton, that an 'Irishman living
near the Clement Slate Quarry, at Castleton ,leay.
ing his house one day last week.. locked in his
drunken wife y and child some two or three years
old. Smoke wnssocn after seen issuing from the
house tho door was broken in. and the mother
and child takcn out. The woman was severely
burnt, but at last accounts was alive The chin
was saved unframed. 1t is supposed the bed on
which the woman lay took FIRE from matches, with
which the little one was playing.
The Herald endorses Mr. Daniel Kimball Of Rut.
land rs one Of the most enterprising importers and
breeders Of fine wooed sheep in this region. We
second the notion having known something Of
his sheep during the past three or four year,. Ne
has had business connections with Mr. Geo. Camp
bell of Westminster West, and separately and
jointly they have taken premiums at home ard
abroad that show their high excellence in their yo-
cation. The Herald says Of Mr. Kimbal's flock
1--WE observed, among others, the celebrated bucks
Napoleon and Ramboullet The latter was pur-
chased in France while lamb, at cost of 400
francs. At the fair of the U. S. Agricultural So
ciety at Boston, in 1856, the firm Of which Mr.
Kinball is a member, took 1925 in premiums fer
to that class Of stock AT the fair of the samoso.
ciety in Philadelphia, last year, the firm drew sS45
for the same kind of stock
Vermont is now as celebrated for the number
and superior excellence of her fine wooded sheep
as for her Morgan horses. We think sufficient at
tentOn has not been paid to the long wooded yari-
cites which give such excellent mutton.
The seizure and destruction Of liquor in St. Johns
bury has become regular pastime with the off,
GERS. Scarcely week elapses without the record
of one exploits Of the kind. The latest
case is the most ungallant Of all. An officer en-
tered shanty owned by afemale, and after search
ing in vain over the premises compelled the woman
to change her position, when he found beneath her
skirts a two-gallon jug of the contrabaLd article.
David inuu,,ru. uru,ue,sr. .rrHs appoint
ed Postmaster Of West Concord in place Of Charles
Chase, resigned.
Quite strife exists among the hens in various
sections of the State. Some are trying expert
ments with eggs measuring 8 and inches by 6
and in circumference, and weighing 4, 5, and
ounces. If successful, We presume they will
strike for bigger sires.
John r. Gates has been appointed Postmaster at
Bennington, in place Of Mr. Huling, who has re-
moved West
The Middlebury Register says Mr. Vim. 7. POr-
ter, while returning from that village to his resi-
dence in Cornwall, between nine and ten O'Clock
on Monday night last, was attacked by d ruiian,
about two miles from that place, knocked down and
robbed of 1922, and note Of 500. Mr. Porter
is unable to give any clue TO the character who
committed the robbery, having been made insensi-
BILE by the blow.
Mr. Chester Baxter of Illinois, who has been Wis
iting friends in Burlington, took strychnine one
day last week, intending to put an end to his e1-
istence, but his condition discovered and emet-
les administered, which saved his life. Pecuniary
troubles were the cause of the desperate oct.
At the session of the Supreme Court in Caledo-
MIA County, last week, young man, q minor, who
was emancipated by his father for consideration
at the age Of lS3 years, brought n suit to recover
wages withheld from him by the defendant, who
has been summoned as a trustee in suit against
the father. 1t was contended for the defendant,
who had been directed by the father to pay the wa
ges directly to the plaintiff, that it not compe
tent for father to emancipate child Of SO tender
age, and that public policy required some lmita-
tions of the right Of emancipation. The Court
held that the only limit the judgment and dis
erection of the parent, who might emancipate the
child at any age when it should seem for the inter
est Of the minor to have his own time and earnings
Lake Champlain is now open for navigation, and
steamers have commenced running between White.
hall and Rouse's Point
Fayette Thompson. who was arrested some days
ago on charge of rObbing the Rutland & Burling-
ton X. r. Depot at Burlington, and discharged for
want OF sufficient testimony. was re-arrested on
Monday of last week, and on examination before
Justice Hollenbeck, was held to bail in the sum Of
$1,000, for trial at the November term next
Arrangements have been made for the employ
ment, in Vermont, Of more than twenty students
Of the Andoyer Theological Seminary, during their
spring vacation, which commences this week. They,
go under the auspices of the Vermont Domestic
Missionary Society,
The new Mayor of St. Louis, as will be seen by
his inaugural address given elsewhere, fully avOws
and ably maintains the great principles of Free
Labor upon which he was elected. The Mayor has
already made one convert in the person of the
President of the Board of Aldermen, who, in re-
ply to the Mayors Address, fully Endorsed his ad-
vocacy OF Free Labor. 1t is said, indeed, that
this gentleman, though reckoned on the Pro-Slav-
cry side' has been long in part convinced of the
truth Of the sentiments to which he now for the
hrst time gives public utterance; but to encourage
timid bashfuness to speak out, may well be set
down as equivalent to a conversion. The thing
will not stop here. The first bold push having
been made in St. Louis, emancipation will speedily
DC found to have more friends and advocates in all
parts of Missouri than anybody had previously