Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-18
News, Notes, and Varieties,

Mr.. David Lawrence, a brakeman, had leg badly
broken and 1t is feared amputation will be neces-
sary. The train was delayed three hou RS.
SAD AccIDENT-Mr. Hiram Hastings of VOL
colt was killed Thursday of last week, while at
work making mill-dam in that town. lie was
engaged with others in raising the top log to its
place on the dam, when by some means it got the
advantage of them, rolling over and crushing Mr.
H., in such manner that he died in twenty-four
hours. Two others who were with him were some
what bruised but not seriously injured
H. L. b. Stowe, son of Harriet Beecher Stowe
and n student in Dartmouth College, was drowned
in the Connecticut River, opposite Hanover, while
bathing, on Thursday last. His body was recov-
cred. Mrs. Stowe has just returned from Europe,
and this accident will be sad news to her.
L. L. Farrar of Burlington, and his brother, S
Farrar were among the drowned in the castastro-
phe that happened to the illated steamer Montreal.
They had a considerable amount of money on their
persons, but none found about their bodies
when delivered to their brother.
The Passumpsc Rail Road Company finished
laying the track as far ms to the Lyndon Depot on
the It'll. 1t was expected the Fourth, but they had
not time to complete it.
In the Orleans County Court, last week. Nathan.
el II. Stiles was tried on charge Of an attempt to
murder Charles l.. Fairbrother of Albany. The
State relied principally the testimony of George
Sulham, an accomplish The attempt was made
by putting strychnine into gin and prevailing upon
Fairbrother to drink the compound. Fairbrother
however survived the effects Of the dose although
he was quite sick The jury found the respondent
guilty.
Republican County Conventinn was held at
Rutland on the md inst, and the following nomi-
nations made Scnators-wm. NJ. Field John L
Marsh, C. NJ willard; Judges-Barzilla Daven-
port, Barnes Frisbee States Attorney--A. A.
Nicholson sherif-Jacob Edgerton Judges of
Probate-Almon Warner, Fairhaven District, IIar-
vcy Button Rutland District.
Rev. r. W. Grswold will not probably accom-.
plish any more literary labor He is quite III. A
few days since he attempted to visit his parents re-
siding in Vermont, who are now both over eighty
years Of age; but he was taken back to New York,
which he will probably never leave alive.
About the hardest case ever heard of was atnur-
derer named Stone, executed many years since in
| Exeter, n. II. Just before the rope was placed
AROUND his neck, he requested the sheriff to give
him mug Of ale. The request being promptly ac-
! ceded to, he took the mug anu commenced blowing
the froh form the ale. "What are you doing that
| for :" nervously asked the sheriff because"
returned the perfect wretch, al don't think froth
, is healthy"
The Vermont 81. nidrd reports that while the
cadets of Norwich University were celebrating the
I Fourth at Woodstock, the University building was
entered, and fifteen rooms occupied by students
were broken open and their trunks robbed Of all
the money and jewelry they contained Most OF
the articles were subsequently found in the attic.
The administration is triumphant over Secession
and Notification. Governor WISE supports the
Kansas policy of Governor Walker - Hash.
| ington Correspondence Of the y. y. Times
1t is fortunate that Buchanan has strong an
arm to lean upon and it equally fortunate that
the Union is safe, albeit We look to WISE for its
salvation.
The following dispatch from Washington issup-
posed to indicate the foreign policy Of the United
States during the present administration:
The Cabinet and President approves Of the firm
and decided measures suggested by Gen. CAss, to
be adopted in reference to all our foreign relations
The protection Of our citizens and property in
foreign countries is to be greatly enlarged, and n
more summary course pursued than was adopted
by other Administrations to obtain redress; NJ
was the case in regard to the injuries and insult:
of Spain to our citizens and American flag.
The insecurity of California land titles is such
to seriously affect the settlement of that State
1t is said that nine-tcnths of all the arabic land is
claimed under Mexican titles, many of which are
spurious and have been SO proved, while many
more are believed to be also forgeries, though no
SO considered by the legal arbiters. These lane
troubles have been in some measure diminisheC
by the action of the courts, but they will probabl,
continue for years yet
Comptroller Flagg has decided to pay all thos
of the mayors police who were in service when tn
municipal law took effect, and were not formal,
removed by the new commissioners for dsobedienc
to orders This excludes such MS the mayor ap
pointed after the law took effect and such as ono
laughed when they were served with notices of ad
missal from the ALBANY black republican com
! missoners"
: The extensive and once renowned estate of chan
. cellor Livingston, on the Hudson river opposit
Catskill, has been sold to four wealthy maiden sis
tiers, named GARRISON, for SCI $50, and the da
pidated condition of the house and lands, OWN
to the shftlessness of the chancellor descendants
will require heavy outlay of money before tn
place can be brought back to anything like it
original splendor.
i The Coroners jury, at Boston, has returned
verdict in the case of the men killed on the com
mon, last Saturday evening week, that the sout
Boston iron company are culpable for allowin
A such an imperfecly cast mortar to leave thei
8 works, and that Hovey & Co. are to blame 70
$ using it.
t "Eliza, my child" said very prudish old mai
to her pretty niece, who would curl her hair
beautiful ringlets, ''if the Creator had intende
your hair to be curled, he would have done it hin
self" $50 he did aunty, when was baby, BIT
Il he thinks am big enough now to curl it myself