Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-02-21


In Ludlow child was nearly scnlded TO death
by falling into pail Of boiling sOap-suds. Chill
dren aud boiling water should not be allowed to
play together
Lewis Rencan was arrested last week at West
Alburg as the suspected rascal who robbed the
store of NJ Allen & Co., q few weeks since. When
he saw the sheriff coming he ran to his house and
jumped into bed, upon which the officer found two
women sitting His snooze was soon terminated.
lie lately removed from Burlington.
Leonard Sergeant from Manchester, having been
Liquor Commissioner in Bennington County since
the liquor law has been in operation declines being
again u candidate.
| FAT Cows.-Mr. Phiander Smith Of Bridge
water, slaughtered a COW last month which cut up
as follows; beef, sl9 pounds; tallow lls pounds
hide, so pounds-beating the Royalton cow 1874
pounds.-Mr. Dewey, Of Royalton, killed = COW
which cut up as follows: beef. GIL pounds; tallov
2SS pounds; hide, rs pounds. Hon. W. r. Shat
ter, of Townshend, recently butchered n COW which
weighed SS5 lbs. Hide and tallow, 1T9, leaving
Townshend, as far as returns are in, "A lbs ahead
b F. Times.
| CAN'T DE BgAr.--Wc have seen some pretty
large COW stories in the papers, but we think we
can take them all down. Solomon Sanders, of this
village, has COW from which, with very ordinary
keeping, he has sold one hundred dollars and sew
enteen cents worth Of milk in ten months Mt fouI
cents per quart. besides furnishing all the milk for
a family Of FIVE persons There was also made
from her 10 pounds Of butter in May last. Don't
believe this can be beat. She has yielded Al lbs
Of milk in IS hours, and averaged 40 during the
season.-B. +. -7rgus.
A man in Sheffield went into the woods with an
OK team for load Of rails, and when he returned,
about dark, to the open country, found that the
snow storm which was raging had utterly oblitera-
tel oil traces Of the road There being no alter
native LEFT but to remain all night where he was,
he made platform with the rails on which to ex-
e-cise himself, and when tired with stamping, rest
cd on some cornstaks, which he had taken to feed
his cattle In the morning his neghbors assem-
bsl and rosoand him. Save that he was very tired
hungry and cold, he was unharined by his perilous
exposure.
FInE IN BRADronp.-on Saturday morning last,
the shop owned by Porter Andross, and occupied
by VIM. Gates as Carriage Shop, was entirely
consumed by fire.
The dwelling house, barns and out buildings of
Daniel Sprout, in Mortified, were burned week
or two since; no insurance. A contribution of some
$500 was raised by the inhabitants Of Northheld
and Berlin near by.
We learn that the ladies Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in Bellows Falls, at the festival held
at wightmau's Hall last week, realized upwards of
one hundred dollars from the receipts.
Mr.. David Gilmour Of Quebec, a large ship own
er, died at the Bardwel House in Rutland. on
Friday evening Of last week While in the cars he
was seized with an epileptic fit and upon the arri-
val Of the cars taken to the above house where
he died in three days. lie was q middle aged
man. and. with his wife, was on his way to New
York. intending to take passage in the steamer
Persia, for Europe, which sailed on Wednesday.
Rev. Charles Wellington, d. D., senior pastor of
the First Congregational Church and Society in
TempletOn, Mass. will complete fifty years of his
ministry in that place, on the 25th of this month.
As soon as favorable season occurs the occasion
will be celebrated, and q discourse delivered by
the venerable pastor, who is now in infirm health.
MIR. De Stockl, who for some time past has Off
ciated as Russian charge 'affaires ut Washington,
has been raised to the rank Of full minister near
our government.
In September, 1915, company of artillery in
Stratham, N. H., commanded by John wingate,
was drafted for fifteen days, and marched to Ports
mouth for the defence of that town against appre-
hended attack from the English. The first section
OF the company consisted of seven men, viz -
Merrick Piper, Sam1 Brewster, John Rundlett,
Sam'l Il. Piper, Andrew Taylor, John Thompson
and Chase Hill. Each one of these men is now
living, and has received his warrant for lG0 acres
of government land
The Secretary OF the Maine board of Agricul-
ture says in his annual report which has just been
rendered 10 the Legislature Of that State: 81
hold that until agriculture be pursued as a bust
ness, and until we have faith in it as profitable
one, 1t can nevepattan the degree of improvement
VthS'"ioV there some conSlue-
ratiCns going to show that farmers now generally
lack faith in their pursuit as business"
waggish newspaper publishes the marriage of
+. Plummer HObson, Esq. to daughter of Gov.
Wise Of Virginia, under the caption of "Hobson's
Choice" Another waggish newspaper says =
"Well, Hobson's choice was Wise one."
The N. Y. Erening Post says:-The names of
five of the leading Unitarian cergymen in and
about New York are rather ominous for supersti-
tiOus minds-Furniss, COlse, Bellows, Blaso, and
Burnhap. ..-
The only antidote they ever had was Dewey, who
came after Sparks, and he has passed through this
fiery ordeal and evaporates. though we ought not
to forget that he had left successor quite Osgood
There is still an Indian war in Florida, and Gen.
Harvey with regiment Of artillery and infantry,
10 Ham sats III