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

On Monday, Robert Brooks, porter Of the Amer |
lean Hotel II, Burlington, attempted to spring up /
the hotel coach, just it was starting but fell be-
tween the wheels, and Que Of them passed over his
chest, njuring him severely that he lived but a
few hours.-ln the same town, on Saturday, as we |
learn from the Free Press, man named William
Cayard, employed in the planning mill, while belt
ing wheel with piece Of wood, was struck with
the wood across the abdomen and died from the in
jury on Sunday evening.
Intelligence has been received Of the death of DR.
Silas Bowen, of Clarendon, which occurred Sept,
10th, at the residence Of his son in Kearney City,
Nebraska Territory. He died Of dysentery, after
Illness Of about ten days. Dir. Bowen was en-
gagged in the active practice Of medicine for more
than co years, and was at the time Of his death SO
years Of age.
"These times" lead everybody to preach econo-
my one writer says funerals might be conducted
much cheaper than they Another calculates
that if all persons in the United States would wear
their clothes extra six months, for one year,
$3.50, 0O0.OO might be saved-or if each family
would omit the Of meat one day every week for
a year, Sl2j,O0o,o0O more might be saved--but
these calculations must stop, or we shall be to rich
in rags, empty stomdehs, and shabby hearsss.
The house Of Ethan Allen at Worcester, was en-
tered by burglars, Monday night and Mr.. Allen
jumped out Of bed, seized one of them, gave him a
severe drubbing. aud locked him into closet I'M
til officers arrived to take him into custody.
quantity Of spoons and silver forks was found up
on him. His accomplish escaped with jewelry to
the amount $3.50
The ball which John Stewart, a wealthy farmer
of WATERFOWL, N. Y, was firing at a turkey last
fall glanced and passed thorugh the temples of a
young man, an orphan, deprivng him of sight;
and jury have just found verdict against Stew
art of $4,000 damages.
! The store Of Day, Grswold Co., in Hartford,
was broken into last Wednesday night, and robbed
Of S665 in bank-bills. The knowing rogue left
Sl45 in bills of Rhode Island banks behind him,
after having carefully examined them.
II. ". Beecher thinks man must be an extra
ordinary genius to hear probably three sermons
day; and he characterzes tho first generally, TO
be cream, the second milk, and e third milk and
trdter.
Mr.. W. R. Foster, Of Bangor, the inventor and
manufacturer of a little instrument for sharpening
pencils, has just closed a contract for 800, 900
worth of the article. That ii pretty large ope-
ration in a small line of manufacture. Mr.. Foster
has hitherto kept forty hands constantly employed,
and turned out fifty gross Of the sharpeners per
day. lie will now be obliged to largely extend his
operations.
Among the suspensions in Philadelphia was that
of Eliza Banks, who hung herself on account of
unrequited love, but she was cut down and redeem
ed, which is more than can be said for the shin
plasters.
Visitors at Niagara Falls will remember a stair
case on the west side of Goat Island called Bddlc
staircase. A wicked wag says this name was given
to it because it wound up the bank.
The Boston Post states. as an illustration of the
iightness of the money market and the lack of con-
fdence among business men, that musical organ
grinder refused to discount notes, until he receiy-
ed a glass of beer as collateral.
A young lady who takes an interest in chronology
showed n beautiful great spider that she had cap
tured to the Greenfield Democrat, which, when
alive, covered a space of two inches in diameter.
The Governor and Council of New Hampshire
have appointed Thursday, Nov. Goth, for Thanks
giving Day in that State. This is the first Of the
season.
"John," said father to his son one day when
he caught him shaving the "down'' off his upper
lip. "don't throw your shaving water out where
there are any barc-footed boys, for they might get
their feet pricked.'
Fanny Fern receives $4,000 year for her writ
ngs for the New York Ledger Mr.. j. Parton,
her husband, is writing life of Aaron Burr.
100000 stone fruit trees have been budded this
year, on the nursery of A. II. Myers, in Alameda
county, California.
An agricultural writer says-"Turnips of small
size have double the nutritious matter that large
ones have" At that rate, the smaller the turnip
the more there is of it.
The proverb, 1.-The longer man lives the more
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