Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-08-29
News, Notes, and Varieties.

After deathly torpor of fifteen or twenty years
the spirit for training, mastering, and "going
sogering,' is reviving in the breasts of the young
men throughout the State. We lately chroniceI
the formation Of a company called the "Green
Mountain Guards,' ct Swanton. Since then
company Of volunteers has been organized at Wood
stock as the Woodstock Light Infantry ofwhich
company Peter 7. washburn is captain; Edward
NJ Brown. Gardner Winslow, Jr., and Norman
Williams, Jr., lieutenants |, numbers almos, six
ty young men.
The Windsor Journal OF the Dist says; 1.-THE
large personal property the Robbins & Lawrence
Company at Windsor, was sold at auction ycstcr-
day, and arrangement made, by which the In
ion Arms Company is to go into operation immedi-
ately. Within few days, therefore, we may see
the splendid machinery in the Armory here in mo-
ton, and the village of Windsor once more enliven-
ed with the manufacture Of arms
The village of Montpelier has purchased a por-
ton ofthe estate Of the late Judge Prentss, lying
between the head Of Union Street and the Fair
grounds-nearly twenty ncres-on which to locate
the new Union School-house. committee was
appointed to lay out the ground and report plan
for the building
Arrangements have been made whereby Western
Cattle are taken over the Rutland and Burlington
railroad to Cambridge cattle market. About fifty
from beyond the limits of that road were trans
ported last week. A drover's saloon has been fit
ted up, which runs through from Albany TO Cam
bridge.
As the Vermont Central cattle train. on the
Lowell Railroad, was passing near Billerca Tues
day afternoon, an axletree broke throwing seven
of the cars from the track and smashing them up
badly. Ono man was slightly injured, and mar
rowly escaped death, ms the car which he was in
was completely demolished. None of the cattle
were killed, but some were injured more or less.
Mr.. F. C. Gilman of Montpelier has lately sold
his fine Hambletonian Black Hawk Stock Horse
for $500 lie was one of the best horses in the
State, and is to be taken to Cuba.
We learn from the Rutland Courier that the
Trustees of the Rutland & Burlington railroad
company are constructing new locomotive at their
machine shop in Rutland. 1t is in process of build
ing upon the most approved principles, and viii
weigh 20 TONS This is the first entire new loco
motive ever attempted at Rutland.
The engineers and workmen on the W. Central
railroad, recently gave A. r. Morrill,, master me-
chanic on the road, splendid gold watch, chain
and seal, valued at 1910, as token of their es-
TEEN.
The smallest business on record, pertaining ev-
en- to the smallest of democratic administrations,
is that pertaining to post-ofice in Kansas. In
that Territory il a town called GREELEY, in honor
of the well known editor of the New York Tri6-
une. The inhabitants thereof recently applied to
the post Office department for post-ofice, which
application the department refused to grant unless
the inhabitants would call it Walker. So any
! body having friends in GREELEY, Kansas, must
write to Walker or their missiyes will 90 to the
dead letter Office. Interestingly Irrational" is
modern democracy.
The testimonial gotten up by the merchants Of
New York, and which it was intended to have pre-
scented to the late William L. Marcy, has Just been
completed. 1t consists of magnificent dinner
and tea set of silver, and includes every article
that goes to furnish table. Even the dish covers
of silver, and the the salver is one of the lar
gest and costliest ever made in this country. The
whole will cost $4,000.
A cargo of Manila sugar, of $4,000 bags, was
sold in New York last week at 18th cents, six
months credit, to be divided among five re6ners,
each taking five thousand bngs This cargo was
owned in Boston, and previous Ito its arrival 10
cents per pound was offered and refused. The
difference between this offer and the price now sold
at amounts to more than $25, 200, exclusive Of the
difference in duty.
newspaper writer, initiating the prevalen,
practice among editors of putting everybody who
has shown them the commpnest civility, "for then
courteous and gentlemanly conduct" returns
thanks to 1.-THE parson and proprietors of the Stone
Church." in city he had just visited, "for tht
privilege of promenading up and down the broad
aisle Of the same on Sunday last--in search of q
seat-unmolested."
The Ohio Life and Trust Company, a bank OIL
exchange and discount having its principal oific'
in New York City, has failed. Its liabilities ar,
estimated at 81 900 900, which its securities hav,