Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-01
News, Notes, and Varieties.

VIM Putnam, Of Nergcnnes, had lcg-crllshcd ms
he was getting the steamboat at Wcstport, n. y,
on Tuesday Of week before last between the boat and
the wharf, rendering amputation necessary.
Mr. Reuben Kellogg, of Fcrrisburgh, caught a; one
haul of his scene two weeks since tcere hundred and
serenty,fre bu-pouts hundred perch, three pick
crcs, and two suckers.
The house Of Mr. james Mac, Of Leicester was en-
trelv consumed by ire on Monday Of last week, to-
ecthcr with mos; cfhi. furniture and clothing, and NJ
his grain aud farming tools. Insured in the VT Mu
tual for ss25.
The new Postoii,cc and United States Cour; House
in Rutland Is nearly completed to the first story. The
UNDERMINING Is Of Granite from the fzwilnm quar-
rc4 in New Hampshire, and the three upper stories
are to be of pressed brick. The building will probab-
~ be ready for occupation by the first Of January
rcxt.
\ town meeting was held in Pownal on Monday, to
vote the proposition of II. Haupi X Co.. that $50,
600 Of stock in the Troy and Greenfield Railroad shall
he subscribed FOR by the town, on substantially the
same terms as governed the town subscriptions in
Massachusetts. II will be necessary for the Vermont
Legislature 20 pass a law, fall sanc,ionng such
Subscriptions but there is very little doub, of ac-
Tie roaio Troy traver-cs Pawual for about six miles
Mr. c. l.. Harding Of Winoo,ki, recently sold fine
Guy geldne, to Boston man, for the handsome price
Of $500.
Edward tsiy, Of Greenwich, Mass, prominent cit
izcn of good standing arrested Tuesday Of last
week for forging the names Of lnhan Marcy, John
Warner, and other residents Of Greenwich notes of
the amour, Of s25Oo getting sllo0 Of them discount
ed at the bank in Ware, and about the same amount
a. '-.'' p~..i- AZ ~~l .l-. i.' p,
and said before his arrest that he should not eth
en-"
"Thc Legislature ofonc ofthc Southwestern States -
says the Canton Rfpository a the session Of 1856
- passed act usiructing the State Librarian to
furnish each member Of the Legislature with copy
OF the Holy Bible So Jnmes's Rtrisiyn.'"
Mr.. Thomas Cannely, fonnly of Stamford and now
a resident of Northtelj Rice county, Minnesota,
picksd a Eastwood leaf, in March which measured :
inches long By broad. |, n very large leaf for
ANY locality, AMI very early III the for any leaves
to appear in Minnesota.
We l,arn that, in consequence Of prolonged inds-
position Mr.. Samuel Wilkeon has retired from The
ibapy Ercaing ournaL having sold out his interest
to Mr. Thurlow Weed, who will now resume the po-
sition OF chief editor Of that paper,
The oldest married couple alive arc supposed to be
Mr.. Snyder and his wife, who reside in Burnside,
Pa He is Ill and she l07 years old, md have been
married about ninety-two years.
Two boys about the ages Of II or 10 years between
whom f'ud has existed Tor some time, met in the
street in llubbar>ton, Mass. last Saturday, and alcr
few words of dispute one of them, with knife stab
bed the other directly over the eye. The wound is
nothing that will prove serious although the affair is
shocking on account of the act BY one Young
Lieut.. Maury of the National observatory has been
restored to the active list Of the navy with the rank Of
commander.
Judgment has again been rendered against Mrs Nyra
Clark Gaines by the United States District Court of
New Orlcansi Judge McCaleb presiding.
The loss by fire extending of $500 acres of ground
in Plymouth and Kingston, Mass, is estimated Al.
$4,000.
"a thought you born on the 1st Of April" said
Benedict to his lovely wife, who mentioned the 2lst
as her birthday "A"st persons would think So from
the choice made of husband" she replied.