Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-10-16
News, Notes, and Varieties.

INDIAN ATROCITIES N TExAs.-The Weatherford
Frontier News Of the 23d ult, has the following;
sin our last We gave account Of the murder of
two men ans wounding another, by the Indians and
the escape Of a lady. Since then have learned
that this woman remained on, from Tuesday until
Friday before she found; and when found was
wild; and when caught she imagined they were the
Indians, and begged the TO kill her and save her
chidan infant she had carried with her and IL was
some time before she could be assured they were her
friends. The Indians, af,er committing the murders
above referred to, started up north, and coming to
where some men, seven in number, raising a
house, outside of the settlements at once attacked
them and killed every man."
The New York sun says that n few days since the
Sheriff sold out the effects OF merchs mt who has been
ruined by the purchase Of lottery tickets He bought
for wears, but never gained prize until a weeks ago
and the lottery men refused to pay the only hit he
made.
DEPARTURE OF THE OVERLAND MAI. TRAIN To
CALIFoRNIA.-The Kansas City Journal of Commerce
says that the LIST of October the first mail coach
over the great central route from Kansas City to Stock
ton, California, left the Post Office in Kansas Civ
The contractors Messrs. Barrow Porter & Co.
who have already stocked the route with mules and
coaches.
AN IMPORTANT VERDICr.-ln the Court of Quarter
Sessions, Philadelphia, William Nixon has been pro-
horse and cart standing, unattended in public street.
by which negligence child killed.
SHREwD fINANCER.-A certain church in tl,
city tsays the New Bedford Mercury being about to
repenish their Sabbath school library with new books
wished to raise the sum of $3.50 for that purpose At
the morning service, one Sundy they appointed one
OF the influential brethren to fix upon plan In the
intermssion he took his pencil and marked against ev-
ry members name the sum which he thought he
ought TO give. At the close of the afternoon service
he read the list stating that if any one had been as
sessed too much, or not enough he must speak Suf-
flee 1t to say, silence prevailed in the assembly, and
in fifteen minutes the sum raised.
FRE.-ln Shoreham, the I'd, two barns owned
by j. T. and v Rich, filled with hay and other valua-
bic property, together with several stacks in the i'm
mediate vicinity, were burned. The fire was suppos-
ed to have been occasioned by smoking in the barn.
The bank OF Mutual Redemption the "sckly child"
whose sudden death the Suffolk people confidently
predicted had SAIL 600 Of the bills of country banks
presented at its counter Monday, by the Suffolk
and promptly met the demand with 100000 in gold
and slo5 900 in clearing house certificates On Tues
day, large amounts of specie which had been accu-
muating in the vaults of the country banks in the ex
pectation Of call from the Suffolk were transferred
to the bank.
Governor King of New York has appointed thanks
giving on the 18th Of November, week before New
Hampshire thankss wing.
Another pathway OF communication with California
is now fairly opened. The overland Mail, twenty
three days and four hours from San Francisco reach
ed St. Louis on Saturday evening last, bringing ten
days later from California than that received by
way of Panama.
This first success of the Overland Mail, will be
gratifying to the country.
maiden lady named Edgerly died at Bangor, Me-.
at the great age of III. Celbacy does not seem to
have shortened her life.
WASHINGTON Oct. H.
Mr.. G. W. Bradley, of the United States Legation
in China, has arrived, bringing the Treaty.
The chess match between Morphey and Harrwitz,
has resulted in the victory of the american, SO say
private letters.
Blk WISE TODAY IT'S madness to neglect cough.
or cold. Consumption may follow, and though DIR.
Wisars Balsam of Wild Cherry cures the latter dis
ease yet the former disappear once under its in
fuence.
Loss OF APPETITE, in persons of sedentary and
literary pursuits, if the brain is over-worked and the
muscles underworked, the appetite is very apt to fail
from general tone of the system. The PERUVI-
AN SYRUP restores the tone of the digestive system
and consequently the appetite, by supplying pure
blood to organs too weak to make it without assist
snce.