Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-27
News, Notes, and Varieties.

AZ inc recent term OF inc washington county court
Eli Edison recovered of Evans McCrills s26OO for
ducing plaintiffs daughter.
Marcus Cane, German Jew pedler of the firm Of
Vim. Cane & Brother, of New York city, was arrested
in January, 1857 by officer l. c. Brown, Of Water
bury. after pursuit of forty-nnc days. through five
States, as ono Of gang concerned in the robbery Of
the store Of Stacy Courts, 1879 Mix street, Boston, in
November, 1855, and selling the stolen goods in YER
mont during the months Of January and March fol-
lowing. lie was tried on the goth inst at Montpe-
lier, by jury Of Washington county, found guilty Of
larccncy and now awaits in ail the sentence of the
court.
Dr. James Spaldingof Montpelier, prominent ply
scinn in this State for forty years past, died on the
10th at the age Of siXty-six years.
In Rutland, 100 persons have profcsscd CON
version in the Rev. DR.. Aikcn's Church, and ut the
close of recent meeting from 60 to 20 nquircrs re-
manned for special religious conversation and PRAYER
Mr.. Orange Abcs Of Swanton has n COW which
gave birth the 9TH ul, to fair sized calf with two
naturally formed heads resting on each side Of the
neck.
The editors Of the Burlington Free Pres, have been
prosecuted for libel by the Postmaster that place.
$4,000.
B. g. Brigham Of fairfaS died at his residence in
that town, Tuesday Of last week lie had lust re-
turned from Washington, where he had been working
for the Burlington Coilec,orship. He had figured
argeiy in political life Of late years in this State hay
ing been one of the most prominent democrats in sew
eral Of our more recent legislatures.
Two suspicious characters were arrested ut North
field on Thursday morning charge Of pass alter
ed bills OIL the Bank OF Lyndon in this State. The
frte Frtss says a most successful attempt at pass
ing counterfeit money, discovered on Wednesday
OF this week. at Rouse. Point. Two men made their
appearance there with large amour, of money. pur-
porting to be upon the Lyo,don w. Idnt. which they
desired To exchange, a. they going into Canada
TO purchase horses Mr.. X. II. lieaton a merchant
took some $500 fit, and they succeeded in cxchanr
ing some $1,000 to $1,000 in ALL and Immediately left
rs is supposed for y. Y, via Burlington, on Wednes
day evening. 1t il since ascertaned tina, they dspos-
ed Of large amounts Of the same money at Montreal
and at Stanstesd. The bills, it is said. are altered
from one to tens by some chemical process and are
exceedingly well executed and ably calculated TO de-
ccve a close observer
Georg" Dyer Of Rutland while travelling on the
railroad track towards Center Rutland on Thursday
last, in stepping off from ono truck to avoid az. an
preaching train, got the other track jus, in advance
of another train, which injured him 50 badly that he
died in few minutes. lie has cft wife and family
Mr.. David Tyler OF Painsyille was brought before
justice Hill at Essex CENTRE on Friday last plead gull
~ on ten counts and fined 800 and costs amount
ing in MI, to Sill. |, il remarkable that some Of the
strongest temperance in town. were the witnesses
summoned in the case.
In Danville. Nicholas Cook, R German while ad-
iusting belt in Greenbanks woolcn factory wa,
caught 10y hook attached TO the drum carried twice
with great velocity, over the shaft thrown upon the
floor with much violence and injured so that he sur
vved hut two days.
In Cornwall on Wednesday, 10th inst. Young
man named Henry Carter lid from hay-mow upon
the tooth OF horse-rake which entered the inner part
of the thigh, and passed up into tic abdomen. caus
ing rupture Of the rccium There is no possibility
Of his recovery.
Some one asks, is it lawful to hang clothes on Ma
son X Dixon's line?" The only thing 10 be hung on
that line is the democratic party.
Every issue Of the London Times is ACCOMPANIED
with donble-sheci supplement- filed exclusively
with advertisements, in addition 10 the ike matterin-
serted in the regular edition. Its charges to adver-
Users moreover, are beyond any known in this
country Its weekly receipts from this source exceed
$4,000. single frm-that of Windham & Co.
pays the Times for the advertising of one article tCr
cassian OiD $4,000 per annum, and $50 900 per
year for another article (Circassian Iiuuid.)
Give us an old nurse for diseases incident to m.
period Of teethns in children. One old nurse is bet
ter than thousand physicians. Here Won have ,ha,
old nurse for 25 cents in the form of Mrs JTusL,r',
Snthing Syrup.
Nine car loads of potatoes, or three thousand and
six hundred bushels passed over the Conn River Rail
road from Vermont to New York, last week Large
quantities Of potatoes have lately been brought to Bos
ton the Boston, Concord and Montreal railroad
On the line of the Passump.c Railroad Vermont thew
are selling at s5 10 40 cents per bushe.
Major J. L. Briggs, late master of transportation and
acting superintendent Of the Connecticut river rail
road, ard still later farmer in Chicopee has recon-
menced railroadng life on the same train from which
he took his first start, and is running the night
freight between this city and Worcester The Major
is taking fresh and We hope successful start.
Hon. Charles Sumner has been elected an bonoror,
member of the Scottish Literary Institute in common
with the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Shaftesburv
$500, Hf''N A''""Sihllil, una MIR. ID lsraeli,
Mr. Bond of Harvard University, las recently, been
elected member of the French Academy of Sciences
The republican state committee at the bend If
which is Hon. T.. II Rollins Of Concord. before the
election made thorough and careful canvas of the
state and published the result, giving Halle Il major
ity of All votes. His actual majority in all is about
one hundred more than that.
Rev. Laban Ainsworth, the minister so often mem
toned in the public journals, died in Jaflrey, n. H..
on the l7th aged 100 years months and 2s days For
"a years he had been the pastor of the Congregational
church in that town.
The anti-lecompton party of New Jersey are so
confident of carrying the next election that William
L. Dayton is already proposed ms the proper person to
be returned to his old seu in the t. S. Senate as the
successor of the present. doughfnce senator Wright
Pat Mclaughlin otherwise called Paueecn who
spat in Bill Poole's face when the latter was killed
was shot in dance house on Howard street. Satur
day morning, by Daniel Cunningham, the PROPRIETOR
whom he was assaultng. 1t is thought he was NOR
tally wounded
Two couples were married in New Baltimore Mich
igan' last week, under peculiar circumstances. Twin
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