Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-12-25

ne Oldest plNSclan OF montpelier, aycl ~,
died last week. Like Tom Paine lac published
a book against the Bible, but failing to over
throw it, turned his attention to fiddles and hal
collected 40 different ones before he died. lie
died, as he had lived, stoicaly indifferent to
death, prescribing for himself to the last pre-
dieting the day of his death, watching the symp-
toms of his approaching dissolution as uncon-
ccrnedly as those of another patient, and CO .y
commenting them mere matter of SCI
entifc interest
Two Young men of Berlin, named { lily. COM
ing home from fox hunting, fred heavy charge
OF buckshot into passing train of freight cars
on the Central road, and man on the train
being within range received enough oi them to
endangcr his life.
| /. VI. Hills < Son Of Amherst, Mass, have
gone ont Of the general mercantile business,
which they established there in 1928, 10 carry
on more thorou ghly THEN palmloaf hat and bon
net business. They made this year $4,000 doz-
en- hats and 5000 dozen hoods, costing Sl2j,-
00D and employing % men IN preparing the
leaf and 6.000 womon and children. scattered
over Massachusetts, Vermont. New Hampshire
and Connecticut, part of their time, in braiding
the articles
The horse Fixing Cloud of the Sherman fam
ily of Morgans sired by old Blac. Hawk. has
been sold by Col. &. V. Cook of Addison Coun-
t 10 Minor b. Williams of Huntsville, Ran
dolph County, Missouri, for $4,000 cash.
/. \ dangerous Young widow of 80, in Ludlow
with four dead or discarded husbands, has torn
a Young lad Of Is years from his afflicted par
cnts in the same town. and taken him 10 bed
l and board MS No. ). The parents locked up
the hoy. but the widow was too smart for them,
, got him out, and fed with him to Palmer, Ms,
y / IL. - .,F la.
widows.
Tl.~ e.tIei Of I,r. 3UlOmon Barrett of LEROY.
y. Y, formerly Of Rowe, Mass, has taken the
{ Greenfield Gazette ever since its first uublica.
5 ton 81 years ago.
s The Grand Jury of Iampden County. Mass.
= reported on Saturday an indictment against
! W llham [. Brown, for causing an abortion ON
Bridget Coleman, which resulted in death. He
was arraigned, plead not guilty, and yemanded
to jail, in default of bail in $4,000 for trial
next May
5 1t is gratifying to be able to announce the
5 safe arrival of the steamship Indian Empire
She reached Broad-haven, on the west coast of
Ireland, on the 10Th ult., ont of fuel and short
S OF provisions. When within two DAYS sail of
r Galway she encountered u severe storm and was
Obliged to "lay to- for 4 week.
Major W. W. Leland, and Capt. Charles Le-
land, late of the Metropolitan Hotel, New York,
are on their way to Texas, where they 90 ex-
y 'enSively into grazing, on a large and valuable
rancho of over 10000 acres.
SlN months ago we published statement
that four ciergymen, graduates of Dartmouth
> College, were living, whose aggregate ages
amounted to something more than four hundred
years. They are now all dead-Kev. Mr.. Par
= sons of New Jersey aged 90; Rev. Laban
= Ainsworth of Jaiirey, ~ H., aged 100; Rev.
= Zachariah Greene of Hampstead, l.. l., aged
: 80; and Rev. John Sawyer of Bangor, Maine,
S aged 1903.
r Rev. DIR. Bethune in contest with the In
= dependent newspaper in some matter connected
+ with the Tract Society says of the editor 1.-THE
n progressive brother needs progress, one way
@ or the other, to determine his status, being not
long enough for Yankee, and not broad
enough for a dutchman.' This is rather black
guardish, for doctor of divinity.
. Six policemen keep nightly vigils about the
! Comptroer's office in New York, to preserve
5 it from the torch of the incendiary contractors
2 and city officials who are likely to suffer by the
!. investigation into their dongs now going ON.