Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-07-30


mont and Canada roads to build the proposed
branch into Burlington, and thus pay tribute to
that town more direct than now, makes great
excitement in that region, and enters into the To-
cal politics. An attempt to Discipline the rail-
roads will probably be made in the next legisla-
ture.
The long continuance Of dry weather has
parched the earth in various parts of the state,
curled up corn lcves, and dried up the brooks;
and Connecticut river between Ncwbury and
Wells River in some places can be waded.
An unknown friend in Charleston, s. G., has
inclosed 800 to the treasurer of the University
of Vermont for the use of that institution.
James A. Hartwell of Fitchburg, 90 years
old, has been arrested and owns up to having
SET fire to Samuel Smiths barn that was burnt
on Friday night.
The Detroit postmaster having been caught
in sending false vouchers to Washington and
black mailing his own clerks, the collector of
that port is also under scrutiny for admitting
railroad iron duty free and receiving a $4,000
bride from the importers, and for other little
official plcasantries of that sort.
The Annual Fair of the "New- Hampshire
State Agricultural Society" will this year be held
at Dover, on the spacious ground occupied for
the same purpose last season. The Fair will
commence on the morning of Oct. 3, and will
continue open three days
A reward of 800 is offered in Mddlebury
for the detection Of the scoundrel who cut the
straps of the stage coach just before it was to
for Lake Dunmore, on the 4th. The Register
says that several such pieces Of wickedness have
been committed lately such as cutting harness.
es, with the evident purpose of making them
unsafe: cutting and breaking costly carriages,
So as to destroy their value; and other criminal
trespasses upon property and indirect attempts
to take life.
The house and barn of Rev. Sylvester c.
Eaton of Calais was entirely destroyed by fire,
on Wednesday night, the 18th inst. Part of
the furniture and library saved. Mr.. Eaton,
we are glad to say had his property insured in
the Vermont MutuaL-IFdtchmdn
The dwelling house, sheds and two barns be-
longing to Samuel Goddard of Mount Holley,
was burnt to the ground on Wednesday last, at
about | / o'clock A. NJ. The fire was first dis
covered in the barn Supposed to have caught
by sparks, from the chimney. Furniture saved.
Mrs. Goddard was so much excited that she in
sisted on staying i'll the house, and she said
going with it, and had to be removed by force.
Loss about $1,000. Insured in Windsor Co.
hiutuaI.-D. TudS ItmtS.
The First Regiment Vermont Volunteer Mil
tia. Col. Joseph Bush commanding, will muster
at Rutland on Thursday and Friday. the | st and
I'd of September. The Regiment will probably
number ten companies. The troops will be
reviewed by Gov. Hall on the second day.
Thomas Heath, employed in the factory of A.
G. Bagley of Mendon was caught between belt
aud pully while shifting the belt, on Friday
week, and instantly killed.
The contract with Holiday & Martin for the
supply of -four to the Utah army at SOS go per
100 pounds has been justified at Washington be-
cause it is a saving of 100000 compared with
the previous contract. But the Valley Tan
states that the Job has been twice sub-lct, the
last time at about one-four,h the original price.
BY contracting for flour at $3.50 as the govern
ment might have done, $4,000 would have
been saved to the treasury. This is one of the
leaks to be looked after by the next Congress
We have had some DAYS in our posession
SAYS The Erening Post n one dollar bill Oh the
City Bank of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, which
bears on its back n burden as follows:
"This one dollar bill is NIL received for performing
the marriage ceremony between John Gibbs and Mary
Wallace oi the town of Salem. kcnosha County
Wisconsin, after having travelled five miles in the cold
and paid $3.50 for livery. JAMES l.. SlpELL.'
Sun strokes have caused many dates this
summer. In Fitchburg, woman of "a died
of sun stroke, while returning from berrying.
This is nearly as singular death as the old
Countess of Desmond, who fell from a cherry
tree at the age of l40, and so got fever, that
killed her. Ii was hard that our countrywoman
should have had such fate, for she must have
had good stuff to have gone a-berrying at "a,
with the thermometer as high MS she old.
How many of the young women of to-day
would have dared to venture out on hot sum
mers day on a useful purpose?
General Cass neglects his duties as Secretary
of State, we are assured, and throws the bulk
of his labors upon Mr. Appelton, the Assistant
Secretary. The venerable gentleman is proba-
bly, unfit for work, and the "mudde" he has
made of the naturalization business is not cal
culated to improve his powers. In any other
other business but politics, an utterly incapable
person is dismissed, due proof of his inclpacity
being furnished; but any fool is equal to the
business of government.
Our democratic" contemporaries the Wood
stock Age and Bradford Telegraph don't like
the resolutions adopted by the late Republican
State Convention. This is unfortunate, as it is
probably too late to have them altered. We
expected to meet these dissatisfied Editors at
Brattleboro, during the Convention, and have
them consulted about the resolutions; but we
learned, on enquiry at the Lunatic Asylum, that
they had not yet arrived.-BWlington Times.
TEMPLEToN.-The Unitarian Church in Tenn
pleton is now undergoing extensive repairs in
side. The senior pastor, Rev. Mr.. Wellington,
preached the last discourse in the house. previ-
Gus to the commencement of the repairs,
fortnight ago yesterday. Mr.. Wellington also
preached the first discourse delivered in that
house, at its dedication in 1912, and has since
continued in the same PASTORAL relation, recently
with a colleague. 1t is a singular circumstance,
that on the Monday following his last discourse,
Mr.. Wellington had paraly,ic shock, from
which it is feared he may never recover, as he
has had similar shock once before.-Worcester
| Spy.
OF the 800 hands employed in the cutlery
works of Lamson, Goodnow 4 Company, Shell
burne Falls, $50 have struck for an alteration
in the payment of their wages, During the
hard times the hands we're furnished with work
on condition that they would take in payment
six months notes, and notwithstanding the i'm
| provament in businaec the r,,la 10 st;lI oILo.oJ