Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-02-05

ton, raised the past season, 7l9 bushels of oal,
on II acres, 262 bushels of white potatoes m
"a of an acre, 1875 bushels of corn and cob and
20 loads of pumpkins on acre.
"THB RUTLAND HERALD" came out. on tbs
/ st of January, in new dress, bright, clean
and luminous. The Herdld is not only IN,
oldest but the best printed paper in the STATE
and We hope it will long continue to prosper
1t is said that Col. Beaman has resumed its cd
itorial charge.
A family consisting of father, mother and
three children were found in very destitute
condition at Vergennes, the other day, having
no food and only two quarts of rum in th.
house.
Much qualification is expressed that the en-.
tire board of trustees of the LIST mortgage bono
of the Vermont Central railroad is now compos.
ed Of residents of this State, Joseph Clark q
Milton having been recently appointed in place
of George NJ. Dexter of Boston, resigned.
Domestic trouble induced Percival Small
formerly of Sutton, n. H., to commit suicide d,
his brothers house in Hartland on FRIDAY
week, by taking IA grains of strychninc. Hi
wife and child were absent on visit to West
port, n. Y.
A patriarch named Solomon Pierce of Esse1
now rs years of age, has 90 childr-n, 90 grand.
children, and - grcat-grand- children snug
little family of 1872, and all but eight or ten liy
ing in Chittenden county.
On Thursday, the widow of David Smith Of
Brandon fell from chair while fixing a window
curtain, and severed the ligamcnts Of her hip
joint.
The house of Charles Beebe of Rutland, was
1. II r 4 -
lily were at church. Two boys, Ford and Fisk,
aged - and IL years, were arrested as the rob-
bcrs, but one was discharged and the other is
believed innocent.
Eli i. Gerry married a wife six or eight years
ago in Cabot, VT, but deserted her about two
years ago for the society of a grass widow, named
Eliza L. Ham, with whom he subsequently To-
Gated in lIolyoke, Ms. Recently he deserted
partner No. ., and fed with a Holyoke woman
of the town, named Rider, alias Risley. No.
thereupon prepared for revenge, and caused the
recreant son of Adam to be arrested at Bclcher-
town and committed to the Northampton jail
for trial on a charge of adultery. The Mirror
says Gerry has now taken his turn, by causing
No. 2 TO be arrested on similar charge, which
probably resulted in her committal at North
ampton on Saturday.
Daniel Sprague, Jr., of Coleraine, Mass, met
with fatal accident at Greenfield. on Friday Of
last week. In jumping from car while in mo-
ton he slipped and fell on the track and the
wheels passed over both legs just below The
knees, mangling them drcadfully. He died at
: O'Clock in the evening. lie was about %
years old, OF good character and habits, men,
Der of the Methodist church in Coleraine. a
mnchinist by trade, and poor to property.
William w. Dickinson Of Heath, Mass. mail.
cd letter in that town, three weeks ago, con-
tanning $3.50 for New York bank, and moth
ing was heard from it till eight or ten DAYS af-
ter, when he received letter post marked New
York city, and containing $500 of the same
money sent to New York, with some good adj
vice, viz :-"Your letter by accident fell into my
hands. 1t is much safer to send money by check
than in bills. Yours, &c, A FRIEND"
One of pair of $500 horses owned by Par.
ker Carpenter and brother of Shelburne Falls,
was badly if not fatally injured last week, BY
running stick nine inches into his breast, dur
ing race occasioned by fright; and d. p New
ton OF the same town, on going to his barn,
found newly purchased horse dead upon the
floor, it being the fifth horse he has lost in his
teaming service to and from Greenfield.
grind stone burst at Russell X CO. cutlery
establishment in Greenfield last week, snappinr
the heaVy chains that confined it, as if they had
been so many tow strings. Farwell Bowker
was treated to an mrial excursion not altogeth-
er agreeable, when he fell face downwards upon
the wreck, with some bruises and the loss Of
teeth.
The passenger depot of the Concord railroad
at Concord, \. H., was burnt Tuesday morning;
loss about $4,000 and insuered.
The fourth trial of the long contested suit o.
Mrs Sarah E. Shaw against the Boston and Wor-
eester railroad for an accident by which her hus-
band was killed and herself injured at Newton
seven years since, was concluded at Boston on
Saturday. The jury gave Mrs Shaw verdict
Of S22 ,259 damages. Previous juries had awad-
ed her $4,000 and $4,000 The railroad
company had better give up the contest now
and foot the bills.
AT keene, on Saturday. David d. bort, who
drives job team from the depot, was caught
between two cars and killed instantly.