Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-03-03

Romeo II Hoyt hal been renominated for
county commissioner o. Franklin county.
Mrs. Jane Smith of Greensboro an excellent
old lady of 81, was 50 badly burned by her
clothes taking fire, few days since, that she
died the following morning.
An infant daughter Of Theodore Bulley of
| Fairbanks village, was 50 badly scalded on Sat
urday that she died of her injuries the next day.
William Hankcrson of Springfield, who has
| been detained by sickness at the Vermont gold
diggings, returned home a few days since with
seven pounds of gold dust, which is valued at
| about 81 200.
Charles A. Proctor, Of Westmoreland, n. H.,
has been held for trial at Worcester, for at
tempting to pass counterfeit money. Jacob
Proctor, of Lunenburg, father of the defendant,
and Geo. Lawrence, of Fitchburg, his brother
in-law, through whose hands the same none
had passed to the defendant, became his suretiea
ii. ID. Smith and II. H. Wood of South Al
ans, and J. w. Rowland of the American
House, Pittsfeld, caught over $50 pounds of
pickercl in Otis, a few days ago, the largest
specimen in the lot being l-2 FOUNDER.
John and Albcr. Johnson Of Norwich have
been made to pay fine and costs of abou $50
for ah attack apon their schoolmaster.
Gov. Mcdlry has vetoed the bill ab,lishing
slavery in Kansas, but the legislature vii doubt
less pass It over his head.
Al the late Chenango, IN. W circuit, five
suits we're tried in which women wee plaintiffs.
! The first was for SANDER, in which fhe plaintiff
/ obtained verdict for $1,000; the second was
/ for an assault and battery in which the plaintiff
recovered 800; the third was on note, to
which nsury was set up, in which the plaintiff
recovered 1920; the fourth was for libel, in
/ which the plaintiff had erdict for $500; the
fifth was for Islander, but thsdefendant was also
il women, and the jury couR not agree. They
I stood Sc, en- for the plaintiff she being a girl,
and five for the defendant, IS she was married.
Henry Blasdell of Norwih, young man a.
bout | 5 years OF age committed suicide in the
! jail in Woodstock, on Sunday morning 10 ult.
| by hanging himself. He wis arrested and COM
mitted the night before on ,charge Of attempt
ing to commit rape, and rather than stand trial
and suffer the consequences took his own life.
| His remains were carried to Norwich on Mon
day for interment.
The meeting at Charleston, S. C., last week
| Thursday, came to the confusion that it was
! both right and proper for South Carolina TO be
! represented in the Charleston convention. A
convention vii. therefore he held at Columbia
to ,'.h.e the delegates.
Governor Chase tells tlr story that when
Lieut.. Coy. Newman of Tennessee, was in Gin
! ciunati with the Kentucky Ind Tennessee Leg
I slaiure, he he was accompanied by his "body
servant a sprightly, saddl colored "boy' of
abolt thirty, who was CONSCIOUS of his dignity.
/ His master, who was in the labit of testing with
! him Familiarity, accosted him in the hall of the
/ Neil House, just before th departure of the
! guests with "Why, Jack, havnt any Of the
( Abolitionists carried you off ?" "Yah yah
Mass Newman, (quoth JacO when l seed you
| gwine down de street arm n arm wild Gubner
! Denuison and Gubner Chse, | tot you were
! gene, sare-yah! YAH"
A meeting of first mortgage bondholders of
| the Vermont central railroad was held at Bos-
ton on Wednesday. A committee reported that
the compromise agreed t. between the trus-
tees Of the bondholders and the Vermont and
! Canada company gross swindle upon the
| bondholpers, and resolutions were passed call
| ing upon the courts to remote the trustees and
foreclose the mortgage at tie earliest day pos
sible. 1t was stated that tn, trustees are large
! ly interested in the Nermontand Canada stock,
! ard we're not acting at all br the interests of
/ those they represented. \ full and complete
! possession by the bondholders as an incorpor-
ated company, and would alsne meet the inter-
ests Of creditors, and a committee was appoint
/ ed TO seek such a result.
The Clinton C0uonr states that the house of
/ Andrew Bancroft, OF South Lancaster, was en-
tered few days since and robbed of about
I $iio in bills.-The Lancaster Mills were also
hurglariously entered, and valuable gold watch
and chain, presented TO J. A.Weeks by some of
the operatives, was stolen. No clue to the
| thieves has been obtained.
! Col Lee, who commands the L. s. troops in
Texas, is ordered TO pursue and capture Cortinas
and his band, in Mexico, as well as in Texas
! There are 6i2 troops between Matamoras and
/ Fort Clark, distance of $50 miles. Capt
| Walker, who commands at Fort Bliss near Ell
Paso, has been directed to march his force into
! Chihuahua, on application of the Mexican au-
thorities, to prevent depredations on the prop
erty of American citizens. These operations
look TO the subjugation of northern Mexico.
Edward W. Lincoln has retired from the ed
| itorship of the Worcester Bay State, thinking
! there is little encouragement for a democratic
journal in Massachusetts, still less in Worcester
county. He says he has served as editor for
| more than year without remuneration, and as
there may be others solicitous of promoting the
| democratic cause upon the same terms, he holds
1t to be fair and right that they should have the
! opportunity
| Sarah Ann Talbot, six years of age and
daughter of Benjamin Talbot of Washington.
was drowned Monday afternoon, by falling
through the ice.
The bill abolishing slavery in Kansas which
was vetoed by Gov Medary has been passed
over his veto by vote Of 80 to !.
A dinner at the Astor House, New York,
not long since, TO further the chances of ex-
president Pierce for a re nomination, was atten.
| ded by large number of prominent democrats
| from New England and the middle states, among
them Ben f. Butler, Sydney Webster, pierce
private secretary John II. George, etc. Mr.
Webster developed an elaborate plan of how to
do it, and believed it could be done.
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois filed the great
Cooper Institute at New York city, last Monday
evening, to hear his address on political topics.
The Tribune says that since the days of CLAY
and Webster, no man has spoken to larger as
semblage of the intellect and mental culture of
that city. Mr. Lincoln was to speak at Provi-
dence, r. l., last Tuesday night, and will
probably speak once in Connecticut before re-