Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-03-17

A man named Tinker died at Syracuse, n. Y,
on the Sth inst, from taking poison. He first
poisoned his two children, aged about eight
and six years, and having laid them out and
folded their hands upon their breasts, he left
them in an unoccupied, room where some of
his furniture was stored, and went to his hotel
and took the poison himself On Tuesday he
poisoned horse belonging to Dr. Searles, and
it is supposed that he intended to shoot the
Doctor, as loaded pistol was found on him.
The cause was the enlargement of his wife, and
her intimacy with Dr.Searles, under the in
fuence of Free-Love principles.
Gen. Henry d. Foster, the Democratic nom-
inee for Governor Of Pennsylvania, has been
singularly unfortunate in his efforts to obtain
public Office. He ran for Canal Commissioner
in 1916, and was defeated by James NJ. Power,
the Whig candidate, by nearly nine thousand
majority. In 1856, and again in1s57 he turned
up a candidate for the United States Senate,
but was defeated in one case by Senator Bigler,
and the other by John w. Forney. In 1858,
Gen. Foster ran for Congress in his district,
which is strongly Democratic, and was defeated
by John Coyode to the tune of eleven hundred.
Fanny Fern TAKES a si,aIp y stivA 70 male wii-
ters of "Books of advice to women" She saws
ait is as if some storekeeper should cut out and
make quantity of silk dresses with hooks and
eyes all ready to snap round customers. One
won't meet at the belt another is short in the
skirt another drags on the ground another
congresses the chest to suffocation till my man
of speculation finally makes up his mind that il
would have been best to let every woman
take her own measure, instead of wrigling
through life in habits of his choosing, without
regard to the way the Almighty put her to-
gether."
1t seems to be settled that the second daugh
ter of Queen Victoria the Princess Alice, is tC
have as husband the young Prince of Orange.
The marriage is to take place on the anniversa
ry of the Queens birth day, on the "a tn of May
next. This intelligence comes from Brussels
to which city the young couple are to pay q
visit after their union. King Leapold, the grea
uncle of the bride, is making preparations to re
ceiye them in the Belgian capital. The Princes
will enter on her eighteenth year in April, ant
the Prince will have attained the term of man
hood in September. The marriage is likely tC
be popular in England, where the memory O
William the Duchman is still held in high re
gard.
An amusing occurrence took place in the
New Jersey State Senate last week. A rumoi
having obtained currency that the wife of th
Senator from Burlington had recently presen
ted him with triplets, resolution was presen
ted, rendering him the congratulations of hi
peers, and recommending that his example b.
followed by the entire body of grave and rover
end Senators. The resolution was laid on tn
table amid a terrific explosion of laughter
While the U. S. supreme court at Washing
ton is waiting for two or three of southern judg
es to regain their health, the venerable judg
Mclean of Ohio will return temporarily to hi
circuit, to clean off some of the POO cases tina
have accumulated upon the docket. Judge Nc
Lean has the great northwestern territory t
look AFTER and performs more labor than an
two of his associates, while he does eight or tie
times as much as some of the southern judge,