Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-05-12

OdteS, anu OWneu Dy MIS-. AVIAN HAWKS OF
Bennington, were totally destroyed by fire ON
work Of an incendiary. The loss is large and
there was no insurance no the property.
Montpelier is SO much elated with the excel
lent appearance and performance as well as
promise of her two new fire engines that her
citizens have in contemplation a Firemen's
Muster on the 18th of July next.
The house, and out-buildings of Harry Dow
ming, of Washington, with all their contents,
including some live stock were entirely con-
sumed by fire on Sunday night April 22nd.
The fire is supposed to have originated from
fire used in boiling sap. Loss Sl40O. Insur-
ance $3.50.
The new school house, building at st. Adams,
is to be 80 leet long, 80 feet wide and stories
high. The plan was designed by Thomas w.
Silloway of Boston.
The city of Vergennes is erecting a couple of
public school buildings, one to cost $4,000 and
the other $4,000.
The National Life Insurance Company in
Montpelier have purchased the residence of
Col. Levi Humphrey near the depot and are
are remodelling it for an offe.
Walter A. Wood of Hoosick Falls lost IS
moving anu nndCullleS Ou tne sup y.
A. Westervelt which was burnt in the harbor
of New York, when just ready to sail for Liv-
erpool. Insured for $4,000. There were SO of
these machines also burned between Science
tady and Utica in a car ofthe Central Railroad.
This loss will fall on the Railroad Co.
Mr. Hickman has rubbed down President
Buchanan with a coarse towel and fine brush,
in speech made on Tuesday of last week. So
effective was the speech, that the hearers Of it
began to talk of Mr.. Hickman for the Presi-
dency. The Republicans might do a worse
thing than to nominate the bold and eloquent
Pennsylvania.
A contemporary thinks that the course of the
Charleston Convention has put the Republicans
in tight place. How that may be we can't
say, but it is evident that the democrats are in
a very loose condition. They have ceased to
be Zone and indivisible," having become two,
and soon they will be invisible.
The democrats have been beaten in the city
of Philadelphia at the municipal election
Mayor Henry, the opposition candidate, was
reelected, on May Day, by SIG majority, very
heavy vote being cast. -Four years ago, at the
election which preceded that in which Mr.. Blu
chanan was made President, the democrats car
ried Philadelphia by 1878 majority. Their loss
is 1885, Mr.. Buchanans Philadelphia major
ity, in November, 1856 was Gas over both
Fremont and Fillmore and the democratic loss,
comparing now and then, is 696l. Mr.. Blu
chanan's plurality over Col. Fremont was up
wards of 10000, SO that, practically, the demo-
cratic loss is about 81 900. This promises well
for the autumn time, which the democracy will
find "the saddest Of the year."
the Northampton Gazette reports that the
barn of II. Hunt, postmaster at North Prescott,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night,
together with a span of horses, two yokes of OK
en-, five Devon cows, one Ayrshire COW, several
pigs and bull. Five tons of hay and large
lot of farming tools were also burnt. Loss
$2000-insurance 5000. The fire is believed
to have been set.
Rev Jacob Harden, young Methodist min
ister who has been on trial at Belvdere n. J.,
on the charge of poisoning his wife, whom he
was obliged to marry, has been found guilty
and sentenced to be hung on the 2Sth day of
June. When called up for sentence he made
no remarks.
John y. Neal, vagrant stranger, was recent
ly arrested and brought before Justice Ware,
on Fitchburg, charged with setting fire to the
woods in Lunenburg, Mass. He was required
to give bonds in the sum of $500 to appear at
the next term Of the Superior Court, in default
of which he was committed. This is the first
commitment to the new Jail.
The Rev. DIR. Walker, late President of Har-
ward University, has just been presented with a
purse of ttceire thousand dollars, by few gen.
tlemen of Boston. 1t was originally intended
to have raised only $4,000, but in a few hours
the subscription rose to $4,000.
James Redpath was at Washington last week,
and went to see his friend Hyatt in Jail but
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fearing an arrest, took All early train out of
town. He left as he fled an insulting note for
Mr.. Mason, chairman of the investigating COM
mittee.
The frauds committed upon the Union bank
OF London by w. 6. Pullinger, its chief cashier,
amount to the enormous sum f263 900, or
nearly one and quarter million dollars, which
places him at the head of this class of defaul-
tiers. The entire loss will be met from the
banks profits. A sum of fl20000, which had
been drawn from the reserved fund and capi-
talized, will now be transferred back the pres
ent reserved fund of fl00,000 will be swept
away; and the remainder will be provided from
the profits of the present year.
There are four distinct boat clubs in Brattle
boro, and one of them, the Green Mountain as
ISOLATION, has purchased new boat, called the
"Buckner Brothers," for 1858.
The five new territories which the House COM
mittee on territories propose to organize, con-
tain respectively the following Inhabitants !;
Chippewa, 5000 to 10000; Nevada, about the
same; Dacotah, 5000 Idaho, pixies Peak J
$4,000 to 10000 Arizona, 5000 to 5000
Each of these bills cnntains the following Pro-
vided, nevertheless, slavery has no legal exis-
tence in said territory, and nothing herein con-
tanned shall be construed to authorize or permit
its existence therein These measures win come
up for consideration next week.
An abreyiation not to be found in the books,
is to be found on a Tombstone in Dunkirk.
The mourners intended to put an old aunt to
sleep with the customary phrase, "Let her rest
in peace" but the space on the stone gave out
at the close of the word "her." The ready
! witted sculptor, however, inserted the initials
and now the dear old lady sleeps beneath the
laconic, but inelegant epitaph: "Let her u. >