Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-01-14

criminal intimacy Win CnarleS ElllSOn, tne
brother of her husband. All in ALL it seems as
If the whole lot were 'no better than they should
be-"
The people of Middlebury have annually cele-
brated the landing of the Pilgrims for the last
II years. This year the address was delivered
by Geo. p Marsh, on the Past, Present and Flu /
ture of New England.
There is more meaning and philosophy than
at first sight appears in Coleridge's answer TO a
lady when she asked him whether he believed
in ghosts. "Oh, no, madam, have seen too
many to believe in them"
Henry Meacham of the town of Dickinson,
northern New York, shot his wife last Friday
evening in presence of her father and mother.
They fed alarmed, to the neighbors, and on re-
turning found Mrs Meacham dead being shot
and with her throat cut. Her husband lay dead
by her side, having shot himself through the
head. Domestic trouble and jealousy were the
causes of the act.
The "Newport House at Newport n. H., was
destroyed by fire on the night of the 9TH inst.
Loss about $4,000. Insurance on the building
and furniture, $500 in the Cheshire Co.,
Keene.
Mr. Longworth of Cincinnati has sent to Mr..
Sherman, the Republican candidate for Speak
The Washington correspondent of The Err
press says that to CRAFTY his personal malignity
against Senator Douglas, the President of the
United States has descended so far as to 90 10
the ladies of members of his Cabinet and ask
of them to cut out Mrs. Douglas, and put her
under their social ban.
The Boston Courier corrects the following
! typographical error of its own paper, abiding
] o. -
played by the types:
at appeares-'We do battle, without shot or
charge, for the cause of right This would be
very weak battle, indeed 1t was written
without stint or change"
Mr.. Merriam has kept since July 22d, 1850,
a record of the deaths and injuries by burning
fluid The number of deaths during the time
is i24 of injured 623. In the year 1859, the
deaths of SO persons were recorded, and the
number of injured was 1906; of whom 90 were
not expected to recover. The loss by fire from
camphene has been very large.
There are in the United States forty-eight
Catholic arch bishops and bishops, two mitred
abbots, and two thousand two hundred and twen-
ty-three secular and regular priests.
The Hon. John NJ. Landrum, member of
Congress from Louisiana, has been detained
from his seat by illness since the opening of the
session. 1t is stated that, besides being sick ia
body, he is laboring under severe mental Attic
ton IN the loss of his wife and four children.
lti feared that he may not get up again.
James Russell Lowell, the poet, will be an
occasional contributor to The Independent news
paper during 1860. Mrs. Stowe John G. Whit
tier, and Henry Ward Beecher, will contiue to
shine in its columns.
AT the late term of the Windsor County Court
William T. Ellison of of weathersfeld, was con-
victea of an assault upon Miss Martha o. Hatch
with intent to kill, and was sentenced to the
State Prison for six years.
Lake Champain was formally closed by the
cold on the 3lst of December steamboat trims
between Burlington and Plattsburg having been
discontinued on the oath. Stages between these
two points by the way of Maett's Bay and
Grand Isle commenced running on the Sd inst.
A young school-teacher at Columbus. Miss.
short time since, was seized tarred and feath-
cred bound hand and foot to a log, and set a.
drift in the Mississippi since when he has not
been heard from. Oience-suspected of alb
clifton tendencies.
The Rutland Herald now contains a column
devoted to military matters, edited by Col.
Joseph Bush of Brandon. Those interested in
military matters otherwise "maliciously" in
clined will of course take the Herald.
man calling himself Henry Curtis of Wor-
cester, was arrested at Great Falls, N. H.. on
Thursday, for passing counterfeit money. Over
S2oO IN counterfeit los on the Conway hank
Mass, were found on him.
Oliver Howe of Lyme, n. H., formerly Of
Groton, Mass, has forged paper to the amount
OF about $4,000, on which he has obtained the
cash ana lett the country, for California, it is
supposed. Several business men of Groton.
and the Lancaster, Townshend, and one of the
Fitchburg banks, and the Bradford, VT. bank.
are among the sufferers.
Brig. General Alonzo Jackman, has appoint
ed Dr. Marcellas Newton, of Montpeiier. as
brigade Inspector, with the rank of Major.
The Keene Sentinel says the Seectmen of
that town have received official information that
the late Hon. David A. Simmons of Roxbury.
Mass, left by his will $1,000 to Keene. his ma
tive town, to be safely invested the interest and
'income to be annually appropriated towards
the relief and comfort of such of the poor of
the town, requiring assistance therefrom. as are
aged and infirm."
Mrs. Roda Peabody of Weston, the widow
OF Joel Peabody, after sickness of near fort
hignt dled on the 18th ult., of the small pox,
aged 90 years, There have also been few
cases OF yarioloid, most of them very light, and
none of them fatal.
The dwelling house and barn of Mr. Royal
Ordway of West Farlee, were consumed by fire
on the Doth ult, together with all their contents
Insured for $500.
A young man from the country, going to call
on some musical young ladies the other evening,
he was told that he must ask them to sing. and
should they refuse, he ought to press them.
Accordingly, he commenced by requesting Miss
Mary to favor him with song. She gently de-
clined, said she had a cold, &c. "Wen, then.
NTH" said our hero, "Thuppose thqueeze YOU,
tainted Immediately.
The Georgia Methodist Episcopal Conference
lately repremanded minister for attending a
circus ana subsequently unanimously resolved
b that minister or lavman bo ,,,ss.oJ n hon -