Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-04-07


succeeded in the superintendcncy by Henry
Reyes, Esq, of Newbury.
The first timber was cut in township of Lewis,
Essex county, during the winter of 1889.
The whole town is an unbroken wilderness. 1t
is nearly all owned by ID. II. & J. b. Sumner,
Of lIartland. who have been drawing off the
timber the last winter.
Mr.. VIM. T.. Mack of St Johnsbury, rcceiv-
cd severe cut in the back of his head while
splitting wood, recently. When the ak was
raised it caught in clothes-linc, turning its
course and bringing it down upon his head.
The Cdledonian learns that Mr.. George Mar
tin, Oh Waterford was found dead in the woods
near his house, on the 10Th inst. Mr.. Martin
was formerly from Bradford. His health had
been poor for some time, and it is supposed he
died from heart disease
Mr.. Perry Mason, young man, residing in
Newbury met with fatal accident on Saturday
oath ult. While saving Hath, piece OF slab
hit him in such way as to cause his death on
the next Sunday morning
A most virulent case of small pox has proved
fatal in Mortified village in the case of Mr..
Daniel Crosby, who died on the ODD inst. and
was buried in silence the same night. His wife
lies at the point of death OF consumption, and
his three little daughters removed from home,
plead in vain to see their parents.
The late Denison X. Smith of Barre be-
qucathed his property as follows: 5000 to Barre
Academy; $500 to the Congregational Society
in Barre; $500 to the Congregational Parson-
age Society; 5000 to Dartmouth College; 800
to the American Bible Society; about $500 to
his friends and relatives, and the remainder
ESTIMATED about S5000) to Barre Academy and
J. 5. Spalding equally.
The Windsor Journal says: bradford vii
age has met with a great misfortune in the
failure Of the firm Of g. e. f. Prichard. They
were doing an extensive business, extending
into all the towns in the vininity, so chat it will
be felt throughout much of the country"
Silas d. Deland of West Rutland died on
the DIST ult, from injuries sustained by kick
from horse he was engaged in showing two
days previously.
Mr.. Woods lumber mill in Dorset, was con-
sumed by fire on the 9th ult.
Mr.. James Nichols, of Enosburgh, was at
work on the roof of sugar house, on Satur-
day, March II, when the roof gave way, pre-
cipitating him into pan of boiling strip, scald-
ing him so severely that he died on the following
Thursday.
Fires in the woods were abundant last week
and on Sunday, spreading under the dry wealth.
er from bonfres or attempts to burn over grass
land. Some so acres of wood and sprout land
between Millbury and New England Village,
Mass, were burned over on Sunday; and at
Meanwhile in Leicester, Mass, Mann e. Mar
shall's factory was scarcely saved from destruc-
ton by fire that had burned over several acres
of grass land.
Hampshire and Hampden railroad company.
were burned near Lyman's Bridge, at South
ampton, Mass, on Saturday supposed to have
caught from sparks of a locomotive.
Senator Davis of Mississippi is threatened
with loss Of sight from an inflammation of the
eyes.
The accounts of the new silver mines of Car
son Valley in the western part of Utah still rep
resent the ore as being very rich, averaging over
$4,000 per ton.
A new gold mine has been discovered in Ore
gon which is called a ledge of gold.
A party of recruits for the troops serving in
Oregon is about to leave Fort Leavenworth and
proceed by the way of the Missouri and Yellow
Stone Rivers to Fort Benton and thence over
land to Fort Dallas on the Columbia River
By this route 1t is possible to traverse the en-
tire continent by steam excepting only the five
hundred miles that intervene between Fort Ben
ton and Fort Dallas.
In the recent political contest in Connecticut
the people were told that they ought to vote
the democratic ticket because large interest of
the state, viz: the coach-making business, was
sustained by the trade of the South West For
the same reason the people of the Southwest
ought to vote the Republican ticket, because
New England consumes large portion of their
cotton and sugar.
Trade has no more soul than corporations
have. 1t will go where it can find its articles
cheapest and best When the Empress Maria
Theresa was carrying on her wars against Fred
eric the Great, her husband was supplying that
monarch with muniments of war England.
also, during the wars of Napoleon LIST, sold even
cannons to her enemies for she could do more
with the money than the French could do Nth
the guns and wAhom the money. A people
may have all the appliances of war and not be
able to use them for the want of moral strength.
1t is moral strength that commands the sources
Of true power, trade, and wealth. Without
this, the coach making business of Connecticut
would be of but little worth. We hope that
the day is far off yet when the American citizen
will have to sacrifice principle for the want of
bread.
a little girl, showing her little cousin, about
four years old a star, said 'That star up there
is bigger than this world" mo it amt" said
he, Eyes it is" "Then why don't it keep the
rain Off"
AS man cannot get divorce from his con-
science he had better make it his bosom friend.
If it takes a shovel full of compost to manure
the cornstalk which is of but one years growth,
in the hill, how many ought it to take for an
apple tree which is of some fifty years growth?
The vine is supposed to yield grapes about
forty years; and it is probable that the apple
tree will not bear much fruit after that period
OF age. Generations of fruit trees must follow
each other like the generations of men.
1t is said that the sap of the maple tree will
average about seven pounds of sugar to bar
rel OF thirty-two gallons and that the making
OF every hundred pounds of sugar requires a
cord of wood.
While there are some farmers who raise moth
ing but objections, there are many mechanics
VINO are always 'on a strike and not few, in
general, are habitualy 'tuckered out