Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-06-16

mustcI At OharlottVllle, says an exchange.
Mr. Joseph Halcomb, of Vergennes, was
buried beneath an embarkment of sand. on the
3ls ult, and before he could be rescued life was
extinct
]. S. Adams, the able and efficient Secretary
of che Board of Education, was presented with
a silver goblet by the ladies at the close of
session of the Teachers Institute in Bennington
County, two weaks since. On the diverse was
I inscribed ~. S. Adams from the Teachers of
of Bennington County, and on the reverse.
"Better rub than rust out"
Col. Owen Taft of Taftville, near Woodstock
died on the End inst, from an injury occasioned
by being thrown from his wagon while driving
an unmanageabe horse two or three weeks
previous. He was highly esteemed citizen,
says the Standard, and was buried with Ma
sonic honors.
From the Calcdonidn we learn that the bull
dings owned and occupied by Messrs Miller g.
Co., as warehouse and shop, at Lyndon, were
DESTROYED by fire on Monday night of last week.
Loss about $3.50.
Silas Rowland of Lisbon, n. H., eloped with
a married niece on the 18th ult., but he was
hauled up at Portland by the police, where the
woman left him and returned home. He left
about $4,000 at home and took $4,000 with him.
BOTH the parties were parents. We submit
that this eopement business has been rather
overdone of late. II seems as il the command
ment as interpreted by the French, so saws
Macaulev, to wit: "hate your neighbors and love
your neighbors' wives" was diligently observed
about these days.
-. Theodore Parker left his large and valuable
library, containing over 1900 volumes in more
than score of languages, to the City of Boston
to be deposited in the Public Library.
The centennial celebration of the incorpor-
alton OF Amherst, New Hampshire, was celebra-
ted on the 3Oth ult., Horace Greeley, a native
OF that town delivering the address. Amherst
was one of five towns granted by the Legisla-
ture of Massachusetts, to the survivors and heirs
of those who suffered in King Phillips war and
in the Immediately succeeding contests with the
Indians.
a Western paper perpetrates the following
"Died. at Charleston, S. c., the well known horse
"Democracy." This horse sired by Thomas JEFF
ferson, and damtn)ed by Stephen A. Douglas"
The maple sugar crop of our country has
vastly exceeded chat of any former year. The
season has been remarkably favorable for its
production, and such large quantities have been
raised and prices have ruled SO low, that in
many sections the consumption of foreign SUI
gars has been materially interfered with. In
the northern parts of New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, New York, and in some of the Western
States nearly a sufficient quantity has been
made to supply the home demand for raw SUI
gars.
The New Hampshire republican committee
have called conventions in each of the five
councillor districts at intervals of two or three
days, beginning with the LIST district at Exeter,
I September 4th, for the nomination of presden-
tial electors. Mass meetings will be held
alongside of each convention.
Major John B. Wentworth raised and has on
his farm in Rollinsford, n H., twin heifer calves,
that were one year old on the 9TH instant, and
on that day they weighed together 704 pounds
difference in their weight only eight pounds.
These calves took the first premium at the n.
II. State Fair last fall The mother is twin
and took the second premium at the same fair.
The calves are perfect "beauties," and look so
much alike that it would be difficult to tell
''tother from which,
=, Major, General Thomes 8 Jossup, Quarter
Master General OF the United States Army,
died at Washington on Monday. His death Is
attributed to his use of electrical baths. by
which lead was absorbed into his system. He
entered the service as second lieutenant of in
fantry IN 1908, and was quarter-master gener-
al at the time of his death. He distinguished
himself in the Florida war, and was generally
esteemed as AN officer of undoubted bravery
and integrity.
The great two mile trot on Union Course. L.
l., between the famous trotting stallion George
NJ Patchen and Flora Temple, took place on
Tuesday and was won by Patchen in two straight
heats. Time-4,53 1-2 and 4.57 10; the first
single mile in the two heats respectively was
done in 2.22 and 2. 81 IA. This victory.
without blanching the aures of Flora on mile
heats, places Patchen ahead of the world as q
trotting stallion of speed and bottom.
Gideon J. Pillow, him of the pen and the
sword, and Tennessee. has writted three col
umn letter in favor of nominating Douglas
Gideon avows his desire for slave code, but
he tells the South it better not raise that ban
ner until after the democracy have carried one
more presidential election. All!
The programs are out for the fifth annual
fair at st Louis, next September. The premi-
UNI list amounts to about $4,000 The lead
ing premium is $1,000 for the best roadster
stallion, and for the best thorough bred bull
thoroughbred stallion aud roadster stallion To
harness.
A man named Dean Gilbert, living in Pres
colt, Ms, committed suicide Sunday night. in
very singular manner. He balanced a rock
weighing nearly ton and fastened it up with
a piece OF board, and after he had crawled un
der kicked the board out and the rock fell.
crushing him to death. He was a temperate
man in comfortable circumstances, and had
been several miles that evening to paw the in
terest on note, and appeared quite cheerful
when he left for home. He was 80 years of
age
The Moses Taylor, from Havana announces
the capture of another American schooner with
400 negroes on board, on the coast of Cuba
and their removal to Key West. This will in.
crease the number of re-captured negroes AZ
that place to more than 1900.
The Seventh Regiment will encamp on the
fifth OF July at the Richmond Club ground on
Staten Island. The camp ground is an elevated
plateau near the sea, about three fourths of a
mile IN circumference, five miles southwest Of
the Vanderbilt landing, and about three. fourths
OF mile form New Dorp station ON the Staten
Island Railroad readily accessible at all hours
OF the day by the cars of that road. 1t will be
strictly camp of instruction The new camp
IN ho oil