Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-04-18

a lawyer of some prominence and leading
politician of the democratic school, but he was
more extensively known as one of the first
Masonic jurists in this country. He had been
an officer in the Grand Lodge about thirty years
and since its reorganization, about fifteen years
since, he had been its Grand Master. His ge |
NAL manners and fine conversational powers
contributed not little to his fame. His last
public effort was in connection with the dedica- |
ton of Columbian Lodge in this village about
two months SINCE on which occasion he de-
livered the dedcatory address. His age was
81 years. His funeral was to have taken place
on Tuesday under the charge of the Grand
Lodge of the State.
We are reioiced to learn that the report of
the death of Elisha White of Bloomington is
without foundation. The Irasburgh Standard
has seen letter written within three weeks
by White wherein he says he intends to be at
home in May.
Daniel Bancroft alias DR.. Tascar, who re-
Gently broke Jail at Bennington and was re-
captured has been arrnigned for obtaining
jail He plead guilty to the first charge and
not guilty to the second. The circumstan-
ces of his case as related in the Tines are not
without instruction:
"Sometime in January last the respondent
went to Hincshurgh and represented himself to
be a distinguished physician, alleging that he
had studied six years in England and had
$1,000 on deposit in one of the Philadel phia
Banks. Having by these means ingraaed
himself into the confidence of one John \.
Place HineSburgh, and obtained from him the
sum Of S7S and his daughter in marriage. the
respondent and his bride made tour to New
York city. Their stay in Gotham WAS short.
And their tour, their love and anticipated joy,
and future happiness and the S7S, are supposed
to have abruptly terminated on their reaching
again the patcrnal mansion of the ambitious
but deuded fair one
If young women will be such fools as to lis
ten to the overtures of mere adventures of
whose entire previous history they are entirely
unacquanted with, and if their parents are
such simpletons as to encourage pretentious
stranger in preference to an honest neighbor,
poth parents and daughters desert to reap a
crop like unto the above.
\ large pike taken in the outlet Of Lake
Bombazine within eight rods of the hotel at
Hydeville, on the 10th that weighed 25 pounds
6 ounces. Another was taken in Otter Creek
in Pttsford that weighed % pounds. 1t is
said by the Rutland Courier that "large guam.
titles of these fish are caught weighing form
six to twenty poun IS"
B. G. Arnold of Pownal had one of his arm,
nearly served with circular saw while saving
wood on the 9Th inst. 1t is feared that he mus
lose the limb.
At the recent session OF the Rutland count,
court Pat Conln was sentenced to the State,
Prison two years for burglary, J. r. Williams
five years six months for arson, and 7. Week.
one year for larceny.
The Bennington Banner is of opinion tina
the 5000 recently appropriated for repairing tn
Jail in that town. has been so judiciously ex
pended that prisoners who are placed there on
day will be found at breakfast the next morn
ing. If our neighbor is correct in his judg
ment radical change has been effected.
The Brandon Tisitor recently died for lacl
of breath. Like the Yankees veal it "gin out.
1t is the tenth paper that has persisted of star
walton in that town during the last forty years
The Irasburgh Standard naturally conclude
, that town unable to raise likelier Statesman
than S. A. Douglas, would be just the spot Il
crush all enterprise"
II. C. Wood of Rutland has been appointe
G. ID.
Railroads. James NJ. Putnam of Rutland on tn
Rutland e. Washington Railroad, and Alber
} Tomlnson OF Castleton on the Saratoga Rail
road.
Thomas Gleed has been appointed Postmas
ter at Morrisville, Benz. ii. Steele at Derb
Line, II. b. Lane at Troy. II. w. Nye at Iras
burgh, Albin Hovcy at West Albany, Greenlea
Boynton at Coventry.
! A horse fell dead in Middlebury few day
since, while drinking. He had been driven
few miles, and after standing two hours wa
watered. The blood gushed from his nose an,
he died in few minutes.
b George w. Jones of Newark been com
mitttd to jail in default of bonds, to await tria
for forging note of 500 in the name of Ella
+ Aldrich of Brighton.
The steeple of the Congregational church q
st. Albans, was recently blown down during
heavy gaze of wind.
A new Catholic cathedral is to be erected O
q Burlington this season. 1t is to be built c
Barre gra lite and marble and promises TO be
> vey imposing as well as large structure.
z John Carleton Of Woodstock fell down
4 flight of stairs few days since, and was so sc
riously injured that he died on Thursday.
o The President has at length made the Bosto
appointments, as follows: Richard III. Danl
jr., District Attorneys John $. Reyes, IT, s
o Marshal; Eugene l.. Norton, Navy Agent
a Josiah Durham, Naval Storekeeper, and Charlie
l. A. Phelps, Surveyor, in place OF Fletcher Wei
f ster George Dwight has been appointed ST
! perintendent of the Springfield Armory.
John Milton Earle has been appointed Pos
master at Worcester, Amasa Norcross at Fitch
burg, and William Stowe at Springfield, Ms.
r Long John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago
= was badly whipped, according to the local pres
by Mr.. Allen Pinkerton, last week, on LAX
T. street. The Pinkerton chastisement is said t
n be the seventeenth he has received.
Hon. Joseph Tinker Buckingham, the ode'
printer and journalist in Massachusetts il nc