Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-02-06
VERMONT ITEMS.

were on their way home full Of vile liquor,
besides what they had about their person.
Mr.. NJ. II. Foster and wife of Weathersfeld
came near drowning in the Connecticut river
on the evening of January 2nd. In returning
from Clarcmont and while crossing the river
the horse broke through the ice where the water
was fifteen or twenty feet deep. Mr.. +. sue
ceeded in pulling the horses head on to the ice
and with his arm around the animals neck,
kept him there three quarters Of an hour until
help arrived when all were rescued from their
perlous position.
Lieut.. John w. Jones of the 10Th L. S. In
fantry, the mastering in officer of the 9th YER
mont, LIST VT Cavalry, and the Sd Company
Sharp Shooters, has been promoted to Cap
taincy and appointed, according to the Burng-
ton Times, general mastering and disbursing of
| ficer for this district.
| Carlos D. Stuart, native of Berlin, died
at the Water Cure Establishment at Norhamp-
ton on the 22nd ult., in the dist year Of his
age. The IPatchmm says:
"Mr. Stuart was connected for many years
with the press of New York City, welded a
vigorous pen, and besides his anonymous lit
erary contributions to various periodicals, is the
author Of numerous poems of genuine merit"
Mr.. Benjamin w. Pond, late Of Bangor
Theological Seminary, was ordained as Pastor
of the Congregational Church and Society in
Barton, on Tuesday of last week. The sermon
was preached by the Rev. Enoch Pond, D. d.,
of Bangor Me.
The inmates of Bennington Jail set fire to the
door of their cell on Sunday evening of last
week, hoping TO escape sin the noise and con-
/ fusion" but instead of tina: they would have
all sufocated had they not called Justify for
help. About the same time the sheds in the
rear Of the Waloomsack House, adjacent to the
jail, were found to be on fire, which was doubt
less part of the original plan of the "confcd-
crates both out and in. Fortunately it did not
work and the fires caused no great damage.
Judging from the tenor Of the reports in our
! Vermont exchanges of last week, the late storm
caused more obstruction to travel on the high
ways than any other that has occurred for sew
eral years. The brunt of the battle has been
borne, as usual BY the hardworking and too
often abused stage drivers.
At the recent session of the Supreme Court
in Franklin County six or seven divorces we're
granted.
Three Woodstock fishermen have recently
caught one hundred and fifty pounds of pike in
Lake Bombazine, in Castleton and Hubbardton,
one of which weighed 10 pounds. This fish is
very generally known in this State by the name
Of pckerel but it is distinct species from
that fish and its proper name is pike. 1t is
not uncommon to catch pike in Lake Cham
plain that weigh from fifteen to twenty five
pounds, but the genuine pickerel, found in New
England chiefly east of the Green Mountains,
never exceeds from four to six pounds. The
pickerel differs as much from the pike as our
common brook trout differ from Lake trout"
or lurgc.
Eleo2cr Taylor of New Haven raised 1876 .
hushcls hi weight Of eight-rowed com TO the
acre, lest year; and n. G. NEWMAN of Ferris.
burgh raised l24 bushels Of potatoes, Of the
vorct! there known as Hawkins potatoe," on
an acne. Such crops pay good dividend.
Capt. Randall of the 2nd Vermont has been
suspended from his command for thirty days,
for trifling military offence committed long
ago; but it seems as if the punishment was in
tended to be merely nominal for Gen. Brooks
/ dated the suspension back twelve days, and
gave him pass to 60 to Washington.
That horse for Col. Thomas, of which men
ton was made last week, was purchased by
some Of the Coloncl's friends in Orange County,
and presented to him at a public meeting for
that purpose at Chelsea, on Friday evening last
a lad named Waters while coasting in Bur
lin gton came in collision with hand car com
ing down the steep grade of the road near the
depot, and was instantly killed. A greater per-
centage of fatal accidents arise from coasting
and skating than occur on railroads from all
causts combined.
Mrs. Cleasby of Eos, Concord, while passing
a few days at Loudon Village, with her son A..
]. MaXfeld, swallowed a dose of corrosive sub
Innate in solution, which had been prepared for
the determination of vermin, by mistake for
some simple cordial. She died on the 22d ult.
Counterfeits on the Montpelier bank are rife
at Burlington, and some of them have appeared
among the soldiers at Washington, who are
pestered with bogus money of innumerable
kinds.
pERLEY =. PuKIN, Quartermaster of the Sec
ond Vermont, has received the appointment Of
Assistant Quarermaster in the Regular Army,
with The rank of Captain. Captain Pitkin will
undoubtedly be assigned the Quartermaster-
ship of the Vermont Brigade.
JESSE BURDETT, who has been conductor
on the Western Vt. Railroad since the first
trip was made over it, has received conduct
orship on the Troy and Greenbush Road. The
Bennington Banner thus notices him No bet
ter conductor eau be found, and the travelling
community who have so often rode with him
ON the Troy & Boston & Western Vermont
Road, will be glad to shake hands with him in
his new "posish"
Our st. Albans neighbors are quite "worked
up about theiI new postmaster. They don't
find any fault with the postmaster himself but
are indignant ut the way he was appointed,
The last st. Adams Messenger has long and
bitter editorial on the subject, in which it takes
Congressman Baxter greatly to task, and init.
mates that his st. Adams constituents have
lost confidence in him.