Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-08-04
VERMONT ITEMS.

Roln c. Sherwins house at Baltimore, Vt, with
all its furniture and $500 worth of wool was burned
on the 18th.
Major L. L. Knapp of the 18th Vermont has been
promoted to be lieutenant colonel and Adutant James
s. Peck has been made jor.
Stowe has already four summer hotels, filled to
OVERLOOKING, and is to have another, fine structure,
costing 500 900. 1t is to be owned by stock com.
pany--4OOO s25 shares.
Rev. F. w. Olmstead has accepted the position of
Principal of the Burr & Burton Seminary, at Man
chester to which he was appointed at the last meet
ing of the Board of Trustees.
The report of Commissioners for Caledonia County
for the sale of liquors. gives total Of 3,174 gallons
for which S12,745 was paid This amount is frac
ton 20 per cent of the grand list of the County
The liquor traffic of Vergennes has been lessened
$1,000 in the last seven months by the enforcement Of
the prohbitory law Fifty barrels of liquor have been
seized and several hundred dollars worth of fines have
been imposed
At meeting of the Orleans County Temperance
Society, the 6th it resolved shat the liquor
law ought to be so amended as to prohibit the County
Commissioner from receiving any compensation for
securing the trade Of the county to any person what
ever"
The only Vermont troops remaining in the field are
the eth regiment which has gone to Texas, detach
ment of the 1st heavy artillery now in the depart
ment of Washington, and about 800 men Of the 9th
regiment, doing duty in Richmond. All these troops
will soon be mustered out.
AT late meeting in Boston Ct the Adiutant Gener
als of the several states Adntant General Washbprn
of this state, said that of the "a 400 which Ner-
mont furnished for the United States government
service he couid give detailed account Of every 3ne
save ffy--a fact which shows how thoroughly the
business of his office has been attended to.
The many friends of Hon. Geo. W. Bailey, Jrl, of
Montpelier, Secretary of State will be panied to darn
that he died at his residence Monday morning July
II, of consumption. Mr.. Bailey has worthily and ac-
ceptaby discharged the duties of his Office for four
years past and by his excellent character and &c hial
department he won numerous friends throughout the
State.
There will be n reunion of the descendants 81 th'
late Holland Weeks Mt the residence of E. II. weeks
! Esq. in Salisbury, Sept I, 1865. This family drac
their ancestry direct to John Alden the "sripngw VIII
first leaped upon Plymouth Rock" and Afterwards
courted Priscilla Mullinz by proxy for Capt. Nile
| Standish and then married her himself The de
scendants are and may be found in al fnos
every State in the Union.
Mr. nistt.t Ger"Ute US Co. y, Cd Va 4vgiynaut has
pretty relic of the war; it being long and heavy vel
vet sash with silver trimmings, which he confscate
from Gen. Lees house at Petersburg. The Vernon
boys "happened in" just as breakfast was ready, an
after partakng of the generals hospitality, Robert
had "stepped out) each one looked about for a sor
venir, and young Somers happened TO get this sasl
He has been offered fifty dollars for it.
Smuggling is rife on the Canada line, and all kline
of seizures are made. passenger from Canada wa
recently delivered at Island Pond of 100 yards of sill
packed under his vest car load of oats, recent
probed at the same place, was found to contain as
pounds each Of nutmegs and cloves, and 100 pounc
each OF indigo and pepper. Whisky, tea and raisin
in small quantities, often seized at Newport an
, the average weekly seizures at Island Pond amour
to about 5000.
The Woodstock Standard says that package
letters, evidently, in the original wrapper was rece,
ed at the post Office in that village on Thursday tn
18th, which was mailed at 1rasburgh, VT, on the 2
day of May 1874, having been over twenty-onc year
traversing the distance of one hundred miles. Tn
letters Of which there three in the package wer
accompanied by post-bill, signed by Timothy
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Haskell & Palmer. The several letters were of cor
siderable importance and there is Of no mean
Of knowing how much annoyance their non -receiI
occasioned. The package does not bear evidence
having travelled much and the supposition is that
has been all this time concealed by accident in cor
of some post office and has been brought to lig
by a recent "house cleaning and deposited in tn
mail without suspicion of its antiquity. This beat
all the miscarriages of mail matter Of which we hav
any account.