The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-05-01
STATE NEWS

Tn Monday 81 saA week loren Attf
Fst I'm away 9Th n S. Johnsbury. and
i20 gallons Of maple syrep be hsd In bic
vagon was spilled
Lemuel Alen. of North Danvile, At
tempted suicide last week BY cutting his
throa, with a butcher knife, bat I'D not
quite suecged.
Wm Faulkner. who has been on trial
for shooting Conly Al Burlington, last Al.
gust, has been acquitted BY the jury. u
sppears tha, he shot Comfy IN defending
his house aud himself from attack.
Prof Bartlett. 81 The Chicago Uaiyersi
~, after mature consideration, declines The
Presidency OF the University Of Vermont
and State Agricultural College. The
University ootbids The College,
The Trustees Of Norwich University
have voted 10 make the attempt 10 raise
by subscription a fund Of one hundred
thousand dollars Tor that institution,
The order mastering out Of The service
Brevet Mai. Gen. Geo. j. Stannard. Of
This STATE. has been recalled. This Is the
second time he has been mustered out
and reinstated.
The FIRST party to reach the summit Of
Mt. Mansfield, this year, vent Up on the
l2th inst. tn. road up the mountain for
three miles MAS filled with snow from three
to Eve feet deep, and near the summit was
len feet deep.
TX Governor John 4. Andrew of Mass.
pchusetts will deliver the annual address
at the fair Of the Vermont State Agricul-
mral Society to be held al Bratlcboro,
Sept. II, II, 10, a.
Qnite a revival is in progress in the
village Of Newport, w.; several have uni
ted With the congregational church, The
various prayer meetings arc fully attend
ed, aud many are interested.
A sheep belonginging to Flank Rich
ard,op, Of West Biauleboro, brought 70
her owner, on Tuesday last, four healthy
and sprightly lambs Of good size. The
same sheep was lhe mother Of three lambs
last year.
Last Saturday evening, at Winooski, a
boy eight years old, named Theodore Cit
ard, while picking up DRIFT wood near the
bulkhrad OF the hume running TO the wool
en- factory, aud Just above the lower dam,
lost his balance and fell into the river
The strong current soon carried him be
You'd all human aid, and he went over the
falls aud was drowned,
The MiddIebnry Register says that OH
Fast Day Officer CHAMPION and posse
were set upon near the Court House and
severely landl d by an infatuated mob of
%Irishmrn, while taking a refractory pris.
oner 10 iail who had been arrested for
breach Of tie peace. This prisoner, Rob
ert NANNY, was rescued. but retaken on
Saturday. The principal rioters escaped.
We hear that the au hor of the very
noticeable article on The Old Vermont
Brigade by a General Officer, "who did
not belong to it aud was never in Yer
mont" which We copied a while since
from the n. y Citizen, was Gen. Ayres.
Captain Of HE Alb L. $. Artillery, and
Maj Gen. Of volunteers.
Harvey Bennett, Of West Albany-a
man eight years married, aud The father
Of two children-eloped Win Addie Fare
vel, a miss OF ID ears, lurching his cred
tors Of $500. Jesse Rogers started in
pursuit. but at IIarlwick was thrown from
lis carriage, and bad his shoulder broken,
besides other serious injuries, which COM
PEELED him to give up the pursuit. liar
vey and Addie took the ears at Montpel-
Ter for the West,
A cruel and brutal outrage was commit
ted Saturday night, the 9Th, inst, on the
person OF an honest, industrious WEIGH
man By the name Of Roberts, while on his
way from Hydeville to the place of his
residence neal the Eagle Slate quarry
Two young men, brothers, named Park
hurst, knocked him down, fractured his
skull, and kicked aud pounded him after
he was down, SO i~njaring him in The face
and other parts Of his body, that his con.
ditiqn was deemed critical, and is still con
sidered so. He begged for mercy and Of
tered bis watch and all his money IT the
brutes would but spare him.
Sunday Of last week was an interesting
day in Montpelier. The Conference
Love Feast took place nj an early hour.
In tie foreuoo,, Bishop Simpson, who is
regarded as the greatest orator among the
Methodist Bishops, preached in the Com
greeatioual Church. The building, which
will hold perhaps 800 or 900 persons, was
crowded to its utmost, and the sermon is
described as a very powerful me The
various pulpits IN the town, the Episcopal
and Catholic excepted, we're occupied by
different Methodist clergymen during the
day.
SENATORS Poland and Edmunds both
voted for an amendment 10 admit Colora-
do with unconditional suffrage aud that
having been defeated, they voted against
be bill.
EEWs ITEMS.