Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-10-21
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The Massachusetts Democrats have
once more nominated Johu Quincy Adams
for governor, and he has once more con-
scented to lead them to defeat
The Fenian prisoners were released
from Auburn state prison on Saturday.
They afterward were seronaded and made
speeches, declaring that they thanked nei-
Their party nor the administration for their
release, but the people.
The drought throughout England and
France during the past season has been
every disastrous. The loss in hay and but
ter to England is estimated at 100000,
and France, in her pressing needs, arising
from the war, is much Strengthened by the
scant hay crop.
The Nashua Bank, one of the best
known of the old New Hampshire State
banks has wound up its affairs, and divid-
ed the remaining surplus, amounting to I
per cent, which makes a total division of
seventy-tive per cent. 1t had been in OK
istence for a quarter of a century, and from
the start gave its stockholders eight per
cent upon their investments
The heavy gale of Tuesday prevailed
through large portion Of the Western
country, extending from Buffalo to Cana
da, and sweeping down through western
Massachusetts and portion of Rhode Is
land. The telegraph wires in many places
were Frustrated, and shipping on the lakes
suffered severely. Several lives were lost
The Democrats claim to have carried
Indiana by about 1000 majority. As the
Republicans carried it last year by less
than a thousand, this is "A gain of less than
three thousand. Last year the Republi-
cans carried Ohio by 1000. This year they
carry it by 1900.
The Alexandria (Va.) Gazette says that
ii Is the opinion of many persons that the
late unprecedented freshet in the James
and Shenandoah rivers was not caused by
a continuous rain, but by something like
the bursting of waterspout on or about
their head waters, aud their sources are not
worry great distance apart. The flood
came down in the Shenandoah in great
waves succeeding each other rapidly.
There is sharp competition now be-
| tween the Pacific mail steamers and the
overland line to California. Both parties
are "cutting under" and carrying freight
at less than the cost of transportation. The
railroad has taken freight, in several in
Stances at 80 per hundred pounds, and the
steamship company has signed through
bills of lading at 81 per hundred for the
same class of freight. So active is compe-
ton that freight can be sent cheaper from
New York to San Francisco than from Chi
| cagO to Omaha.
Secretary Cox has positively resigned.
Ofhis retirement the New York Tribune's
Washington correspondent says: 1.-The
| truth of the matter seems to be that Mr..
Cox desired to leave public life for person
al reasons solely. lie hns given nearly ten
years of his life to the public, and finds
himself no better off pecuniarily than
when ho began. lie has formed law part
nership in Cincinnati, which promises to
be more lucrative than the position of Cab
met officer"
Another dreadful accident occurred al
the central shaft of the Hoosac tunnel on
Tuesday afternoon, by which Cornelius
Redding, superintendent of the work
at tho shaft, James James, master
mechanic, and Matthew Jewett, superln-
tendent of mining, lost their lives. One
account says that the accident occurred
while they were making repairs on the
wire rope by which the bucket is low,
cred to the shaft and another that new
rope, or cable, had just been put ON anc
not securely fastened to the shaft inside
the drum on which the cable is wound, a
any rate the men above named got into tn,
bucket to go down, and when about Ion
feet from the bottom, the rope slipped from
the drum and they went down with torrIbl,
speed, striking in 10 feet of water TheiI
bodies were recovered some time after, DO
ing hooked up from the bottom of the well
Mr.. Redding and Mr.. Jewell leave families