Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

of bridge upon some rocks, Monday
night, and was killed.
L. l.. Alexander, conductor of a freight
train on the VT. Central, was killed on the
18th inst, near Essex Junction. by his
head coming in contact with bridge. lie
was a resident of st. Adams, where he has
a wife and children.
Six hundred native boats wero sunk in
a typhoon off the coast of Japan, July s,
and over 400 japanese lost their lives
-Four British steamers were also sunk and
those on board persisted.
Three daughters of Elbridgo Gerry,
one Of the most distinguished signors of the
Declaration of Independence are now liv-
ing in New Haven, Connecticut They are
ostimable and highly respected maiden
ladies', now, Of course, in advanced years.
One of the citizens of Georgia, accor-
ding to u local paper, though now only so,
has been the father of so children, of whom
40 are said TO be living. The father and
grandfather of this prolific Southron are re-
ported to have had respectively 81 and 80
children.
The quarantine authorities of New York
tary of the Navy the adoption of some pre-
cautions against the cholera. The immedi-
ate danger is from Europe where the dis
ease is making such progress that in fort
night or less it may touch our shores and
begin its dreadful havoc in this country.
The famine in Persia is more terrible
than was previously reported. Twenty
seven thousand deaths have taken place at
Ispahan alone from starvation. The con-
dition of the province of Mazanderan is
still worse. There the rice crop is a COM
plete failure, and the cattle plague, small
pox, typhus fever and cholera prevail.
1t is estimated that the damage inflicted
by the grasshoppers in Maine this year will
amount to millions of dollars. There are
many square miles of territory where not
Il bushel of grain will be raised and humid
reds of farmers who two weeks since
counted upon at least an average crop of
corn will hardly get an ear.
An arrangement has just been conclud-
ed between the United States and Ger
many, to take effect on the LIST of October
next, which reduces the rate of interna-
tional postage for prepaid letters, if ex-
changed between the two countries by
closed mail via England, from ten to seven
cents for each rate Of half an ounce or I'M
der. Unpaid letters so exchange are to be
charged double the prepaid rates.
The Duke Alexis of Russia has taken
his departure for America. He left Cron-
stadt with squadron of five vessels of war
and tenders, all selected by himself as the
nI ha efa,, II. Al.
ted States an adequate conception of the
Cars naval force. New York is already
in futter of excitement over the prcpara-
ton for the festivities in his honor.
AT the August term, civil and criminal,
of the superior court, now being held at
Greenfield, Mass, the grand jury reported
an indictment for murder against Lyman
White Of Shutesbury, for the killing of
Calvin Carter at that place last May, by
shooting him through the body with "A shot
gun. White will be arraigncd before the
supreme court at Greenfield in September,
when n special term will be held for his
trial.
An accident occurred to the o'clock
p. m, freight train from Palmer on the
New London Northern Railroad, in Nor
witch, Ct, on Saturday, by which ten cars
Were wrecked, and one man, John Gil
mour, had his shoulder broken. The acct
dent was caused by making flying
switch, there being an insufficient number
of brakemen on the train.
Fire was discovered on Sunday night |
in the stable of the Waverly house at Will |
Transport, Pa. The wind was blowing |
gale and the flames spread rapidly, con-
suming the Waverly house, Gov. Pack |
er's residence, the Mulberry street church |
and many stores and private dwellings, 40 |
buildings in all; loss S25O,OOO, insurance |
Sl3G,000.
Minnesota, which has latterly been WISH |
ted by hail-storms and tornadoes of singu- |
lar destructiveness, by lightning and hurri- |
canes which have laid waste a wide extent |
of its territory, is now afflicted with swarms
of grasshoppers which threaten to devour |
all crops which escaped its former scour-
ges. They have come from the great west
ern deserts, and are now blasting vegeta-
ton from Minnesota river to the British |
possessions.
The Shanghai Ne,cS Letter says the |
Russian cattle plague is spreading east
ward through China. Last winter its de- |
predations began ON the Russian Pacific |
coast, destroying nearly all the cattle from |
the Amoor down to Waladstock. 1t NAV |
now advance into Corea, and pass into |
Japan, or even reach America by the way |
o. the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. The |
Government at Washington has been APP |
prised of the danger.
Another boiler explosion occurred in |
New York Harbor, on Thursday last. The |
tug boat Starbuck, employed in towing |
cabbages from Port johnson to New York, |
exploded her boiler, near Staten Island, |
killing the fireman and deck hand The |
engineer was not at his post when the dis |
asier occurred, and has not been found |
since. The boiler was inspected in April. |
This boiler inspection seems to be of little |
use in reference to steamboats, plying about |
New York.
Cincinnati is to have an industrial ex- |
hibition, which opens Sept. 9Th. The ex-
hiDition building covers nearly a whole |
city square, contains seven distinct halls,
and was built at a cost of 100000. It furn- |
shes floor space greater than the worlds
fair in New York, power is provided to
show the working of machinery, every
thing is on liberal scale, and extraord- |
nary precautions have been taken to pre-
vent fire. The exhibition is to be one of |
the products of the whole country, through |
the West will, of course, be the largest con-
tributor, and it will be worth while to |
make long journey to visit it,
An ex-priest of the Roman Catholic |
Church, calling himself Baron de Camin, |
advertised himself for several lectures in |
Odgensburg on the iniquities of the Church. |
This aroused great indignation among the
Irish Catholics of that city, who attempted |
to mob the Baron and broke up his meet
ings The excitement In Odpanshnrn