Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-04-14
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The Mississippi river threatens to
sweep over the low levee opposite Vicks-
burg, Miss, and thus leave the city inland.
The Rhode Island election occurred
April 9Th. The present Republican State
officers, with the exception of Lieut.. Coy
crnor, were reelected by about 340O ma
jority.
-Zadock Pratt of Prattsville, Green
county, n. Y, well known manufacturer
and politician, and an exmember of Con-
gress, died at Bergen. y. j., on Thursday,
at the age of 81.
Emigration of the French Canadians
to the United States is going on this year
faster than ever; whole families leaving
Quebec and other points daily, while the
exodus among mechanics and field-labor-
ers is alarming.
The proprietors of the Gazette and
Courier, at Greenfield, Mass, have pur-
chased the Franklin County bank building
for $40, 500, with the intention of fitting up
the second story of the building for their
own use.
Rev. Humphrey Moore, d. d., the old
est Congregationalist pastor in New Hamp-
shire, aged nine-two years, died at his res
idence in Milford, after short illness, Sat
urday morning. lie was settled there in
1902 and preached until 1886.
The large printing house of Weed,
Parsons III Co., of the Albany Evening
journal, was entirely consumed by fire,
A pril It'll, with nearly the whole block of
$ mall buildings on Broadway, between
Columbia and Van Tromp streets, on the
west side. The whole loss will reach halfa
million of dollars.
Feeling patients pulse by telegraph
is he latest achievement. The sick man
was in Washington and the physician in
New York, The beats of the pulse were
transmitted by "a doctor with one hand on
the patients wrist and the other on the tel
egraph key.
The Western female college, at Oxford,
o., was completely destroyed by fire, on
the morning of the 7th one girl partially
deaf, is missing. Four or five students
no escaped from the second and third
story windows, were somewhat injured,
one seriously Some had presence of mind
to tie the sheets together and let themselves
d own from the windows others jumped
from the second story. Some property in
| the lower part of the building was saved.
Many young ladies lost all their personal
effects.
lion. Jacob NJ. Howard of Michigan,
whose death at Washington was announc-
| ed few days since, was a native of Shafts
bury, VT, and a graduate of Williams col
| lege. Mass. He went to Michigan in 1862,
was admitted to the bar there, has
been in the state legislature, in tho lower
Ill ouse of Congress from ls4l to lS43 attor-
ney-general Of the state for six years, and
in 1862 was elected to the United States
Senate for the unexpired term of Senator
! Bingham deceased. lie was reelected in
1868 for the term ending this year. Mr..
Howard was an able and patriotic man
ha wing done his country good service dur
ing the war
1T is now reported from Connecticut,
that an error has been discovered in the re-
| turns of votes from the Fourth Ward of
New Haven, by which 100 more votes were
returned for Governor English than should
have been. Ono hundred more votes were
returned than were checked ON the list,
and the Democratic State ticket was de-
clared to have received 100 more votes than
the Democratic Representative ticket, while
the Republican State and Representative
tickets were about equal. The matter will
probably be fully Investigated by the Leg
islature to determine whether there was "A
mistake or IA fraudulent count of the votes.
If either is proved, the result will give the
! election to Jewell