Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-10
NEWS ITEMS.

The New York State Canal will be
open ed on Monday next.
Texas promises the best wheat crop she
has raised since the war. Sugar cane is do
ing well.
The free tea and coffee bill passed by
Congress has been signed by the President,
and will go into effect July /.
The Legislature of Massachusetts adj
journed, on Tuesday, after a session of 1876
days; the shortest in the past nine years.
The second track through Mont Cents
tunnel has been laid and opened, and the
double track is now in actual use.
The coming international exhibition at
Vienna, bids fair to be the grandest indas-
trial exhibition ever known in modern
times.
1t is reported that extensive quarries Of
soaps.one and serpentine marble have been
found near the eastern end of the Hoosac
Tunnel.
A terrible hurricane has visit ed the is
land of Zanzibar, destroying $50 vessels
and doing an estimated total damage of
100000 600.
The Pennsylvania Coal Mine Inspec-
tors report that in the year 1871 no less
than 372 men were killed and 622 injured
by accidents in coal mines.
The Governor of New Hampshire has
nominated Hon. Geo. T. Sawyer of Nashua
Attorney General, Lewis w. Clark of Man
chester having declined in his favor.
The English revsers of the New Testa-
ment Scriptures when last heard from, a.
bout fortnight ago, had progressed as far
as the 10th chapter of st. Luke's Gospel
Laura Fair Is to have another trial, and
the public sentiment in San Francisco has
so changed in favor of the fair prisoner that
her friends feel quite sure of her acquittal.
A new Chinese temple was recently
consecraied in San Francisco, with no less
than seventy-five gods, two of which are
twenty feet high and correspondingly large
The Montreal Witness predicts that
the result of the agricultural strike in Eng
land will be an exodus OF emigrants such
as took place few years ago from Ireland.
The executive officers of the New Eng
land Agricultural Society have decided TO
hold its next annual fair in Lowell on the
Sd, 4th, 5th and 9th of September. The
grounds will be the same as those occupied
last year.
John Graham and Elbridge T. Gerry
have Withdrawn from the defense of Stokes,
Fisk's murderer. Stokes is much alarmed,
and begins at last to realize the danger of
his position and fear his chances to escape
the gallows are not good.
Amherst College has had gift of $780,
900, from Samuel A. Hitchcock, of Brain
field, Mass, and he slso gives $4,000 to
Philips Academy, at Andover. Mr.. Hitch
cock has, on former occasion, given S75,-
900 to Amherst, and SIS, 900 to Andover.
The sixteenth session of the Methodist
general conference commenced at Brook
Ign, n. Y, last week, and will probably
continue a month or more. This is the
largest quadrennial gathering OF this church
in its history, and will be in several re-
spects the most remarkable.
-Twenty-nine prisoners who pleaded
guilty of conspiracy have been sentenced
in the United States court at Charleston,
5. c., to Imprisonment for terms ranging
from one month to ten years, and to pay
fines ranging from 500 to $1,000. This con-
cludes the trials of kuklux prisoners.
The late James Fisk, Jr. asserted lust
before his death, that he owned large IL
mount of Erie stock, and such was sup
posed to be the fact f; but all efforts to find
any record Of the same since he died have
been in vain, and suspicious are entertain
ed of foul play on the part of those in
whose names the stock was held.
A patent is now being worked, by
which leather for the sides of boots and
shoes is rendered impervious to wet and
damp by exhausting the air from the pores
of the leather, and filling them up with a
substance which unites with and adheres
to the fibre, thereby strengthening without
impairing the elasticity of the material.
A gang of $50 lumbermen, who are get
ting drive of logs down the Connecticut
river, consume two thousand and fifty bis
cult and eighty-four square feet of ginger
bread daily. A barrel OF beef answers for
two meals, and three barrels of pork hold
out four days. A bushel of beans disappear
every twenty-four hours, and bushel and
half of potatoes at each meal.
The intelligent Cork correspondent OF
The Boston Pilot says that the depopulu-
ton of Ireland is going on faster than ever.
the population leave the country weekly
from the different ports. From Queens
town alone 1000 week go. Whole ham
lets are leit 10 the old and poor; and agri-
cultural labor is hardly TO be had at any
price.
BY the statistics of immigration for the
| port of New-York in 1871, an increase of
II 400 over the arrivals In 1870 is shown.
The total number last year was DDS, 1862, ex-
elusive Of cabin passengers. The Germans
outnumbered all other classes OF immi-
grants-the proportions being as follows !;
Germans, ss,6Ol; Irish, 65,5O6; English,
80, $685. leaving less than SO, 900 to other ma
tionalties.
The English are experimenting with
their heavy guns on their own ships, and
bid fair TO astonish the world with the re-
suits Of their long investigations. They
are going very extensively into heavy
ornaments, and have made an addition Of
twenty-five ton guns to the deiences of
brakes Island, and eighteen ton guns to
the other forts in Plymouth Sound. These
Tremendous engines Of war have all receiv-
ed a severe trial and been accredited as fit
for their position. A very extensive arma-
ment has been scattered all along the coast
of Great Britain recently, and but little Is
said about II in the papers. 1t looks as II
the English meant to be prepared to repel
any invasion which the continental trou-
bles may thrust upon them.