Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-20
NEWS ITEMS.

ten. sherman was a passenger by the
ste amer Baltic, which arrived at New York
Sunday evening.
The total yield Of the new hop crop In
the United States Is now estimated at a.
100000 pounds, or about 20, 200 bales. This
Is less than last year, and prices will tend
upward.
According TO a recent Parliamentary re-
port, there has been, during the last year,
over n hundred deaths from starvation
in London.
Clara +. Hale of Unionville, N. II. has
brought TO market in Keene the past sea-
son sl57.5s worth of blueberries.
John II. Ornell died at the New York
insane asylum last Thursday, from injuries
sustained by him at the hands of his atten-
dant, Thomas Farrell.
BY the failure of the heaviest shipping
firms in Baltimore, Thursday, a loss of slO,-
OOO,O 900 is involved, and a panic among in
surance companies is feared.
The losses by the great fire at Nishnl-
Novogorod amount to three or four mil
lion silver roubles. One hundred and sew
enteen vessels in the harbor were destroy
ed.
Two or three large herds Of cattle near
Cincinnati have lately fallen victims to the
plague, with which they were infected by
Texan cattle pastured near them. A herd
of IA Texan cattle, in alean and lousy con-
dilion, were killed and buried TO prevent
the spread of the pest.
Work On the Vanderbilt underground
railroad in New York city, will begin
within ten days, at three different points on
the line of the road. There will be eight
stations, the first being at the north end of
the new post office. The top of the tunnel
the street. The lower part of the road will
be completed within two years.
A bloody fight occurred at P%ittsburg,
Pa, Saturday night, between a colored
Grant and a white Greeley club. The fight
ing was of the most desperate character /;
though lasting not more than 10 minutes,
yet In that time over 100 shots were fired
and six negroes were shot, but how badly
was not asceriained. One white man had
his skull fractured and will die. The blame
of the affair is generally laid to the negroes.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett proposes TO
erect in Greenwood cemetery, in memory
OF his father, one of the finest monuments
of this country. The price Is unlimited,
but will probably be somewhere about $780,
900, The SHAFT is to be OF white marble,
deliberately sculptured with symbolical tig-
ures representing the profession of Journal
ism. The inscription will be simple,
~ IAn.aa norIan nannatt ~ x..ttb ma a.o
and, 'Founder of the New York Herald"
important disclosures concerning the
late terrible Mountain Meadow massacre
In Utah have been made. II seems that
the Mormon militia actually attacked a
train of emigrants bound for California,
and massacred every one of them, except
some young children then asserted that
the horrible deed was done by the Indians.
The massacre Is said TO have been actuated
by motives of revenge, in return for out
RACES on the Mormons in Illinois and Mis-
souri,.
The first party of Chinese youth sent to
the United States to be educated under the
appropriation o'sl 600, 600 lately made by
the Chinese government for that purpose,
arrived at San Francisco last week, and
Will soon m their seven years of
study. The party numbers thirty, and 1t is
the Intention to send over a similar num-
Der each year for four years. The arrange
ments have all been made by Mr.. Yung
Wing, who graduated at Yale la 1854.
The last of the poor chlldren's picnlcs
under the conduct of the New York Times,
took place Saturday. During the last mine
weeks eighteen of these excursions have
been carried out, and 1872 childIen, boys
and girls, have thus enjoyed a holiday in
the country or by the seaside. Nearly
twenty thousand dollars have been sub
scribed by the public for these excursions
and for the relief Of sick children, of which
fund over three thousand dollars are still
In hand.