Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-12-27
NEWS ITEMS.

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There are thirty persons on the elitori
nj staff of the New York Tribune.
The Stokes iurv is now completc. and
the trial is again in progress.
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lost.
The Postmastcr-Goneral has decided
that he will hold Postmasters liable on
their bonds for losses of registered letters
traced to their offices.
A dispatch from bordeaux saws that
the Liverpool packet. Germania. went A.
shore Saturday evening during n violent
storm on n sand bank, at the mouth of the
Gironde, and 80 lives were lost
The junction of the central shalt".oi
Hoosac Tunnel with the eastern butting
was marvellous triumph of engineering.
The deviation was but tivc-sixteenth Of an
inch laterally, and one and n quarter inch
es in level, the depth being measured from
the top of the mountain.
A bronze statue of Gen. John +. Rey-
nolds, who was killed at Gettysburg while
in command of the First Army Corps, to
which the Second Vermont Brigade was
attached has arrived at that place, and will
be placed on pedestal already prepared
for il in the soldiers cemetery. 1t is eight
feet high and cost ten thousand dollars.
The State of PENNSYLVANIA furnished the
cannon used in casting the statue.
Statistics srov ,bo, ,,,oro ,voro Il, TO-,
about 80 00O. 600 sheen in the Unitcd Stotos.
Welding nm avoraoa Of r,ur ,ourds or WOO,
each or 1os OOo O00 mounds in ,ho oggrooato
In addition tbe animal ;mnortotion of wool
amounts TO .about 10000 600 nounds ot n
cost of nearlv $40 600 oOO Then wo imnort
wooden goods to the amount,of nearly s44.-
OC0. 900 ner annum. There il room thcre.
fore for an increase of II 600 oOO moro sheen
in the country to supply the home demand
for wool and for about l2,000000 10 dis
place the importation of wooden goods.
The opening of the eastern division OF
the Hoosic tunnel. from the eastern en-
trance to the central shaft, occurred on
Thursday Dec. II. seyerardays earlier than
had been anticipated. All tho calculations
Of the engineers proved TO have been cor
rect, and the headings met lust as they
were intended to meet. The work will now
be pushed vigorously to completion, and II
is believed that an opening will be effected
through the remaining half milo of rock by
October next. The contractors are conf
dent that they will finish the tunnel before