Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-03
NEWS ITEMS.

closed on Saturday. Tho receipts are esti-
mated at 5s0,00O
The known Confederate dead are to be
removed at once from Gettysburg to Holly
wood cemetery.
The fisheries of Canada employ 81, 900
persons and 5000, 900 are invested in the
business.
Schools for women are among the new
institutions adopted by the Sultan of Tur-
key.
Thirty thousand loads of filth and gar
bage were removed from the streets of New
York last week, and yet there are few
loads left.
The operatives of the Treasury Depart
ment are said to use up IA, 900 lead pencils
and $4,000 steel pens every year.
There was destructive fire at Warren,
Pa, a few days since. a church, school
house, hotel, and several dwellings were
destroyed. Loss, 100000
Three men, names unknown, went
over Niagara Falls on the oath ult
A fire on Saturday night in the five
story brick building Nos. "a and 90 woos-
ter street, New York, caused damage of
S65, 900. Two men were burned to death.
Five victims of ire-damp explosion
in Pennsylvania coal mine are reported
this week.
New York is now the third State in
point of miles of railroad, Illinois, with its
$500 miles being he first, and Pennsylvania
having 5000 miles, ISIS second.
THE Coliseum for the coming jubilee,
| in process of erection at Boston, Mass,
was blown down Friday evening of last
week. The report of the crash was heard
for miles around.
Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut "Bor-
gia," whose trial for the murder of her two
husbands and four children has just been
completed at New Haven, has been con-
vcted of murder in the second degree, and
sentenced to State prison for life.
A Western farmer rec klessly publishe,
the following challenge: 81 will bet Si2.-
% that my hired man can take longer &c
J go to the harvest, get back to dinner quick
err, eat more, do less, and bear down harder
on panel of the fence, than any other
hired man within fifteen miles Of the flag
staff in Jefferson"
A fire roke out in the five-story build.
ing No. 1888 b roadway, corner of Worth
street, New York, early Saturday morning
Oberholser, X eefer & Co., who occupied
the first floor and basement as dry good,
and silk house, lose $780, Goddard
Brother, dealers in clothier's trimmings
etc., who occupied the remainder of the
bull ding, lose $4,000; both fully insured.
"A happy man is James O'Neil, who
Sc rived more than eight years in the Rhode
sland State Prison, for a crime which it is
II ow proved that he was entirely innocent
of, and has just been released.
Fires are raging on the mountains
long the Hudson and in other parts o
New York State, also in many towns il
Eastern Massachusetts, Everything is dry
and fires spread rapidly.
Chester Minis, prominent citizen ant
for ten years first selectman of Keenc, n
H., died on Friday evening after n sever,
and protracted sickness.
Atlantic cable dispatches now cost onl,
one dollar per word in gold.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury Rich
ardson has directed the Assistant Treasur
err at New York to purchase $4,000, 600 o
b onds each Wednesday and sell $4,000, 0Ot
of gold each Thursday during May, in al
$40, 1000 900 of each.
"A shocking affair occurred at New
SEQ tland, nine miles from Albany, n. Y.
on the 25th ut. A family consisting of Mr.
Vol mer, his wife and five children, Vol
mer's mother and his wife's step father, oc
cupied two-story building, in which .
ii re broke out. Volmer, his wife and on,
child, who occupied the first floor, escape,
but all the others persisted in the flames.
Some evil disposed person drove |,
iron wedges into tho joints of the rails OF
the New London Northern railroad abou
three fourths of mile south of the depo
at Belchertown Saturday night, ii is sup
posed with the intention of throwing tn
train of the track, Monday morning
Fortunately they were discovered by two
men who were walking on the track OF
Sunday and were removed.
-Paran Stevens, one of the oldest anC
most widely known hotel-men in thi'
country, died at his residence in New York
Thurs day evening of last week. lie frs
became widely known to the travelling
public, quarter of a century ago, as the
proprietor OF the Revere House in Boston,
ut he was not long content with single
venture, and before the outbreak of Tho
civil war had become the chief working
proprietor of six or seven of the chief no
tells in the United States, from Boston tC
Mobile. He was native Of Claremont, N
II.
The transit of Venus, which Will taxi
Mace on the sth of December, 1874, Is
very interesting phenomenon, inasmuch az
it is expected to afford data for determin
ing the true distance of the earth from thu
sun. as well as to decide whether or no
Venus is attended by moon. AS the las
transit of Venus occurred in 1863, and Will
the exception of one in 1882 there VIII no
be another for hundred years to come
Congress is very properly making sucp al
appropriation for observing it, as Will place
our sayans upon a footing with those o
Europe.
IL Is said that the House will surely pas
the Senate bill approprating $4,000 Tor Cd
seryations of the transit of Venus lh'
other day the House cut down the clvi
service appropriation from $4,000 to slV'