Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-10-31
NEWS ITEMS.

Wisconsin and Minnesota had smart
snow storm ON Saturday.
Boston us IL is TO be, will pay forty per
cent. of the total state tax which Is levied
annually.
Phelps, the defaulting cashier of the
New York State Treasury, has been COM
mitted In default Of si5, 900 bail.
-Rumors are in circulation doubling the
financial soundness of tho Rhode Island
Spragues.
One of the jurors in the Stokes case was
recently seen drunk in a saloon in compa.
ny with sheriif's officer.
John G. Heenan, the celebrated pugil-
list OF Heonan-Sayers prze-fght fame,
died at Green River, Utah, last Friday, of
hemorrhage of the lungs, while on his
way to California for his health.
The report of the Washington, d. c.,
board of health jJst issued, shows that city
to 10 one OF the healthiest in the country,
the death rate for the year ending October 1
being only II $500 out of every 1000.
The New York grand jury have taken
in hand the suppression of houses of Hire
pute, and number of the proprietors of
these houses have been arrested, and will
he brought to trial without the usual for
mality of going before police magistrate.
The Michigan Constitutional Conven-
ton has adopted an article providing that
women shall be eligible 10 the Offices of
register Of deeds, notary public, OH ces'con-
nected with schools and libraries, and such
others as may be designated by law.
Mr.. z. Il. Barnum has arrived in Lon
don, and will go al once 10 Paris TO hold n
conference with the most prominent zero
nauts of Europe upon the subject of a trans
atlantic balloon voyage. which he intends
To have accomplished under his immediate
supervision, If any feasible plans should
be presented.
1t is stated that nearly all the wire has
been constructed and contracts out for a
new cable between Ireland and some point
on Long Island. The capital Is 80, 0OO, 900,
and the directory embraces prominent Eng
lish capitalists.
The debt statement Tor October will
show considerable increase, probably
from three TO four million dollars. This
h - been anticipated at the treasury depart
ment since the first of the month. 1t is not
unlikely that the debt statement for No.
vember may also exhibit an increase.
AT Haverhill, Mass, the playing by
the tiremon, on Wednesday, OF last week,
was the best ever made there. Hand en-
CINE l.. V. Spaulding threw horizontal
stream of go feet and IL inches the Frank
lin of Bradford, 2O4 feet inches the Proc.
tor of East IIaverhll, 216 feet, n inches
the steamers Gen. Grant POI feet, 4 inches
Essex, 2l2 feet, @ inches {; City of Haverhill
253 feet inches.
The town of Wrentham, Mass, cele-
braed lis b-centennial anniversary on
Monday. a large tent had been erected,
in which dinner and speeches we're TO have
been had but gale of wind blew down
the tent aud spoiled the dinner. The speech
es were delivered in the First Congrega-
tional Church, and a collation. was served
in Cooks Hall.
The Investigation into what has been
called the Beccher scandal has been reopen
ed in Brooklyn. 1t is conducted under
charges preferred against Theodore Tiltoi
and Henry c. Bowen, who are said TO have
circulated ISLANDERS against Mr.. Beecher
The committee tor the trial of these charges
numbers about twenty, men and women
selected from the most prominent members
of Mr.. Bee .her's church. The authority O.
this tribunal is merely advisory, and after
vO'iiinS ~ ds-;-;~-. .Lss. will e,,i,it q re.
port to the church for final acton. Tilton's
case will come of first.