Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-24
NEWS ITEMS.

Thirty persons have been frozen to
death In Iowa so far this winter.
--General Beauregard is superintendent
of New Orleans city railway.
The Postmaster at Mobile Ala, is a de-
faulter to the tune of $4,000.
The Toledo Blade is wonderful sue
cess as a newspaper. 1t boasts of a circula-
ton OF $4,000.
Edward Bulwer Lytton, the well
known English author, died last Saturday
afternoon. He was 81 years of age.
Gov. Washburn, of Massachusetts, par
doned so criminals, last year.
1t is estimated that $4,000 persons were
present at Chiselhurst at Napoleon's fun
eral.
A big fight with Apaches Is reported
from Arizona, in which 81 savages were
killed and 20 captured.
OF tifty-five school-bouses inspected in
New York city, thirteen were found in
sufficiently provided with fire escapes.
The corn crop in the United States for
the year 1872 was the heaviest ever grown,
reaching the enormous total of 100000
900 bushels.
demonstrating still prospers in Missou-
ri, notwithstanding one hundred and forty
men have been lynched for it in the last
three years.
"A merchant of Savannah, Georgia, hav-
ing the name of James Fisk, Jr., has pc
toned the legislature for leave to change
it.
Tn n haf 10 xyit a 10 ~ cd
Indians, on Friday, our troops were obliged
to withdraw with loss of 10 killed and 80
wounded.
Baptist: Noel, the eminent English dis
senting divine and Theological writer, is
dead.
The exceptions in the case of Stokes,
will be argued before the court the present
week. = Stokes is still hopeful that he will
be adjudged a new trial.
Mrs A. NJ, Bardnell.of Amherst, Mass,
has patented a self-fastening button, (which
needs no button-hole, holds fast, and yet
unbuttons alta touch.
The Jubilee Singers" who were here
not long since on concert tour in aid oil
Fisk University, at Nashville, Tennessee
have raised over s2O,O 900 during the past
season.
The President Of Bolivia, Gen. Angus
tin Morales, was killed on the night OF
Nov. q last, in personal conflict which
he provoked while in state of intoxica.
ton.
"A company of American capitalists
with capital of 500 ,OOO, 900 have purchased
the bay of SANTANA and the adjacent penin-
sua and the people of San Domingo have
ratified the arrangement by treaty.
"A monument to the Intrepid Hannah
Austin, who killed nine Indians and thus
effected her escape from savage captivity
is to be erected at the scene of her exploit
at the junction of the Contoocook and Penn.
igewassett rivers, in New Hampshire.
The silver mines around Georgetown
COL, are wonderful in their numbers, mag
nitude and richness, bnt so refractory are
many of the ores, that only third or fourth
of the silver is extracted by present proc
esses. Large quantities of those ores are
being shipped to England for smelling.
The Erie Railroad has issued $4,000,
900 more of common stock for the purpose
of lessening the grades, narrowing the
guage and increasing the rolling stock
1t now turns out that the property made
over to the road by Gould will realize com
paratively little if forced upon the market
at present.
The report of the Directors of the VT
and Mass. Railroad shows the income O
the wear to have been S557 1876 and total ex.
penses s443, 3lS-of which S3,3S0.S6 is fol
loss on the Hoosac Tunnel stage line. The
net income was thus Sll3,S7S, and the bal
ance OF Indebtedness 1921 PA. A consoli
dation of all the connecting roads forming
the Hoosac Tunnel line is proposed.