Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-08-15
NEWS ITEMS.

The Bender gravey ard in Kansas has
given out more bodies.
Serious riots are reported in Japan, re-
sultlng from high taxation.
New York city is 1876, 000, 900 richer in
real and personal est ale than 1t was last
year.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the Connecticut river valley fair, TO he
held at Clarenont, September Oil
Statistics shows that the great fro in
Chic Ego was the direct cause of the .insani-
ty of eleven persons in that city.
A disastrous conflagration occurred at
Portland, Oregon, Aug. 2, destroying tweu-
.y-three blocks and causing loss estimat-
ed at S500,000. One man was killed aud
several injured.
Mrs. Walwoith contradicts the rumor
that she has petitioned Governor Dix for
the pardon of her son, Frank Walworth
now at Sing Sing Stale Prison, under sem
tence of Imprisonment for life, on account
of the murder of Ills father.
jesse II. Grant, father of the President,
left about $4,000. 1t is all given to his
widow. Some time ago he gave each of his
children $4,000. Mrs. Grant will hereafter
live at Elizabeth, Nj
On Saturday, just nine months after
the great Boston fire, leap of burning
leather, which had been smoldering ever
since November, was found in the ground
in the rear Of the post Office on Congress
street.
In the wrestling match at Troy, N. Y,
Monday, between John McMahon and Ho-
mer Lane for $500 and the championship,
Mcmahon won, throwing Lane the first and
third rounds.
"A terrific thunder storm near Scranton,
Pa, Tuesday, drove twenty berry pick-
ers into an abandoned shantv. Almost i'm
mediately afterward the building was
struck by lightning and two women kill
ed. Seven others were severely injured,
but will survive.
Three men poured quantity Of tur-
pentine on Dan Calhoun, negro, while he
was asleep at Brighton station, near Mem
phis, Tenn, Monday, and then set fire 10
il, as they said, for fun. Calhoun, awak-
ened by the flames, fled like wild M n
from the place, and by the time he could be
caught, was so badly burned that he died
the next day.
"A great earthq uake occurred at Valpa-
raise, Chill, the morning of July %. The
shocks were worse than those of 1887.
Great damage was done TO many dwellings
and churches, and though it was nothing to
be compared with the last earthquake OF
San Salvador, some few lives were lost by
falling walls.
The Texas cattle plague, which has
been prevailing in DeKalb, Davis, Noda-
way, and other counties in northwest Mis-
souri, fortwo weeks past, has carried OIL sevA
eral thousand head, and the disease is still
raging. In Nodaway county alone the loss
already amounts to $4,000.
State Constable II. +. Hutchinson o
Greenfield has been arrested and placed
under $500 bonds for assaulting George
Fritz of Turner's Falls v ith pair of band
manner. Fritz, who had been drinking
but was not drunk, was standing quietly
in the stree, when Hutchinson tried to ar
rest him, and struggle ensued with the
above result.
Portland, Maine, has again suffered
from fire. Three valuable steamers, grain
elevator, and two wharves, filled with mer-
chandise, were destroyed in n short space
of time, Saturday afternoon, causing loss
| of about 100000. But the saddest feature
of the fire was the loss of life, two persons
having been fatally burned, and four 9th.
ers meeting death in the waves, in the eff
| fort to escape destruction by the flames.
Two tank boats filled with oil, mooret
to the dock Of Rockafeller's oil works a
Hunters Point, l.. l., exploded on the 5tl
| inst, and set fire to the tanks and barrel
of oil in the yard. Pratts oil-works, tn
Long Island City oil-works, Leomenstein
varnish factory add other oil-works wer
consumed. Between 1000 and 5000 bar
rels of oil belonging TO the latter compan.
were consumed, involving a loss of 800,
900. The loss in other property-sheds
etc-is estimated at sos, 600. A match use'
TO light cigar caused the mischief