Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-06-06
NEWS ITEMS.

Iron is being exported from this coun-
try 10 England.
South Carolina is rejoicing over her
first successful cotton factory.
One woman has set out 1900 forest
trees in Greeley, Colorado.
Eighteen bodies have been found in
the East river at New York within two
weeks.
The VT. & Mass. Railroad Co. has laid
over 500 tons Of new rail along its line with
in three months.
"A man named Nixon, formerly Il street
beggar in Mobile, has just died in Oregon,
leaving fortune estimated at half mil
lion.
Rich tin mines have been discovered
in Australia.
The n. Y. Assembly has passed the
bill appropiiating fifty thousand dollars
for the improvement of the Hudson river.
1t is estimated thai fifty thousand A
mericans cross the Atlantic, this season II,
for summer tours in foreign lands.
Mr.. Brisbane's invention, the pneu-
matte tube, laid from the Capitol TO the
Government Printing Office, at Washing
ton, d. c., has proved a failure.
The farmers oranges OF Iowa are a
rather expensive luxury. 1t is estimated
that the suffering agriculturists of that state
have paid, thus far, S47O, 900 for initiation
fees, yearly dues, regalia, etc.
According to Methodist statistics, the
increase of their denomination in the Uni
ted States for twenty years has been fifty
per cent greater than the increase of popu-
lation.
Three hundred thousand dollars worth
OF the bonds, stole from the Waterford
Bank IN. " have been returned by the
thieves, who have received So per cent.
and immunity from punishment and still
we wonder at crime.
The New York Post, in an article on
State charities, makes the startling asser-
ton that at the present time one out of ev-
cry twenty-three persons in that State is
supported either wholly or in part by the
public money.
Chief Justice Chase's will gives $4,000
each TO Dartmouth College and the Will
berforce, Ohio, University, $4,000 to his
neice, Mrs. Jane Ould of gainesville, Ohio,
and divides the remainder of his estate O.
| qually between his two daughters.
The two hundred and fftieth anniver-
sary of the settlement of New Hampshire
was cele brated at Concord ON Thursday
An Grafton was delivered by Hon. Chas.
II. Bell of Exeter, and poem, written by
Miss Edna Dean Proctor of Brooklyn, =.
Y, was read by Hon. w. l.. Foster.
The artists have completed the colossal
statue of Elias Howe, Jr., inventor of the
sewing machine. The completed design,
comprising the pedestal, bas-reliefs and ac-
cessories, will cost about 500 900. The
Statue will be erected in Central Park
during the present month. One of the
bas- reiefs illustrates Hoods "Song OF the
Shirt
1t now appears that the birthplace
of the late Iowa tornado was near Usage
Mission, Kan. A wind and tempest DESC
lated tract of country half mile in width
and six miles in length. Two houses were
lifted in the air and blown to atoms. Six
persons were killed outright, six MORALLY
wounded, and fifteen dangerously injured
One little girl was carried one-fourth of q
mile and drowned in the creek. Persons
were stripped of their clothing, and birds
of their feathers. Horses, cattle, and hogs
were killed. Fourteen families were lief
entirely destitute. A scene of continuou.
and awful DISSOLUTION is presented.