Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-02-28
NEWS ITEMS.

The Boston ruins still smoke.
The troubles at New Orleans are again
fomenting.
Five hundred and thirty women in the
United States are doctors.
Pennsylvania has pledged $4,000,000 In
cash to the exposition in 1876.
The record of mining catastrophes In
Pennsylvania last year, includes 1853 men
killed and 462 wounded.
No feWe than three suicides In luna
tic asylums were recorded In one day last
week in New York.
Missouri has followed the lead OF Iowa
and Michigan in abolishiug the death PEN
atty, and substituting Imprisonment for
life.
The report Of MIR. Ruffner, Slate Su-
perntendent of schools in Virginia, shows
that two-thirds of the children of the Slate
are growing up in ignorance.
Poster, the car-h hook murderer, must
hang, next Friday. Gov. Dix positively
refuses to commute his sentence to lmpris-
onment for life.
Charles Gilks, the postmaster at Hills
boro, n. H., was arrested. Saturday MORN
ing, by United States Marshal Patterson
on charge of rObbing the mails.
A cafe in Smyrna, Asia, situated on tho
shore of tie Gull, having been undermined
bv the tides. was suddenly swallowed up
in the waves, and between one and two
hundred persons, mostly Greeks, drowned.
Canada has ninety thousand seamen,
and ranks thiid among the countries Ut
the world in the extent Of Der tonnage
England being first, aud our country Sec
ond.
Phelps, Dodge and Co., of New York,
accused of fraudulent invoices, have COM
promised with the government by the pay
ment Of 1000, the amount claimed "
have been lost.
The actual loss OF life by the great snow
storm in Southwestern Minnesota. on the
eth of January, is twenty, which is bad e.
nough, but something of Il reduction from
the first accounts, which estimated it al 3OO
"A man named Ruff and Mrs. Busen
and young child were found dead in Wa
SEGA, Mimi, Monday last. Tue man and
woman had been threatened with indct-
ments for adultery, and Ruff killed Mrs.
Buson and the child and then shot himself
to avoid trouble.
The first mule ever taken into the West
shaft of Hoosac Tunnel was brought back
to the light of day, Friday, in good health
apparently excepting somewhat impaired
lungs, after an uninterrupted residence OF
three years and two months.
The great miners strike In the south
of Wales still continues, despite the at
tempts al compromise, which it has latter
ly been quite confidently hoped would
prove successful. Some 60 900 men are ell
gagged in it, and much suffering cannot fail
to come upon the families who depend on
them for support.
On the morning Of the 10Th inst, pas.
sengcr car on the Fort Smith Railroad
Arkansas, was thrown from the track while
the train was moving at full speed, drag
ged several hundred yards, and then
thrown down an embankment. The cal
was occupied by 80 persons, of whom one
was killed and "a wounded, some OF then
MORALLY.
The usual spring freshets, which will
soon be in order in New England, have al
ready commenced farther SOUTH The re
cent heavy rains in Pennsylvania and Vir
eiiIia NAVE cduHch vi Tue EIN
ers throughout those States, and mucl
damage TO property and some loss of if,
has ensued. The value of prol erty de
stroyed at Pittsbutg, Pa, ia estimated a
100000
A big swIndle has been brought to ligh
in Chicago. 1t appears that one g. w
Scott purchased quantity of swamp land
about 90 miles from the court house, at
per acre, and sub-dvidod the tract int,
lots, which have been sold at 5000 per acre
said lots ranging in size from Is by IS to
by 90 feet, while the streets averaged al
feet in width and the alleys l3 inches. Th
letters of inquiry which are daily receive,
prove that the 'lots" are still being sold a
: over the country, and the Tribunepublist
es list of over 100 purchasers in Chcag
-. alone.