Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
NEWS ITEMS.

--Cincinnatrs manufactures In 1872 foot |
up sl43, 100000.
Congressman Dawes Is TO deliver the |
Decoration Day address at Greenfield, |
Mass.
"A Montreal boy fell six stories through |
the hoistway Of store, and didn't break a
| bone.
A woman In Zanesville, o., has sued
IL saloon keepers for selling liquor 10 her
husband.
THE decision in the Stokes case will not
be given before next Tuesday, May @.
News from Sir Samuel Baker, the Az
rican explorer, represents him as safe and
sound.
The burning OF some railway car shops
at Manchester, England, Sunday evening,
caused loss OF 100000. Finy locomo-
tives and 120 cars were burned.
Owing to the increase in the price OF
lager beer in Frankfort-on-the-M Main, there
was a riot of large proportions few days
since, in which sixteen breweries were
Quilted, twelve persons killed and forty
wounded.
Thomas S. Freeman was sentenced 10
y
prison for murder, five years ago, but now
it has been proved that he is innocent, and
he has been discharged.
-Keene had riot, Saturday night, In
which E. r. Locke, chief-of- police, vas
badly hurt. A force rallied to the assis-
lance of the police, and four OF the rioters,
John Morris, John Gallagar. J. b. II
Phillips and Joseph Phillips, were arrest
ed and committed by the police court for
trial.
The Louisiana cases before the Supreme
Court have been postponed to October,
much to the disappointment OF the McEn-
cry party.
The railroad station house at the cross
! ing of thu Louisville, New Albany and
: Chicago and Lake Shore railroads, near
: Cincinnati, was bnrned Saturday night,
, and a man aged 20, named Klee, and his
r daughter and five children living in the
station house, persisted in the flames.
t The negro BARRIERS in Mississippi are
' in despair. If they discriminate between
i white and colored patrons they are pulled
up before some negro justice and fined un
der the enforcement act. If they shaw
blacks they lose the custom of the whites
: and :-sat to do they do not know.
y "A curious fraud has been unear.hed ir
Washington. 1t was in substance an at
q tempt to collect money from postmaster
- in the southern states, In the name of thu
president, for the professed purpose of re
mbursing the expense OF a political organ
izition. This organization was represent
~. ed to have been formed to protect the ne
. groes at the polls. All the swindlers hav
been arrested.
"A riot Of large dimensions prevailed
for twenty-four hours at Knightsville, In
diana, April Is. between negro and whit
:. laborers at the coal mines and furnaces
The whites were on a strike, and the ne
groes were set upon and abused by th
=. white laborers who had quit work, an
- soon the entire town was engaged tn tn
=, quarrel, the women acting worse than th
men. The military were called out to SUP
press the disturbance.
The Providence Journal confirms tb
y, reported starving to death OF child .
"a Newport by its stepmother. The child wa
a deiormed one, and was subjected to tn
" most inhuman treatment. Two other chill
dren have also been treated In a simila
. manner. The father Is a weli-to-do me
y. chanic, the owner Of property worth IS
- 900. No names are given. 1t Is said tn,
the matter Is to be Investigated in Ii
courts.
= Another heavy bank defslcation Is n
~ ported, this time in New York city.
seems that F. L. Taintor, Cashier Of II
Atlantic National Bank, has heen doin
" what many other Cashiers have tried to
~ and escape detection, viz, use the funds I
y the bank for private speculation. He ha
as he might have known he would do. !.
60 ANONYMOUSLY failed in his dishonest specr
lation, and the result Is that he IL In ia
-. and the bank insolvent. His thefts amour
~ to S40o, 900 and upward.
" The most gigantic monopoly the worl
No ever knew, the East India company, Is o
"a the eve of final dissolution. Fifteen yea
j., ago II was deprived by the English Pari
ment of its sway over India, but 1t b
- taken all this while 10 get its affairs wour
I'd up to the point OF the last dividend. Th
~ will soon be paid, and then this venerab
80 relic OF English greed and rapacity W
,rv sink into history as one Of the terrible !
no justices OF the century's civilization.