Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-23
NEWS ITEMS.

worth $40, 100000.
Mr.. Stewards friends have made an ar
rangemont for ilting monument in his
honor in Central park, TO cost s25, OCO.
Correspondents of the ST. Louis Demo-
crat from all parts of the West predict
good crop OF wheat, but poor crops of corn
and oats.
-Thirty-six houses were destroyed by
the fire at Ottawa, Friday morning. Loss
estimated at sl5O,OOO.
Ulysses $. Grant, Jr., the Presidents
second son, has returned from Germany,
where he has been pursuing his studies.
There was $4,000 fire at Aurora, Ill.,,
on Sunday. The shops Of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad were
burned and 300 men thrown out of en-
ploymcnt.
A fearful cOnflagration occurred Mt
Hong Kong, March -. Foriy-four acres of
houses were destroyed and 5000 people
rendered homeless.
Rev. Thomas Robinson, the eminent
English divine, canon of Rochester, and
author of several Theological works, is dead.
"A statue of Buddha, 80 feet high, copied
from a bronze statue made 600 years ago,
has arrived ut Vienna, for the Exhibition,
from Japan.
The original wagon in which Jim Fisk
once drove throughout Southern Vermont,
is now owned in Athol, Mass, being the
property of one Prescott, Il pcripatetic ped
dlcr.
Joseph o. Neil was hanged at Mount
Carmel, ILL.,, Friday, for the murder of Hi
ram Rcxford, on the 22d of September last.
lie confessed the crime, and said that
whiskey and woman caused il.
"A quarter of a century having elapsed
since DIR. T.. II. Chaplin assumed the pas
torate of the Fourth Cnivcrsalist society
in New York, the event was appropriately
honored, and Dr. Chaplin was presented
with 100000.
donaldson, the aeronaut, made an ~
ccnsion at Reading, Pa, Saturday evening,
ina balloon made of brown paper, and land
cd safely. This is the first regular paper
balloon ascension ever made in this coun-
try.
AT the Marine railway at Cincinnati,
Friday night, William McDcvitt missed
his footing and fell across circular saw
which was operating at full speed. 1t took
of his left arm and sawed into his body,
cutting his heart half in two. No help was
near, but the man cNtricatcd himself, and
running 30 yards, fell dead.
"A disastrous rice famine prevails in
the island of Java, and the poorer classes
are dying in great numbers from starva-
ton. Some eases have occurred in which
women have offered their children for sale
10 Europeans, so that if they died. their
little ones might he preserved from starya-
ton.
"A dispatch from Austin, Tex, says
that grasshoppers have made their appear
ancc in that state in countless numbers,
and are laying waste all the vegetation. In
some localities they have entirely destroy
ed the corn, consuming il down to Il level
with the ground. They seem to be moving
northward.
DR.. Isaac /. Hayes, the eminent soront
aud Arctic cN plorcr publishes 4 letter in
The New York papers. in whi,h lie urges
the Navy Department aud public spirited
individual, t" tit out an e. petition without
delay To search Tor the persons supposed to
be still icmaimin" with the rulari> in the
Arctic regions.
During the year ended June 30, 1872,
the United States imported 400, 63l tons oil
coal, whereof 257, Az tons came from the
New Canadian Dominion, and 233, 1874 tons
sfrom othef countries. We exported ddfI
eing the 'same time 400, s7S tons, of which
'29l ,047 went 10 the Dominion, 30, 900 tons to
Cuba, 81 900 to the States Of Columbia, and
1900 to China.
The State of Texas, which never coded
herpublic lands to the general government
has granted to the Texas Pacific railroad
company a tract of land four hundred and
fifty miles long by fifty miles wide, in
which no State land can be located and no
settlers can claim presumption. This
MUM iicent State land grant, Of thirty six
thousand square miles will make the
Texas Pacific corporation the richest com.
pany in the world.
-Thad Stevens left his nephew the resi-
due Of his estate-eslimated at from $50, OOC
To SlOO, OOO-on condition that he abstain
from drinking. lie has not done so, and
IN accordance with provision or the will
the executors are about to use the money
to found an orphans home at Lancaster
IA, open To all races, religions and colors
Nixon, the murderer Of Charles III
Pheitler, was hanged, Friday morning, in
the prison yard at New York. The MUIR
der for which Nixon has thus suffered the
extreme penalty Of the law, was most bra.
tai and unprovoked. His victim, Charles
Pheiiicr, was riding horse up Chatham
square, on the night of January 81, when
Nixon drove against him with a cart. Some
words ensued and, without further ado
Nixon drew his revolver and shot Pheifler
the ball entering his eye and causing hi.
death.
--Kansas is greatly excited by the dis
coyery of cleven dead bodies under or neal
the house OF the Bender family, thirteen
miles west OF Parsons, in Labetle cjunty
and near which the body OF Senator York's
brother was recently found shot. The
Bender family lett the county two weeks
ago, but the excitement is SO great and the
determination TO bring the guilty parties &c
justice that no effort will be spared to of.
feet their arrest.
Lava bed dispatches received at San
Francisco Sunday state that the Modocs
have escaped from their stronghold by
three different routs and we're encamped
on the Snow mountains, twenty mile.
south of Sorass lake. Hasbrouck's force.
were in pursuit, and Mason's forces re-
NAMED at the Lava beds.
The Acadia powder-works at Waverly
about Il miles from Halifax, MS, explod.
ed, Saturday night, with terrible effect
The trees surrounding the buildings were
uprooted, and the ground aud stones over
turned within radius of 300 feet. Tho ma.