Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-02-07
NEWS ITEMS.

| The small pox in Boston Is reported
checked.
Official returns show that there are now
269,o slaves in Cuba.
| Prince William G. Lunallo has beer
elected king Of the Sandwich Islands.
Boss Tweed's trial at New York ended
in disagreement of the jury.
The new city government of Boston
has decided to open the public library
on Sundays.
1T Is now believed that over three hmm
dred persisted in the terrible snow-storm
which swept over Minnesota on the 9Th of
January.
DIR. Levi Brooks, a druggist in Clare
mont, N. H., committed suicide on the 81.
uIt, Dy taxing strychnine mixed with
morphine. lie leaves a vile, three sons
and three daughters.
Hon. John p. Hale Is confirmed par
alytic, and has softening of the brain. He
cannot leave his room, and probably will
not live great while. He is nearly 81
years of age.
Luther Tucker, senior editor and pro-
prietor of the Country Gentleman, was a
native OF Brandon, VT, where he was born
May 7, 1902.
The jury in the case OF Mrs. Wharton
at Annapolis, Md, disagreed, standing
eight to convict and four to acquit. They
were discharged.
A recent attempt at instruction in
Hayt, to prevent the presidential election,
was suppressed 60 ring leaders arrested aud
Ave executed.
ELIAS Houghlating, charged with at
tempting to poison the Hazleton family at
Coeyman's Landing, N. Y, has been fully
indicted by the grand jury.
Miss Kate Fox, one of the Fox sisters.
OF spirit-rapping notoriety, was recently
married in London to Henry Dedrich
Jencken, barrister.
Harriet l.. Shaw, the third victim in
the Shaw poisoning case, at Cambridge, n.
y, where father poisoned his family,
died on Saturday, and the other three are
very low, and must soon follow.
BY broken rail on the New Haven
and Northampton Railway, at Hamden,
about four miles from New Haven, a pas
senger train, on the 30th ult., was thrown
from the track and sixteen persons were
injured.
There were forty contested election
cases before the Forty-first and Forty-sec-
ond Congresses, costing total of slO5, 79l.-
48.
Ii-There re startling disclosures relative
to the New York ring frauds, it being as
serted that the Special Board of Audit is
responsible for tbehs amounting to $40, OOO,-
900.
An explosion of a battery of boilers
in the American Iron Works, noar Pitts
burg, on Monday, caused the loss of seven
lives and injuries to large number of 9TH
ers. AT Conshohocke en-, Pa, a similar ac-
cident in the foundry and rolling mills of
Wood d Brothers also caused the loss of
seven lives.
The brutal captain who ran down the
emigrant ship in the English channel and
went on his way, leaving the ship to sink
with its three hundred lives, proves to have
been Spaniard, commanding the steamer
Murillo bound for Lisbon. His own vessel
was unframed
Inc temperature on the morning of
Jan. 80, as reported tIom various portions
OF New England, ranged from 80 to AZ de-
grees below zero. Prof. Loomis of Yale
College, who has a record of the tempera-
ture for the past 100 years, says that there
has been but one colder day in all that Pc
riod.
Two men belonging in Vermont, Civ
ing the names of Edward Warren and
John Washburn, are in custody in Wor-
cester, Mass, for extensive stealing of but
Ter aud other merchandise from the Bos-
ton and Albany, Vermont Central, and
other railroads. They were in the habit of
disposng of their plumber in Boston, and
also sending 1t to j. IL. Hatch, Troy, n. Y.
The motion for new trial for Edward
>. Stokes occupied the attention of Judge
Boardman, in the New York court of Over
and Terminer, Monday. The application
is based on eight distinct points. Judge |
Boardman announced that he would rem |
der his decision within four or i've DAYS. |
The impression seems to prevail that the |
effort to save Stokes from the gallows will |
prove futile, and that the prisoners coun-
sci have accomplished nothing by their
strenuous efforts in his behalf.