Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Corn Is selling In Kansas for fourteen
cents bushel, and no market for II even
at those figures.
-Slxgrls, and little boy aged II years,
are reported missing, at fire in Centre
street, New York, on the night of Dec. "a.
AT Lancaster N. H., the thermometer
tell TO 81 degrees below zero, Christmas
day.
-Simson Peck, the Colerane, Mass,
murderer, has been taken TO the Charles
town state prison, to serve'out his life sem
tence.
Fire Marshal McSpedon of New York,
reports forty-flve fires for the week ending
Dec. %, at noon. Estimated loss 81, 157 900;
insurance 81, 100000. Eighteen of the fires
were caused by carelessness.
The manufacture of agricultural i'm
elements in the United States for the year
1870, amounted to $50, 100000. This is more
than three times the value of those made
in 1860.
The Gloucester papers report II vessels,
worth 5000, and 90 lives lost in the fish
cries, this year, against 20 vessels and 14O
lives, last year.
Tho print works of Harvey Arnold &
Co., at North Adams, Mass, were destroy
ed by fire Friday morning. Loss $4,000,
and 175 hands thrown out of employment.
"A mother and her three children were
frozen 10 death in their log shanty, near
Springfield, ILL.,, Saturday night. When
found, they were side by side in bed, the
two youngest In the middle and the moth
err and eldest on either side.
While services were going on at a
Baptist church In Willamsport, Pa, on
Christmas day, the floor and ceiling gave
way, precipitating 500 people into the eel
lar below, killing fourteen persons and
wonndlng forty others, some of them serl
ously.
Nine -teuths of the Hoosac Tunnel is
completed, and there is only half mile of
the bore remaining TO be done. 1t is cal
culated that the entire work will be COM
pleted by the 18th of October, 1873.
1t is thought in Salt Lake City that
Brigham Young will never pass another
summer above ground. When he dies 81
widows will mourn his loss and III chill
dron will be fatherless. -. Ess1
Rev. Talmage of Brooklyn was one of
| those,who proclaimed thai. the Chicago fire
was a visitation of the Almighty's wrath
upon that sinful city, and now, since his
church was burned, Chicago tells him he's
another.
j. S. Adams, collector of the port of
Pensacola, Fla, and formerly of Vermont,
has disappeared from Taylor's hotel at Jer
sey City. AS he had large amount of
money with him, foul play is feared.
Tho trial of Stokes has been continued
through the week, but nothing new has
been elected as yet. Stokes himself was
on the stand, but his testimony did not va
ry essentially from that given at the pre-
vious trial.
The once dreaded horse disease is now
oozing out its strength upon the borders,
and will soon be heard of no more; but
what revelation of gross public careless
ness it has made! The horse interest is
worth millions, and yet there is not a re-
spectacle veterinary college in the country.
"A heavy ice gorge in the Mississippi
river above Memphis broke up at 2o'clock,
Friday morning, and the heavy cakes, of
ice were borne down stream with terrific
force, doing immense damage to the ship
ping in the river. Twelve steamers have
been crushed by the ice, about so coal bar
ges sunk, and 900 worth of coal lost.
"A terrible snow slide occurred at Lit
tie Cottonwood, near Central City, Utah,
Thursday. An avalanche 600 feet wide and
IL feet deep descended upon the stage road
and swept away from eight to ten teams
and their drivers, taking them 1900 feet
across Cottonwood creek. Three of the
teamsters have been shoveled out alive,
but badly bruised.
"A Green Bay, Wis, paper states that
they have had snow storm there every
day for four weeks, except one, and the
snow now lies nine feet deep on Il level
and in the streets where it Is trodden down
1t is four feet deep. People walk on the
sidewalks with their feet on level with
the upper sash of the store windows. When
they wish to enter a store they have only
to sit down and slide in.
Thousands upon thousands of buffalo
hides are being brought into Kansas by
hunters. In places whole acres of ground
are covered with these hides spread ou
with the fieshy side up to dry. 1t is esti-
mated that there are, south of the Arkan'
sas and west of Wichita, from one to two
thousand men shooting buffaloes for theil
hides alone.
Gov. Warmoth of Louisiana, after re-
necting on the condition of affairs, has very
sensibly concluded to accept the situation
and to acquiesce in the decision of the
courts and the federal government. in re-
gard TO the governorship. He will make
no further attempts TO interfere with Gov
Pinchback, and he advises his part of tn,
Legislature not to meet in January, but t
accept the inevitable as he has done.
Under new system of telegraphinl
known as the automatic, now in operation
between Washington and New York, it il
claimed that the circuit can be opened ant
closed a thousand fold faster by machinery
than by hand. The practical daily opera
ton between New York and Washington
shows that thousand words minute car
be sent with the same facility as three o
five hundred. This rapid transmission
shows that where twenty wires were re
quired to meet the demands of the Mors
system, one will answer by the automatic
It Is asserted that this economy will ex
tend itself in various ways to the bench
of the public.
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