Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-09
NEWS ITEMS.

-Cnlc3Bo nau SzUU,UOO Hre on THURS
day.
--Macready, the English actor, Is dead
aged so.
George Francis Train has now been de-
clared sane.
The headings In Hoosac Tunnel we're
driven 200 feet last month.
The public debt was decreased 42,247,-
1850 last month.
-Four Atlantic cables Will be working
by the LIST of September.
Seventeen more bodies we're recovered
from the wreck of the Atlantic on Friday
last.
BY a boiler explosion in Chicago Tues
day evening, fifteen men were either kill
ed or wounded.
Henry Ossian Flipper Phoebus, color
ed, has been appointed to a cadetship at
West Point from Georgia.
Hon. James L. Orr of South Carolina
Minister to Russia, died suddenly of con-
geston of the lungs at st. Petersburg on
Monday.
The fall of stone wall in the Navy
Yard at Rio Janeiro, on the 4th, killed 20
workmen and wounded So
Hon. Cakes Ames was stricken with
paralysis at his resi- 'ence in North Easton,
Mass, Monday evening, and is in a very
critical condition.
The champion wrestling match between
Homer Lane of New York and John Nc
Mahon of Rutland VT, is set down for the
Both inst, and the final articles were signed
Monday.
-Chief-J Justice Chase died at New York,
| Wednesday, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ. from pa
ralysis.
Rev. d. Fulton of Boston, has accept
ed the call of the Hanson Place Baptist
church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. w. II. Milburn, the blind preach
err, has obtained divorce from his wife,
who was once bell3 OF Baltimore.
An crpose of the plans Of the East Riv-
err IN. " Bridge ring, by which they
Hoped 10 gobble 90, 100000 has been made.
The Vienna Exposition was inaugural
ed on Thursday by the, Emperor with i'm
posing ceremonies in the pr sence of vast
assembly.
1t Is estimated that twenty thousand
persons have signed the pledge in Maine
during the prevalence OF the present re-
form movement.
-Advices from Peru state that "A houses
have been destroyed by a landslide at Pic
cobanda, Peru, and 80 persons persisted.
The board of Aldermen of Newburg,
N. Y, have voted TO discontinue colored
public schools, and colored children will
hereafter go to white schools.
james Dougherty killed his father in
law, Howell Smith, In Marshall county
KY, a few days ago, after which a son Of
the murdered man killed Dougherty.
Another Utah mining swindle, known as
the Lone Star silver mining company, has
exploded, but not before $500, 900 Of the
8 took had been tax en- in New Orleans and
9th er places.
-Advices from San Salvador say thai
the shocks of earthquake continue, and the
government palace, which survived the
general ruin, has at last fallen. A grea
many people were injured, and many be
came crazed.
The homnpathists have Won victory
in the Michigan Legislature, for 1t is now
provided by law that two members Of tn,
medical department of tne State Universi
ty shall be of that faith.
An excursion train on the Louisville
New Albany and Chicago railway, ran owe
some cows last Saturday night, precipitat
ing the cars down an eighty feet embark
ment. Thirty persons were injured.
Matters are again looking serious 70
, Stokes. The application of his counsel +
the state supreme court for new trial wa
, denied Wednesday, and he has now onl,
two chances left-the court of appeals ant
Gov. Dix. The general opinion is, that h
, has very little to hope from either.
3 The National Christian Association op
posed to secret societies holds its fifth ami
, versary this year at Monmouth, Ill.,, com
mencng May 18th. Large delegations ar
q expected from various states and abl
= speakers are engaged.
g "A dispatch from Yreka says the Nc
0 docs, it is supposed, occupy the position
f held at the time OF the massacre Of Cap
: Thomas's command. There will probabl
9 be no movement of troops until the arrivs
l., of Col. Flint with the 4th infantry fror
1 Arkansas.
Another bridge disaster Is reported
The trestle work beneath bridge In cours
of erection across the Lanure river, on tn
!. Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway,
IS miles from Sedalia, NO., fell on Sunda,
n carrying with 1t twelve workmen, four
J, whom were killed, the others being ser
g ously wounded.
a On Saturday night John Serlner, Ell
d ployed in nail mill at Bolleville, ILL.,, sh
n James Lang with shot gun while the la
Is ter was in bed, blowing his head almo
If from his body and scattering his brair
a over the bed and floor. Lang was engage
d to be married to Serliner's sister and tt
J. latter opposed the match and murdert
% Lang to prevent the marriage. The me
were fellow workmen, room mates al
r. bed-fellows.
s. -Advices from Cloud county, Kansa
state that another fearful storm has occurr,
y in that region by which number Of liv
'f were lost and much property destroye
The roof of house owned by Snyder W
n blown off, and Snyder, his wife and f.
N children and a farm laborer were burit
10 in the snow and frozen to death. Within
~ few miles OF his house, a family name
D. Ulricher shared similar fate, all beiI
IN frozen to death.
10 ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIpENT-l