Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-06-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Heavy rains have damaged tho crops
In Alabama, Texas, and other portions of
the South.
-Oberlin College has conferred the de-
gree OF LII. d. upon Schuyler Coliax.
-1Ioyt of Athol, Mass, has sold his in
terest in tue Athol Transcript to w. L. Hill,
who will henceforth be editor.
The steamer Columbus, from Dublin,
ran ashore near Holyhoad, England, on
Sunday. Fifteen persons were drowned.
Miss Ella f. Wood Of Hudson, n. H.,
shot few days ago b.; Jewett, her would
believer, died on Saturday. Jewett died a
few days previous.
Lewis Tappan, ono of the old and we'll
known Anti-Slavery leaders, died at Brook
lyn, n. Y, on Saturday, al the age of IS.
He was native of Northampton, Mass.
Thomas Hale, former publisher of the
Keene, IN. H. Sentinel, has purchased n
quarter Interest in the Fitch burg (Mass.)
Sentinel establishment.
Hay, which is by far the most import
ant product OF Maine, promises the largest
crop, this year, ever harvested. The Ban
gor Commercial prophesies yield Of about
100000 tons.
"A dispatch from Chicago says there Is
goo reason for believing that the alleged
death.bed confession of a Mrs. York to
having poisoned six persons in Illinois.
was fabrication.
The revenue from the Connecticut Ii
cense law will amount to nearly, if not
quite, 100000. OF the towns, seventy-six
granted licenses and seventy-three refused
them.
The statement is made that from seven
TO eight thousand children are kidnapped
annually in Italy and taken to. the United
States, where they are sold at private auc-
ton, TO be used principally as street musi-
clans.
A wrestling match between John Nc
Mahon of Rutland, and Perry Higley of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, for $4,000 and the cham
pionship, is to come off at New Haven on
the 25th.
Wagner, on trial in Maine for the Isle
OF Shoals murder, has been pronounced
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The cholera has been prevailing in
Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and
| other places south and west, the deaths in
Nashville being 80 or 40 day, but seems
to be now dying out. The disease is not of
the Asiatic type.
Gen. Joseph Hooker has engaged Walk
err, the battle painter, for s2j 600, to paint a
| picture of the battle of Lookout Mountain,
introducing portraits of the principal par
! Elephants. He has also engaged Mr.. Don
| Piatt to write his life.
The Viceroy of Egypt, encouraged by
the success of the Suez canal in developing
the re sources of Egypt, is about to under
| take the construction of a great railway
| from Alexandria and Cairo to the Soudan,
very fertile region west of Abyssinia,
celebrated for the richness of its produce
| tons.
Horace +. Clark, President Of the LAX
| Shore and Union Pacific railroad compa-
MES, and son.in-law of Commodore VAN
derbilt, died in New York last week of
rheumatism of the heart, in the tiny-eie b h
| year of his age. He was member of the
Thirty lth and Thirty-sixth Congresses.
and since bis retirement from politics has
been identified with railroad projects and
actively associated with Vanderbilt enter
| prises.
The postal treaty with Canada has been
amended so that a one cent stamp placed
on postal card will carry it to any part of
The Dominion.
AT Vicksburg, Miss, colored boy six
years of age, the other day, feeling jealous
at the advent of an infant in the family,
killed it by crushing its skull with brick
and then managed to drag the body away
and secrete it in the brush. What next?