Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-03-21
NEWS ITEMS.

Senator Edmunds sailed for Europe on
Saturday.
Gladstone has resigned the British pre-
miershp.
Geo. Francis Train has been pronounce
cd insane.
The mails between st. Louis and the
East have OF late been robbed of large sums
of money.
The Baptist Year Rock shows that dur
ing the last year over 5000 baptisms were
reported.
There are three ex-coniederate generals
in the United States Senate, Alcorn, Ran
som and Gordon.
The Indiana House of Representatives
the cure of inc riates.
The laboring men of New York are or
ganzing strike on grand scale, to come
Off early in the spring.
The finest business portion of Elyria,
Ohio, was destroyed about midnight, Sat
urday. The loss Is estimated at goo, 900.
Commodore Vanderbilt has given $780,
100 10 Bishop McTyeire of the Southern
Methodist church, to establish a University
in Tennessee.
"A water spout burst near Bakersfield
in California, Sunday, and formed chasm
60 feet across and Is feet deep. A party of
men narrowly escaped death.
by an incondiary fire at Cedar Falls,
Ohio, Monday night, five firemen were
| buried under the falling walls, and two Sc
riously injured.
" haa dad 10 a. r,,
Their reprieve in the case of Foster, the car
hook murderer, and his execution will take
place Friday, March Dist.
| Congress passed, before adjournment,
an appropriation of $4,000 for the improve
ment of Pittsburgh harbor, and one Of
800, 900 for that of Swanton.
The st. James Hotel, Montreal, was
partially burned Tuesday morning, and
three servant girls who leaped from the fifth
story windows received probably fatal in
juries.
"A decision is expected In few days
from the U. s. Supreme Court on the right
Of women to practice in the U. S. Courts
under the l4th amendment. The test case
is that of Mrs. Bradwell of Chicago.
The President. on Saturday, issued
pardons to John C. Robinson of South
Carolina and William C. Dupries of North
Carolina, both convicted of Kulllux crime.
and sentenced to two years Imprisonment
at Albany.
Springfield, Mass, is to have Sunday
morning paper, published oy Henry NJ
Burt q Co., of the Homestead and Tee
gram. 1t will be handsome double sheet
and will contain the latest news by tee
graph up to the hour of going TO press.
"A bill has been introduced in the Indi.
ana Legislature, giving ministers fees o
from five to ten dollars for preaching fun
eral sermons, and more if the estate ex
ceeds one hundred thousand dollars, the
same to be lien on the estate Of the de
ceased.
There is now great deal of enthusiasm
over the construction of the Canadian Pa
cifc railroad, designed to span the cont
nent. The provisional directors have beer
appointed. Sir Hugh Allen is President O
the board, and has just gone to England t
negotiate bonds to the amount of $40, 900,
900.
"A French inventor proposes to photo
graph dispatches to microscopic fineness
and blow them through tube sunk in tn,
Straits of Dover. When arrived at thei
destination the dispatches would be enlarg
ed again. By this method long despalche
could be sent about as cbeaply and Just a
quickly as short ones.
A young fellow named Albert Keller
on Monday beat out young girls brains
at Syracuse, N. Y, and then fed. He en-
deavored to jump upon a morning freigh
train, in his efforts to escape, but missed
his footing, fell back upon the track anc
broke his neck.
"A fire at Ogdensburg, n. Y, Sunday
burned the buildings extending from Fore
to Water streets, and from Catherine stree
to the river. The principal sufferers are J
II. Morgan, w. II. Allan & Sons, kellogg
& Co., s. G. Pope's sash and blind manu-
factory. Loss $3.50, 900 with insurance 800,
900.
Matters in New Orleans have RENAME,
quiet since the recent riot. On Thursday Gov
Kellogg issued a proclamation, stating tina
the delinquent taxes amount to g., 1871 1881
including nearly a million and a half, own
ed in New Orleans. He urges the citizen
to desst from any conspiracy to resist th
payment of the taxes, and orders the al
torney general and parish district attorney
throughout the state to prosecute all dc
faultng tax collectors.
In the recent examination for promo
ton in the Internal Revenue Bureau
Washington, under the civil service rule:
one lady received fourth-class clerkshi
, of $500, another a third-class of $780,
while of ten other persons appointed (
second class clerkships of Sl4OO six wer
women. Miss Seaver, who secured til
fourth-class clerkship, has been employe
in the office over ten years, and for seve
years has had exclusive charge and dre'
: ton o. the copying division.
; Rev. Edward p. Smith, the newly az
l pointed commissioner of Indian affair
: was a Congregational pastor in Pepperel
Mass, till he resigned for chaplaincy
> the army. After the close of the war b
entered the American Missionary associi
ton, and has for several years acted as 4
: field agent at the South. More recently /
y has been on the commission to investiga
: Indian affairs under Gen. o. o. Howar,
and his energy and intelligence in that CT
. pacity evidently won him his present hig
. post Of honor and responsibility.
SINGULAR SERIES OF AccIDENTs.-Ate
: egram from Parksburg, VIVA, asserts th
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