Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-03-27

| route for England, via tue steamship Cal
cutta. They will he buried in Westmln-
ster Abbey.
The Rev. Canon Charles Kingsley will
Summer at Colorado Springs, Colorado,
resting aner his lecture tour month or so
before returning to England.
William A. Brayton Of Alburg, VT,
clerk in the Providence pust-c flee, has
| been arrested for stealing letters, and con-
fesscss.
Tic Great Eastern will start in August
to lay a Portuguese telegraph cable from
ST. Vincent in the Cape Verde Islands, to
Perambuco, Brazil.
Prince Kalakna has been chosen King
of the Sandwich Islands. The result so
disp cascd the auherenlS Of Queen Emma
that a serious riot occurred.
Mr.. p. T. Barnum is advertising in the
London newspapers FOR estimates for the
construction of his transatlantic balloon,
which be intends to Lave tinishcd early in
the summon.
The tide has turned against Jayne, the
Government spy. One firm in New York
have commenced Il suit against him TO re-
cover $50 600 damages for Illegal seizure of
their books. Other suits are threatened.
Horace Gree!ey's estate will prove
much more valuable than has been sup
posed. Instead Of being worth but S25, 900
or $50 900, - was thought a short time after
bis death, ii probably represents a value of
about $4,000
The motion by Twecd's counsel to
change his Imprisonment from the peni-
Tertiary to the county jail" has been de-
MED by Sudge Brady, and the ex-"Boss'
will continue to reside at Blackwelrs
island.
Arthur orion, Tichbornc claimant, was
set to work picking oakum as soon as he
was sentenced. lie was Obliged to wear
his ordinary clothes, as his dimensions re-
quired the construction Of prison suit eI-
presSly for his wearing.
Judge Louis Dent, brother Of Mrs.
Grant, died 1t his residence in Washington
on Sunday morHng, aged about 4j years.
His disease was a generous tumor in the
stomach. His remains were taken to st.
Louis for burial, accompanied by Col. Fred
Grant son of the President
The members of the Congressional
Committee on Ways aud Means state that
all the evidence shows that the perc ,ulage
allowed Sauborn was much too large, and
the contract should never have been let.
A mine car, descending a slope in IA
c1lliery near Pottsvillr, Pa, on Saturday,
foil through the breaking of the rope, and
three OF us occupants wore instantly killed,
seven others receiving severe but not Sc
rious injuries.
Fritz Stiltzcniter, man 50 years old,
his son and dauphter-in-law, and two
small children, one an infant were found
dead, Friday night, near Centerville, III.
The threats Of the two men were cut, and
the skulls Of the woman aud children were
crushed in. Who committed the atrocious
crime, or for what purpose il was done il
not known.
The tug-boat Crescent city, from New
Orleans for 81. Louis, having in tow five
freight barges, one fuel barge and trading
boat, blew up Sunday morning, and sank
in three minutes; the bargcs were all
burned, and ten persons were lost.
The immense steamship "City Of Pc
kim the largest vessel ever built, with the
sole exception of the Great Eastern, was
successfully launched at Chester, Pa, last
Wednesday. She is 1000 tons burlhen and
will carry $50 cabin and 1890 >tccraIe pas
senSers. Her coal bunherS will carry 1900
tons, enough to last her across the Allan
tic and back.
A trapczc performer named james Syl-
vester, while attempting the browning feat
of the evenings entertainment st Berry's
opera house, Fridtg night, pfjumpins from
swinging trapczn to rope held for him,
sprung 10, far, and hitting his head against
a private box received iniurie, from which
lie died in about an hour. His aga was 10.
One Of Rockwell & Museley's powder
teams from Westfeld drawn by four horses
and driven by T.. Z. Moscley, while cross.
ing "Pme bridge" at Hatfield, Thursday
evening, broke through, killing the horses
and seriously injuring MIR. Musely. The
bridge is reported to have been very in
secure, and the accident probably means a
big bill against the town.
A terrible accident ,ccut red at the
Phoenix Park colliery, near Pottsvillc, Pa,
Saturday. While a party of seven men
were descending the slope the rope to the
car broke, aud it passed down the slope,
SCI feet, with a fearful velocity, striking
against the wall at the bottom with tre-
mendous fOice. Four OF the men had sue
ceeded in jumping out as the car started,
but three failed to do So and were killed.
Negligent railroad officials get little
mercy from Canadian juries. The inquest
on the recent terrible diaster on the Great
Western railroad, in which the rear passen-
ger ear was entirely burned, while the train
was at fall speed, has resulted in a verdict
of manslaughtcr against the conductor, en-
gineer, and brakeman of the i'll -fated train,
and censuring the railroad company for not
having proper Rilruad signals for stopping
the trains, and alsn for using kerosene oil
on trains.