Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-04-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The last will and testament Of Cba,ls.
Sumner was admitted to probate Mondoy
The Fisk jubilee singers have Son,
home 1913, 900 from England, aud expect fl
bring back $4,000 more.
The audacity Of tho Tichborne claim.
ant knows no bounds. He has asked fl,
another trial.
~- 1t is reported that Anthony Drexe,,
Philadelphia has been invited to succeed
Mr.. Richardson as head of the Treasu,y
Department.
William NJ. Storrs, formerly cashiere
the First National Savings Bank Of Con.
cord, n. H., was Wednesday Indicted bg
the grand jury for embezzlement.
| The peach trees Of Delaware and Mary
land have so far this spring, escaped dam
age from frost, and the prospects for
bountiful yield are unusually good.
-Arhur orion, the claimant, weighed
392 pounds when he was stripped and reg.
istered at Millblnk prison. lie had lost
considerable since his conviction and com.
mitment 10 Newgatc.
Nearly so carloads of oysters have ju,i
been taken across to California for plaa,.
| ing in the Pacific cOdSt waters.
| The suffering from the famine in Ben.
| gal is now confined TO ;ho Tirhoot district,
where over 10000 persons are still depen.
dent on the government for food. The
spring crop, except in this district, ha,
| yielded well.
Gen Schenck, our Minister to England.
is to marry n wealthy New York widow 10
about three weeks.
Senator Schurz will deliver his eulogY
| on Charles Sumner, in the Music Hal,
Boston, on "Wednesday afternoon, April q
| Wendell Phillips will introduce the orator.
| and Oliver Wendell Holmes will read The
poem.
Henry Ward Beecher, in lecture a.
New York, last week, referred to green.
backs as government lies" which the
government is issuing by the hundred
thousand. The assertion was heartily ap.
plau1ed.
Six persons have been fined rr swear
ing in the streets at Black burn, and other
towns in England are about to follow the
example. 1.-THE idea we're acted upon here
| goodly fund might he raised.
Having in view such Improvements Of
his country as may best he promoted by
acquaintance with European systems. tic
Emperor of Morocco purposes a Journey 10
England in the course of the approaching
summer.
-Roche!ort and his complnions escaped
from New Caledonia by obtaining perui..
ion TO go on fishing excursion, and then
slowing themselves away in a bark, which
carried them to Melbourne.
Turkey ard Russia are said to be quiet
~ preparing for war against each other.
Turkey is purchasing cannon and pushing
the construction OF railways, and Russia {.
rebuilding Sebastopol, making all the men
oil the empire liable to military duty, and
aiding iron monsters TO her Black Sea
flee.
An Englishmau was knocked down in
Rome daring the carnival for insulting the
American flag. The stars and stripes were
banging from the balcony of Mrs. Major
Goddard, and the Engishman remarked
that The nasty rag should come down. An
American was standing near, and the
EnSlishmln promptly went down 10 the
pavement.
az A4NAbN bAANttil tue Queen OF i, ~
land and the Emfecor Of Russia for the
marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh and
the Grand Duchess Marie STIMULATES tat
the Duchess shall be allowed to practise
het own religion. Children Of the mar
rage are TO be brought up as Proiestan,s
and maintained as members of the British
royal family. The Emperor gives his
daughter 1900 roub!es year and a mar
rage portion of 1000, 600 roubles. The
Duke and Duchess are to be separately an
swerab!e for the debts they may each in
cur.
1t may be, after all, That Mrs. Glenn,
the notorious, son eyed little woman Of
indianapolis, really deserves the acaut |
nom the charge of murder which she ia
now likely 10 get. II has just been dis.
covered that the woman who WAS her cell.
mate in the county Jail, directly amer the
murder, and heard all her CONVEX sations
win her brother aad Abrams, indicated as
accompliceS in the murder of the Youngs,
has since spoken of Mrs. Glen as an limo.
ceat party 10 the murder THAT is, probably,
aecomplice after the fact, and declared that
she could tell the murderers names, but
wouldn't.
The French government acting on the
recommendation of the committee on fort-
ncations, has determined to keep for the
next FIVE years 5000 pairs of carrier pig
cons for breeding purposes for service in.
war times. Each fortress will have a mill
tary pigeon house, aud each pigeon house
Will contain 1000 birds. Two general sta
tons Will be established, at each of which
oO'OOO pigeons will be kept. The German
hrIresses at Metz and Strasbourg have
becn for year past come ctsd with other
German forts by system of carrier pig
cons.