Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-03-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Hillsdale College, at Hillsdale,
Mich, was destroyed by fire last week.
The east hall was saved, with the furnl-
ture, libraries, muHical instruments, etc.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The woman suffrage movement appears
to be making moro rapid progress out on
the praires than among the New England
rocks and hills, just now. The Iowa SEN
ate by vote that lacked but one of being
unanimous, has adopted tho House joint
resolution for constitutional amendment
giving women the right to vote
Possibly Tweed may yet escape from
the humiliation of Blackwell's island TO
the comparative luxury OF Ludlow street.
His LAYERS argued before Judge Brady,
Friday, that he was committed to the PEN
itentiary on a mere private direction of
Judge Davis TO the clerk, the words used
in the sentence, as addressed 10 the prison.
or, being county jail" This was not de-
MED by the representatives of the attorney
general.
Rev. Mr.. Loyson, better known as
Pere Hyacintho, recently visited Rome with
his wife and child, visit that would have
resulted fatally were times in Rome as they
were decade ago.
A dispatch from Sir Garnet Woolsey
confirms previous somewhat doubtful re.
ports of the Ashantee expedition. The
hostile savages have been severely punished
and their capital Coomassie, destroyed by
fire.
A few days ago New Orleans horse
railroad company sunk $1,000 bogus five
cent nickel coins in the Mississippi river,
the receipts OF one year. The counterfeit
ing of these coins is carried on so extern
sivcly in New orleans that the Picayune
estimates that 1000 people daily pay their
fires on the horse railroad with bogus coin
Nat Nelson, a colored Justice in King
George county, Virginia, sentenced negro,
who had been convicted before him of the
crime of larceny, to receive thirty-nine
stripes, and the punishment was inflicted
by another negro.
Twenty New Workers have signified
their intention of aiding in the foundation
of a Mutual Cremation Society, and say
that they mean TO push the movement
with all their power. 1t will be some time
before the burning of the dead will be the
rule, or even be allowed in this country,
but the careful discussion of its expedien-
cy can do no harm.
The receipts from customs thus far for
the present month are not below like pc
riod of March of last year. 1t is the opin-
ion of Treasury officials that the customs
have recovered from the effects of the fall
panic, bat, owing 10 the non-action of Con-
gress aud the consequent uneasiness among
merchants, the receipts arc below what they
would be otherwise.
The negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia westward continues, and the Mont
gomery Advertiser says $1,000 tickets for
coored emigrants have been taken up on
roads leading south and west from that
city.
The indications are that there will be
lively music on Spanish soil within few
days. Cable dispatches state that Marshal
Serrano, with an army of 81, 900 men and
90 pieces OF artillery, is now face to face
near Bilboa, with .Carlist force of $4,000,
while Gen. Lama, with a column of 5000
strong, is moving on the enemy's rear.
A sad case of being buried alive has
been discovered at Chapmanville, Pa. Mrs.
Anthony Coggswel, who gave every APP
pearance of having died, two weeks ago,
was buried. Her husband, being absent at
the time, on his return had the body ex-
humed, and found that it had turned over
in tho coffin, while there were other evil
deuces, showing that she had been buried
while in a trance. He has since been a raw
ing maniac.
1t is estimated that about eight million
pounds of artificial butter have been con-
sumed in this country since last June.
Oleomargarine is the technical name given
TO it. There are two oleomargarine facto-
ries in New York, which produce daily
5000 pounds.