Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A Mormon bishop was horso-whipped
at Salt Lake, the other day, by coal deal
or, whom he refused TO pay for fuel his
his wives burned during his absence.
-J..R. Keene Of California has sold to
C. w. Kellogg, the San Francisco million
aire, the trolting stallion, Sam Purdy, for
$50, 900. This is the highest figure ever
paid for a trottinGstallion.
Some /, ca of the extent TO which base
ball is played NAV be had from the fact
that single firm in New York have sold,
this season, '3s 900 bats, 10000 balls, 300
pairs of ball shoes, 5000 pairs Of coored
hose, 5000 caps aud 500 complete uniforms.
-Ofthe parties TO the recent Vineland,
n. j., tragedy, Carruth, vino was shot, is
still alive bat in dangerous condition,
and lands is in Jail.
The season in Florida has closed, and
the resorts Of Northern travellers are de-
serted. The estimated amount Of pleasure
and health travel to that State during the
past winter Is estimated at $4,000 persons,
who are supposed TO have spent S3,OOO,OOO
among the Fioridans.
Attorney General Williams rendered
his resignation to the President. Thursday,
the resignation to take effect May 10. Mr..
Williams's friends state that he will return
to Oregon and enter The United States sen
atorigl contest from that State.
The Spanish government is paying up
the V:reinius indemnity very promptly.
By the convention the first payment of 800
900 was 10 have been made Ia the middle
Of May, hut the Spanish government has
already transmitted al, 900 to our govern
ment There now remains but s35,0O0 10
| be paid over, aud this too, the Spaniards
say is IL be paid before II becomes due.
Tie experiment OF transfusing blood
has Just been applied to General Frank
| Blair, who has for some time been pros
trated with paralysis at his home at ST.
Louis. Six ounces of blood were injected
| into his veins, and The result is said TO he
favorable.
John Harper, senior of the well-known
publishing firm Of Harper & Brothers, died
| Thursday evening, after a prolonged i'll.
ness, at the age 20. The firm originally
comprised four brothers, James, John,
Joseph Welsey and Fletcher. The last
named and youngest is the only one left.
| Several thousand ticket holders of the
late Louisville library lottery have placed
their coupons in the hands of Colonel
Blanton Duncan, with instructions to bring
suit against the lottery managers for breach
of contract and to recover their money.
The coming insane asylum keeper to
visitor: ado you mean that man with his
head bowed, his eyes cast down and his
lips moving? oh, yes, lac was spelled
down, too but he keeps Iight CA practic-
ing just the same; ! believe his word is
'syzygy.'"
The Secretary Of the treasury has final
ly settled the question which has been so
long in dispute between the collectors OF
Portland and of the district of Vermont
relative to the transportation CT bonded
goods from Canada. The decision is against
Port and.
n bride in Waterloo, Iowa, INDUCED
in little joke on the occasion Of her mar
rage the other day, letting neither the in
vited guests nor even the clergyman who
was 10 perform the ceremony, know who
the groom was 10 be.
The silver inkstand which supplied
with ink the pens of the signers of the
declaration of independence is now in the
possession of Governor Harlrann, Of Penn
sylvania, and efforts are being made to
procure its return TO its original position
in Independence hall.
"A monster bell, which the Emperor
William is to present 10 the cathedral at
Cologne, has just been cast at Frankenthal
out of the spoils of war lately in the form
Of French guns captured in 1870. The bell
is the largest in the empire, being twelve
feet in height and seventeen in diameter,
and Weighing over fifty thousand pounds
II will take thirty pairs OF hands 10 use the
clapper.
The French Catholic clergy of Montreal
have forbidden their flock to read the Mon
| treal Witness, because of IT'S Professionalism,
aud now the newsbOys tanialiZe the dray-
men by holding up 10 them the anaIhema-
tiZed journal and crying: "Ileie you are I
hall the hinterestiu' aud hexctin news OF
| the day; price one cent. Will YOU have a
| peep? Oh but you mustn't. If YOU read
a line of this ere paper youll be d-des-
troyed, cremated and elernally hashed up,
| you will" The Witness seems to thrive
on Catholic CURSES, and claims an increas.
| cd circulation.