Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-08-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t is proposed TO have an international
regatta at Saratoga in August.
The funeral of the late ex-Presdent
johnson occurred al Greenvile, Tenn,
Tuesday.
Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish
poet, died yesterday In Copenhagen, aged
20 years.
Central Missouri has been visited by a
severe rain storm which has flooded the
lowlands and interrupted railway travel.
The reports of gold discoveries in the
Black Hills are daily confirmed. The
lowest estimate of the yield in Jenney's
Gulch is from three TO four cents pan.
The public debt statement for July
shows decrease of 81 ,294, s37.
The children Of New York are dying
at the rate of one hundred per day from
cholera infantum.
james Lick, The California millionaire
proving in health.
The New York Times has been look
ing over prices, and comes TO the conclu-
sion that family living expenses have de-
creased about twenty per cent. in that city
during The last two years. The reduction
is mostly in rents and clothing, food cost
ing about the same now, as then.
Minnesota has been untouched by the
excess of rain which has caused so much
tro uble in other Western States, and her
wheat crop will he the finest for years.
Colonel Valentine Baker, charged with
ASA ulting young lady in a railway car
riage, in England, has been found guilty
and sentenced 10 one years Imprisonment
and a fine of $500.
No trace has yet been found Of Prof.
Donaldson and his companion. There
were various rumors of their safety, but all
prove incorrect. 1t is very probable that
they were lost in the fake.
A brutal fellow named Miller, residing
at Birch Island, of Brunswick, Me-, is UNI
der arrest for shooting his son who inter
ferred 20 protect his mother from the feroc-
ity of her husband.
The postal money order system be-
tween the United States and Canada will
60 into effect Aug. 2. Over 800 money or
der offices in the United States have been
designated as Inland Canadian Offices.
Eight international exchange post offices
have been established, among which are
Bangor aud Boston. 1t is thought that
this arrangement will be Of special advan-
tage 10 New England commerce.
Three boys who were picking berries
about two miles from Nashua, recently,
were surprised by the appearance Of a man
from the woods, who gave chase TO them
and fired seven shots from revolver. The
boys reached the city terribly scared. and
the alarm bell was rung, calling together
about 100 of the citizens, who set out I'M
der direction of the mayor and city mar
shall to surround the woods and capture the
assailant, who is supposed TO be the sane
man that fired upon Brockaway, the mar
ket-man, on Tuesday morning
DIR. Leonard Bacon appears TO be about
the only man who is not heartily sick OF
the Beecher-Titon business. He publish
es a column letter, in which he AYERS his
belief that Tilton failed to make out case
against Beecher, while at the same time he
refers TO the mysterious Bowen charges,
and intimales that il is necessary for Beech
er TO meet them. Rightly or wrongly, a
large share of the responsibility for the
publicity of this wrelched business is at
tribuled 10 DR.. Bacon, aud the burden of IL
is enough without an attempt To revive the
dismal scandal. DIR. Bacon ought to be IN
beiter business.