Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-08-20
NEWS ITEMS.


of over $4,000 was lately dug up at the
corner OF Mission and Sixteenth streets
San Francisco.
That costly undertaking, the Suez canal
has at last got on a paying basis, the re-
ceipts, the past year, being 100000 francs
above expenses.
President Grant visited the Sunday
School Convention at Fair Point, N. Y, on
Saturday.
Secretary Brisiow has begun TO intro
duce the metIic system into the custom
service.
-Messrs. Moody and Sankey, tho re.
viyalists, arrived at New York from Eng
land Saturday morning.
-Four patients in Missouri lunatiC
asylum died on Saturday from the effects
of sedatives administered to quiet them.
New York is building a new Croton
reservoir which will cover an area of 45C
acres and have storage capacity of 4,OOO,-
10000 gallons of water.
Over year has now passed since the
disappearance of Charlie Ross and not the
remotest clue 20 the hiding place or even OF
the existence of the child has been found.
e. d. Merriam, the Greenfield book
seller and stationer has failed.
The war department has decided that
re-opened.
The farmers at Ticonderoga, n. V,
have converted their church into a cheese
factory, and their race-course into a cow
pasture.
The "TribuDe gin-shop'' has been clos
ed by the New York police, because the
proprietor wouldn't keep the front door
closed and hadn't any back door.
1t is asserted by a Cincinnati newspa-
per that no Ohio farm, however carefully
managed, yields more than per cent. av-
erage profit.
On Wedne sday, VIM. L. Brooks of
Trenton, N. j., went under the Horse Shoe
Fall on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls,
when a huge piece of rock, weighing at
least two tons, fell, narrowly missing the
guide, grazing Mr.. Brooks shoulders and
crushing his foot.
The skeleton of a mastodon has been
discovered in the bed of the Monong ahela
river at Pittsburg, Pa, and when the wa
ter recedes to low Stage efforts will be
made TO raise IL. Soundings show that
sixty five feet are taken up by the skeleton.
One tooth recovered weighs ten pounds.
Very encouraging crop reports have
been received from 80 of the most impor-
tant counties of Wisconsin. The winter
wheat is nearly all harvested, and is a
splendid yield, in many portions of the
state the best ever known. The whole is
fully up to the average.
Terrible stories of cholera como from
Damascus, where 400 cases are reported,
daily, and yet the real number is concealed.
Christian quarter is deserted, and there
are no physicians or medicines for those
who can't get away. The disease also pre-
walls in Antioch and many other towns,
and the mission schools are closed.
Six teen thousand eight huDdred and
eighty-nine persons were banished from
Russia to Siberia between May and October
last 1850 women and children over fifteen
years of age, with 1869 young children,
voluntarily accompanied the exiles.
The i'll fated Mill River valley was
again visited by reservoir disaster on the
night OF the 9Th, creating great alarm among
the people of the vicinity. A dam gave
way at Searsvillle, a short distance above
Williamsburg, and considerable damage
was done 10 roads, bridges and buildings,
but fortunately no lives were lost.
William A. Graham OF North Carolina,
candidate for Vice President on the ticket
with Gen. Scott in 1852, died at Saratoga,
Wednesday, of organic disease of the heart.
He was a native of North Carolina and was
in his seventy year.
The British Parliament was prorogued
on Friday, till the 10Th of October. The
Queens speech congratulated the country
on the prospect of tho maintenance of
European peace, and the more complete
suppression of the East African slave ade.
The passage of the Provisional Shipping
bill and the arrangement for the reduction
of the national debt are referred 10 in terms
of approval.
The Philadelphia Record states as facts
about the Keely motor, that Mr.. Kelly has
been at work for several years inventing
motors, which have been simply very inn
perfect and costly hydraulic engines that
up to the present time not single patent
has been granted for any of these inven-
tlons,. and that the whole business is a
humbug.
Lieutenant Commander Morris, who
commanded the Cumberland when that
vessel was sunk by the Merrimack, died,
Sunday, at Jordan alum springs, Va.
Miss Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper,
daughter OF the novelist, Is devotng her
life to the support and training of little
homeless boys and girls, the orphanage be-
ing situated on the Otsego lake, near Coop
erstown, N. Y.
That new deed giving away lots OF
money, which James Lick, the wealthy
and eccentric California millionaire, pre-
pared when he got disguised with the old
one, three months ago, hasn't been record
ed yet, and folks are beginning to wonder
why.
Only seven lives were lost by the re-
cent floods out West-a Mr.. Easter and the
family OF Daniel Fritz, consisting of him
self and wife and four children, who lived
ten miles south of Bowling Green, and
were seen in the top story of their house,
going down with the stream when at its
fullest Roadway, and could not be rescued.
There were many narrow escapes, howev-
err, number of the people being rescued
from trees and the tops of houses.