Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-08-13
NEWS ITEMS.
Very respectfully,
ii. NJ. BUCKHAM.
Burlington, W., July 26, 1875.

Fifty million dollars Of precious metals
have been mined in Nevada this year.
The Government of Turkey has author
lied the circulation Of the Bible throughout
the Empire.
Rev William Rand of Seabrook, n. H.,
was recently bitten by mad dog, but es-
capped serious consequences by bravely
cauterizirg the wound with a red hot po-
ker.
Andrew johnson had an insurance up
on his life amounting in the aggregate TO
$3.50, 900.
Peaches are almost given away in New
York, so complete is the glut OF the mar
ket.
Fifty of the assassins engaged in the
recent Catholic riot at San Miguel, San
Salvador, have been executed.
The situation in the recently flooded
sections at the West, bad though 1t is, is not
entirely hopeless, and the harvest prospects
are fair and improving.
The Ohio river reached its highest point
Friday-55 feet inches-and has since
been falling.
The heavy storm Of last week caused
great destruction of crops in the Delaware
valley, hundreds of acres of corn being
ruined by hail, while buildings were I'M
rooted and many cattle were drowned.
An ice cave has just feen discovered
near DEBORAH, Ia, which is attracting large
parties Of sght-seers. The passage-wly is
flooring of the same for 20 feet at one spot
is cone of ice fastened TO the wall, which
is three feet in diameter at the base 10 feet
high, and 20 inches across the top.
The army worms are proving very de-
structive TO crops in some sections of Maine
and Massachusetts.
The Connecticut Valley Masonic Relief
Association was organized at Greenfield
last week, with l.. C. Pratt as secretary and
G. p. Forbes treasurer.
There is some talk Of making Green
field the termination of the proposed Green
Mountain narrow-guage railroad.
Mrs. Jane Ann Butler, a colored wo-
man, familiarity known as Aunt Jane, re-
siding in Poltsville, Penn, celebrated her
ll5th birthday on the Sd inst.
The Northampton (Mass.,) Anchor tape
and webbing company has failed with liza
bilities of $4,000.
-Grasshoppers have appeared in i'm
mense numbers along the line of the Union
Pacific Railway.
The union of Europe and Africa, by
means of a tunnel under the straits of
Gibralter, is another of the great engineer
ing schemes that is now being talked about.
Three children, while picking berries
at Gaitlneau, Ont, last week Thursday,
were killed by bear, which devoured all
of them but the feet and arms of one.
John II. Holden, agent of the Oneida,
IN, " community, has been arrested and
held in $4,000 for trial at Boston, for en-
bezzling from the community about S2O,-
900 by collecting bills without accounting
for them.
"A Treasury clerk and several other
persons have been arrested for being con-
cerned in the theft of S47 900 from the U nit
ed States Treasury some months ago. The
clerk has confessed, and portion of the
money has been recovered.
The centennial birthday of Daniel
O'Connell was observed in Boston Friday
evening by large meeting in Music Hall.
Wendell Phillips was the orator of the oc-
casion, and John Boyle O'Reilly the poet.
The memory of o'Connell was also reviv-
ed in hundreds Of towns and cities through
out America.
The jury in the case of John d. Lee,
charged with being leader in the Noun
tain Meadow massacre, were unable tu
agree, and were discharged by tho Court.
1t is reported that they stood nine for ac-
quttal and three for conviction. One GEN
tile and two Mormons for conviction.
Six Niagara people visited the cave of
the Winds, Monday afternoon, without a
guide, as they had frequently done before,
and, alter passing through it, two of them,
Elheber Parsons, 20 years old, and Miss
LotIie c. Philpoll, 25, descended to an ed
| dy which is never visited by the guides.
While bathing, the lady lost her foothold
and was caught by the gentleman, but the
current carried both into the river below,
where they were drowned. They were
! soon TO he married.