Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-09-17
NEWS ITEMS.

Mlculgan last Thursday night; thirteen
lives wero lost.
"A letter which lefl New York May 10,
got back there August g. having gone
around the world in SO days.
"A human skull of peculiar shape was
washed ashore at Newcastle, Me, the 9th.
er day, and preserved by Dir. Whittier, Of
Portsmouth,, who thinks ii has been in the
water over 100 years
Patent medicine man Hembold has be-
gun suit Ior damages for false imprison-
ment against the doctor aud the officers Of
the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane
who were parties 10 his recent incarcera-
ton In that Institution.
When Andrew johnson was president,
several Insurance companies offered him
policies ON his life gratis, but lie refused
them all and died without being insured
for u single dollar.
Ann Farley, whose scalp was torn OFF
in a New Haven shirt factory, two years
ago, now has a fine head of hair, a new
scalp having been grated on her skull,
made mp of patches of skin cut from more
than dozen different persons.
Among the leafs at the New Haven
| Conn, Caledonian games, Thursday, no.
table one was that of a man named Maho-
ney from Fall River, Mass, who jumped
in and out of 100 barrels touching each 9TH
er, without using his hands, in five min
utes and forty seconds.
"A fire which caught from thrcshing
machine destroyed the barn, crops and
farming implements OF George Burkev, II
miles southwest of Goshen, n. ", recent
ly, and a son of Mr.. Burkey persisted in
the flames. Five men and boys at work
in the NOW were rescued in n burned con-
dition.
A southerner stopping al Il Boston ho-
tel ordered carriage to take him TO the
depot, the other day, and on arriving there
gave the driver a dollar, and ran to catch
his train. The driver shouted TO him to
stop, which he did, expecting a demand
for more pay, when he was surprised to
find that The coachman bad followed him TO
give back 80 cents in cha nge
A Tennessee railway company has had
TO pay $3.50 damages for running over n
bulldog which was in the habit of rushing
at and seizing hold of every passing train.
If it had been boy engaged in the same
kind OF practice, the plea OF contributing
negligence" would havcsaved the company
| even the lesser value Of the human animal.
The will of Isaac NJ. Singer of sewing
machine fame, was presented to the sur
rogate Of Westchesler county, N. Y, on
Satul day his property is estimated at CO.
100000 in the United States, and 81, OOO, COO
in Europe.
Several small pieces of ordnance were
recently brought up by dredging ma
chino, from the bed of the Appomattox
river, where they have lain since Lafayette,
from his position in Pocahontas, shelled
the enemy who occupied Yorktown.
The Atlantic cable tariff is 10 be reduc-
ed on and alter the 18th inst, from 80 to %
cents word. That is reasonable rate,
and the reduction in price will much more
than double the business.
One OF the "quiet citizens" who took
part in the lynching of negro at Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, some weeks ago, has written
an account of the affair, from which it APP
| pears that the meeting was opened with
prayer.
Mr.. Beecher had his usual large audi
ence at the Twin Mountain house, OH Sun
day. His text was from Matthew 5: II-I6.
| He is undecided as TO remaining in the
mountains over another Sabbath.
AT Charleston, S. C., last week All
Lang, Chinaman, was married 10 Miss
| Clara Davis, a native and resident Of the
city and handsome and highly educated
girl.
Harriet Hosmer writes from Rome
that she is busy at work upon contribu-
tons for the centennial exhibition, that
she desires to have placed in tho woman's
department. They will consist of group
representing emancipation-the largest
ideal work she has ever executed, and 9TH
er productions.
The "Texas Cattle King" Captain
Richard King, recently contracted by tele-
graph 10 furnish 10000 beeves. on mis-
rancho, near San Antonio, he has GOOOO
acres under one fence.
"A lew days since, on wager OF quart
Of beer, sinker, named Roscoe, of COL
borne, Lancashire, allowed his friends to
nail his ears 10 door and while thus fas-
tened drank Off the ale.
In Wyoming at the last election lady
whose vote was challenged, became ungoy-
ernably angry at the implied suspicion and
wept. Her escort took OFF his coat and
thrashed he challenger, and then the lady
wept again-tears of gratitude.
In the procession of the trades at Gin
Gin natl, at the opening of the Exposition,
coffin company displayed poplar coffin
twelve feet long, with label which cerli-
Hnl hat ;.,to, III
TO be buried on The 18th of October. Where
at The Enquirer, as the wet nurse of the
rag-baby, Is greatly enraged.
"A resident of Gahenua, O., named
Samuel Turner, was last Saturday detected
stealing wheat from neigbor and selling
1t al mill. His disgrace so proved upon
has mind that he took large dose of arsenic
and died on Sunday. The man was mis-
erably poor, having a wife and five chill
dren TO support, which no doubt induced
the then.
South Deerfield, Mass, is genuinely
shocked at the discovery that the late
George w. Bardwell, who died on the 4th,
and was member of the Legislature of
1873 and man long prominent in the
church and community, had been guilty of
forgery in several cases, and of the gravest
business deceplions, his Irregularities ex-
tending back for several years.
The new ocean cable, extending direct
from Rye beach, New Hampshire, TO the
English coast, is at last completed and IN
running order. 1t was laid a year ago, but |
in consequence OF flaws has been useless
until now, when after repeated efforts the |
defects have been discovered and removed
bY the steamer Faradav