Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-04-14
NEWS ITEMS.

/ ine1cOu lnOTOuBn canNabs OF DIS district,
with view of entering the Congressional
contest next Fall.
The tin wedding of Mr. and Mrs. John
Van Ripper of Paterson, N. j., the other
evening, was notable from the fact that
both host and hostess and the forty guests
were deaf and dumb.
"A bill to prohibit he sale Of iutoxcat-
| ing liquors within four miles OF the Cali
fornia University is called by San Fran
cisco paper ian act 10 promote pedestrian
ism among students"
-Quaco Walker, colored, died at JefTer-
son, Texas, recently, aged, according 10
DR.. Walker, prominent citizen, 1874 years.
He was born in North Carolina in 1742, and
his life was spent 10 that State, Tennessee,
Arkansas and Texas.
By the new postal treaty with Japan,
which went into effect Saturday, letters of
not over Is gramnes weight go TO that
country for five cents, newspapers of four
ounces or less go for two cents, and other
printed matter and samples two cents per
ounce or fraction thereof.
1t is now stated that the big blast at
He'll Gate, New York har5or, will not be
ready TO be fired July 4. The appropria-
ton does not warrant the employment OF
force large enough to complete the preim-
mary work by that time.
The centennial committee have invited
p. s. Gilmore TO conduct the musical ex-
ercises on the 4th Of July, and he has ac-
cepted. They have also engaged him and
his full band to give grand concerts for 80
days following the opening day.
Uncle Dahiel Drew's son-in-law, Rev.
Mr.. Clapp, with a charming worldly
mindedness, drew his wife's fortune out of
the old gentleman's hands some years ago
and invested it where the moth and rust of
Wall street would not corrupt or diminish
1t. Now Mrs. Clapp is worth her million.
"A woman who was called as a witness
in will case in a New York court, the
other day, afler being asked, "What did
the testator say about the PLAINTIFF" made
the unexpected answer: HE said that
before he would have wife like that he
would marry the DEVILS daughter and go
to live With the old couple"
The Emperor of Brazil, who is now on
his way 10 this country, was so years old
last December. He was only five years
old when his father, the first Emperor Of
Brazil, died, and was crowned at the age
of IA. He was married when he was IL 10
Theresa Christina Maria, daughter of Fran
els l., King of the two Sicilies. Their chill
dren are the Princess Isabella and the
Princess Leopoldina. The former is the
acting regent while her father is absent
"A sad accident occurred at Sugar lake,
near Meadville, Pa, on a recent afternoon.
A man named II. Ferry, in dismounting
from a horse, accidentally discharged a
double barrel shotgun loaded with bird
shot, which he had in his hand, and the
contents struck young lady named Went
worth in the heart, and her cousin, little
boy aged six, who were looking out of
window, killing both of them instantly.
In Utah person condemned to death
has choice OF three methods of execution,
viz, hanging, shooting and beheading.
The Salt Lake Herald OF March ed, in an
account of the conviction of j. G. Wiggin
for the murder of John Kramer, states that
after the verdict was rendered the judge
asked the prisoner to make his choice OF
the manner of his execution TO which he
responded, 81 prefer TO be shot" and sem
tence was pronounced accordingly.
Mrs. George Holton and two little chill
dren living near Wamega, Kan, on the
Kansas Pacific railroad, started 10 go to
neighbours house, only quarter of mile
distant, during The snow. storm, last Mon
day night, when, darkness coming on and
the storm beating them so furiously, they
became bewildered and wandered about
the prairie until exhausted. They were
found Wednesday, frozen to death, not 20
rods from the house they were in search Of
The mother had taken of nearly all her
clothes TO protect her children.
The elevated steam railway is going
ahead rapidly in New York city. Palace
car Pullman is at the head OF the company,
and contracts are already made for its con-
struction from the Battery TO Central park,
five miles, by the way of Church and
Chambers streets, West Broadway, South
Finh avenue, West Third street and Sixth
avenue. The structure is TO be of iron
framework, supported over the centers Of
the streets by doubles rows of columns,
with two sets of tracks, and this section Of
the enterprise is to be finished and put in
running order, this summer.
of a man named Langley, who went 10 st
Mary's bay geese hunting. Seeing moose
on the opposite shore he fired, and at the
same moment a porpoise leaped from the
water and the bullet killed both II and the
moose. The porpoise ioated to the shore,
and the hunter used it as raft TO paddle
across 10 the moose. There he found that
the bullet, after killing the moose, had
gone into hollow tree, In which was
store of wild honey, which was flowing
through the hole made by the bullet.
Reaching for what he thought was stick,
to plug up the hole, he caught a rabbit by
the leg. Rather startled, he threw 1t vio-
lently from him, and struck o covey Of Is
parIridges, killing them all.
"A murder committed in the vicinity or
Hewburgh, N. Y, about nineteen years
ago, and to the perpetrator Of which no
clue was ever found, has come TO light. 1t
appears that the body of young woman
named Sarah Bloom was found alongside
OF fence by the roadside mutilated shock
ingly. Every possible means was adopted
TO ferret out the perpetrator Of this villain
Gus deed but without success. 1t is now
announced that letter has been received
by gentleman in Newburgh from ply
siclan In a nelghboring city, who said he
had patient on his deathbed who confess
ed that he killed The woman In jealous ft.
He had since suffered intolerably from re-
morse.
The other evening, a young lady abb