Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-05-26
NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. George b. Mcclellan is 10 deliver
the Fourth of July Grafton at Binghamton,
n. Y.
An insane father murdered his little
daughter at waldoboro, Maine, on Tues
day, the 23d inst.
Annie Starck, aged IS, OF Somerville,
n. j., found rusty revolver in the barn,
Friday, and raped it on a stone TO knock
off dirt that had accumulated on it. 1t
event off," and killed her.
Henrietta Sorhagen, aged II, who was
bitten two weeks ago, at Newark, n. j., by
a pet Spitz dog, which aflerward became
mad, died on Saturday, from hydrophobia,
after intense suffering. Four other persons
were also bitten by the dog.
Unusually severe thunder and hail
storms occurred, Saturday, in various por-
lions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and
at Davenport, Ia. At Lancaster, Pa, and
Morristown, N. j., hail-stones as big as
hens eggs came down, and much damage
was done to fruit and grain.
The people of Astoria, Long Island,
are getting very much alarmed as the time
for the blowing up OF the He'll Gate rocks
approaches. Houses can't be rented, aud
many families are preparing to move away
when the explosion occurs. Gen. Newton,
however, assures them that this anxiety is
quite needless. The date of the blow up
has not been fixed.
Congress has just passed bill appro-
rriatiDg $4,000 for the relief of Mrs. Eliza
Potter, who at Charleston, during the war,
expended over $40, 900 in caring for our
sick and wounded soldiers in southern hos
pitfalls. Mrs. Potter was wealthy at the
time, but her property was destroyed by
the two armies, and at the close of the war
she found herself entirely impoverished,
and was obliged 10 appeal to the govern
ment for assistance.
A young man in Indianapolis boosted
the other day that he could stand nearer
cannon Il at was being fired than any other
man. He then took position ten feet in
advance and three TO one side of the gun.
During the night he began TO feel queerly
and soon half his body was paralyzed, and
his physician believes that it will remain
so permanently, owing 10 a conclusion of
the brain.
David ]. Dwight and Herbert A. Dav-
export of Coleraine, Mass, were brought
before the supreme court at the adjourned
session. last week, Chief Justice Gray pre-
siding, and each pleaded guilty OF murder
in the second degree in causing the death
of Joseph Riley FarnsworIh in September
last, contrary to their former pleas before
the superior court. Both young men were
nicely dressed, Dwight, whose wife, father
and mother were in court, wearing but
ton-hoe bouquet. They were both SEN
fenced TO the state prison for life, with one
day Of solitary confinement.
An explosion of fire da mp in the Ok
ford air-shaft of the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna mine at Scranton, Pa, Saturday, ia
tally burned four men at the bottom of the
shan, while fifth, named Taffe, who had
| just stepped into the bucket to descend,
was flung high into the air aud then down
the awful depth of 600 feet in the mine,
where he was literally smashed to pieces.
"A Richmond, Va, dispatch states that
an explosion of fire damp in the shaft of
the coal pit Of the Midlothian mine, 700
feet under ground, Saturday, killed eight
miners and seriously injured two more.
Five of the men killed were white and
three we're colored miners.
H. c. Bowen was expelled from Plym-
ouih church, Thursday evening. The vote
on his expulsion was unanimously in the
affirmative. AS il had long been fore
gone conclusion that Bowen would be ex-
PEELED, the result Of the vote caused no
surprise whatever. Mr.. Beecher was not at
the meeting, but nearly all of the promi-
nent members OF the church were in at
tendance.