Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-28
NEWS ITEMS.

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Washington Friday.
Urban Jean Joseph Leverrcr, the noted
French astronomer, died last week, aged GO.
The estate of the late Peter B. Brigham,
of Boston, has been appraised Mt 81 ,2S2, 7l3-
60.
A Paris dispatch says that Urban Jean
Joseph lie Verricr, the famous astronomer, is
dead.
About one hundred thousand people now
live where rolls the Oregon" and that cele-
brated party is no longer lonesome.
Philadelphia papers are now appealing to
the women of America to save the 'Perma-
nent' Exhibition from failure.
On the 18th inst $40 Cinnamon, includ-
ing several families, left San Francisco by
steamer ON their return TO the Flowery Land
The pair of trotting horses owned by
| VIM. H. Vanderbilt. trotted n mile on the
Fleetwood track in New York in 2.23. Sept.
18th. This is the fastest time recorded for
such team.
The entire business part of the town of
Keyport, N. j., 40 buildings, including all
the hotels except the Pavilion, was burned
Friday night, and the loss must be nearly half
"A million dollars.
Ira Ptman of Bangor, Me-, rejoices in
the uncommon luxury of four crops of "Bue
Peter peas this year, each crop being raised
in the field from seed Of the crop that pre-
cedod it.
The telephone is being rapidly put into
| use mt Boston. About 100 mercantile houses
are already connected with every express Office
in the city, and there are applications for al
most as many more.
A train on the Canada Southern railroad
was recently run III miles in 100 minutes !
| This is the fastest time ever made in this
country. The run was made between ST.
Thomas and Amherstburg.
Indian fighting seems TO be brisk in New
Mexico Our soldiers recently killed about II
dozen of the savages and are in pursuit of a
rctrcating band among the mountains.
The other day the spirit of Robert T. Lee
came dow nj Memphis, Mo, materialized
and declared ON n slate that The approved the
Presidents policy"
Col. Peton. nephew of Samuel j. Tilden
and during the Presidential campaign mana
ger OF the Tildcn newspaper bureau, has been
elected vice president of the Elevated Rail
road company in New York.
Thomas Mead, murderer sentenced TO
be hanged, who escaped from prison year
ago last May, blew his brains out at Limaville.
Ohio, Sunday to avoid arrest by officers who
had fired upon and wounded him.
A man in Evansville n. Y. lately slightly
wounded his hand with nail, and then wash
ed the blood off in pail in which there
Glanced to be scrapings Of wall paper. Soon
after his hand commenced swelling gangrene
set in, and he died.
The farmers held convention at Cleye-
land, Ohio, Saturday, to consult about the cat
tie disease 1t was decided to be fever of
some kind communicated by Texas cattle.
Jared Wheeler. tried for the murder of
lis aunt Harriet Wheeler. at Hartford Ct
last June, has been acquitted.
The treasury department had upon the
Union Pacific train recently attacked by rob
bers in Wyoming 800. 600 ounces of silver bull
lion, but it was in large bars so heavy that
the robbers were unable to carry it with them.
and not an ounce was lost;
Harry Meiss, the great railroad man, was
very i'll in Peru at last accounts and was not
expected to recover.
An aeronaut named Haium was killed at
Glade Springs, Va, recently, by the bursting
of an old balloon, which had been over-charg-
cd with gas.
The inundation of the Black Warrior
river, Alabama. has been very disastrous to
the farmers in that valley. The cotton corn
and fodder crops have been swept away, en-
failing ON the planters n very serious loss.
many of whom. it is feared. are financially
ruined by this sudden overflow of the river
The steamer Diego, which sailed from
New York on the LIST for Liverpool was burn
ed on the Sth. There was no loss Of life. The
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bacco, cheese and leather, and II thousand
bales of cotton
Six steamers for Europe sailed from New
York Saturday. They had fair lists Of pass
engers, and took large cargoes of produce in.
Guiding quarter of II million bushels of grain,
80 barrels of oysters 30, 600 boxes of cheese,
1000 cases of canned meats and H. 600 quar-.
tiers of fresh beef.
Some 1000 cattle having been run of
from western Kansas and Colorado by II rob
bers, who started north, II rangers splendidly
armed and mounted recently started in pursuit
and after hard ride of five days came upon
the thieves in the extreme northwest part of
Kansas, surrounded them while at supper. and
killed seven. hung another to a tree, and re-
covered all the cattle. None of the rangers
were hurt. The surprise was so complete
that the robbers had no chance to resist.
The New Hampshire state Young Mems
Christian Association closed their 10th yearly
meeting at Concord Saturday evening after
passing tributes to the memory of the late
President Smith of Dartmouth college, and
choosing committee to arrange for a series
of meetings that Moody and Sankey promise
to hold in Concord through November,
A passenger train on the Union Pacific
Railway was stopped by thirteen masked men
at Big Springs Nebraska. Tuesday night 18th
inst. They compelled the station agent tC
lldiiB oul u l'u llSht' uehtIOgtu luc leltBIdpL
machines and took possession of the train
robbing the express safe of about so. 600
and also robbing some of the passengers
SD, 900 reward is offered for the arrest of the
robbers.
A Montreal special says troubles are brew
ing with the savings banks there and petition,
circulating to have them placed under Gov
eminent officials. 1t is charged that recent
run on the City and District bank was stop
ped by Catholic Priest Father David. Ii,
being bribed with 500 worth of stock t.
pacify the depositors.
The New York Times devotes couple Of
columns and more to an exposition of the rs
sertion that the average New York stock brok
er cheats his customer 1t is the frequen
custom to follow the orders of correspondent
SO far as the use of his funds is concerned
: but to pocket more or less of the profit, i
there is any and allow hin all the loss, if any
occurs besides charging him commission.
An Arkansas man lately snapped botl
barrels of his gun at his bed-ridden wife
The gun, as if endowed with humanity o
4 which its owner was devoid, refused to be dis
: charged, but when the monster took it by tn,
mu2zle and attempted to dash out the suf
ferer's brains the breech glanced ON the bed
post, both barrels event off," and their re
e spective charges of buck-shot took lodging
| in the wOuld-be murderer's lungs. There wa
no wearisome delay about the funeral prepare