Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-08-31
NEWS ITEM \.

"A recent fire in a Mexican mine caused
loss of "a lives.
Two young fools fought duel at Shell
by, KY, few days ago, with fatal results
10 both.
Five millions monthly is the rate at
which the treasury department Is accumu-
lating gold for the purposes of resumption.
The great Coriss eng ne in Machinery
hall, Philadelphia, has been taken down
aud packed, ready for removal TO Proyi-
dence, II. l. Seventy rail road cars will be
needed 10 carry ii.
Capt. King of Santa Gettrudes, Texas,
is making an addition of sixty-three miles
TO his pasture fence, which will enclose al
together, when completed, 1000 acres.
Two spans, each 80 feet long, of the
Union Pacific railroad bridge across the
Missouri river between Council Bluffs, Ia,
and Omaha, Neb., were destroyed by vi
olent wind on Saturday morning, and the
loss is S5J0,0OO. 1t viii take two or three
months 10 rebuild the spans.
-Au Illinois county paper gives list of
sixteen farmers in ills immediate vicinity
who are now worth from 81, 600 to 500, 600
each, who commenced life with nothing
but their bands and got their start by work.
ing out for very low wages, some by cut
ting wood at - cents cord.
The New York Central railroad is oui-
city but steadily at work discharging The
employees who were most active in the re-
cent strikes, especially those who advocated
violence. This method of striking back is
disagreeabe but instructive, aud may furn-
ish food for thought to labor agitators.
Evangelist Moody writes to the clergy
men of Washington, who have invited him
TO visit the city during the coming winter,
that, although realizing the Importance OF
Washington as field oflabor, he feels that
New England cities arc just now the place
where the harvest seems 10 he made spec
tally ready for labOrers.
Stephen Barber and wife were shot at
their home at Belmont, near Malone, N.
y, Sunday night. Mr.. Barber is dead and
his wife is not expected to live. The MUIR
derer is described by Mr.. Barber as a
tramp who got his dinner at the house
about week ago. The family had some
$50 in the house, which by some unknown
means the tramp had knowledge Of The
murderer escaped.
1t " stated that The newly discovered
satellites of Mas may he seen 10y the aid of
o common mirror. Take a clear looking
glass, stand ia a dark room, and through
the open window reflect Mars in il, and the
satellites are plainly visible. Prof New
comb, in letter Ia the New York Tribune,
says that the reason why these mOous o T
Mars were not discovered before is, that
the planet was never so iavorably situated,
at least since telescopes had reached their
present perfection.
"A desperate named John Wesley Har-
der, charged with p murders, and for whose
body reward of 81 200 was offered by the
State of Texas, was lately arrested on the
cars in Alabama. The last murder by Har-
den in Texas was that of the sheriff of Co
manche county. Harden has lived in Flor
ida for several years under the name OF
John Swain. In making the arrest, about
twenty shots were fired, and companion
of Harden named Mann, who had pistol
in his hand, was killed.
"A wafer way from st. Paul, Minnesota,
to New Orleans, distance of two thousand
miles, was opened last Tuesday, the last
obstruction to navigation-lhe Des Moines
rapids having been avoided by the build
ing of government canal. This canal is
seven and slX-tenihs miles long, three hun
dred feet wide in embankment, and two
hundred and filty feet wide in excavation.
The water in the canal will be from FIVE TO
eight feet deep, and is deep enough to float
any OF the steamboats, of the Upper Miss
issippi.