Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-08-03
NEWS ITEM n.


this year is quite light.
Gen. Grant laid the first stone of the
American church at Geneva, Switzerland,
on Friday.
Amherst, Mass, by unanimous vote,
has appropriated $4,000 to the Manchester
and Fitchburg Railroad.
The New York and Michigan apple
crop this year, il is said, will be less than
half hat il was last year, and considerably
smaller than the usual "oir-year" yield.
The remains of Gen Custer reached
Chicago Tuesday, and were at once for
warded to West Point. They will be placed
in the vault until October, when the funer-
al will take place.
John A. Grow, a Washington lawyer,
has been arrested on the charge Of forging
the name of Caleb Tompkins of Carters-
vile, Ga, to two drafts on the United
States for some sliOO.
The Beaver Falls IN. " steel works
have inst turned out saw finy.four feet
Icing, to he used in cutting big trees in Cal
irorna.
Collector King or the New Orleans
| Custom House has been ordered to reduce
his force one-quarter and to cut down many
of the salaries.
Massachusetts made one-third more
boots and shoes in 1873 than in 1855, but
one-thrd less people were employed in
making them. That is what machinery
effects.
The hopes which have been entertained
all alon Of an abundant peach crop arc
doomed 10 disappointment, according to
latest reports.
| Some prominent women of Claremont,
n. H., who had tried moral suasion on the
liquor dealers and failed, engineered gen.
eral raid, last week, which resulted in Sc
curing great quantities of liquor and evil
deuce to convict all the offenders.
Two murderers wern hung last Friday
Albeit Trammell, a negro preacher. at
Rosston, Ark, for numbering his wife in
1872. He confessed his guilt. At Owen
ton, KY, Richard S. Shuck was hung in
the presence of 5000 persons for the MUIR
der Of Nelson Parish. Shuck protested
his innocence to the last.
The reduced condition of our army is
illustrated by the fact that the five compa-
MES ordered from California TO Oregon
marched out with an army of 100 men all
told, incl uding 30 recruits just picked up;
and after their departure Fort Yuma was
left with garrison of one corporal and
two men.
II. II. Honore, of Chicago, Fred Grants
(ather-in-law, failed the other day, for two
and half millions.
Maine packs annually more than $780,
900 cans of sweet corn, yielding $1,000 600
and giving employment to nearly 10000
people during the packing season.
A dTaught Of hot air scorched cotton
field and peach orchard in Texas, a few
days ago, killing every green thing in a
space of 400 yards long and 40 yards wide.
-Inexhaustible beds of Ignite coal have
been found on the Yellowstone log miles
from IFS mouth. 1t burns readily, and
ste amers needing it can help themselves.
1t is stated on French authority that
the annual value of the products of glass
manufacture in Europe and America has
almost doubled in the past few years, and
now amounts to not less than 600, 900, 900
| francs.
The most liberal man in New York city,
and on this continent, and, perhaps, on the
globe, is James Lenox. He has for nearly
40 years, given away his surplus income,
and, as the latter increased with the advance
in real estate, his donations increased in n
proportionate degree, 1t is said that thew
much exceeded those of George Peabodv's
gifts, though the latter made more noise in
the press.
The remarkable spectacle of n tornado
in mid-air was witnessed Mt Genesee. N.
Y, the other day. The blacklist of bl ack
clouds, torn and rugged. were driven
through the air toward the southeast. They
rolled and tumbled as ocean tornadoes will
disport with the waves. and were evident
Iy flung like feathers by a terrific tornado
which passed over the centre of the viii
lage, but too high up TO disturb objects up
on the earth.
Active prepaI atoms are going ON for
the commencement of the long protected
work of draining the Zuyder Zee. A dam
nearly 25 miles long is 10 be carried across
the gulf, and upon this pumping machines
of 10 COO horse power are TO be placed. ca
pable of discharping @. 800 600 cubic metres
of water daily from the incIosed sea. It's
estimated that the work will occnnv IN