Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-22
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Northampton bridge when 1t was blown
down on Thursday, but six Of these were
named Smith.
Moody and Sankey will spend Septem-
Der in laboring at Baltimore, and they may
remain there month If the circumstances
warrant. Amer closing their meeting there
they will return 10 Boston.
A Dover lad has had one OF the most re-
markable escapes on record. lie fell from
an ombankment striking his lead on a
rock pile, putting his neck out Of joint and
turning the head rigdly half way round.
A doctor set the head back and and the 10y
is well agar.
A Cattaraueus, n. Y, girl has sued her
father for $500 for breach Of contract. She
says that while he was a widower he offer
ed her $500 to get him wife. She got him
q wife, and now he refuses to pay. He de-
MES the contract and says he did his own
counting.
Lieut.. Wilkinson, now at Wallulla,
Walla Walla county, Washington territory,
reports an uprising of Indians, who are
numbering whites at Mount Idaho, 60 miles
from Lewiston, Idaho territory, and all the
available troops at Walla Walla will he dis
patched at once TO the scene OF the Difficult
ty.
Whitehall, n. v, is 10 have fremen's
muster, July 4, when the following prizes
will be competed for: $3.50 TO engines, Of
which 500 is for first prize and $50 for sec
ond Sl15 for hose companies, of which SIS
is for first prize and $40 for second.
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Russia is estimated at sl3, 100000 in gold.
The crown domains consist of more than
million square miles of cultivated land and
forests, and of valuable gold and silver
mines in Siberia. The Car could support
pretty good army himself.
While Capt. Boyton was descending
the Rhone recently, in his life-saying suit,
the people thought he was some new ma
rine monster, and began to blaze away at
him with their shot guns. They stopped
when they found out that he was man
and not monster.
The most ambitious Fourth of July cell
ebration thus far announced is at Wood
stock, CT, where Blaine, Chamberlain,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Congressman
Wait and Prof. Northrop of Yale, among
others are promised for speakers on tenn
perance and appropriate themes" with
poem by Mary Clemmer.
A young Jewess caused good deal of
commotion at indianapolis, a few weeks
ago, by marrying a Christian young man
named John CRUDE. John has now made
still bigger sensation Ivy adopting the
faith OF his wife, undergoing the rite Of cir
cumcision, and taking the hapiiSmal name
OF Jacob instead Of John.
Eighteen Mormon elders sailed from
Now York for Europe this week, 10 drum
up recruits for Mormoni>m. Murmonism
is on the decline in Europe, AZ the Nor
mons themselves admit. There are only
about II 900 followers Of Brigham Young
now in the whole of Europe, although at
one time there were GO,00O saints in Eng
land alone.
"A mill dam jusi above Norwich, n. j.,
on the Delaware, Lackavanua and West
| ern railroad, having been weakened by re-
cent rains, suddenly broke last Thursday,
and precpilated iishirs party Of ten per-
sons through the sluice way. Two women
aud man were drownt Il, and Two men, tho
owners Of the boat containing the rarity,
were fatally injured liy falling into the
grinder of a ziill lyiug below the sluice-
way.
An accident without parallel perhaps
since ships sailed the seas was the sudden
upheaval OF ledge of rock by L submarine
volcano off the coast of Tunis lately, just in
the nick of time TO tear off the keel and
sink the passing steamer Knight Templar.
| There was a submarine rumblng lasting a
minute, The ocean seeihed white all round
her, and she received the blow about Is feet
from her stem, sinking four hours after
ward.
"A vigorous Temperance campaign dur
ing the summer is planned in southern
New York and northern Pennsylvania.
Murphy himself has promised TO spend a
fortnight there, aud later in the season pro-
poses to tackle the metropolis. Elmira, n.
", has been swept by the movement, 1000
having signed the pledge, almost entirely
| Americans and Protestauts, as the Catholic
clergymen discourage participation in it,
and the Germans OF course CAME give uT
their lager. Murphy and his followers ex-
pect the greatest temperance revival ever
seen in this country next fall and winter.
Frederick Hendricks, wealthy farm
err Of 80 living near Oldtown, Mclean cOuu'
ly, ILL.,, who had long been unlailblul te
his wife, to whom he had been married .
years, came homo drunk the other nigh
with a girl who he said was TO supply The
wife's place thereafter, and, when the wifi,
replied, he kicked her and began firing a
her with a revolver. She tried TO escape
but fell dead at the gate. He was iouut
lwuaVa "a a
quarter ola mile from the house with
bulet-ho in his head and his hand grasp
ing The revolver with which he mnrdere,
his wife.