Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-08-10
NEWS ITEMS.

termarriage of whites and Blacks.
Separate schools for black and white
children are TO be established In New Or
leans.
A cigar box factory in Cincinnati was
burned Friday and eight or ten persons
persisted In the ruins.
The poor house at Sincoe, OHtario, was
burned Saturday night, and seventeen of
the inmates persisted in the flames.
Half ton of pure gold is used annually
for filling the teeth Of the people OF the
United States.
The st. Bonilace hospital at st. Louis,
Mo-, was burned Tuesday. All the patients
were got out in safety. Loss $4,000.
The main building of the Wesleyan fe-
male college at Murfreesboro, N. c., was
destroyed by fire Monday night. Loss $780,
OOO insured for $4,000.
The village of Gsrusee, In Prussia, is
reported burned, and 800 persons rendered
homeless. The town of Sundsvalle, in
Sweden, has also been almost totally des-
troyej by fire.
Brazil is buying railroad iron, locomo-
lives and horse car materials in this coun-
try, and there is a prospect that we shall
compete successfully with the English for
that important market.
ID. o. Fisk of Shelburne, Mass, has
been on trial at Greenfield this week, charg-
ed with burning his own barn last fall.
The trial resulted on Tuesday in a trium-
plant acquittal.
Albert NJ. Starks, one of the victims of
H. aft nj Mace xyi
undoubtedly die. He is deformed man,
very short in stature, and, probably from
this inirmity, of petulant, irritable ma
ture. His brother, Francis, bids fair TO re-
cover.
"A Richmond (Va.) girl who was left
100000 at the death Of her parents, married
a spendthrift who wasted her property and
ran away TO Europe, and is now support
ing herself by selling pins on the street.
Prof Riley of the chronological com
mission says the wet weather has destroy
ed the grasshoppers in the West, and there
is little danger from the fall swarm from
the northwest, unless they come from the
Black Hills.
"A boy in a Baltimore factory Saturday
crawled under a furnace to clean out the
ashes, accidentally tipped the grating, and
was covered with live Goals from above.
lie was pulled out in terrible agony.
Mrs. J. +. Atwood, of Malone, N. Y,
has a fuchsia three years old on which
about year ago were 1000 buds and bios
SONS and 600 full blown blossoms. The
fuchsia is of the Bismark variety and stands
about six feet high.
Mrs. Murray, the wife of Rev. w. II.
II. Murray, of Boston, is studying medi-
cine at one of the New York colleges, 10 OBJ
tain diploma. Mrs. Murray, like her
husband, is very fond of field sports, and
uses the rod and gun very skilfully.
The residents of Fort Edward, N. Y,
honored Jane McCreas memory, on the
9th ult. The church bells were rung al
daybreak, business was suspended, there
was long procession and Grafton, and
toward dusk there was firemen's tourna.
ment.
The contract for rebuilding the Sunder.
land, Mass, bridge has, finally, been sign
ed with the Massillon company OF Ohio, the
price, without the flooring, which will be
furnished by the local authorities, being
sl7,692. There is separate contract for the
masonry.
In a shooting affair at Hopewell, Green
up county, KY, Monday afternoon, be-
tween David Floyd and his two sons, and
Lick Floyd, an old man aged 80 on one
side and Joseph A. Martin and his two sons
on the other, David Floyd was shot through
the bowels and Lick Floyd shot in the fore
head. The Floyd boys were also both shot
fatally.
Howard Reynolds, a wealthy contract
or, returning TO his home at Springfield
H., Monday, unexpectedly, found Charles
Kirk in his wifes apartment. Kirk escap'
ed. Reynolds shot his wife dead, and also
shot mil kman who was in the house and
came 10 the spot. Reynolds then blew bis
own brains out.
Mrs. Paran Stevens IS building or
Fifth avenue, near the Central Park, the
handsomest residence in the city of New
York. The frescoes are to be unsurpassed
in quality, even by those of the new operi
house, Paris; the ornamentation of the
mantelpieces, etc., is estimated at $l5,OOt
and the cost of the furniture is to exceed
$4,000.
-0scar ID. Patterson, alias Jim Brady
who was arrested in New York on THURS
day for grand larceny, has been recognized
as desperate burglar and bank robber
who was implicated in the Northampton
Keesville and other bank robberies, andi
wanted to finish out five years sentence
in Sing Sing and a ten years sentence il
Delaware.
WIN. B. Ogden, the well-known New
York millionaire, died Friday morning
lie was born at Walton, Delaware county
New York, 1905. He was identified will
the development of the Northwestern
STATES, was the first Mayor of Chicago AM
the first President of the Union Paci6
railroad, member OF the New York Legis
lature and Senator of Illinois.
The city of Kingston, N, Y, on the Bis
ult., commemorated the inauguration of tn
State government a hundred years ago. A
least 10, 900 visitors were present, and Their
was procession including militia, civic SO
cieties, trades, firemen and official bodies
making a line over a mile long. Judg
WestbrOok delivered an address of wei
come, followed by an Grafton by Chaunce
NJ DepeWi anu hu auuieSs ny "0"' NSNi
II. Sharpe. Letters of regret were reeeiv
ed from President Hayes, Secretary Evarl'
Gov. Robinson and others.
"A young daughter of William M. Coz
bin of Union, Conn.,. furnishes an Interest
ing surgical case, having lived II month
with shawl-pin over two inches long !
one of her lungs. She swallowed 1t la
September, and was only troubled by in
flammation for awhile in winter, and sine
been in nearly her usual health. In Ma
she coughed up part OF the pin that ha