Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-29
NEWS ITEMS.


on the 18th Of July.
"A gale at Harrisburg, Pa. TUESDAY, did
considerable damage.
The aggregate insurance on the ST John
fire is $5,527 900, and The total loss S3O,OOO,-
OO0
Alaska coal is again arriving at San
Francisco, and sells at IS ton wholesale
and $40 retail.
Flight men were killed and thirty.
wounded by boiler explosion at Tunstall,
England, Tuesday.
Light frosts on Friday night are report
ed at Toledo, o., and in theinterior of York
state and In New England.
The heaviest gale known in Illinois for
fifteen years visited some portions Of that
State Tuesday, doing a large amount of
damage.
Robert Dale owen, the well-known
writer on socalistic and spirituaistic sub
iects, died at his residence on Lake George
last Sunday.
The Turkish victory over the Russians
in Asia Minor on the 2lst and 22d inst, is
pronounced a very important one The
Russians were also repulsed on the 23d.
Six children, the entire family of Mr.
aud Mrs. Andrew Russell of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, have all died, lately, at short intervals,
of diphtheria.
-Beecher declines his S2j, 900 offer to lee
ture in California this summer for fear of
hay fever, and will go to the White Noun
tains, as usual.
The widow of one of the Mollie Ma
guire victims begged of the sheriff the
privilege of pulling the bolt that would
send her husbands murderers into etern-
ity.
Capt. Grape and bis wife of New Bed
ford, on transatlantic voyage in a dory,
have been spoken by the steamer Batavia
about 1900 miles out. They said that they
bad experienced some rough weather, but
were doing:well.
-Afler two hours brutal prize fight at
Brooklyn Sunday, John Carroll was pro-
claimed the victor over John Fulham. The
latter was shockingly injured, but the
former was uninjured. No arrests were
made.
Considerable damage was done at st.
Joseph, Mo-, Saturday night, in the uuroof-
ing Of buildings by a storm which passed
directly through the center of the town.
Several persons were injured, but none
were killed.
Five tramps went TO sleep on Tuesday
night, 10Th inst, on the tops of the furnaces
Of an old lime-xiln near Bridgeport, Pa.
During the.night the walls fell in, and four
of the tramps were crushed TO death the
fifth, was fatally injured.
The strawberry crop on the Hudson
river ripened so early this year that it found
the market flooded with Southern aud Jer-
sey berries and the growers have made dis
astrous losses, in some cases getting only
penny basket for the fairest after paying
expenses of picking and marketing.
"A large baby-farming establishment,
the existence of which has not heretofore
been suspected by the authorities, has Just
been unearthed in the heart of Philadel-
phia, and the names of the fathers and moth
ers of the children and of several doctors,
some of them quite prominent, connected
with it, have been learned.
We regret to learn of the continued ill
health of Hon. John G. SAKE, the Vermont
poet. He is not confined TO his bed, but is
unable to read or write, and labors under
the impression that he shall not live long.
His disease is undoubtedly of nervous
hausting and depressing effect upon the
whole system.
Gen. Grant has not been permitted to
travel in u regular train, much less in a
common car, during his stay in England.
The Midland road, which penetrates great
portion of the island, including Wales and
Scotland, extended 10 him the courtesy of
their road and Pullman car TO take him
wherever he wished TO go during the whole
of his stay in the country.
Minneapolis handled $3.50 900 bushels
ofwheat the past year, but sent abroad on
ly $4,000 bushels of the grain. The rest of
it went down to the seacoast in the form OF
barrels of -four, branded with Gilt Edge,
Sea Foam, Red Letter, Old Glory, and the
other imaginative titles in which the mill
lers there take delight, and Minneapolis
was accordingly 100000 the richer for
having manufactured her raw material in
stead of having exported it direct.
The planet Jupiter is now our very
near neighbor. He is what the astronomers
call "in opposition" and persons who con-
template a visit TO his surface can save
travelling some $50, 900, 900 miles by choos-
ing this time for the journey instead Of
waiting until he gets in superior conjunc-
tion." As, however, he is still separated
from us by distance of more than 400, OOO,-
900 miles, tourists should not set out on the
journey without careful preparation.
Mrs. Isabella Matthews, mother of Sem
ator Stanley Mathews, died in Avondale,
Ohio, on Wednesday morning of typhoid
pneumonia. She was 70 years old, and has
survived her husband 25 years. He was
professor of mathematics at Miami Univer-
sty, where most of his sons were gradual
ed. She was charming woman of strong
and kindly nature, and found plenty of &C.
cupation for head and hands in bringing
upon Prof. Matthews's pitiful salary large
family of II boys. Nine of her II chlldIen
are now living.
ELEVEN MoLLIE MAGUIREs HANGED
Last ThursdaV eleven of the Mollie Ma