Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-07-27
NEWS ITEMS.

"A fossil ignanodon 60 feet long and IS
feet high has been exhumed near Canon
City, Colorado.
About every European steamer at New
York is loaded with corn, and freight now
is engaged months ahead.
Marlborough, Mass, was visited by a
fire of large dimensions for that town
Wednesday night, 18th, involving loss Of
$4,000.
DIR. J. G. Holland has bought an island
in the ST. Lawrence, aud named it Bonny
Castle. He intends TO build Swiss cottage
on it.
Twenty times within the last hundred
years, the Russian forces have crossed the
Danube with hostile intent.
Oscar j. Knaper was drowned in
Cheroolate lake, Nova Scotia, while attempt
ing to swim across il Sunday evening. He
was the son of Rev. Daniel Knaper Of Yer
mont.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
owns 1000 miles OF road and controls nearly
5000 miles more. 1t employs about 5000
men, and owns ITO locomotives, 1000 pas
senger and $4,000 freight cars.
Gold dust is the currency in the Black
Hills, and II matters not whether the pur-
chaser is paying for fifty cent lunch or an
outfit worth several hundred dollars, he
must weigh out the amount in gold dust
Gold is taken at SIS an ounce in green
backs.
The contract for the new superstructure
of the Northampton bridge over the Con-
necticut, TO be Of iron with oak beams and
floor, has been awarded to the Canton
bridge company of Ohio for 1000, to be
doue within ninety days.
Fort Edward, n. Y, will celebrate
Aug. 9th, the one hundredth anniversary
OF the murder Of Jane McCrea. Addresses
will be delivered by distinguished speak
ers, including Judge Z. d. Culver, OF
Brooklyn.
A rambling old portrait painter named
COOPER, always seen with a rusty saichel
under his arm, has been found dead near
Martinsville, KY, and the bundle when
opened was found 10 contain $4,000 in
Government bonds.
-Haverhill, Mass, had destructive fire
Sunday evening, which broke out twice
anew amer it had been once subdued. Sew
eral burning houses and dwellings were
destroyed or badly damaged, and the loss
is estimated at $4,000 TO 500, 900; mostly
insured.
Reports from Ohio and Iowa state that
the crops were never more abundant or in
better condition. One enthusiastic cores
pendent says that amer harvest Iowa will
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One of the popular amusenenis among
the visitors of the White Mountain House,
is "snow ball parties" Snow drifts where
this amusement may be INDUCED in, are 10
be found within easy distance of the hotel.
1t is said that the King of Dahomey has
resolved upon grand sacrifice Of 500 hu-
man beings by way of thank offering for
an end Of his trouble with the British.
of % persons who left New Haven,
Conn, for the Black Hills, all but three
have returned, and those three have gone
to Texas. Some of the adventures had TO
tramp it home, and all spent The capital
they started with.
In Augusta, Me, where there is a liter
al enforcement of prohibition, the apolhe-
carries refuse to mix the alcoholic feature
in any prescription. One man could not
get the last named ingredient of "arnica
and rum" and in another case an apothe-
cary declined TO put up r prescription I'M
less a slight alcoholic ingredient was first
taken out of il.
A Newark, n. j., family, consisting OF
a man his vito and five children, on Satur-
day applied 10 the Poor Master for relief.
being in a state of abolute starvation. Three
years ago they lived in brown-stoDe house
in New York and kept three servants, but
int importance on the part Of the head of the
family led to business reverses and finally
to ruin.
In Auburn, Mass, on Thursday
morning, 18th inst, Ellen, wife of Frank
Campbell, crippled pauper, was murder
ed by James Mulcahy, alias Williams. He
broke all four of the victims limbs across
his knees and pounded her head, destroy
ing one eye and fracturing her skull. She
lived four hours told the story of the af-
fair and named the perpetrator. Mulcahy
has been arrested, and admits all boastful-
ly. He is doubtless insane.
The recent high school graduation at
Newport, r. l., was notable in the fact that
a colored girl, Josephine A. Silone, took the
gold medal for highest scholarship and
gave the valedctory, her average in every
study being within fraction of the maxi
mum mark. The case is the more remark
able as the girl has supported herself, her
mother being a cook, and has taken the
last two years studies in one year. She is
going TO college.
Says the New York Express: "An-
other romance of the morgue. Thither is
brought the body of man over sixty years
of age. He is unknown at first, but is sub
sequently recognized as a Russian, who at
one time lived in sffiuence. Now his two
daughters come TO the morgue, kiss his
cold lips, and his body is consigned to Pot
ter's Field because they have no money to
pay for decent burial. 1t is the old story
of once happy home, an clipping wife, the
husband following her to America, doing
well for a time, then failing in business,
and, finally dying in the streets"
The investigation before the Massa-
chusetts Legislative Committee in regard
to the management and discipline OF the
State Work house at Bridgewater, has
brought out a remarkable man. He Is 81
years old, has been an inmate at various
periods of his life of no less than a dozen
public institutions, including in the list four
insane asylums, five or six county jails and
houses ofcorrection, the Bridgewater Work
house, and the State Prison at Charlestown.
In his opinion, the State Prison is the most
comfortable place he ever got into, and he
would like to go there again. The insane
asylums do not suit him at all, but the
work-honse makes him a very comforta-
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