Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-25
NEWS ITEMS.

About fifteen hundred Of the unemployed
men of Boston met ON the Common Saturday
forenoon and marched 70 City Hail. where the
leaders had an interview with the Mayor ask
ing for employment The Mayor Informed
them that he was powerless to comply with
their request, and could do nothing for them
unless authorized by the City Council.
The temperance reformers of stamford
Conn, proceeding on the basis that the end
will justify the means, are charged with hav-
ing hired informers and spies to catch the un-
wary rumseller All sorts of lodges, il is al
legged, We're resorted to by party of four
strangers, who were hired to do this sort of
work. In their zeal they are accused of hav-
ing committed forgery, and the result is that
Rev. Mr.. Buckley the Methodist clergyman
of the place, and others have been arrested.
At Newburyport Mass, on Sunday, four
children were playing together when the old
est, only twelve years of age, ordered his
companions, three little girls, to go home.
They did not obey him, and he entered his
fathers house, brought out an old Queens
Arms musket, loaded with buckshot, and, fir
ing it, he instantly killed n little girl six years
old and wounded the other two, one of them
seriously. The boy claims that he did not
know the musket was loaded, and only sought
to intimidate the other children.
quet by the Geographical society at Paris,
Saturday night, 270 guests being present, in
Guiding James Gordon Bennett. In his speech
Mr. Stanley gave the glory of his work to Mr..
Bennett, whose conception it was and who
supplied the means for it. Stanley was over
whelmed with congratulations and was pre-
scented with gold medal by the Geographical
society and with the decoration of the Gcadem-
ical palm by the minister of public instruc-
ton.
A despatch from Constantinople an
nounces the entry of the Russians into Adrian
Ople. There is nothing new from the peace
negotiations. The Turks are straiuing every
nerve to rally for the defence of Constantine
pie.
Tho Moody and Sankey meetings in
Hartford, Conn, have been very successful,
after two weeks continuance. The Times
says the Evangelists 'have certainly made a
wonderful impression in the community. II
is believed that they have had greater success
here than in any other place they have visited,
considering the ratio of the attendance as
compared with population. The great ma
| iority of the pastors of the city churches are
in hearty sympathy with the work in which
| the evangelists are engaged, and the numbers
in attendance upon their daily services do not
appear to diminish at all, as much interest
being shown to see and hear the two men to-
day, as at any time since they came among
| us"
Philadelphia is determined 20 hold ON t.
its Permanent Exhibition, albeit the liabili
| ties of the concern exceed its assets by 1929,
600. The board of directors are to raise $50
900 and cancel the debt due the Centennia
board of finance and stock and bonds to thu
amount of $50 900 are to be issued TO satisfy
individual creditors. When the accounts have
been balanced in this way, expenses are to bt
| reduced TO SC, 600 a month, and long leas,
| Of solyeney will. it is hoped, be secured.