Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-28
NEWS ITEMS.

treal for Liverpool last week.
Since the great fire at st. John, N b.,
year ago, $50 buildings have been erected
valuedut overs I, OOO, 600. Thereicfsociety has
received duringthe year S372, 600, and expend-
ed on the destitute S2Oj,O 900. Besides this,
$50, 600 sent from England has been distrib-
uted. There is still much restitution, and the
balance ON hand is being reserved for the
coming winter.
- Mrs. Hannah Cox Of Holderness, N. H.,
celebrated her 1O2d birthday Tuesday. A
large number of friends called during the day,
among others Miss Mary Blair of Boston, her
oldest grand-child, aged ~.
- The principal business part of Faribault,
Mimi, comprising nearly all the buildings
on Main and Elm streets between Second and
Third streets were burned Tuesday. The loss
will probably exceed 100000, insurance
SSj, 900.
- The whppingpost is to be re-establish-
ed all over Virginia under new criminal code
established by the last Legislature, and the
lash will be the penalty for petty larceny, eX-
cept when female offenders condition il
such that the magistrate thinks stripes might
be dangerous, when he can send her to jail.
- At a business meeting of Plymouth
church. held last Friday evening, Mrs. Eliza
beth H. Titon was formally accommodated
from the communion and fellowship" of that
body.
-- Lightning struck one Of the needles with
which young woman was knitting at Mon
treal the other day, knocking it out of her
hand, but doing her no other damage than to
thoroughly brighten her.
The Fall River Mass thieves are in
fair way t. ct just deserts for their crimes.
On Monday Samuel Angler Chace, the de-
faulting Union mills treasurer, rather than
take the risk of a trial, plead guilty in the SUI
perior court at New Bedford to drawing and
embezzling the money on II 81, 900 note be-
longing to the Union mills company in Jan
uary, 1873, 5000 note in July, 1876, and II
Slj,5 note in August, 1871, and was SEN
fenced to - years in state prison and two
days of solitary confinement.
Farmers in all parts of Ohio are receiv-
ing almost daily notices signed Working
mems Bread or Blood Committee" and warn
ing them against buying labor-saying machin-
cry, and especially self-binding reapers.
Threats are made that every such reaper will
be destroyed and stacks Of grain burned if an
attempt is made to use them. No violence
has. however yet been reported The bulk
of the wheat in southern Ohio will be cut this
week, if the weather is favorable.
- A curious shooting affair occurred last
Saturday on the road from Chicopee Falls to
while driving toward Springfield overlook Il
man, or boy, whom, ms it was raining he asked
| to ride. This person climbed up to the seat,
and rs Fay was taking the whip from the sock
ct, said, See that big hawk and fired n
| pistol, the ball striking Fay's skull, back Of
the left ear, and lodging in the neck. The
horses became frightened and ran, and the
would-be assassin jumped out and siezed them
by the head. Fay applied the whip and the
L.. f.,,
| run over. Fay was soon after thrown out
and was found in the road A 1G-year-old
son Of Nathaniel Sherman of Chicopee Falls.
said by some to be insane. is under arrest rs
| the criminal. but there seems to he some
doubt rs to his guilt.
The chief annoyance from the elevated
railroads in New York is from the great noise
made by every train in passing over the iron
trestle work. This is so great and so contin-
uous that sleeping is almost impossible along
the line of the road. and business men COM
plain that it is difficult to carry on converse
| ton with customers. The trains pass every
30 seconds, and will soon be running both
night and day. The result must inevitably
be, unless some remedy is discovered, that
real-estate owners along the line of the road
will see their property reduced more than
two-thirds in value and many will be ruined.
| 1t would Som that the nuisance could be in IA
| great measure alayed by having the rails or
ties rest on rubber cushions.
An Ohio grand jury have indicted one
| Doctor Morton and the janitor of the Cncin-
natl medical college for body-snatching, these
! persons being charged with taking the body
| of the late Hon. j. Scott Harrison from its
! grave in North Bend and transporting it to
the CincnnSti medical college for the pur-
| pose of dissection. The grand jury having
refused to indict the faculty of the college,
! the friends of Mr. Harrison have brought "A
| civil suit against the college, placing the dam
age Mt SlOO The medical department of
Ann Arbor university have also been sued,
charged with guilty knowledge of similar viO-
lntions of the law. Eminent counsel on both
sides have been engaged, and the case will be
| thoroughly ventilated in the courts.
A veteran Boston bookseller has discoy-
cred II clever dodge for evading the law against
| pool-selling, which was passed at the recent
session of the Massachusetts, legislature, and
appeared the other day at Beacon park Ms the
| auctioneer of an art sale" His stock-in-
! trade consisted of lot of horse pictures, Ia
belcd with the names of the horses to trot
| during the race, and these We're sold ut so
much for first second and third choices the
purchasers picking out the pictures bearing
| the names of the horses which they supposed
would win. The process was the same a.
| lOOl-htulllk only u lOl VI NTtltlltl tuIOllOS
We're sold, instead of pool tickets. At the
close of the sale the auctioueer announced
that the owners of the winning horses wished
to purchase all the pictures of their animals
that had been sold rs they desired to have
them framed, and appointed a time and place
for buying them back. The prices paid in the
latter case We're of course the winnings of the
pool box, with the usual commissions deduct
| ed
The examination of Mrs. Matilda Perry
| of Deerfeld, n. H., whose arrest for inhu
man treatment of her adopted daughter tooB
l'place fortnight ago, brings out story OF
the most heartless and systematic cruelty
The little girl testified that she was tied to d
bed post number of times and beaten witt
a heavy hemlock stick, her wounds being af
terward rubbed with cayenne pepper and
skunk's grease when she was ordered tC
stand naked by the fire to let the mixture dry
in The heat drove her away, however, anC
then she was whipped again. 4 beating Will
n stick of wood taken from the Fireplace
famed her hip so that she could hardly walk
and then Mrs Perry, saying that the Lord haC
told her to straghten the girls leg, adopted
most cruel methods to carry out the Divin,
command. The woman varied her cruelty
occasionally by humping the girl ON the heaC
with a tin dipper or dragging her around by
her hair, and now the child is Il mere wrecl
of her former self.
A singular story comes from the scene Of
the peace congress Mt Berlin of recent at
tack by Prince Bismarcks dog upon Prime,
Gfortschakof, by which the latter narrowly
escaped serious injury if not death. Sine,
the last attempt upon the life of the Empero
William, Bismarck is said to have become
very nervous and to have added much to hi
usual imperious manner When excited h
has a habit of violently stamping his foot an'
raising his voice Something of this sort oc
Cured during a recent interview with Prime
Gortschakof, and the dog, which happened
to be present, installing his masters eager
ness for anger, sprang suddenly at the throa
of the Russian diplomatist. Bismarck, how
ever, sprang forward and Seized the ANNA
before he did any injury. This unpleasant
| inclnnt Is cnnsilerel nminnns in berlin