Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-18
NEWS ITEMS.
land for $500.

A game cock was recently sold in Eng.
land for SOP. LIB
"A new oil pipe is soon to be laid from But
ter county, Pa, to Baltimore, Md. a distance
OF $50 miles. The transporting capacity will
pe o'uoO barrels of oil per day, or 1000. 600
barrels per year-equal to the quantity now
carried there by two railroads.
Henry Ward Beecher has asked to have
Jus salary reduced from $50, 900 to $4,000
lor the coming year on account of the falling
OH IN the revenues of Plymouth church.
In three counties in New York. Erie
Kings and New York, the naturalized voters
outnumoer those who are native born
=, me Commissioner of Agriculture puts
Ine wheat crop of 1877 as 10000, 600 in ex-
cess ~, Oh that OF 1876. The increase of tobacco
1000 600 bales. ''''''''''V -
The Dubuque Qowa) Times thus reports
buet street conversation in that citv WITH n
change of name only: "Can won telI mo
Sor-r, wher-r Mistress Mur-r.nbv Eyos ~
las noight, Sor-r! ''o VIM 0'e'
MI Remington, the well-knovn ,iAe
manufacturer of lion, N. Y, is one of the
no'aoies OF Cairo, Egypt, and owns one of the
larges' ana finest houses in the CITY.
me null of British war schooner. sur
prlseu ana sunk by American cannon in the
war OF 1872, has recently been discovered Inv
divers IN the river Rouge, near Detroit, Mich
Almost everything of value was removed over
'o years ago by wreckers, and the hulk is now
nearly covered with mud.
Inc English Earl of Roseberry is about
TO marry Hannah, daughter of the late Baron
MEYER Amschel Rothschild. The lady is
worm 41,GOO,O00 in her own right which
brings an income of GOO, 900 per yenr she
IS about ~ years old, and reputed for excel.
lent qualities of head and heart
Emigration to this country. continues 10
decrease Last year the number of alien mas.
s'hBers who arrived Mt New York was "a BAG
or lo,'29 less than in 1876. The whole num-
per OF arrivals was 97.22l, of whom ~ GS5
had before landed in this country.
Robert Fishbune and Walter s Harley
OF WATERFORD, S. c., fought duel with re-.
VoIVers Saturday afternoon, near Savannah h.
VA Harley was shot in the abdomen at the
hre, and will die. Fishbune fed. The
ues We're brothers-in-law and lawyers.
81 were ooth democrats, and the duel orig
ted from bitter feelings engendered at a
election.
Three hundred of drove of 500 Texan
Colorado cattle, the property of Isaac
Nel " Co., of the stock yards in Chicago
re burned to death in the stock yards OF
Fairbanks distillery at Terre Haute. Ind
nday evening, the shed in which they were
eltered catching fire from loose hay. The
tile were worth $40 each and were partly
sured
Many pleasant womanly things are tolG
Queen Victoria in the English papers. The
nperintendent of Parkhurst Prison recently
iowed her over that institution, and pointed
Vt TO her among the inmates n number OF
on .ls,l hal Ill iii
lrlng their term of imprisonment Two
avs later an enormous box of TOYS were re.
eiyed from Her Majesty for the little prison
born children.
The steamer Ontario, on her last trip tc
England with a thousand head of live stock,
encountered fearful gales, and gave rise tC
some experiments which may prove of value
in the future. Two hundred and twenty OF
the animals were killed by the tossing Wher
the storm was at its hight the owner of the
fine draught horse Denmark cut him loose
from his box and led him out. 1t was not ter
minutes before the animal was ION his SET
legs, bracing himself like an old tar, and h,
stood in his tracks for twelve honrs without
moving his feet hairs breadth. He sold fol
$500 on landing and gave valuable proc
that horse can take tine best care of himself
if left alone.
Another of the life insurance swindler
has got his deserts, Vice-President Wetmor,
of the Security following Presidents Case o.
that company and Lambert of the American
Popular to prison. The judge gave him tn,
full penalty of the law, year at hard labor
and intimgted that it ought to be more Tn,
>feresting feature of this conviction is that i
as obtained on the charge of conspiracy, thu
ourt very properly holding that in making
lse and misleading statement of the affair
n the State gunqrin
ndent unfathful officials conspire to OBJ
rct the law. Three of the nine New Yorl
surance officers indicted last year have nov
en- sentenced, three more are awaiting tria
no happy frame of mind, and the othe
rec have deemed it wise to vamose. 1t Ger
nly begins to look as though the way of thu
insurance transgressor is hard.