Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-11
NEWS ITEMS.

-Eighty-three murderors were hung in the
United States in 1877.
Last summers strike cost the State Of
Ohio $4,000.
A six-yoar-old boy plunged into the river
at Rochester, MINI. the other day, and saved
his threc-y car-old sister from drowning.
The January dividends payable in Bos-
ton aggregate l0.15l, 1872, an increase of
S94s,372 over January 1871
Stanley, the African explorer. has been
presented 10y the Khedive of Egypt with the
decoration of grand officer of the Mcdid 3, in
honor of his exploits
D. II. Hill, brother-in-law Of the late
Stonewall jackson, and himself II general in
the rebel army, has Bible class of two hun
dred members at Charlotte, N. c.
There is talk in Washington Of endeavor-
ing to get Congress to issue four per cent
bonds of denominations as low as - for pop
ular investment.
The Boston board of health has decided
that diphtheria is a disease dangerous to the
public health within the meaning Of the
statute. and physicians are ordered to report
all cases the same as thos1 Of smallpox.
Mrs Sarah Joseph A. Hale having reach.
ed her 9Oth year. has concluded that She needs
rest and relaxation. and has accordingly laid
down the editorial pen Of Godey's Lady's
Book, which She has edited for the past 80
years.
1t is related Of Col Ingersoll that. being
sharply asked if he could mention one law of
nature that in his puuy wisdom he could
change for the better he aifably replied :
Yes: | would make health catching. instead
Of disease"
Henry Hickey. the Boston boy murderer
was fully committed last week on Il charge Of
deliberately killing tn little Cronin boy by II
pistol-shot three weeks ago. The murdered
child's sister testified positively that Hickey
threatened to shoot her and her brother be
fore he fired the shot, and that he kicked the
PROSTATE body Of his victim rs he ran ont of
the house.
Whipping is q legal form of punishment
in Virginia. and the other day two dissolute
negro women were sentenced TO receive Il
lashes apiece and banished from the city, for
fighting. In South Carolina the whipping
post is not II regular institution, but John
Hmsley. poor white of Allendale. who
had been caught stealing, preferred 30 lashes
to being jailed.
In Mansfield, Conn. the other day, Dca-
con Barrows, aged ~ measured Gen Hib-
bard, aged 93, for a suit of clothes, and is
now engaged in making them. There are
now living, hale and hearty, within little
over IL mile Of Mansfield -Four Corners, five
person. over - years Of age, one Of whom has
passed %. There is also quite company
Of younger men Of 50 and upward
In addition to the use Of the telephone
for military purposes in Germany these in
strument, have been provided for telegraph
operators AZ ten principal towns and many
more are being constructed. They are also
in Use between the offices Of the Postmaster
General and the Director of Telegraphs and
Of other high public officials. Experiments
on a large scale between France and Germa-
ny are also being carried on.
New England has been scarcely more ia
vortd by the millness Of this winters wealth
er than Old England \ letter from Kent to
the London papers of fortnight ago says
that IN that county primroscs are glittering
on The ground in full blossom, violets cover
The banks and honoysuckles and other wild
flowers cheer the hedges
Sunday nights cold wave swept all over
the New England state and eastern New
York, the mercury being reported at various
points all the way down to - degrees below
zero Mt Fort Fairfield, Ne. At Covington.
Allegheny county Va. the Thermometer reg
istered below.
Last weeks snow storm was an unusual.
ly severe one at Memphis, Tenn. all the tele
graph wires leading into the city being brok-
en- down. negro toamstor was found frozen
to death in his wagon il the suburbs Friday
morning, having gone to sleep drunk.
A fire in the drying-room on the fourth
floor of the Cambridge Mass, building own
cd by Houghton Co., publishers, and known
as the Riverside press destroyed all its con-
tents of sheets just from the press including
10000 sheets of portion of Websters die
tionary, a large portion of the February num-
Der Of the Atlantic and an immense quantity
of sheets Of other works loss about $40. 600
and $1,000 to the building, insured.
A large number of articles machin. ny,
furniture, china, etc. abandoned by exhibit
ors at the centennial, because they couldnt
or didn't want to pay the duties on them, are
soon TO be sold at auction in the Main cNposi-
ton building at Philadelphia.