Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-31
VERMONT PHdNIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY MAY 81, 1873.
NEWS ITEMS.


-Oswego county, N. Y, clnims the only
female baseball nine in the republic
A disappointed lover named Sam Carney
murdered Miss Cullenbinc Mt Arlington, ILL.,,
Sunday evening, because he had been refused
permission to see her, seriously wounded the
young lady's parents and then took his own
life.
The number of persons admitted to the
Paris exhibition on the payment Of one franc
Sunday was 1O3, 1873. During the first week
of the exhibition there were POI, 600 admis-
sions, second 2j2, 400, and the third 3O2, 100.
The pleasure steamer Empress of India,
with party of about IL persons on board,
capsized over q dam on Grand river, Mt Gait,
in the British province of Ontario ON the
evening of the 22d inst, and all the passen-
gers were drowned. Only one body has been
recovered
An engine and train of Is freight cars
broke through n bridge on the Kansas Pacific
railroad near Denver, Col, n few days ago,
and it is curious fact that no signs of the en-
CINE or the three men who were on it had
been found Mt last accounts though the bed
of the stream has been carefully searched.
One of the cars was carried six miles by the
flood.
Francis w. Palfry of 10 Exchange street,
Boston, has been authorized to receive sub
scrptions for the family of John Wilson
Barron, the murdered treasurer of the Dexter
! (Me. savings bank This appeal to the gen
eral public is necessitated because the banks
of the country have not responded in behalf
of the family rs they might have been expect
ed to do.
The coroners jury in the ease of the re-
cent Minneapolis Touring mills explosion have
rendered verdict in which they state their
belief that the fire originated in sparks from
stones running empty in the Washbun mill,
and that after smouldering for some time the
! fire burst into blaze which communicated
| to the -four dust, creating an explosion which
extended across % feet of space, causing
similar explosion in the Diamond and Hum
boldt mills and communicating fire to the Ze-
| NTH mill elevator and other buildings" The
! jury find no evidence that the mills were run
| in an unusual way, or that there was lack of
caution or dangerous neglect in the manage
ment.
Pretty Melissa Smith, the belle of Hntteras
Island, was the daughter of lighthouse
keeper On Sunday evening MS she was GO
| ing to bed she threw open the door Of her
room in the lighthouse in order that she
might enjoy the sea breeze As she lifted the
pillow from her bed it fell from her hand and
rolled into the stairway. the slide being drawn,
and in attempting to pick it up she slipped
and fell her head striking the iron steps
She sank into the water, gave three piercing
screams, and was carried out by the surf Just
us her father appeared in the doorway. She
was TO have been married on Wednesday, and
had parted with her lover only half an hour
before her death.
The barque Carrie Long, which arrived
at New York on Monday from Buenos Ayres,
brought to port n young negro who was found
floating on a frail bamboo raft OFF the Brazil
ian coast 200 miles from land He had es-
capped from the arid island Of Fernando de
Novouha, where he had been sentenced to
five years of penal seryitude for theft. With
two companions he constructed raft. and all
three committed themselves to it at night,
willing to be taken anywhere. if only they
might regain their liberty. His two compan-
ions died, the one Of thirst and hunger, and
the other by being washed overheard in "A
storm, and the rescued man himself was al
most dead when the barque picked him up.
He had floated about ten dnys, and school
of hungry sharks had constantly followed him
waiting for their prey. The bodies of both
his dead companions were devoured by sharks
before his eyes.