Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21
NEWS ITEMS.

Charlie Ross father, who has spent all
his property in the vain search for his lost
boy has been appointed by Gov. Hartranft
muster warden of the port of Philadelphia,
with salary of $4,000.
The fastest freight train that has yet
come through from the West, started with
ZOO barrels of flour from Minneapolis on
Friday afternoon, and reached New York on
Tuesday, in time to be loaded into a steam
ship that sailed on Wednesday.
The fish in Pontoosuc. lake, Pittsfield,
Mass, are dying in large numbers of an afec-
ton which is attributed to the potato-bugs,
which are carried out into the lake by winds
or otherwise in vast numbers and eagerly de-
voured by the bull-heads, perch and other
less clearly feeders The pickerel do not
seem to be affected.
Anybody who can get himself sentenced
to a long term of imprisonment ought to con-
slider himself lucky, for sanitary paper
states that in prison a persons chances of
life are nearly double what they would be in
IL state of freedom, enjoying ms he does, pure
air cleanliness and well regulated diet. In
Scottish prisons the death-rnte is only in
1000, while in the British army it is II in
1000, and in other occupations 20 in 1000. A
high medical authority even declares that
Perth prison, Scotland, is the healthiest place
in the world.
The 1O3d anniversary of the battle of Bum
ker hill was celebrated at Boston Monday as
general holiday. Business was suspended
and the public buildings were closed. Bun
ker hill monument, the public squares and a
large number of residences in Charlestown
were galy decorated. Statutes We're fired and
bells rung at sunrise noon and sunset, and
band concerts We're given morning and even
ing. The principle military feature was the
Al. nj tout afrfTna
strong, accompanied by the American band
of Providence.
Last Friday afternoon AS the workmen
engaged on the Brooklyn suspension bridge
were lowering one of the large cables the
tackle parted at the anchorage on the New
York side, instantly killing one workman and
dangerously wOunding two others. As the
tackle parted the huge iron 'shoe, weighing
between 500 and 500 pounds, shot over the
adjacent houses as if fired from cannon
and lodged on an immense pile of granite
stones at pier %, East river, 100 feet distant
from the bridge pier on the New York side
The iron "shoe" knocked down several chin
neys and completely demolished the telegraph
wires on South street.
There was II pucularly sad and forciblC
illustration of fallen human nature at the
Boston municipal court Friday. woman
arrested for drunkenness and sent to Deer Is
land IN account of her inability to pay thu
fine imposed upon her, proves, by her owl
statements aud by corroboative testimony
TO be one of the daughters of the late William
Il. Hayemeyer of New York who died in 1877
while serving his second term as mayor o
that city. She left her home some time ag'
against the wishes of her friends, and haC
fallen step by step in the social and mora
scale until her arrest and sentence sOberet
her and emphasized to her the contrast be
tween what she might have been and wha
she is. She had changed her name to con
ceal her identity, and although dissipated AM
degraded almost to the last degree she ha
regard enough for her friends to wish then
to remain in ignorance of her whereabouts