Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-01
NEWS ITEMS.

There is not a national bank in Alissis-
sppi.
Ira d. Sankey the famous singing evan
goist. arrived home from Europe last Satur-
day, and on Sunday participated in revival
meetings now being held in New York.
Henry Miller Ccolored) was hanged last
Friday at JolnAonvlle. SunAower county,
Miss, for the murder Of Henry Murphy (col-
orcd
Joseph Lambert. L- wife and four chill
dren, were killed and scalped by Indians, six
miles above the Wolf agency on the Missouri
river recently, and two other children were
SO badly mutilated that they cannot recover.
while one little girl was carried away captive
to be held as hostage.
Martin Defoor and wife, both nearly 50
years of age, were brutally murdered while III
bed asleep near Atlanta, Ga, Friday night.
John Barrett, convict from New York
city in the Sing Sing prison, was shot dead
by Keeper John II. Good last Friday. Bar
rett had attacked Keeper Patrick Mackin with
a knife, giving him a severe cut and raised a
hammer to throw at Good A coroners jury
decided that Good act was justifable.
An excursion party of 400 people visited
MarbleheRd, Mass, last Sunday, large pro
portion being rough characters who immedi-
hAtlN On lhnAlllE went Aloul AOWu lubullllk
women, robbing the people and committing
other ofenses. The police interfered and
serious row ensued several hundred citizens
came TO the. rescue, and the roughs were fin
ally driven back TO the steamboat on which
they came, and from which they fired a vol
ley of missiles into the crowd as the boat was
leaving severely injuring two men. Several
of the roughs were captured and fined.
Richard o. Jones met fearful death in
a Johnstown PA. wire mill the other day.
He was guiding the red-hot wire through the
rolls, when it became twisted in some way,
and one Of the loops falling over Jones, his
body was burned IN two before he could be
cut loose.
Mary Kendella, who died at Cleveland,
Ohio, last spring, was l04 years old. and her
husband, who is still living, is 105. They
were the Oldest married couple on record.
The five ocean steamers which sailed
from New York last Saturday for Europe
took out $50 cabin passengers. Rev. DR.
George L. Walker of Hartford was one of the
Britannics passengers.
The telephone in New York has been
made the abettor of crime. The society for
the prevention Of gambling proposed to make
| a grand raid on faro banks but as soon as
the officers raided one institution the rest
were warned and closed their shops.
There was a severe rain storm in Penn
sylvania on Saturday. Considerable proper
ty was destroyed il Pittsburg and other
places in that vicinity and travel interrupted
by the washing away of railway tracks tn c
lower portion Of Karus city was washed
away.
Miss Sarah Bernhard the famous French
actress, is to visit this country next Novem-
Der, for an engagement of two years. The
London Post says she is to receive $4,000
pounds, or 500, 900. She will be the great
theatrical sensation Of the day.
The Episcopal church at Ellicottville
N. Y, has probably got the most Travelled bell
of any church in the country. 1t was cast at
Moscow, Russia, in 17OS and hung in a ca
thedral of that city until Napoleon burned it
out, after which it came as ballast to New
York and WAS finally bought for the Ellicott-
vile church.
George Is. Durfec, treasurer of the Me
| chanics Mill of Fall River is accused Of mis-
appropriatng funds of the corporation for
speculative purposes. He lost heavily, and
his friends are said TO have furnished funds
to replace those Incorporated, for the
purpose of saving him from punishment and
the mill from loss.
There is a movement afoot to celebrate
the surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown,
Va. with unusual pomp in October, in order
to begin preparations for grand centennial
celebration in 1851, which shall be Il crown
ing demonstration of the series of centenni-
ais which began at Concord md Lexington
in 1879.
A shocking tragedy was enacted near
COnewango Station, about fifteen miles from
jamestown, n. Y, Wednesday night James
Crosby farmer returned to his home at 10
o'clock, and missed the light which was usu-
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the house he was struck on the head by a
| desperate. He grappled with the murderer,
and was finally overcome, after being shot
| through the hand. The neighbors, attracted
by Crosby's cries came and found that Mrs.
Crosby had been murdered in bed and the
house robbed of n small sum of money.
The new era at the South is marked by
the reclamation of the islands ON the South
| Carolina coast Idle lands and waste places
among the everglades and savannas, never
before put TO use, have been fenced in, and
cattle are now grazing in numbers that aston
ish the natives. Fifty per cent. of the acre
age this year is in provisions, while cotton
fields are of smaller size This is due TO a
change of mind on the part of the old owners,
who realize that provisions are better and
cheaper than the table stuff bought in mar
ket.
There seem to be two serious difficulties in
the way of carrying out the provisions of the
late Prince Rapoleon's will The will is not a
legal document according to English law not
having been witnessed, and moreover the
| prince left no funds and what his mother has
is no more than sufficient TO support her.
But the will was strictly according to Napo-
leonic precedent Napoleon the great while
a captive at Helena, bequeathed millions of
francs, but his whole estate footed up less
than a million.
"A Russian paper gives an account of a
plague of locusts near Elizabethpol. which
! forced detachment of troops on the march
to retraee their steps. They settled so thick
ON the soldiers faces, uniforms and muskets,
that the major driven TO desperation, order
ed firing at them for half an hour, but this
| produced no effect and march back was or
dered. The swarm covered an area of 81
| square versts.