Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-20
NEWS ITEMS.

Inc grasshoppers are said to be hatch
ing out in myriads on the plains west of the
Missouri river.
John Nugent, q member of the New
YORK police force, has been arrested for COM
plicity in the Manhattan bank robbery last
fall.
William Lloyd Garrison's will gives $500
70 each Of his grandchildren and bequeaths
the remainder of his property to be equally
divided among his five children.
"A Connecticut paper, which has been
looking up the statistics, finds that the ratio
OF divorces to marriages in Massachusetts, is
l to %. I, in Vermont TO 10, in Rhode Island
l TO l3,and in Connecticut / to 1914.
Mrs Louisa Pierce, the wife of a respec-
table citizen near Raleigh, N. c., became the
mother of twins recently and was so exas-
perated that she put them in the fire and
burned them to death while the nurse was
out of the room. She has been arrested
In 1874 Krupp, the great iron and steel
manufacturer of Essen, Prussia, borrowed
$780, 900 upon his works. He is now able
to pay off one-quarter of the amount out of
his profits, and offers new bonds for the 9TH
er three-quarters.
Two men were killed at Boswell, Ind,
Saturday, and two fatally and four seriously
injured by lightning while seeking shelter
NAANANA - oiiNh NuhiAb ~ Nihhhti-hboinl.
Twenty out of every hundred children in
Texas between the ages of eight and fourteen
years cannot read or write, and of the color
ed population sixty out Of every hundred. OF
Texas white children between the ages above
mentioned there are 80, 600 who cannot read.
-Natchez, Miss, has built n cotton factory
in the past two years, every dollar of the
| stock being owned ut home, and it is said
| that the return on the investment is now
nearly 90 per cent
During the recent cyclone in Butler coun-
| ty. Kan, a woman named Hawkins and two
children were blown quarter of mile and
killed, and quite n number of persons were
injured, some seriously. Thirty-seven farm
houses We're completely wrecked and others
moved from their foundations or twisted out
of shape. The corn and wheat crops were
badly injured
A destructive storm of wind and rain
| passed over the southern part of Ohio and In
diana last Wednesday night, doing much
damage to crops, fences, etc. Lightning
struck several dwellings in Salem Ind, and
| killed one man. The storm reached south
into Kentucky, and at Christianburg in that
State the railroad depot was completely de
molished and POO trees uprooted.
The recent death of William, Prince of
| Orange heir to the throne of the Netherlands.
was directly due to his excesses for although
only 3S years old, he has been notorious for
many years in the Old World capitals by his
prohigacy and dissipation. He was recently
suspected of conspiring to depose his father,
and left the Hague, it is said, on account of a
| private mandate from the throne.
-Moody's most remarkable convert at Bal
timore last winter was Prof. Reider. n jew
ish rabbi, who has now entered the Protes-
tant Methodist ministry. Prof. Reider was
| stationed at Chicago Mt the time but during
| visit to Baltimore attended one of Mr..
| Moodys meetings and became an earnest be-
| lever in Christianity. The convert will short
| ly give a series of lectures before the Balti-
more ministry explaining how and why he
became "A Christian.
| At Buffalo, Dakota Territory last Thurs
day night, a water-spout caused a sudden rise
and overflow of Beaver Greek by which elev-
en- persons were drowned. Seven of them,
including three children, were emigrants on
their way to the Hills from Mills County,
| Iowa, and the others were men going from
| the Hills to the railroad Five minutes from
the first alarm the whole country was flooded
with water. but it subsidized almost as sudden
| ly as it rose.
The old silver mines the Spanish worked
| in New Mexico in the 10Th and 10th centuries
have been lately reopened, and miners are
| fockng there in crowds that threaten to ri
val the Lcadville rush. These mines were
closed because the Indians, whom the Span
ards forced to work them, revolted in 1850,
and drove their masters out of the country
| They are located 20 miles south of Santa Fe,
| and are likely to infuse new life and lawless-
ness into New Mexico's Spanish Mexican pop
ulation.
New York is likely to have an Egyptian
| obelisk The scheme was started year and
| a half ago, by the New York World. and has
been successfully carried through its earlier
stages. The proposed obelisk is the familiar
| Cleopatra's Needle still standing in Alexan-
dria, its PROSTATE mate having been set up on
the Thames embankment in London last year.
The khedive of Egypt has formally presented
the obelisk, the state department at Washing
ton has accepted it on behalf of New York,
and the expense of transportation has been
pledged by wealthy resident of the city.
The city of Berlin was gayly decorated
on Wednesday, 10th inst, in honor of the
Emperor Williams golden wedding anniyer-
sary, which was celebrated on that day The
city was thronged with people and the impe-
rial couple were enthusiastically cheered by
dense crowds as they passed at the head OF
the magnificent procession of princes from
the palace to the chapel. At night the city
was splendidly illuminated. On the proceed
ing evening there was demonstration of un.
precedented grandeur the banks of the Rhine
and adjacent hills being lighted 10y bonfires
for distance of 60 miles.
The Postmaster of New York driven
nearly wild by the carelessness of people who
direct letters merely to certain towns without
designating the State and county, has pub
lished circular which contains some rather
singular facts concerning the reduplcation,
of names that occur in the post office drec
tory. 1t is pretty generally supposed thai
''the Hub" is the only Boston" in the coun
try, hut this circular shows that there are nc
less than twelve, while there are five Balt
mores, four Chicagos, eight Cincinnatis, sew
en- Phudelphias, thirty WashingtOns fiv,
Omahas, etc Often in single day as many
as 80, 900 letters are posted in New York alone
having incomplete directions.
Crude petroleum went down to G3t cent
| a barrel, the lowest point ever reached, a
| New York last Saturday, and refined oil wal
worth only II cents gallon. The average
| price of the crude product last year was 81. 81
a barrel; the highest price ever paid was $40
n barrel in 1860. The cause of the presen
depression is the enormous average yield O
"a 600 barrels day, against 20, 900 in April
iS, 600 in March and 40, 900 year ago. New
erlhrl,s IS the sinking of wells goes on reck
lessly, 325 having been finished in May
which is 1872 more than in April-and 43'
wells are drilling The new wells FINISHED
last month produce 5000 barrels day.
A short but severe storm of wind anC
rain passed over New York Sunday after
noon, unroofng several houses, demolishinl
SIGNS, blowing down several large trees OF
Fifth avenue and other streets, and destroy
ing the plate glass in several stores on Eight
| A coil boat With tbrpp men on bOarC