Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-12-26
NEWS ITEMS.

The late Gen Hooker left an estate val
ued at 100000.
-Four hundred convicts in the Arkansas
State prison are to be put TO work on the
construction of the Little Rock and Pine
Bluff railway.
1t is proposed to establish local dead let
ter offices ct Boston, New York and other
large cities to facilitate business.
Tho obelisk which is to be taken from
Egypt to New York has been successfully
lowered, and preparations for its removal are
progressing.
The depots on the Hudson River road
from Albany to New York, are being fitted
with clocks, all connected with electricity,
and ALL by that electric connection, made to
be exactly uniform with tho standard time in
the Albany depot.
Mr. Joseph b. Eaton, life member of
the Boston Young Mems Christian Union,
who died Nov. %, 1878, made beuuest of
$50 900 to the union on condition that with
in six months of his decease there should be
raised and added to it sufficient sum to pay
all the debts of the association. This condi-
ton has been fulfilled, the union has Just re-
ceived the amount of the bequest, and all its
liabilities have been discharged.
"A coal deposit has been discovered on the
land of John Dolliver, in Lyndeboro, N. H.
sent to experts in Boston. A spring near by
is so impregnated with oil as to lead to the
belief that petroleum also exists. Quite
mining fever has been created
Col. John Frederick Won Werder, who
served under Butcher at Waterloo, died re-
Gently in the Aged Mems Home at Baltimore.
His age was 90 years, 10 months and 1G days.
Three sisters at Mansfield, Mass, married
father and two sons; all have children, and
the neighbors are trying to figure out their re-
Atonship one with another.
Capt. Crokat who witnessed the death
of Napoleon l, aud who was the original of
the "Oficer on Guard" in Steuben's we'll
known engraving has just died at Edinburgh,
n General of 81 years of age.
One of the few survivors of the charge of
the Light Brigade at Balaklava recently COM
mitted suicide by taking laudanum at Knuts-
ford, Cheshire.
A year old child fell out of q car window
the other day near Parkersburg, Va, while
its mother was taking nap. The mother
was frantic with grief. The train was stop
ped and party went in search of the waif,
when it was found, half mile back, sitting
on pile of brush, where it had alghted
crying Justify. The child was wholly unin-
jured save a slight bruise
The will of that eccentric fourteen mil
lionaire, the late Peter Goelet of New York,
gives $500 600 to Elbridge T. Gerry, neph-
ew, and the rest of the property is to be di-
vided between two sisters and the heirs of
his brother Robert, who died first There
were no public requests.
-Geologists and mining experts have
found gold field in Canada, in the valley of
the Chandiere, Just west of the Maine line.
The field is said to be - miles wide and to
extend from the head waters of st. John riv-
or in a southwesterly direction to the Yer
mont boundary. Ex-Judge DittenhoefTer of
New York has bought $500, 600 mining
right there.
A Winnipeg (Manitoba) dispatch says
IN explosion of nitro glycerine on the Canada
Pacific, near Rat Portage, killed four men
and wounded three others seriously. The
slipping of man holding q can of nitro
glycerine caused the explosion.
Antonio Giovanni Ancarola, an Italian
padrone, was last Friday convicted in the
United States circuit court in New York of
having inveigled and kidnapped TO this coun-
try seven boys from Italy for the purpose of
making them beg in this country This is
the first conviction that has been secured un-
der the statute of 1874 which made the of
fence felony. The prisoner is liable to i'm
priSonment for five years and a fine of So
900, or as much less, both of fine and impris-
ohhlthti hS tHc COuTt may ulTcct, lie case
is TO be appealed
William Kelly, one of the Manhattan
lazy ayIi in htG Tie GsgsSaohh1 aegfSc, anu s&&&cRU
State prison at hard labor for ten years.
Dan Rice, the famous circus man, an
nounced ut St. Louis Friday night that he
had been converted, and will at once enter
the field as an evangelist He has had an in
terview with Mr. Moody and will probably
begin his new career by speaking in Moody's
meetings.
Two noted New York criminals named
Sawyer and FredeGcks, being taken from
Newark, N. j., to the Trenton prison. last
Thursday, jumped from n rapidly moving ex-
press train near Shelton and were probably
fatally hurt. They were handcutfed and
chained together by the feet, but, being al
lowed to go to the water closet, they broke
out window and climbed out OH the plat
form. The sheriff made a dash for them
there, but they broke away and sprang of,
and the train was not stopped till it reached
New Brunswick. Sawyer bit his tongue off
in the leap and bled badly, but both men man
aged to hobble into the country for conceal
ment. A farmer captured them, however,
and took them to the New Brunswick jail,
before the sheriff and force of men who
went in search of the convicts could return.