Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13
NEWS ITE N y.

There were 5l oil wells completed in
May, in Pennsylvania.
A turtle : feet long and > feet broad.
weighing 500 pounds, was caught in the Del
aware river below Philadelphia, last week
-Solowjef the fellow who made the re-
cent attempt on the Cars life, was hanged in
st. Petersburg Monday morning.
News from Rio Janero is to the effect
that the coffee crop has been seriously dam
aged 10y rain and hail storms
A gang of eight young robbers, who con-
fess to having committed over 100 burglaries
and larcenies at Buffalo, n Y. and vicinity
have been arrested by the police, who are
looking for more of them.
While a woman was driving toward her
home in Chester county, Pa, Saturday night
the contents of her wagon-cottOn and straw
caught fire, her horse ran away, and the
poor woman was roasted to death in the We
hicle.
-Goveruor "Blue.Jeans" Williams of In
diana is becoming etleminate. He has dis
oardod his blue Jeans coat and dOnned one of
cashmere with velvet collar.
The Legislature of Texas having passed
n Moffett liquor law similar to the one in OPP
Grafton in Virginia, Mr. F. ID. johnson of
Culpepper, Va, has contracted with the Tex
ms authorities to make and deliver eight
thousand Moflett registers by September at
ten dollars each.
A shocking affair occurred near Wheat
land, California, Monday night. The cham
Der where two young ladies were sleeping was
entered by some miscreant, who beat them
nearly to death with an iron bar and attempt
ed to outrage them.
The director of the mint thinks the pro-
duction of the gold and silver mines for the
current fiscal year will be $50 600 600 less
than last year.
Governor General Lorne helped lay the
corner stone of the Queens University at
Kingston, Ont, last week, and received in
exchange the degree of LID.
The Mississippi schools have 100, GIG
white pupils and 104, 100 colored. The white
school population of the State is 1873, 1856, the
cOlored 100, 0SS.
John Miles, the Mormon, who married
three wives at one time, in Salt Lake City
last winter, has been convicted of bigamy
and sentenced to the penitentiary for ) years
and fine of 500.
The l0lst anniversary of the evacuation
of Valley Forge, will be celebrated June 18th.
The memorial services are to be under the di-
rection of the Grand Lodge of Masons of
Pennsylvania.
- IOl IllttuCOCh Ol dartmouth OOleBe
who has been classifying and arranging the
specimens of bird tracks at Mount Holyoke
Seminary, finds about GO species of tracks on
about 300 specimens of slabs
Reports of the cotton crop in the South
ern States are very favorable, and show a
generally increased acreage of from two to
five per cent over last year. The crop is in
good progress, and promises full yield.
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railroad, one having in his care bag con-
tanning $40, 900, and the other acting as his
protector, were attacked on Wabash avenue,
Chicago, last Saturday, by couple of high
waymen, who threw red pepper in their eyes,
knocked them down, and fled with the mon
ey. The robbers have since been captured
A violent and destructive hail and wind
storm visited some sections of Kansas Mon
day. A strip of country a mile wide near
Topeka was badly injured, hogs, chickens,
etc, being killed, and the crops destroyed.
In the vicinity of Wachita the hail stones
weighed from to ~ ounces, and metallic
roofs even were badly damaged. At Law
renee the steeple of the Baptist church was
| blown of, and the State university and 9TH
err buildings were damaged.
A shocking tragedy was enacted last Fri
day in Carter county, Ky. A well-to-do far
mer became infatuated with courtesan and
attempted to take her TO his house. The in
| jured wife resented the insult, and the hus-
band threatened her with knife. The wife
thereupon seized a hatchet, and knocking him
| down with the back of it, endeavored to es-
cape. He, however, recovered and rushed
after her, when she turned to protect herself
and struck him over the head with the SHARP
edge of the weapon, cleaving his skull and
| killing him.