Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-13
NEWS ITEMS.

During dense fog on Tuesday night Of
last week, the train which left Paris at 6 o.
clock, bound for Argenteuil, collided with
traiI on the Circular railway at Clichy-Seval-
lois Up to last accounts eleven deaths had
occurred, and sixty persons were wounded.
Among the dead were two or three prominent
persons.
A fire occurred last Thursday morning in
n Chinese wash house at San Francisco, and
at last accounts the remains Of eleven China
men had been taken from the ruins.
"A negro cabin on South Carolina plan
taton was burned Tuesday, and all the in
mates, nine in humber, persisted.
Last Thursday, Ole Bull, the violinist,
attained the age of three score and ten. On
the evening Of that day few friends gave
him birthday party at the James Russell
Lowell mansion in Cambridge, Mass, where
he is residing for the winter
One hundred pounds of nitro glycerine
was tipped from sleigh near Bradford, Pa,
on Monday morning. One man was blown
to atoms, one man was badly injured, two
horses were killed and two houses were shak-
en- to pieces
The Theatre Royal at Dublin, Ireland,
was burned on Monday, and the manager,
property man and four assistants persisted in
the flames loss ON the property, $500, 900.
Three rufiians concerned in the recent
killing Of Marshal Carson at Las Vegas N.
NJ, we're taken from Jail Sunday by party
of 10 heavily armed citizens and lynched, one
of them being hanged and the other riddled
with bullets
"A Constantinople despatch reports that
during recent fete a barrack thrce-stories
high, near that city, suddenly collapsed, kill
ing 200 soldiers and wounding 300.
Rev. Edward Cowley, on trial for starry
ing and i'll treating the children in the Shep-
herds fold, N. Y, was held in $500 Tues
day, his bondsmen being Rev. Dr. Morgan
Dix and Rev. DR.. Robert s. Rowland, who
| qualified in $4,000. Cowloy sent in his res
! ignation as superintendent Of the Shepherds
| fold and it was accepted. committee Of
women has been appointed to take charge of
| the institution.
Andrew Smith, who for twelve years has
! been the town treasurer of North Andover
Mass, and postmaster for longer period, is
| a defaulter he has confessed his crime, and
is under arrest
A body of masked men broke into the
| house of the notorious Donnelly family in
Lucan, Ont, Tuesday night Of last week, and
murdered the four inmates, while n son Of
the family, living three miles distant, was
shot and killed at about the same time Ar
|
The body of Miss Dolly Hartman of AL
| leghany City, Pa, was cremated in the late
DIR. lie Moyne's furnace at Washington, Pa.
Saturday, in the presence of her parents,
three brothers and other friends.
Two Quebec children, while coasting in
| Waller street last week were suddenly over
whelmed by an avalanche Of snow and in the
twinkling of an eye they were covered by
twelve feet of snow. By good fortune they
had been seen, and the most desperate eff
forts were made to get them out alive. 1t
took ten minutes digging by as many strong
men as could work at the task TO get to where
the Little ones lay; and they were insensible
and their faces quite black when the air was
opened to them but they were living
Charley said good-natu Boston
man to his son, about six months ago, there
is a package of railroad bonds, the face val
ne OF which is $50, 600 As they will never
be worth anything in Giy day, you may keep
them for your children" Charley put them
in his strong box. On Monday last he was
informed by broker that they were worth
just S27, $50.
The other day, Mr.. Asa Dyer of Little
Chebeague Island was OF Grow Island on
the Maine coast, he caught sight of shark
just in front of his boat. Springing to his
feet, he seized n long boat hook and struck at
eye 30 deeply that he was held fast and Mr..
Dyer brought it in tow TO Little Chebeague
Island, where it was dragged ashore and kill
ed The shark measured thirteen feet and
four inches in length.
Great Britain, the United States, France,
Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy, Holland,
Sweden, Denmark Belgium, Spain, Portu-
gal Greece, and Chill have agreed to n new
code of sea signals and rules OF the road -
-. g,,t, l,
side signalling with color,d lights, n set of
blasts from the steam whistle or fog horn,
whose numbers and length of duration talk
plainly.
The highest inhabited place in the world
is Galora, a railway village in Peru, 1865
feet above the sea. Near it tunnel 3si7
feet long is being bored through the peak of
the mountain, 600 feet above the perpetual
snow line. A miners habitation on Mount
Lincoln, Colorado, is i,lj7 feet above the
| sea.
German Geographic engineers have lately
been experimenting with aluminium as a ma
terial for telegraph wires. This metal can
| easily be drawn out to a very much finer
gauge than is possible with iron, and its con
ductibility is twice rs great as that of iron
wire. Its excessive cost has hitherto prevent.
ed its use for the purpose indicated, but it is
found that an alloy of aluminium and iron
can easily be made, which will produce wire
both finer and stronger and less susceptible
to atmospheric changes than iron wire, while
it is much superior as a conducting medium.
A shocking murder and probable outrage
was committed at Londonderry, n. H., on
Saturday afternoon last. Mrs. Sarah Dilling-
ham, an estimabe lady, was strangled and
shot through the head by her nephew, 20
] years of age. The monster confesses that he
killed his aunt, but pretends that he did it ac-
cidentally. The position of the woman, how
ever, gave the lie to his story. He is under
arrest.
The northern railway lines have been
taxed to their utmost of late by the enormous
quantities of freight bound from the West to
the seaboard. One thousand freight cars
passed over the Northern railway last week,
Notwithstanding the heavy snow storm and