Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-07
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
A dozen Indian girls have Just entered
the Asheville IN. ca Female College.
Disastrous hurricanes are reported in
South Carolina and Texas.
Five Cinnamon have filed declarations in
the New York Superior Court announcing
their intention to become citizens.
-Kalloch has been held without bail for
the murder of De Young at San Francisco.
The worst storm known there for years
prevailed on Long Island Sound last Tuesday
night
There were 442 births, lS2 marriages
and jG2 deaths in New York city last week
Cattle are perishing in parts of Greys-
borough county, Nova Scotia, fodder being
very scarce
From the 18th of November last to April
- firm at Belleylle, Ont, shipped to Eng
land II, 22i cattle and 4, POI sheep, valued at
81, 1905 600.
Crop reports from Alabama are to the
effect that all the growing crops are several
weeks behind last year. and the weather is
still unfavorable.
There were snow squalls along the Hud-
son river at Garrisons, n Y, on Saturday,
May LIST. The Catskls were covered with
snow, and ice formed on the farms in the in
terror.
Joe Smith, son of the original Joe Smith,
dedicated "A church of Latter Day Saints, or
Joe Smith Mormons, at Chicago on Sunday
This is the first regular church of this sect in
that city
Jose phi Scigman, the wealthy New York
Jewish banker, whom Judge Hilton snubbed
and turned away from his Grand Union hotel
at Saratoga, two or three years ago, is dead
His funeral took place on Tuesday, and was
attended by many representative men.
At least thirteen bands of brgands are
actively and proftably at work in Spain.
Rev. w. II. II. Murray is said to be
weary of his life in London and anxious to
return to Boston. His Bridgeport friends
would be glad to help him out of his financial
difficulties if he would come home and face
the music.
Mr. James II. Osgood has Withdrawn
from the well known publishing house of
Houghton, Osgood a Co., and the new style
of the firm is Houghton, Miffiin * Co. Mr..
Osgood will become the head of a new firm
to carry on the heliotype business.
A shocking case of cruelty is reported
from Lawrence Mass, the victim being
young woman named Eta Wood, 20 years old
who was confined in the cellar of boarding
house i'll that city kept by Mrs. Kennon,
deprived of all proper clothing and other
comforts, terribly beaten and otherwise ill
used The discovery was made by woman
who, passing the house, was appealed to by
the girl looking from the cellar window for
assistance.
The dwelling Of Mr.. Fulton, farmer,
was burned on Tuesday near Uxbridge, Ont
Two of his children persisted in the flames.
h..
is said to have married the daughter of his
landlady in Buenos Ayres. He has wife liy-
ing at Newton, Mass.
In all the Roman Catholic churches at
Quebec on Sunday, at high mass, a lengthy
pastoral was read from the Archbishop of
Quebec against all excursions and pleasure
parties evening walks and drives on Sundays
and fast days, under pain of committing
very greivous sin.
1t is now said that the Princess Louise
has not by any means recovered from the
shock caused by the sleigh accident of last
winter, and will have to keep very quiet for
some time to come.
B. p. Cheney, the well-known express
manager has sent his check for $50, 900 TO
Dartmouth College.
Mrs. George Woodruff of Penn Yam, n Y,
who is evidently insane, drowned her two
young children on Tuesday, in a cstern in
her own house, and would have taken her
own life if she had not been discovered
An insane colored woman in Christians
burg, Va, on Monday boted the doors and
set fire to her house, burning herself and five
children to death.
The Board of Supervisors of San Fran
cisco have resolved to impeach Mayor Kalloch
for his incendiary, unpatriotic utterances to
the Sand Lot ruttiang and for nc
and unprincipled conduct generally.
Philadelphia proposes to put some of its
convicts at work cleaning its streets, and ex-
poets to make a saving of at least $3.50 900
per year.
The eXpasperated owner of corner
store in Augusta, Me-, has put up sign read
ing: Wanted, the 10 LATEST men in town
to loaf on this corner"
Henry c. Rich, while intoxicated, was
strangled to death by getting his coat caught
in the door latch and falling down, at his
house, Salisbury, Conn, no help arriving I'M
til life was extinct. He leaves a wife and four
children.
1t is estimated that ,, 400 persons were
converted at Moody and Sankey's meetings
in st. Louis. Mr.. Moody spoke lGs times
and addressed 1917, 600 people.
The railroads are running extra and Sun
day trains to carry West the emigrants who
have oyercrowded the landing capacities o.
Castle Garden, N. y. The arrivals in April
reached the unprecedented number of 49,
IFS.
Last Friday a mouder fell into kettle
of molten iron at a Montreal foundry, and
both he and his brother who went to his as
| sistance, were fatally burned. woman
standing at her door, saw their disfgured
| forms carried by to the hospital and hastily
handing her child to a neighbor exclaimed :
Take my child my eyes are turning yell
low" She fell dead from fright.