Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-14
NEWS ITEMS.

Generals Grant and Sheridan will attend
the Wisconsin soldiers reunion on June 8.
Ex-senator Christiancy has commenced
suit for divorce from his wife.
Three steamships, carrying l, 7O2 head of
cattle, sailed last Saturday from Montreal for
England.
Two lads of years were burned to
death on Saturday in barn near Rochester,
N. Y, which they set on fire by playing with
matches.
The trial of Clarence Davis, noted biga-
mist, was ended at Chicago on Saturday by a
verdict of guilty. The prisoner, who is said
to have thirteen wives, and against whom
three marriages were proved, was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
The Prince of Wales is very DESTROYS of
making another visit to the United States.
President Hayes and Cabinet and Gov
ernor General Lorne of Canada will be invit-
ed to attend the celebration of the 25Oth an
niversary of the settlement of Boston, Sep
TENDER I.
-Four miners were fatally burned last
Friday 10y an explosion of fre-damp in the
Henry colliery at Shamokin, Pa.
Grace Britain, counted the oldest woman
in New Jersey, died recently, at Lambertville,
aged 1O5.
A part of the roof of the st. Gothard tun-
mel, $500 meters from the south entrance,
fell last week Thursday, killing three work
men.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on
Wednesday by cowardly assassin to kill the
Spanish consul in New York by means of an
internal machine.
The destruction of property by fire in the
Pennsylvania oil region during the past week
hoe baat, ir,Vn He, Il O.,
day and swept from well to well and from
tank to tank, defying for two days all attempts
to stay its progress. On Tuesday it was
thought to have spent its force, but it started
afresh on Wednesday, and is still doing its
work of destruction The unprecedented
drouth in New Jersey and PENNSYLVANIA fur
nishes fresh impetus to the forest fires. which
are devastating large tracts Of territory.
A smart shock of earthquake was felt at
Newburyport Mass and neighboring towns
early on Wednesday morning. The disturb
ance lasted five or six seconds.
The late NJ T. General Conference at
Cincinnati elected the following bishops
Rev Cyrus d. Foss, ID. D., IL d., president
of Wesleyan University, Mddletown, Conn.
Rev. John f. Hurst, president of the Drew
Theological Seminary, Madison, n. j.. DIR. f.
| O. Haven, chancellor of Syracuse University
and Rev. Henry w. Warren, d. d., of Phila-
delphia.
A party of roughs who attempted to
| cross over into Canada, Tuesday, for "A prize
| fight, were prevented from landing by the
| Canadian militia, who discovered the point
| they were aiming at, and were drawn up in
line on the shore. The brutal gang were dis
| appointed, and went back to Erie and BuiTa.
! 10, cursing the Canadians and their own i'll
| luck.
-Four men were sufIocated by fire in q
St Louis lodging house Monday night
While party Of men and two boys were
at work just outside Of Fort MclIenry, Balti
more on Tuesday, breaking up a quantity OF
condemned shells which junk dealer had
| purchased, one exploded killing six persons
and wounding two others They had been
warned Of their danger.
Another and very destructive fire has oc
CURED in the neighborhood Of Santiago de
| Cuba. The village of San Luis is entirely de
stroyed, 300 houses being burned. Sever
| persons persisted.
1t is reported that six hundred peopl,
| have died from starvation in one of the Per
sian provinces since last January. The fam
inc is increasing.
A fearful storm prevailed in Oregon OF
the 18th inst On the fishing grounds at the
mouth of the Columbia river, y fishermen
are known TO have been drowned. and .
bodies have been recovered
During murder trial at Patterson, n. j.
last week, one of the jurors became insane
The trial was stopped and the juror dismiss
ed.
At the late term of the supreme court in
Boston, there were POI divorce cases.