Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-24

The wife of ex-senator Sprague of
Rhode Island has at length petitioned for a
divorce.
Robert Toombs of Georgia has given a
thousand acres of Texas land to aid in found
ing university in that state.
-Rev. Taluage of Brooklyn is to be tried
again on tine charge of lying.
North Adams is greatly excited over the
arrest of II. g. Walden, deputy sheriff and
chief engineer of the fire department, for in
cendiarism. Walden is reported to have
made a confession
The diphtheria is raging in Brooklyn,
n. Y, and vicinity. Last week $50 cases
and 30 deaths We're reported.
jay Gould now has 10, 600 miles of rail
road under his control, or q ninth Of the en-
tire railroad mileage of the country.
The Union loss during the Rebellion was
327, 1874 the rebel nearly POO, 600. This is
the recently verified official account
The band of adventurers who wish to
dispossess the Indians of their lands in
Oklahoma have settled down in camp for the
winter at Caldwell, Kansas.
The net earnings of the Pennsylvania
Railway, east of Plttsburg and Erie, for
eleven months of this year are 81, 7S3, 2SS
greater than for the corresponding period of
last year.
Lizzie Barton, the leader Of n desperate
gang of Dewitt county (ll) horse thieves,
who has Just been arrested is but II years
old and has every appearance of modest
backwoods country girl. But she began run
ming of horses when only ten years old, has
escaped from jail several times, and has also
pilfered watches and other valuables.
Part of the crew of the barque Bristol
iau, wrecked at Anticosta Nov. %, have reach
oil n,,ahao t.4ll Ia of fearful ha shiDg
| The vessel was struck by u fearful gale, Nov.
| -, which froze the sails so that they could
| not be handled aud washed Thomas Smith, a
young seaman, overheard The rest of the
crew dashed themselves to the bark, which
was swept by the waves and gradually went
| to pieces. John Evans, Thomas Anderson and
| u. McQuillrn being frozen to death, and the
rest more or less frost-bitten. The survivors
launched boat and got ashore after some
hours, but Evans their cook, died before they
could reach house, whore they were kindly
cared for, though four were so badly frozen
| that they have not yet recovered.
-Elizabcthtown, Ky. was the scene of &
terrible TRACE y on Tuesday. David j. Car
t.r and Bud Harrington, both highly re.
| spect,d farmers, had lawsuit After the
hearing they quarreed and Harrington drew
a pistol and shot Carter, the ball entering hi
mouth and coming out at the back of hi
neck. Young Carter, son of the wounded
man, ran home and returned in a few min
utes with a double barreled shot gun, boil
barrels of which lie discharged into the bod!
of Harrington, apparently killing him instant
ly. He fell seemingly lifeless and laying per
fectly still where he had fallen but the OLE
man Carter seized smiths sledge lying nea
by, walked up to the remains, deliberatel.
crushed the head of his victim and then fel
over him apparently in dying condition.
-Birge Sons wallpaper factory on Per
ry street, Buffalo, and John b. Manning
adjoining malt-house were burned at & o'clocl
last Friday night, killing, fatally injuring AM
burying at least IL persons and manning
dozen or SO more. The paper factory EN-
ployed $50 men and boys, and 20 minutes al
ter the alarm was given the building was
mass of flames, compelling many to jun
from the windows and upper stories an'
burying half-dozen when the walls fell in
The doors to the different rooms were hun
to swing in and each had heavy spring clos
ing them, which hindered escape. Tn
building was also without fire escapes of an
kind and those in the upper stories, unabl
to escape appeared for a moment at the wiz
dows and then sank back suffocated in tn
smoke and fire.