Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-06-10

"A nitro-gycerine factory near Unionport,
Westchester county, N. Y, exploded Mon.
day, blowing On Italian TO pieces and fatally
injuring William Ager, the owner.
The third and last daughter Of John @.
SAKE, the poet, died at Brooklyn, last week,
OF the same disease which carried of her two
sisters, consumption.
Several farmers in Russell county, Ont,
believing that the world is coming to an end
on the 10th, have neglected putting in their
crops.
The steamship Glen Logan, from New
York May for several South American ports,
has been burned at sea of Ceara, Brazil. The
passengers and crew escaped in boats.
Mr.. George Fisher aud wife, of Mullen
berg Township, Penn, celebrated their gold
en- wedding last Sunday, and had with them
their 10 children and % grandchildren. 1t
was large family and a happy one.
There was q scrimmage between the peas
ants of Ballydehob, ireland, Wednesday, and
body Of Marines fifty strong, and the latter
were forced to retreat
"A severe storm prevailed in some por-
tions of Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland
and other places in the South, Tuesday night
and Wednesday, destructive TO life and prop
erty.
Thousands of acres of corn are under
water near Mendoza, Ill.
The revised New Testament has at last
been authorized" witness in an Ottawa
court refused to be sworn on tho King James
Bible and the court authorized the use of the
revised Testament as the witness demanded.
Governor st. John Of Kansas claims that
thus far the prohibitory liquor law of that
state has proved grand success, In Topeka,
a city Of 90, 900 inhabitants, he says there has
haav, 1,..N TO- IL.
May II, when the law went into effect
Iowa farmers are organizing against the
barbed wire monopoly. They propose to OBJ
tain machinery for barking wires and begin
the manufacture themselves.
"A Canada wedding was postponed for
week, after everybody was assembled for the
ceremony, because the brides train did not
hang properly.
Florida, having established a large and
growing market for her oranges, is now be-
ginning to ship peaches to the New York
market. A consignment arrived on Saturday
which were shipped ON the last day of May,
packed in compartment boxes like the patent
egg boxes, and each peach wrapped in cot
ton. They were apparently ms fresh as when
picked from the tree, and sold readily at two
dollars dozen.
The Republican reports that an endemic
disease, pronounced by the veterinary sur
geons to be spinal meningitis, has broken out
among the horses in Springfield, Mass. 1t
shows its presence by general debility, &C
companied by loss of appetite, and the VIC
tim is attacked with paralysis Of the legs,
while the liver and bladder are affected. Dat
of some 20 cases three have resulted fatally.
The popular interest in walking matches,
in New York at least, appears TO be dying
out. Several OF the most recent have been
conspicuous failures, and even the last Of
which the great O'LeAry was manager, and
at which the leading pedestrians surpassed all
previous records, was a losing speculation
for the protector. II is reported that toward
the close of the race the men were in such an
exhausted condition that had they been dumb
animals the society with the long name would
have ordered their withdrawal.
The coroners jury, investigating the re-
cent Bear Swamp accident on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, finds that the accident result
ed from the negligence of John II. Sutphen,
telegraph operator, and Edward Osmond, the
engineer. They further censure the Penn
sylvaniR railroad company for not employ
ing sufficient and competent force to oper-
ate the switches and signals at that station.
A terrible hail and wind storm passed
over Deadwood. OAK, Monday, doing great
damage. Hail stones the size of hens eggs
fell for over two hours, and one stone meas
ured 22 inches around. A whirlEind struck
in Deadwood gulch near the confluence of
White wood and Deadwood gulches, complete
ly destroying four houses killing the wife of
John A. Wolcott of st. Louis and seriously
injuring Mrs. Thomas. and her two young
children. Hundreds of trees on the hillside
were uprooted, and hurled in some instances
over 500 feet.
During the parade of Barnums manage
rie and circus in Salem, Mass, last Friday,
the six horses drawing the big glass cage that
held forty serpents Of various sizes, became
unmanageable and ran away. The cage was
smashed and the streets strewn with med
ley Of anacondas and other reptiles. There
was general stampede of the immense
:hrong Of spectators, even the unterrifed
small boy seeking refuge up lamp posts and
trees. The keepers succeeded, however, in
recapturing the scaly monsters without inju-
ny or loss.