Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

tween Bud and Henry Barrett brothers, at
Louisville, KY, resulted in the former being
shot dead and the latter fatally wounded.
George II. Willett of Glens Falls, N. Y,
charged with the murder of John b. Pair, last
December, has been found guilty in the first
degree. Willet was the paramour of Pairs
daughter who was his own niece.
The factory of the German harmonica
company at Millers Falls, Mass. was burned
by an incendiary last Thursday morning; loss
$40, 600, insurance 100000.
"A fire originating in the feed-room of the
4th avenue car stables at New York, Monday
evening, destroyed the stables and the neigh
boring storage warehouse of John H. Morrell.
Some 200 horses were burned The loss
is estimated at upward of 81, 10000 In the
Morrell warehouse was painting owned by
VIM. H. Vanderbilt said to have been valued
at S55, 900, and great quantities of rich fur
niture, objects Of art, etc, stored there by
New York families. The best families of the
city, when travelling or out of town, deposit
ed their Valuables at Morrelrs and took their
own risks.
DR.. Buchanan, who pleaded guilty to sell
ing bogus medical diplomas, was sentenced
last Monday, at Philadelphia, to years i'm
prisonment and a fine of $1,000. He has al
ready been in prison IL months for conspira-
cy to defraud the government.
Edward A. Freeman, the English histo
riau, arrived IN New York on Friday. He has
two cours of six lectures each for delivery
in this country.
The Washington light infantry of
Charleston, S. o., will carry with them TO
Yorktown Col William Washington's battle
flag which was in the cavalry charges at the
battles of Cowpens and Eutaw Springs a hun
bred years ago. and it is believed to be the
only revolutionary battle flag now in existence
in condition for use on parade
"A new impulse has been given to the
Boston worlds exposition of 1856 by Gen.
Francis A. Walkers acceptance of the presi-
dency.
Five masked burglars entered the house
of Allen Fairbanks at Wheaton, ILL.,, at 100
Wednesday morning They tied and gagged
Fairbanks, his wife and two hired girls. aud
robbed him of $10,O 900 in government bonds
and large quantity of silver. The thieves
used torture in order to force the victim to
disclose the whereabouts of his money.
A mill was burned on Randolph street
Philadelphia, Wednesday night, and several
of the operatives were seriously, perhaps IA
tally, injured. There was great excitement
on the occasion.
The wholesale provision firm of Wash
iugton Butchers Sons, Philadelphia, the
largest house in the city, has failed, with liza
bilities exceeding $1,000,000.
The Rev Dr. Thomas of Chicago, after
due trial, was formally expelled from the
ministry and from the Methodist church
Wednesday, by the Rock River conference,
for preaching his disbelief in the doctrine of
| an eternal hell He has appealed TO the ju-
dical conference and if the verdict there goes
against him he can take the case up to the
general conference, which, however, does
not meet until 1884
The shipping of internal machines on
| British vessel two months ago, which the
public had almost lost sight of in the view of
weightier matters, turns out to be merely
plot to cheat the English government out of a
| large sum of money. English and American
| detectives have discovered that there was
conspiracy involving O'Donovan Rosa OF
New York, Patrick Grove of Peoria, ILL.,, and
Peter H. Foye of Philadelphia, to ship the
| machines and then, through one of their
number, who should turn traitor for the time,
obtain a reward from English officials for in
forming. Foye seems to have held the I'M
envabie position of informer and to have
| been successu in his work, obtaining &c.
600 from the British authorities.
The post-ofice department has just or
| dered the compensation of one of Dorseys
star routes in Arizona to be reduced S24,O
per annum. The order goes into effect Nov. /.
"A Methodist Episcopal preacher in
Pueblo, Col, adopted the original expedient,
few Sundays ago, of having the choir sing
the morning hymn from the steps in front of
the church to attract congregation,
California has railway in the tree tops.
In the upper part of Sonoma county, between
the Clipper Mills and Stuarts Point, where
railroad crosses a deep ravine, the trees are
sawed of on a level and the timber and tiles
laid on the stumps. In the centre of the ra-
vine two huge redwood trees, standing side
by side form a substantial support, and they
are cut off seventy five feet above the ground,
and cars loaded with heavy saw logs pass ov-
ar them with as much security as If the
bridge were framed in the most scientific
manner.
The intelligence that the Warsaw N. Y,
salt we'll company has struck salt at the depth
of 1853 feet, in such position as TO warrant
the belief that the belt extends throughout
western New York has spread no little con-
sternation among the salt monopolists OF that
State
-Postmaster-G eneral James has instructed
postmasters to correct misdirected letters when
possible, and forward them to their proper
destination, instead of sending them to the
dead letter office, as has been the rule.
referring to the suggestion that the en-
blems of mourning all over the land be TAX
en- down and sent to the Michigan sufferers,
the New Haven Register says; "a Michigan
sufferer clad in white cambria pantaloons and
black alpaca overcoat digging himself out OF
the winters snow would be more picturesque
than comfortable-but he'd keep up his rep
utaton as a sufferer"
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A Coon ISvEsrMHNr One OF our prominent bust
ness men said to us the other day; "In the sPfint