Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-22
NEWS ITEMS.

Five steamers from Europe landed 1878
emigrants at New York on Tuesday.
Tho railway bridge near Athol, Mass.
known as the ''long bridge" was burned
Tuesday.
"A verdict of $500 has been found
against the American News Company for cir
culating libelous copies of the newspaper
Truth.
Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston has de-
clined the profered professorship at Harvard
College.
The International Monetary Conference
was held in Paris Tuesday afternoon. The
French Minister of Finance presides.
1t is said that 1000 people are homeless
and suffering on account of the recent
floods in Dakota.
Mrs. Mutt, living near Camden, Ark. -,
while insane last Saturday killed five of her
children by throwing them into a well The
eldest was ~ years and the youngest II months
old.
The north wing of the Illinois southern
hospital for the insane at Anna, ILL.,, was
burned Tuesday, with one patient. The
property loss is $4,000.
Mrs Harvey, ON Sunday, put her two
year-old child on the bank of stream while
she was fishing at Alexander City, Ala. A
few hours.
"A block of business houses at Meri.
idian, Miss, was burned Monday night loss
$3.50, 600; insurance $125, 900.
-Amo Stoddard was beating his wife on
Friday night at Syracuse N. Y, when James
Vanderpool, a neighbor, went in to protect
her, and was shot by Stoddard. He died on
Sunday. Stoddard is under arrest
Over 5000 horses, an unprecedented num-
Der, have been imported TO the United States
from Canada since Jan. LIST. Their cost was
over $3.50, 900, and as the duties are 20 per
cent. ad yalorem, the United States customs
have received some $50, 900 revenue there
from.
The twelfth annual reunion of the Socie-
ty of the Army of the Potomac will be held
at Hartford, Conn, June 8. Gen. Wright
will preside and Daniel Dougherty of Phila-
delphia will be the orator.
The mother of Thomas Hughes, although
over SO years old, is so much pleased with
all she has heard of her sons Tennessee COL
ony that she has determined TO visit it next
month.
"A peculiar and heretofore unknown dis
ease has broken out among the street-car
horses of Chicago. 1t begins with swelling
just below the fetlocks, which after a little
testers and becomes a discharging sore. Il
yields slowly to skilful treatment but unless
taken early the poisonous matter spreads it.
self upward and infects the blood, causing
death.
The five persons condemned to death for
the murder of the Gar, including the woman
Sophia Perovsky, were hanged publicly at
ST. Petersburg last Friday, in the presence
of large military force and a great con-
course of people, thousands of whom passed
the night at the place of execution, in order
10 obtain good view. The prisoners were
conveyed from the fortress in two carts, with
their backs toward the horses and their hands
tied to boards on their breasts bearing the
word .'Regicide" in large letters.
-Typhus fever is giving the New York
authorities more trouble and alarm than the
steadily increasingnumbero of small-p cases.
The number of typhus patients on the island
where they are sent is already 80 great that
the force of surgeons has had TO be increased.
The disease is supposed to have come from
abroad, and it spread among discharged sail
ors and tramps who gathered every night In
free lodging house-an old church-where
several hundred of the dirtiest of human
creatures are herded together in chArity's
name in the old pews and galleries of the de-
serted sanctuary.