Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-05-06
NEWS ITEMS.

Sarah Bernhard and her company sailed
Wednesday for France.
Paul Boyton, who escaped from the cap
tvity Of the Chilians, has arrived at New
York.
Owing to local deadlock" Troy,
N. Y. is without police force aud rogues
and roughs are happy.
The Chicago switchmen are on a strike
and the interruption to railway transporta-
ton is serious. Not car load of freight was
moved over the eastern roads Wednesday.
The floods Of East st. Louis have driven
many people from their homes, and several
merchants in the submerged district have
moved their goods TO st. Louis for safety.
"A building connected with the Maple
wood hotel property at Littleton, N. H., which
had been raised 20 feet for the purpose Of
constructing a story under II, fell Wednesday,
killing two men and severely wounding seven
others.
In Colorado il is said that "a per cent
of the cattle have survived the winter. II
this proves true Of the high lands in the arid
belt, the loss from the winter will prove far
less than has been reported
The sheriff of Clayton county, To-, start
ed for New York state with a crazy prisoner
but by the time he reached Syracuse it was
found that he himself had become violently
insane, and no and his prisoner went to the
asylum together.
The British war sloop Doterel was blown
up April 2Gth at Sandy Point in the straits OF
Magellan. The officers and crew numbered
156, all of whom persisted except IL.
Lizzie Devne with the Barnum London
circus while performing the catapault act at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, the other evening, fell upon
the netting, striking her chin upon her knee
and caus ng conclusion of the spine. Her
recovery is doubtful.
The Adams Mass smallpox scare is re-
vived by the breaking out of nine new cases.
There have been in all 81 cases within two
weeks.
"A passenger train on the Troy & Boston
railroad was derailed at Eagle Bridge station
early Tuesday morning by train-wreckers, who
misplaced the switch, but no lives were lost.
--Tolegraphic communication has been re-
sumed at Yankton, Oak, after being inter
rupted IL days. Sixty miles of telegraphic
line was destroyed, and it will not all be up in
q month, Sufferers from the flood are being
supplied with food, clothing and lodging by
government and private relief committees.
High water has done some damage at St Lou
is, and caused the shutting down OF some
manufacturing establishments The floods all
over the West are generally receding.
Richard A. Proctor, the English astrono-
mer, and Mrs Sallie d. Conway of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, niece of the confederate general
JEFF Thompson, were married at st. Joseph
Tuesday.
"A ten.year-old son of N. " Dewitt Of
Bedford county, Va, was attacked some weeks
since with pain in one OF his eyes, which
was pronounced to be neuralgia. Soon the
eye-ball burst and came out of its socket, and
soon afterward the other eye protruded, leav-
ing the child blind and in great misery from
which death relieved him last week Wednes-
day.
The "grnsshopper bulletin" is fast taking
rank with the stock and market reports in i'm
portance on the Pacific coast. Indications at
present favor the ranchmen. Black spiders,
which prey upon the 'hoppers, have made
their appearance in great numbers, and are
described by an imaginative Nevada journalist
as sitting cross-legged under every blade Of
grass, patiently waiting for the grasshopper
eggs 70 hatch, when they make short work of
the newly -Aedged 'hoppers.
Internal Revenue Collector Tracie and his
assistants have been raiding Illicit disillers in
Franklin county, Va, but failed in capturing
Dave Gillespie, notorious desperate, who
escaped from a window. A reward Of 800
is offered for Gillespie, but no one seems to
dare to touch him. He and his gang, besides
their moonshining, are saidto have commit
ted shameful outrages on defenseless colored
| people suspected of giving information. They
are accused of reviving kukluxism, masquer.
aiding in fearful DISCUSSES, whipping women
and children, dragging half-naked persons
from their homes, robbing them Of money and
other property, and driving them from the
state by threats