Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-28
IN GENERAL.

The snowfall at New Orleans last Sun
day was the heaviest in fifteen years.
The bodies of seven victims of the Alta
avalanche of last week were buried at Salt
Lake on Saturday.
The next biennial session of the Interna-
tional Convention of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association will assemble at Cleveland,
O., May 25, 1881.
Letters from Custer and Bonanza, Ida
no, dated Jan. 18th inst, describe snowslides
there which buried II persons, all but four
Of whom were rescued.
The peach-buds on the Peninsula have
just gone through their annual experience Of
all being killed-if the growers reports are
TO be accepted.
Over 100 inches, or small recesses, are
being cut in the Hoosac tunnel for the re-
treat of the workmen when trains pass after
the double track has been laid.
There is only gap of so miles between
the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
going West and the Southern Pacific coming
East. When rails are laid over this gap there
will be new all-rail connection across the
continent from ocean 10 ocean.
David Bannon, a rough, and Ed. Ryan,
a gambler, began wrestling in fun at Bodie,
Cal, last Friday, when both became angered,
drew revolvers, and with an arm about each
fatally wounded.
The Egyptian obelisk was placed in an
erect position at Central Park, New York,
last Saturday, in the presence of 5000 people.
This was the ninety-eighth day since the mon
olith had been on Manhattan Island. 1t is
yet suspended eight inches above its pedes-
tai.
MIR. Elisha Gray, the inventor of the
telephone, is said to be receiving an "enor-
nous revenue" from his invention, which he
disposes of freely for benevolent purposes.
He is about to give course of lectures on
dynamic electricity at Oberlin.
Gold in paying quantities is said TO have
been discovered in Alaska. Collector Ball of
of Sitka has sent TO Washington some fine
specimens of gold-bearing quatz of which,
he says, there are immense lodges of great
richness near the coast. Parties are already
on the ground preparing to work as soon as
the ice blockade opens.
Canada furnished more immigrants to
the United States in the last five months re-
ported from July l to November 80, 1880,
than any other country. The total immigra-
tion between those dates was 254, 46S, of
which 1862 were from Canada.
Certain predictions, apparently based
upon astronomical facts, having been made
to the effect that the end of the world is like
ly to occur this year, a newspaper CORES
pondent has been interviewing the Govern
ment astronomers at Washington in regard TO
it. Professors Hail. Eastman, Newcomb
and Hardness all ridiculed the idea.
"A few days before the recent cold snap
in the South the owner of an extensive or
ange plantation on Orange Lake, Florida,
was offered $35, 900 out of hand for the crop
of oranges then Oh the trees. He refused it.
The cold of the next few days killed all the
fruit
The stage due at Fort Cummings, N. NJ,
last Saturday, was attacked by Indians. The
driver, James Sweeney, and q passenger,
Thomas White, were killed and their dead
bodies left lying in the road. The mail was
torn open and the express packages stolen.
"A boiler exploded on Monday, Ave miles
from Long Prairies, Mimi, killing Frank OIL
iver, the engineer and seriously injuring
three others. The men were sewing fence
posts, using threshing- machine engine for
power.
Portions Of Spain have been inundated
and millions of dollars worth of property
have been destroyed. After ten days of
gales and floods a snow storm has visited
that country, and lay a foot deep in Madrid
two days ago, while in the north of Spain
railways have been blocked for twelve days.
Thomas Hughes's colonists at Rugby,
Tenn, are in trouble. Their first winter in
the new settlement is dispiriting, with inees-
SAINT rains, the unexpected cold and the al
most utter solitude to which they are con-
demned by the rampant of unbroken forest
about them. Doubts are also being thrown
out by the London press upon this expert
ment in a way likely to check the expected
emigration to the colony in the spring.
Some of the refugees who fed from the
Southern States to Kansas, last fall, are in an
unhappy plight. Many of them started 80
late in the season that they were unable to
make any adequate preparations for the win
ter before cold weather was upon them, and
in some localities there is great suffering.
In Ohetepa and Oswego five hundred refu-
gees are in danger of perishing unless help
speedily arrives four indeed having perish
cd during the late severe storm. The season
is unusually inclement and the poor people
anifar tarrihlV