Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
TIE NEWS Nv nnIEF.

-Gardiner Me-. was visited by disas
trous fire Monday. 1t started iii a planning
mill in q cluster of manufactures and swept
over 20 acres of territory, including all the
manufactures on the lower dam. Three hun
dred or 400 men are thrown out of employ
ment, 60 dwellings were burned and the loss
is upward of 100000.
AT colored camp meeting at Eastman,
Ga. last Sunday, deputy marshal shot at
fleeing prisoner named Jake Tarropy, killing
him. This Infatuated the mob, who ran the
deputy into house, where an innocent white
man named James Harvard was shot and
beaten to death. The negroes mistook him
for the deputy.
"A circus performer made an ascent on a
trapeze attached to a balloon at Maysville,
Ky, Saturday, and in descending was drown
ed in the Ohio river.
The army worm is making heavy ravages
in the vicinity of Pine Plains, N. Y. Farmers
are compelled to harvest their oats before
they are fully ripe. The extreme drouth is
proving disastrous to corn and potatoes in
Duchess county.
The crew of the ship Northern Light,
bound from New York to Yokohama, which
put in at New London, Conn, for repairs,
mutinied on Monday morning. and fatally
stabbed the first mate. The murderer was
taken in custody by the revenue cutter at that
place.
AT Montville, Conn, Peter Grows wife
died and within week Peter married again.
A mob took him from bed and tarred and
feathered him.
AT Tarpot, Penn, William Hall ATTEMPTED
| to outrage a six-year-old girl. He was tarred
| and feathered and driven out of town.
"A train of seventeen cars, heavily laden
la. 81 hla xubila
| ing down heavy grade on the Cranberry
Road in Pennsylvania last Friday, and ran
| away The wreck was strewn promiscuouslY
along the road for two miles, and at the end
| of that distance the engine plunged into
standing cars, creating sad havoc. Six men,
| including the conductor, were instantly killed
and thirteen others wero badly injured,
Glove prize fights, after the manner Of
a late contest between Sullivan and Wilson
in New York, are forbidden in that city il
future. The city authorities have been ex
aiming the law, and find that such contests
are illegal, being essentially the same as pri2'
fight contests without gloves SO Mr.. TuG
Wilson of England, who made $40 a
the first prize fight with Sullivan, and ex
pected to continue in the same business viii
have to look up some other place to displa!
his powers of endurance.
"A heavy storm extended over a large por
ton of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New
York on Monday. At Harrisburg, Easton
Northampton, and Scranton, Pa, and Mid
dletown, N. Y, buildings were struck b.
lightning and burned, cellars flooded an
roads washed.
The steamer Gold Dust, from Vicksbur
to St. Louis, exploded her boiler just afte
leaving Hickman, KY, Monday. Several per
sons were killed outright and At were scalded
The missing numbered IS.
Last Friday was one of the hottest day
ever known in the White Mountain region
the mercury ranging from $50 up into tn
nineties, The hot day was followed in To
evening by remarkable display of northern
lights.
Lightning struck the spire of the Presby
teran church at Stamford, Conn, on MOI
day, and the church was set on fire and burn
cd. Two men are supposed to have perishe
in the flames
More than four times the average d
struction of life by lightning has already o.
Cured in the United States this season.
"A water spout flooded the district tN
miles wide near Shelby o., Monday evening
destroying crops and creating considerable
, among the people.
| Two men, while attempting to climb ov
r the railing of the Tuileries gardens at Parl
, during a. display of fireworks, on sunda
caught hold of an electric wire used in Il
= illumination of the grounds, and both we
struck dead instantly.
The heat has been intense at Winnept
( during the last few days. On Wednesdi
last the mercury registered 104 in the shat
at noon.
8 Secretary Chandler has cabled Unit
. States Minister Hunt at st. Petersburg tn
g Congress made provision for bringing hon