Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Rev. Enooh Pond, ID. D., for many years
president Of the Bangor theological seminary,
is dead
Nashville, Tenn, has had the highest wa
Ter for more than 20 years during the past
week, the Cumberland river reaching a point
more than 50 feet above low water mark last
Saturday. The damage to individuals is es.
tmated at 500, 600.
The greatest feat in railroad track laying
ever accomplished has just been performed
by the Southern Pacific railroad company on
the western section of their road, east of Go
mez, where 40 miles of steel rails were laid in
II days-an average OF nearly 81 miles a day.
-Clarkson N. Potter died suddenly at his
home in New York last Monday. He was an
able lawyer and prominent Democrat, aud
was for several years a member of Congress
from New York
The Cape Cod ship canal project has been
abandoned. 1t was found that it would cost
81 200, 900 more than the first estimate.
The turbine water wheel works at Orange,
Mass, were burned Tuesday night. Loss up
ward of $50, 900.
The high school building at Hartford,
Ct, was burned Tuesday morning. 1t was
erected in 1870 at q cost OF $40, 600 and an
addition costing S24, 900 was made in 1873.
1t contained a library Of 5000 volumes, val
liable scientific apparatus and the usual amount
of school property, all worth about 1921, 600.
Dover, N. H., shuts its city hall and pub
lie schools and warns all strangers to stay
away, on account Of small pox. Three deaths
from supposed measles are found to have been
malignant cases of small pox, and, as hun
dreds viewed the corpses, the scare is great.
"A colored man named Hicks, under SEN
tence of death in Kentucky, has been repriev-
ed owing to his having the small pox.
Anna Dickinson played Hamlet to large
and refined audience at Rochester, N. Y, on
Thursday night of last week. Opinion of her
performance varies all tie way from the harsh
est criticism to the warmest praise. Miss
Dickinson will play in all the principal Amer
lean cities and then 60 to Europe.
-Sprsgue's mills, at Wizards pond, Swan
| zey, N. H., we're burned Monday morning
The property included wooden mill aud box
shop, and the loss is between $50, coo and
| $50, 600; insured
The great double-track railroad and high
| way bridge over the Hudson at Albany, N. Y,
was formally opened to the public Tuesday
1t is 400 feet long, has in it the largest draw
| span in the world, and was built in eight
months at a cost of $1,000 900.
As Joseph H. W. Flint of Concord, N.
H., aud VIM. L. Howe, son of Postmaster
| howe OF TOfllhuut Me- Dartmouth bOpnO-
more, we're starting for hunt at Hanover,
N. H., last Saturday, Flint, supposing his gun
to be empty, exploded cap and discharged
the contents of his gun into the back of
Howe, inhicting wound from which Howe
| died soon afterwards. Before his death Howe
exculpated Flint, saying that the affair was
wholly accidental. Howe was one Of Dart
mouths most promising students.
The petroleum producers are said to be
down hearted; there are millions OF barrels
stored away in the oil regions, enough to sup
| ply the world for some years. Then too the
discovery of oil in Europe and the sinking OF
wells there further increases their gloom
Our oil men are therefore turning their a.ten
ton to South America as a possible market
and want to have our representatives Their,
pay special attention TO the trade in this pro
duct. But they are hardly likely TO get mucl
help in this direction some parts of Soutt
America are as rich in petroleum as the Unit
ed States, and good oil can be obtained with
out boring for it. In Venezuela, for instance
the wells are abundant and one in particular
is mentioned which yields 5000 gallons a da.
Of oil of the density required for the British
market. As Ear back as 1924 samples o
these oils wore sent TO this country, England
and France, but the method of refining wa
unknown then, and the matter was dropped