Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-03
THE NEWS I'm BRIEF.

Mime. Ermina Mansfield Rudersdorf,
formerly a soprano singer of great success in
the Old World, who came to Boston to sing
at the Peace Jubilee in 1872, died in the lat.
ter city on Sunday She was woman held
in high respect both in and out of her pro-
fesson.
Some patriotic (?) iconoclast celebrated
Washngton's birthday-at nightly defac-
ing the monument recently erected at Tappan,
New York, to mark the spot where Major
Andre was hanged during the Revolutionary
war
The bodies of the family swept off in the
Big Cottonwood snowside in Utah have been
recovered from under forty tons of snow.
They were not frozen, but lying naturally in
bed, the husband, wife, and infant in one
bed, and two boys and two girls, the eldest
eleven years old, in another. 1t is evident
they were smothered instantly in their sleep
"A heavy wind, rain and hail storm pre-
vailed at jackson, Vicksburg and Byram,
Miss, Tuesday, doing much damage to the
shipping at Vicksburg and destroying the
depot and injuring some houses at Byram.
-Winslow, the well-kuown Boston forger,
is now making money in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, and is living comfortably By fair
dealing he is gradually getting back into pop
ularity. He speaks 1uently the Spanish Ian
guage, and edits the best paper in the place.
His second wife clings to him, although she
knows his first wife is living.
Edward Malley's store at New Haven,
Conn, one of the largest in New gland,
was burned Tuesday morning Loss nearly
quarter of million dollars
Over 5000 children of the Atlanta, Ga,
public schools celebrated the seventy fifth
birthday of the poet Longf How, Monday.
A he oil H., =. T.. Al.
French Senate and Chamber of Deputies, on
Sunday, the Republicans of various shades
were successful in all cases except one.
In Plantsville, Conn, Sunday, two girls,
aged and ., and boy, aged 10, children of
John Collins, coasted down hill and across
pond. The ice broke and the little girls
were drowned.
AT Stamford, Conn. recently, lady pas
senger would not heed the advice of Superin-
tendent Bentley, of the New London North
ern railroad TO get aboard the train before it
began to get in motion, but waited till it had
started, when she ran after it, catching hold
Of the rear railing of the car instead of the
forward one, and was thrown between the
cars. Mr.. Bentley, at tho risk of his own
life, Immediately grasped her, and by super
human efforts succeeded in rescuing her. The
lady escaped unframed, but Mr.. Benteys
arm was painfully injured.
"A queer document, the will of the late
Charles A. Read Of Newton, has been filed at
Cambridge, Mass. He leaves to his son and
widow each $40, 900 and gives small sums to
several relatives. To the town of Newton he
bequeaths $40, 900. the income of which is TO
keep his burial lot in order, give an annual
picnic or seigh-ride to Newton Corners little
ones-which is not to cost more than $500
buy new books for the public library of New
ton and help the towns poor widows. The
children, public library and widows of Salem,
his native town, are similarly provided for
by bequest of S4O.0 900. To his physician he
leaves $500 Oh condition that his head be sew
cred from his body, las l have great hor-
ror of being buried alive" The rest of his
estate, about $50, 600, he wills to the treasur-
err Of the United States to be applied to the
reduction of the national debt