Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-23


ed in u coai mine al BrRiiwood H.. last Fri
day. The country about the mine Is fat and
water from the great rains aud thaws covered
il 10 a depth vary from three inches 20 SIX
feet. converting the prairie into a great lake
and perIG eating the ground IL every dre ctlou.
While lying on their backs, picking away al
the coal above. the earth must hav, fallen on
the miners, and through the opening thus
made the water poured IN, filling on. gang
way after another, thus cutting of escape to
the central shaft. Little time WAS given for
an alarm. every avenue Of escape being cut
of almost immediately. Donkey pumps were
at once set to work to pump out the mine and
the families Of the drowned men were looked
up and cared for
Five men we're killed by black damp"
in a Nova Scotia coal mine last Saturday As
they were entering the shaft to begin work
the damp struck them, and they fell dead
The Cramer house al Albia. Ia. was burn
ed Sunday loss $40 900 Several persons
were slightly injured.
At school meeting in Young county.
Tex. las. week. the usual differences Of op.u-
ion developed, iu due course rpvolvers were
drawn and there was d general melee, during
which the teacher was killed aud three Others
wounded
The food epidemic has reached China.
The Yellow river burst It's levees near the city
Of Wutuug, flooding az area equal to 100
miles square
A terrible accident occurred at Walling
ford c., six miles from Merdeu, little after
/ . o'clock Sunday morning, the east bound
Boston train killing three young persons and
il Turing another. The party were just return
ing from ride to Merideu il q double sleigh.
A. they were crossing the track just below the
depot, the train struck the sleigh throwing
it and its occupants about 100 feet One Of
the young men was picked up dead another
died soon after, and one of the young ladies
lived only until > o'clock. All were under 20
years Of age.
The great iron firm of John V. Ayres d
Sons, Chicago Ill.,, has failed. Liabilities,
$1,000, 900.
-Four children were burned 10 death in
their home a. Bracket Tex. last Saturday
night The mother was compelled to witness
the terrible scene, the flames having cut her
of from the room. The fire was caused by
the explosion Of a kerosene lamp.
The season is very forward at Columbia,
S. c., peach trees being in full bloom on the
18th inst.
Gov. Butler Of Massachusetts, has appoint
ed Thursday, April ., as Fast day.
Mrs Herold, mother Of David Herold,
who was executed July ;, 1865, for participa-
ton il the Booth conspiracy TO assassinate
President Lincoln, is dead.
The first prize fight between Cinnamon
in this country came of at Philadelphia last
Saturday night in the presence of 40 specta-
tors, who paid 81 apiece. The contestants
were Loo Hing a washermRn, and Hi Sing
Foou, an ironer After a desperate but un
scientific battle of II rounds, Loo Hing gave
up, and rumor of police raid caused 8
sudden scattering of the spectators.
The latest news from jumbo, now in
winter quarters in Bridgeport, Conn, is that
he is growing fast is seven inches taller than
when he came TO this country and weighs
1900 lbs more. He has never been fractions
and makes a row if the baby elephant is taken
out of his sight,
The estate of the late ex- Governor Mar
shall Jewell is estimated at half million dol
lars.
The president, the cashier and the book
keeper Of the wrecked City Bank, of Jersey
City, n. j., plead guilty in court Monday ant
were sentenced to ten, SIX and four years re
spectively in state prison. It is only sil
weeks since their crime was discovered.
New Orleans, according TO a citizen, il
now arrayed in the delicate garnture o!
spring, Niolets are blooming in myriads, the
sweet olive lavishes upon every passing breeze
its faint but ravishing perfume, while ever
the roses are blushing into perfect flower,
A throng of $4,000 temperance people
welcomed ex-Gov. St. John Of Kansas to Bos
ton in the Mechanics building yesterday.
-FOrty-two conviets employed in the laun
dry of the Sing Sing n, Y. prison rebelled
Monday and refused TO work, but were sooI
overcome by Warden Brush and his assist
ants and locked up in their calls Tuesday
so convicts employed in the shoe-shop re,
VOTED but were soon oyerpOwered and also
locked up. More trouble is feared. The
warden claims that the rebellion is a legiti
mate result Of the recent investigation into
the prison discipline Of the state by the leg
i-lauvt committee He says that one Of The
rebels told him that they had been told by q
member Of the legislative investigating com
mittee that the warden would be hereafter
forbidden 10 punish them, aud that they
could do as they pleased without fear of the
consequences,