Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-13

substitute for the horse railway. and regard.
ed as q much more agreeable substitute than
the elevated road The cable runs at the rate
of seven miles per hour
Postmaster Pearson Of New York on
Saturday sent requisition to Washington
for p, 220, 600 stamps, representing a value
of S453, 900. 1t was the largest requisition
ever made in this country.
1t is stated that New York bunko men
have been swindling strangers who go to the
terminus of the East river bridge to see the
structure out of So 900 or more per week
One week the swindlers got Sl9 900.
The Gar accompanied by the Czarina
visited st. Petersburg Friday and passed
through the streets in an open carriage with
out escort. The Gar made scarcely any re.
Spouse to the salutes Of the public.
Riley, Pebbles a Co 8 boot aud shoe fac
tory at Natick, Mass was half burned down
Tuesday and nearly 500, 600 worth of ma.
chinery was damaged or wholly destroyed
Fifty square miles of prairie have been
burned over north Of Lincoln, Neb, and ma
ny barns, granaries and ay-stecks have been
destroyed. Mrs. Dalton a farmers wife
was sufiocated while fighting the fire, and
many other accidents are reported.
Samuel Lewis, a negro murderer, was
taken from jail Monday night at Anderson
station, Ala. and lynched by a mob of -
blacks and whites
George Smith, who murdered a young
Mississippi preacher was shot dead at Vicks-
burg, Tuesday while trying to escape.
"A recent tornado in Arkansas DESTROYED
a vast amount of property in districts remote
from railroad and telegraph Offices, especial
ly in the section east of Hot Springs. Sew
oral persons were killed
About - of the prominent lumbermen
of Maine, New Hampshire Vermont and
Rhode Island met in Portland Tuesday for
the formation of Il protective association.
The company represented about $50, 600 900
feet Of lumber, aud its action will be co uper-
ated in 10y the Connecticut river and North.
ern lumber association. Its purpose is to
control the spruce lumber market.
On Tuesday orders from postmasters
were received for 1000, 900 postal cards, the
largest order ever received in one day.
"A despatch from Wansan, Mich, says
that Mr.. Powell of the Boston Ideal Uncle
Toms Cabin company was terribly bitten by q
bloodhound Oh the stage there Friday night
and is in a precarious condition. The brute
tore the flesh from his arms and back in
mouthfuls. Powell was playing Marks at
the time How the animal happened to be
unmuzzled is being Investigated.
The Ansonia hotel at Ansona, Conn,
was burned early Tuesday morning by an in
cendiary. The loss is Sl2, 900. Most of the
30 guests and the servants escaped by the
stRirways in their night clothes. Some, how
ever, were driven back by the smoke, and
rescued from the windows by the fremen
The trial of George Scheller on a charge
Of firing the Newhall house to obtain the in
surance on his stock of liquors, has begun at
Milwaukee
-Advices from the cattle raising sections
Of the southwest indicate unusual activity in
preparing for market. Stockmen are look.
ing for very brisk season as the grass is
starting well, cattle are in fine order, and
prices are high. The Indian Territory is ex-
pected to be great cattle mart this season.
The steamer Nottinghill from New York
for London put in at Halifax on Tuesday in
distress. She was struck by a cyclone last
ing three days. The vessel was on her beam
ends most of the time and tremendous waves
threatened to sink her every minute. The
mizzen boom was torn away and fell on the
engine room, seriously injUring three engin-
GERS. The saloon and staterooms were
wrecked. There was eight feet of water in
the engine room and the fires were put out.
Thirty-four bullocks, a number of sheep and
100 tons of cargo were lost. Live stock in
the hold had to swim about three days with
out food.
Gen. Diaz and party of Mexico are in
Boston this week. Tuesday evening brill
liant reception was given them at the Hotel
Vendome.
Much surprise was caused in New York
on Monday by the announcement of the sus-
pension Of the old and well.known firm Of
Williston, Knight Co., wholesale dealers in
buttons at Nos. - and &c Worth St, one of
the largest houses in that trade in the coun-
try The firm was composed of Horatio G.
Knight of EasthAmpton, Mass, and Frank
P. Tenney of New York, and was rated at
from $500, 600 to $500 600 They were the
selling agents for the Willston q Knight
company, proprietors of the extensive COW
cred button works at Easthampton Mass
and of the Mill River ivory button works at
Leeds northampton Mass. The failure is
due TO the speculations and financial irregu-
larties of H. Williston Knight son of the
senior member of the firm The Irregular
ties date back year, but it was only recent
ly that they were discovered. Mr.. Knight,
the father, knew that something was the mat
ter, and asked his son 10 help him in an in
vestigation. The latter had declined, and
left the city suddenly about three or four
weeks ago, and sailed for Europe. The son
had made firm paper for his own use and had
sold it through Wall street houses. An ex-
animation of the books shows losses of So
900 to S1OO,OOO
"A disastrous fire caused by a quarrel over
a game of cards inflicted loss of two lives
and over 500, 900 worth of property in West
minister, Nd, on Tuesday.
The recent death of Thomas H. Blythe,
at San Francisco, leaving 81 200, 900 but no
will, has already raised up three female claim
ants as his wives.
Aunt Polly Hatch" the Oldest person
10 A. a.
Manchester, last Friday, aged 1O5 years.
The Montreal Star compositors are on q
strike because girls are employed at the case
and the editor asks indulgence while he is
fighting for great principle" and retain
ing his girls. He claims that they are en-
ployed because of the moral effect they have
upon the average compositors, and has &C
eordingly advanced their pay 20 per cent, it
now being 30 cents per 1000 ems
The firm of Jordan, Marsh a Co.. which
has long been at the head of the retail dry
goods business of Boston, has decided to
abandon its Wholesale business Several of
the old employees of the wholesale branch are
retained.
About 30 feet of ground beneath the
main engine house of the Keelridge mine in
the Menomenee range, Mich, caved in Tues
day, letting the engine house containing nine
men, lot of machinery and four large boil
ers fall 1000 feet Seven men were killed
1t leaked out Wednesday that the New
York city treasury has been robbed of large
sum of money, estimated at 500, 900, by svs-
tematic fraud practieed by William b. Car
roll, who was trusted clerk in the city treas
ury Office from 1872 to last August when he
died.
The property of the late Peter Cooper,
valued At about $4,000, 600, Is bequeathed,