Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-12-28

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aged women, were drowned near Paris, Ark,
recently while trying to ford Petite Jean
creek.
Young walworth, who killed his father
few years ago, was married last week at Me-
gainesville N. Y, to daughter of ex-Gov
Bramlette of Kentucky. After leaving the
asylum he studied law, and now spends his
spare moments in building up a reputation as
'society man" at Saratoga.
The New York stock brokers had their
usual Christmas eve hat-smashing racket
Monday afternoon. Those old in the bust
ness of shouting themselves hoarse upon the
floor put on their oldest hat when they left
for the exchange, but the new mOmbers
found themselves with hats smashed into
shapes that no halter would recognize.
Montana has had a tradition for many
years of a rich mine called the Lost Cabin
mine, which three men found and lost, as
twoof them were murdered and the third went
crazy, and never could find it again des.
patch from Billings says that one Jack Meyer
has found the lode near the head waters of
the Big Horn river. 1t is 32O feet wide and
has been traced % miles.
AT the Virginius mine, near Ouray, Col,
last Friday afternoon, huge mass OF snow
started from the top of the range aud swell
ed into an avalanche as it descended. 1t
struck a building used as a boarding house,
where eleven men we're resting, and swept it
completely away, crushing and burying the
men 10 or 20 feet under the snow among the
rocks aud timber. Five of the men were
killed, and others were badly hurt As soon
as the disaster became known at Ouray par
ty of 81 men left for the relief of the suf-
ferers After caring for the wounded and
improvising sleds for the bodies of those
killed, the party started on their return.
When the Cumberland basin was reached,
second snow slide occurred, but the party
succeeded in reaching the edge of the ava
lanche before it struck them and so escaped
instant death. The sleds containing four
dead bodies however, were carried 1000 feet
down the mountain side to precipice 500
feet high, over which they were hurled, and
there they must remain until spring. The
party reached Ouray nearly dead from eI-
haustion.
"A Chicago Judge has fined three lot
terry agents $500 each for having used the
mails in the dissemination of lottery litera-
ture.
AT CEntondale, n. Y, one evening last
week, while a party of young people were
celebrating wedding by firing anvis and
making hideous noises, one of the snvils ex-
ploded and killed one young man another
had an arm broken and others were more or
less injured.
John Thoma a tailor OF III Orchard
street, was found dead Tuesday in Green
wood cemetery, Brooklyn, on the grave of his
child having shot himself with revolver.
The child died recently.
At McDade Texas, 80 masked men cele-
brated Christmas eve by taking three men
out of a saloon and hanging them. On
Christmas day the friends of the victims raj
lied to avenge their death and in the shotgun
fight which followed two men were killed and
one or two others MORALLY wounded.
"A burglar caught in store at Dayton,
Ohio, by one of the clerks, was shot by him
and mortaly wounded
The superintendent of schools, of Can
ton, II. l., and a friend we're killed on the
Boston and Providence railroad last Friday
by snow plough.
Burglars surprised in robbing a dwelling
at Bloomfield, Ont, killed the boarder who
saw them. Both burglars were captured.
An old lady at Lecompton, Kan, who
was in the habit of keeping several hundred
dollars in her house. was found murdered last
Friday night.
The bridge over Blue river on the Louis.
vile, New Albany and Chicago railroad,
about mile and half south of Salem, Ind,
was undermined by the water Tuesday end a
south bound passenger train went down with
it, killing two persons and badly injuring
several others The locomotive crossed safe
ly, but the baggage and mail car plunged in
to the stream. The portion of the train not
submerged caught fire and in less than half
an hour the whole train was consumed.
Pierre Lorillard gave a Christmas pres
ent of Sl7, 600 to the employees of his Jer-
sey City tobacco factory. 1t averaged q
weeks wages to each of the 5000 men, wom-
en-, boys and girls.
John t. Posey of Yazoo City, Miss. "a
most estimsble and highly connected young
man, was insulted by negro butcher named
John James Monday night. Collecting his
friends Posey returned TO the scene of the in
suit only to find James and his friends pre-
pared for them. The negroes fred one vol
ley, killing John Posey, @. Posey and Jasper
Nichols and wounding Others The despatch
Indignantly explains the result of the fight by
saying that the negroes fred without warn
ing and 'shot down these gentlemen, who re-
Trained from shooting because the streets
were full of men and boys not connected
with the difficulty" One of the negroes was
captured and his fate is perhaps foreshad-
owed by the fact that white Yazoo City turn
ed out Tuesday for a Christmas hunt of
James and shot him dead after he had fred
three Intellectual shots.
"A. D. Smith q Co, of Providence, r. l.,
well-known cotton manufacturers, failed
Wednesday for about 81, 700, 600, and their
assets are thought to be small The firm ran
five cotton mills, two at Providence, two at
Johnston, and one at Woonsocket, 81, 900
spindles in all, and employed l., 900 people.
While Mrs Gen. Sherman and her daugh.
ter Rachel were returning from church at st.
Louis Wednesday, their horses ran away and
the carriage collided with a lamp-post. The
carriage was wrecked but the women were
unhurt.
The 20 liquor saloons in Lawrence, Kan,
closed up for good Christmas night, in conse-
quence of the vigorous crusade which has
been going on against them during the past
few days, and not a drop of intoxicating
drink can now be had.
Mrs. Anna E. RosecrAns, wife of Gen.
W. s, Rosecrans, died Tuesday in Washing
ton OF cerebral hemorrhage after an illness of
over year. She will be buried to-day from
st, Aloysius Catholic church.
Two fires on Monday night caused the
destruction of $780, 600 worth of property,
two lives and injuries to six men at st, Louis,
Mo.
"A despatch from Telluride, Col, dated
the oath says At noon to-day a snow-slide
came down Marshall basin, carrying OF the