Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-03-16


that of an S0.ton gun and was heard three
miles away, and the conclusion was so great
that it shook the side and reporters galleries
IN the House OF Commons. All sorts of wild
rumors were at once set ahoat, but the first
definite opinion attributed the explosion to
gas. The officers Of the gas company deny
the possibility Of this, and it soon came to be
generally believed that dynamite or gunpow-
der was the explosive agent late dispatch
says the explosion was undoubtedly the work
of Fenians. The adjacent streets are filled
with myriads OF fragments Of glass; and heavy
plateglass is lying in heaps on the ground.
A stone weighing 200 pounds was thrown
against King street police station, making a
hole the size of a mans head Four children,
who were sleeping in q house at the corner of
King street, were thrown from their beds by
the force of the explosion and their faces bad
ly cut.
D1sGRAcEFUL AFFAIR AT UN1oNTowN, PA.
AT Uniontown, Pa, on Wednesday, a
man named Dukes, who soduced the daughter
of Capt. Mutt and then shot the father when
he sought reparation of him, was found not
guilty Of murder. When the verdict was an
nounced, Judge Wilson, who heard the case,
looked amazed and said Gentlemen of the
jury, l suppose the verdict is the one you
thought you should render under your oaths,
but it is one that gives dissatisfaction to the
court because we thought the evidence suffi-
cient to justify a different verdict If you
have committed an error it is one that we
cannot avoid, but can only express our con-
domination of it in this mild way. The pris-
oner is discharged" Dukes then left the
court amid great excitement and indignation.
Wednesday night an excited crowd started
toward the court house, whore Dukes was I'M
der protection of the sheriff, carrying stuffed
etigies Of Dukes and the twelve Jurors, which
were hung near Dukes room, and a call for an
indignation meeting was posted
Ldtcr.--A dispatch on Thursday says the
excitement continued on Wednesday and
crowds of people gathered from al parts of
the county. Dukes disappeared during the
night aud it is thought that he has been taken
to his step-fathers country residence The
jurors who acquitted him got out of town as
soon as they could. Whenever any one of
them appeared upon the streets he was hooted
and Kissed and followed by the excited pop
ulace with shouts of " Tar and feather him "
Hit him with brick!" ride him on a
rail and other expressions of Indignation
and contempt, but no acts of violence are re-
ported A mass indignation meeting was
held in the town hall at which every prom-
nent citizen Of the place was present. 1t is
shocking to find that Dukes is a member of
the Pennsylvania legislature, but such is the
fact. He is now entitled to take his seat, but
fellow members are loud in saying that he
shall not do it.
Last night, at East Hartford, Conn, two
maiden ladies', Hannah aud Elizabeth Judson
were burned to death in their house. Cause
of fire unknown. The bodies were found in
q bed which had fallen into the cellar in the
ruins Of the building. 1t is strange affair,
and a suspicion prevails that the women, who
lived alone, may have been murdered
Two callow youths-law students in New
York-accompanied by their seconds, started
out yesterday 10 fight a duel with pistols, to
settle their respective rights to court girl;
but the little fellows were captured by the po-
lice, taken before the police court, and held
in $1,000 bonds each.
A disgraceful scene occurred in the Penn
sylvania senate chamber yesterday, one sena
tor slapping another's face.
Next Sunday will be Palm Sunday. It is
said that the cost of the palms used for deco
rating the churches in various parts Of the
country and for distribution among the mem
beers of Roman Catholic congregations aggre-
gates millions
The water is nearly all pumped out of
the Diamond (Ill. ) mine, in which so many
miners were drowned awhile ago The
stencil from the water shows that the bodies
must be thoroughly decomposed
The Mississippi country for many miles
above and below Memphis is covered with
water. Live stock has been drowned and
the people have been driven from their
houses. TIE great island No. 81, near Hell
ena, Ark, is submerged and the back water
has submerged large region OF country in
the Beaver bayou and Lower Big creek sec
ton never before known to be inundated
All the live stock in that section has been
drowned, together with large number of
deer and other game Two cabins, occupied
one by whites and the other by negroes sud
denly disappeared from the mouth of the
bayou one night last week, and no tidings of
the occupants have yet been received.
President Arthur is alleged to have re-
turned to the sender twelve bottles of whis-
key, concerning which his opinion was solic-
tied, with note from his private secretary
stating that the President was indifferent TO +
the merits of the stuff and declined to sample
it,
Mrs. Davis forbade John Doyle, a saloon
keeper at North Adams, Mass, to sell her
husband any more rum. ''As long as b. has
money to buy with, said Doyle, he can get .
drinks at my bar Davis abused this pryil- .
that condition had both legs cut off by loco
motive. Mrs. Davis got verdict of $500 .
against Doyle, and the Supreme Court has .
confirmed it,
George A Smith, night clerk in the
American hotel at Hartford, Conn. died of |
heart disease Monday morning after bravely
checking a runaway horse. As the horse
dashed by him, he seized the rear of the
sleigh and climbed in, but his head was seen
to drop on his breast few moments after he
had got control of the horse, and he died soon
after he had been carried into a drug store.
Smith was 80 years old and leaves wife and
two daughters
New London fishermen say that one of
their number, Serapin Perry, who died last
week, was killed by his scare over the Wigyn
storm.
Prince Alexander Gortschakof, ex-Chan-
cellor of the Russian empire, died at Baden
Baden on Sunday. He was born in 1898.
Paris was in state of considerable COM
motion on Friday and Saturday last. Some
sixty thousand workmen who were out of em-
ployment, met and were harangued, but were
dispersed by the police and military q num-
Der were injured by the latter, and several
were arrested. No special acts of violence
were committed.
The emigrant steamer Navarro, boundfrom
Copenhagen for Leith with 81 souls on board,
foundered last week Wednesday POO miles out
from Ohristiansand Norway, and 50 lives
were lost Sixteen persons were saved by
Dutch fishing smacks The survivors say
that the steamer was Struck by heavy sea,
when her cargo shifted and she began to sink.
"A dangerous counterfeit of the standard
silver dollar has made its appearance in Ohio
and Indiana. The counterfeit has the exact
weight, ring and appearance of the genuine,
and resists acid tests.
-Chas. II. Bachelor, a tin peddler belong
ing at Amherst, was killed on the New Lon
don Northern railroad at Three Rivers, Mass,
last Saturday nv the boat train from Brattle-
boro. He stepped in front of the engine just
before it entered the covered bridge, and was
killed instantly,
Immediately after the adjournment of
congress ex-senator David Davis went to Fay
etteville, N, O., where, on Wednesday of this
week, his marriage to Addie Burr took place
The bride is an accomplished lady of thirty
five. The ex-senator has been greatly an
noyed by the curiosity of the reporters in
this matter of marriage and has taken every
means to throw the public of the scent The
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