Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The storm of Sunday Aug. 20. is re
ported to have caused the loss OF eighty lvet
on the Grand Banks
The Franklin county Mass. saith annuA
cattle show ana fair occurs at Greenfield
Sept. 27-29.
A man boarded train at Ogden. Utah
Sunday night, and covering eight passenger,
and two train men with his revolver, robbed
them OF their watches and money and then
escaped.
Religious circles in Chicago are making
ready for the Christian convention to be hello
there under the auspices Of Moody and San
KEY, beginning Sept Is. male choir Of
100 voices will lead the singing and the gen
erGl exercises will be under Mr. Moody's d
recuOu.
Tho Greenland seal and whale fsherie,
have been much more productive this season
than than they were last year
Three persons were killed and over Il
more or less hurt by the collision of tn.
Long Beach and ROckaway and Long ISLAND
trains at Springfield, \. Y, Sunday night
Severe storms have seriously damaged
the crops IN the south OF Ireland, and much
suffering is anticipated
Ivan Sergyeevich TourguenefI the Rus
sian novelist, died at Bougival, France Mon.
day after long illness.
The report Of the death Of the queen OF
Madagascar is confirmed Her niece, who is
hostile to the French, succeeded to the
throne.
As a train from Berlin was passing Steg
ltz, last Sunday, it ran into crowd Of PEG
pie who, intending to take return train tc
Berlin were pressing forward to enter the
cars on the wrong side The number of PEG
pie killed and wounded is estimated at 40
The American bar association held its
sixth annual meeting at Saratoga, n Y, last
week Wednesday. The meeting was called
to order by Judge L. p. Poland and Alexan
der r. Lawton of Georgia, president Of the
association, delivered the opening address.
The staid old town of northampton,
Mass, voted on Wednesday to accept a city
charter
"A train on the st. Louis and Evansville
railway was thrown from the track Thursday
killing nine and wounding fifteen men.
The wheat crop in Kansas is threshinp
out much heavier than was expected, and the
state board of agriculture now says that the
crop willreG 30, 900, 600 bushels The corn
crop in Kansas it is estimated will reach fully
200, 600, 600 bushelsand will be the largest ever
produced in the state
The semi-oentennial Of the first white
settlement of Dubuque, Ia, was celebrated
Monday.
"A new comet has been discovered by
Prof. Brooks of Phelps, n. Y 1t is round
and faint, tail-less and moving westward
The union of the Canadian Methodists.
Bible Christians, Methodist Episcopaliane
and Primitive Methodists was consummated
at Toronto Tuesday, This affects about
G,O00, 600 people.
A feather bed, clean as a pin and as good
as new, was found in the front door-yard of a
farmer named Bailey in the town of Zum.
bro, Mimi, the morning after the Rochester
cyclone. 1t had been carried thither by the
blast distance of ID miles
The ChautauquR University, recently in
corporated by the Legislature of New York,
has probably the largest class ever entered in
any institution of learning. The class of sc.
Q. L. S. c., now beginning its second year of
literary and scientific study, numbers over
1900 by its official record. At the class or
ganization, Just effected at Chautauqua,a New
England man, Rev. b. P. Snow OF Maine,
was chosen president, with w. L. Austin of
Dunkirk, n. Y, as secretary. handsome
proportion of this class, not less than 1900
is found in the New England states
Rose Clark, about % years of age, daugh.
ter of Nathan W. Clark, of Stratford Conn.
was found dead last Monday near her fathers
residence, about two miles north of Stratford
depot. Finger marks on her throat indicated
that she had been choked to death She was
to have been married in about two weeks TO
William Loomis of Stratford, and was accus
toned to visit his house, which she did on
Sunday evening She started to 20 home
about nine o'clock, which was the last seen of
her until found next morning. post NOR
ten examination revealed the fact that the
girl had been shoekingly outraged. The
body and limbs bear many bruises and other
marks of violence, indicating desperate en-
counter Several persons are suspected of
the crime.