Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-03-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Strawberries are becoming plenty in the
Florida markets.
Mics Mary Daniels, one of the victims of
the SpuYten Duyvil disaster, has compromised
her suit against the Hudson River railroad
company for injuries received for 500, 900
cash.
Again the tide Of immigration has turned
toward America. The arrivals in New York
last week were 5279.
Sunday fires The business portion of
Washington, Ia, was burned last Sunday !;
loss $500 At Middletown, o., Johnson's
paper bag factory was burned loss, $40, 600.
The entire town Of Vaughans, La, except
one hotel and the depot, was burned The
mills Of the st. Joseph lead company at Bon
neterre, Mo, were burned; loss, 5000, 600.
At North Adams, Mass, the Malley cotton
mill was burned loss, $4,000.
The strange news comes that seventy
lumberman in the pineries of Northern Mich
igan had been fatally poisoned through the
cook OF the camp using strYohnine instead Of
soda in making biscuit.
Thomas Welsh q Chicago laborer, came
home and found his wife drunk He took
strap which hung on the wall aud beat her
with 1t until she died.
"A new comet has been discovered which
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constellation Pegasus.
Over 2OOO deer were shipped from Maine
last year, and it is estimated that over three
fourths of the animals were murdered driven
by dogs into ponds and then slaughtered
The prisoners in the penitentary at JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, made a preconterted at
tempt at escape last Saturday by a revolt and
setting the shops on fire. The loss by fire
amounts to 100000, but not prisoner IS.
capped.
In New York city on Monday "A washer
woman fell through a skylight while hanging
out clothes and struck on her back on a circu-
lar saw which was in motion. She WAS cut
through from shoulder to shoulder and died
instantly.
AT Newaygo, Mich, last week Monday
night a negro murderer died of fright in his
cell in jail surprising that the noise of a dane
ing party at hotel opposite the Jail proceeded
from mob Of men who we're about TO lynch
him.
The inhabitants of Norwich, Ct, were
startled little after 10 Tuesday night by an
earthquake which shook buildings and ratified
windows and glassware. The shock lasted
from three to five seconds, and was accom-
panied by deep rumbling like that of heav-
lily loaded wagon or u train of cars.
The department of State has received the
application of the British government for the
extradition Of Z. j. Sheridan, suspected of
completely in the Phoenix Park murderers
Sheridan is employed on the editorial staff of
the Irish World, New York, but has not yet
been arrested.
Two lads of IT, pupils of the Academy
street public school at Trenton, n. j., quar-
relied Monday over girl who attends the same
school. Cook seized Prince by the hair, and
the latter drew his pocket.knife and, opening
the large blade, plunged it into his antago-
nists face, inhicting savage wound.
At Hawley, Pa, on Tuesday sleighiug
party was precipitated down bank into the
empty Delaware and Hudson canal, by which
several Of them were severely injured one
Of whom died
THE FLOODS.
AT Lawrenceburg, Ind, eight manufact-
uring establishments, two business houses, 40
dwellings IND three stables were swept away
by the flood. At Floral Hill l79 dwellings,
1873 barns, Is shops and business houses
were swept from their foundations and scat
tered The flood is doing good deal Of mis-.
chief on the Mississippi below Cairo, but
news from the region is so meagre as to give
color to the charge that people there conceal
the truth, lest it might discourage government
improvement Of the stream. Scattering re-
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lies driven to the upper floors and roofs Of
others yet standing, and the disaster spread
ing over miles and miles Of territory much
like the one that came from the same place a
year ago. The losses will be smaller than
last year, however, because many residents
have moved their stock to high land and 9th.
erwise prepared for the water. The levees
are broken in nobody knows how many
places, and nowhere above Louisiana does
there appear any attempt to maintain the ar
tihcial banks except at Cairo, where the Mis-
sis9ippi river trouble begins That city is
having curious fight. The Mississippi on
one side and the Ohio on the other are both
higher than ever before, water flows in on the
north. and so the city is an island with its
streets IL feet lower than the surrounding
water, protected on all sides by lovees. The
water has constantly threatened to overflow,
when the banks have boon raised by the addi-
ton of bulkheads, aud to this work the cti-
zens contribute as if it were matter of life
or death.
PROM THE FLOODED POINTS IN ILLINOIS AND
KENTUCKY.
The worst is over at Shawneetown, ILL.,,
but the place is desolated. In one locality
four solid blocks of dwellings have entirely
disappeared. The Presbyterian church float
ed away mile, and several mills and business
houses are entirely gone The villages of
Blackburn and Raleigh, Ky, have been near
ly destroyed. Over 100 houses in these
places we're swept away. At Columbus, Ky,
over 10 feet of water cover the town, filling
nearly all the stores. The food was disas-
trous at Rosillare Ill. The destitute people
are gathered in school houses and churches
suffering from want of food, clothing and
medicine The sufferers in that region have
received no aid whatever.
The Connecticut Republican state COM
mittee elected Senator Plat member Of the
Republican national committee in place of
the late Marshall Jewell at Hartford Tuesday
night.