Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-12-12
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.


STARTLING SENSATIONAL STORY PROM M,ss.
ACHUsETTs
A strange story comes from Egremont Mac
among the Berkshire bills, near the New VIZ u.s.
aud tue town and surrounding villages ara in erst
excitement. The story runs that Esieiia NJ w. srea'
about 80 years old, died In Egremont In 1878 snd 80
terra tnneIa 10 tue little Methodist church. was bur.
tion comes from the dying testimony Of n Wor,h
Wright 10 Connecticut who is said to have confesssd
to his brother that he being student in the Aibans
medical college, present at the funeral Win
students, lay Ia wait near the cemetery t the buris
was aud the graveyard descent ed and Then bi
dsiuter the body aud carry 1t In sack TO the mpdc.
college. Ihey At once went to work on Il in tho az
sectins room. While on the table the body showed
signs Of life and was resuscitated by the students
Finding the woman alive their hands the coIiees
authorities had her taken to an insane ylum in scbo
harie county N. Y. This is the last that WRIGHT h
said to have known Of her whereabouts. The Sew,
man womans grave will probably be opened to acc
whether II was robbed "
"A pearl weighing % carats and valued at s17 ooo
and believed to be the largest IN the world was sb
ped to London Monday from Guaymas. Melee H
Lower California. ~ III
Northern Minnesota is excited over gold discov
cries IN Lake county next the Canadian border More
mostly by michigan men. The deposits are large and
promising, and an old calls IL the richest
country he has ever visited
The old and widely-kuown New York BANKING
firm Of Opdyke Co. made an assignment without
preferences Monday. The failure was a gurprisp bnt
It produced no serious effect on the market II was
due to tue failure Of customers to respond 10 tbs
calls for margins 1t is believed that the assets viii
ultimately yield nearly II not quite enough 10 meet
to f2OOOO0.
Francis Murphy has started another TEMPERANCE
revival at Pittsburg, Pa, which promises to excel
that Of eight years ago. He has obtained $500 sions
lures to the pledge in week nd had 1000 people ~
meeting Sunday With 1000 unable to get in IL was
the largest meeting over which he ever PRESIDED
"A curious surgical experiment Is reported from
waterbury, Coun., where the doctors have made an
incon INTO tne breast OF Michael Shea aud into this
accident, aud which refuses to heal. In this pocket
OF flesh the hand will be kept for week, When tue
flesh Of the breast will have grown on 10 the hama
and then the hand Will be cut away.
There is great gathering Of Methodsts at B,lti.
more ths week. all branches of the church being rep.
feseatsd including the divisions known the Meth
odst Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal south, African
Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Fpiscopal
Zion, Colored Methodist Episcopal, Independent
Methodists, Canada Methodists an Primitive Metbo.
dists. These branches represent almost four mill.
ions OF members, Or, reckoning the Roman Catho-
lies do, 2OOOO0O adhereuts. Tue object of the gath
erlng Is 70 celebrate the centenary Of Methodism,
which bad It's rise in the Uuited States in the 6rst
conference at Baltimore 10 1874, aud tis anticipated
will draw together fully 10000 people.
The conycts are now being transferred from the
state prison at Concord to the old prs-
on at Charlie town. squad OF IS were picked ont
aud taken there last week as the safest and most
trustworthy for the duty OF puting the prison in or
when the C1arlestown building will be called Inc
state prison, aud that at Concord the refornato
Ida Lewis, Of Lime Rock lighthouse fame was
on sunday received intO full elbow snip at the Thames
street Methodist church in Newport. Her conversion
TO the faith s aid to be the outgrowth OF her serious
illness last spring.
The employees of the South Norwalk Conn., hat
factories are on strike, aud last week they grew 40
rotous over the determination of the manufacturers
TO employ none but non-uuion men that the stata
militia were sent for. The strikers are moving TO
erect cooperative factory aud go into busin ss for
themselves.
"A daring train robbery was perpetrated near Lit.
Tie ROCK, Ark last Saturday. The train robbed was
approaching Little Rock, and only three miles
from the city when the engineer surprised by his
train running on Gwitch He slowed up to see what
was the matter and who had opened the switch when
hve men boarded the train, aud by firing their pistols
good many times scared the train crew and is pas
sengers into complete submission. Then they pro-
ceeded to rob everybody in the most approved style
Of the art, going deliberately through first one car
and then another and occupying nearly three-quar-
tiers of an hour with the Job. Something like 10000
was secured. After accomplishing this they departed
and the train proceeded to Little Rock. posse i'm
mediately started In pursuit and the city police were
notified. Bloodhounds were put the trail Of the
robbers. which led into Little Rock, and the next
morning four of the gang arrested. Since his
arrest the leader Of the gang has made full confess
sion.
Three blocks Of houses at Trenton, Pa small
mining patch near Shenandoah, were burned early
Tuesday morning. Thomas Barlow, his wife and
three children and boarder named Fitzgerald were
burned to death. Only one OF the Barlow family, 3
child.