Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-11
NEWS NOTES.

ington from Gray Gables next Thursday.
On the 22d he will leave for Atlanta to
visit the exposition.
John Barber of Pownal had 80 sheep
killed recently by dogs. The remainder of
his flock, 1870 in number, are widely scat
tered and as wild as deer from fright.
VIM. Lathe, charged with assaulting
Mrs. Levi Barstow of Barton, with intent
to kill, has been sentenced to 20 years in
the state prison from the Orleans county
court.
John T. Woodward of Woodstock COM
mitted suicide yesterday by shooting
through the head with shot gun at La
kota park, where he had been employed
for year.
Jerome Clark of Pownal, has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against his step
sons, Solomon and Lynus Towslee, for in
juries alleged to have been received at the
time they assaulted him last month.
A fire in Portsmouth, Va, Wednesday
night, did damage exceeding $250,000, de-
stroying over 1000, 900 feet of lumber,
1000 bales of cotton and 100, 900 slaves, be-
sides warehouses of the Seaboard Air Line
and Old Dominion Line of steamers.
The annual reunion of the First Yer
mont Cavalry will be held at Burlington
the 22d. j. +. Goodrich, chaplain of the
regiment will deliver the address. The as
ISOLATION, will visit Fort Ethan Allen to
witness the parade of the United States
troops.
Amelie Rives Chanler has been granted
a divorce from her husband, John Arm
strong Chanler, on the ground of incom-
patability. Mrs. Chanler made a great
hit with her story "The quick or the
dead" published in 1886, and her marriage
took place soon after.
There will be a parade at Rutland Mon
day in which the third battalion of Yer
mont Patriarchs Militant will take part.
This includes cantons in Brattleboro, Ben
nington and Bellows Falls, but the Brattle-
boro canton will be represented by only
small delegation.
The severe drought has caused a curious
state of things in Pennsylvania-the ap-
pearance of salt water in the Delaware
river. Never before, old rivermen say,
was brakish water known so far inland.
| Now it runs more than two miles north of
Philadelphia, and crabs and salt water fish
are common catches from the piers in that
vicinity.
Daniel L. Gushing, 81, one of the most
prominent residents of Hartford this state,
died yesterday. He was a civil engineer
and laid out the grounds of the Colt fire
arms company at Hartford, widened the
Erie canal and did other important works.
In recent years he had engaged in the real
estate and mercantile business at Hartford,
and had settled many estates.
Dispatches from San Francisco state
that La Paz, Mexico, has been completely
destroyed by hurricane. The storm was
followed by a tidal wave of unprecedented
height, which inundated the town and
swept out to sea men, animals and the de-
bris of wrecked buildings. La Paz is the
capital of Lower California and is situated
on the gulf of that name. Its population
is about 6000
The battleship Indiana, built at Cramps
yard, and which goes on her trial trip on
Saturday next, is eminently fighting ship,
veritable ocean gladiator. When COM
pleted she will have cost the government
more than $3,000,000 She was designed
for power rather than speed, although her
engines are calculated to develop a speed
of Is knots an hour. She is magnificent
specimen of her class and will doubtless
give a good account of herself on her trial
trip.
Correspondence con6scated in DR.. Henry
| II
York, discloses plot planned by the pris-
oner to carry out another murder similar
to the one for which he was convicted and
sentenced to imprisonment for life. Dr..
Meyer was tried for poisoning Carl Brandt
in order to get the insurance on Brandts
life. 1t is supposed that he intended to Sc
cure the insurance money of his second
victim for use in defending himself on the
charge of numbering Brandt.
1t is a coincidence worthy of note, says
the Burlington Free Press, that Gen. j,
G. Mccullough of Bennington is the re-
ceiver of the great Erie railroad, now in
progress OF most successful Reorganization
that Col. Aldace f. Walker, a Vermontel
born and bred, who studied law in the Of
fee of George f. Edmunds, is the receiver
of the great Atchison railroad system, Of
, which he Is likely to become president
when his receivership ends, and that Franz
G. Bigelow of Milwaukee, who has beer
appointed one of the receivers of the grea
Northern Pacific railroad, is native Yer
monter, being a son of the late DR.. Thorn
as Blgelow of Burlington.
2 Nineteen cases were entered Tuesday
: for trial at the November term of the
Greenfield, Mass, superior court. The
largest amount at stake is $4, 200 in the
) case of j. P. FELTON, of Greenfield, WHIT
, sues Abbott G. Brown of Bernardston in
J an action of contract for promissory note
: given by the defendant for $500, Marcel
: 81, 1891. The most interesting case i
, that of Louis A. Rivett, the Turner's Fall
lveryman, who sues Rev. John Clark, the
, Baptist minister of that village, for $500
The plaintiffs declaration charges that tn
e minister and Royal Clark hired horse Il
t drive to Gill, distance of 81 miles, anC
drove it on further to Mortified, distanc
r of eight miles, immodestly and with unrea
t sonable speed and otherwise ill-treated AM