Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-04

Nicaragua blown up and 200 killed; Jap
anese earthquake destroyed 260 lives; 112
drowned in wreck of steamer off New Zea-
land coast. November-150 lives lost by
a cloud burst in Venezuela; earthquake in
Italy destroyed 400 lives Colorado forest
| fires did 81, 100000 damage. December
Scores of lives lost in storm in Great
Britain; Al burned to death at Silver Lake,
| Ore.
Neurology.
Death claimed many notable victims dur
ing the year, aside from the distinguished
persons mentioned above: Louis Kossuth.
the veteran Hungarian patriot, who died
in March; Princess Bismarck Comte de
Paris, legitimate and Orleanist claimant of
the crown of France; Herr and Helmholz.
German scientists; Rossi, the Roman ar
cheologlst; Brugsch Bey, the Egyptolo-
glst; Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the
creator OF the Suez canal; NJ. Auguste Bur
deau, president of the French chamber of
deputies, and Sir John Thompson, prime
minister of Canada; Rubenstein, Hans Won
Bulow, Philip Gilbert Hamerton. and Ma
dame Alboni among musicians: and in our
own country Senators ColQuitt, Vance and
Stockbridge, Gov. Curtin, Gen. Banks and
Robert G.. Winthrop.
In the literary world should be noted
the death of Constance Fenimore Woolson
X. NJ Ballantyne, Louis f. DussieuX.
French historian; Geo. w. Childs. pro-
prietor of the Philadelphia Ledger. and
DR.. VIM. II. Burk, its editor: Prof. Henry
Morley, Ii. d., Edmund Yates, Countess
de Gasparin, Francis Ii. Underwood first
editor of the Atlantic, Celia Thaxter. DR..
OllVer Wendell Holmes, James Anthony
Froude, Edouard Thierry, j. G.. Icazbai-
ceta, noted photographer Robert Louis
Stevenson, Rev. Geo. E. Ellis. ID. D.. Ill.
d., the historian.
Ot prominent educators there should be
recorded the names of DR.. Arthur Milnes
Marshall +. Il. s., Owens College, Eng
land; Miss Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
prominent in kindergarten work. author
and philan.hropist; Helen A. Shafer. pres
ident of Wellesley college: DIR. Horatio
Quincy Butterfield, president of Olivet col
lege, Mich. Prof. w. r. Smith, University
OF Cambridge, Eng: Rev. f. G.. Robinson.
ID. D., LII. d., president Brown univer-
sity; Benz. 5. Ewell, president William
and Mary college; Prof. Dean, Oxford
university Eng; Jas. McCosh. D. D., LII.
D., eX-president Princeton college, Miss
Maria r. Mann; Col NJ. Frank, 'the
father of free schools" Wisconsin.
In legal circles there are to be recorded
the names of Judge Chas. p. Thompson,
OF the Massachusetts superior court: Sir
James Fitz James Stephen, Eng. David
Dudley Field; John Duke Coleridge, lord
chief justice of England since 1850; Judge
NJ. Is. Allen, first colored lawyer, Jas. Gil
fillan of Minnesota supreme court.
Medical circles lost such men as DR..
Theodore Bilroth, Berlin DR.. Brown-SG-
guard France; DR.. Jos. Hyrth, Vienna:
Dr. Wm Goodel of Philadelphia.
Very Rev. Abbott Fitzpatrick, president
a., Mt. Military Trappist monastery, New
fonno md; Rev. j. S, Hill, bishop in West
Af.ica. i,~' he Legrand, vicar general of
paris Pa - m. Whiting Newell, Cardi-
naIs ,rLe i'e,, w men and Paracciani of
Rome; Most Rev. A. David V SWIM yf1e'1T Of
1Tilan rhinaLlll missionary; Prot. Gonzalez Y
Dlas OF Spain, are some of the dis. '''9 ''0N
losses to the church during 1894.