Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-04-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


va, Tuesday night. Loss S5OOOOO.
The remains of DR.. Livingstone were
buried in Westminster Abbey on Satur-
day.
The President will soon have two inn
portant diplomatic appointments TO make,
Mr.. Bancroft is comiLg back from Berlin
ard Mr.. Jay from Vienna.
MIR. Williamson Wright of Indiana,
who owns marble quarry in Loudon
County, Va, has forwarded a memorial TO
Congress Offering TO give the Government
the full possession of all said property as
lessee aud owner for Two years from this
date for the procuring OF all the marble
necessary to finish the Washington monu-
ment.
--"All ask, theoretically remarks The ir-
represshle Dio, ais to I've put where l can
do the most good" The Brooklyn Argus
says his attention is respectfully directed
to the advertisement of u Mobile hotel pro-
prietor for man to shell peas.
Tho Brooklyn Argus suggests that
those people who do not approve Of crema-
ton, aud yet object TO the common mode
OF burial, might take passage for Europe in
uub VI bhI ldSAlNlldbtt bhiih
steamers, with the full confidence of meet
ing something 10 their taste.
Edward Payson Weston, the "walk-
ist," is to try the feat OF walking 500 miles
in six days, in New York, walking lis
miles within twenty hours on one Of
the days, and beginning the task May IL.
by vigorous enlorcemenlo OF The liquor
L., hoZ Ia raIura tba
number OF It's blr-fooms to little over
1000.
The death OF 1903 children in New York,
during the last fortnight, from measles and
scarlet fever, is justly considered as reflect
ing upon the sanitlry condition of the city.
The first cremation case comes from
Philadelphia, the story being that physi-
clan, whose son died last Tuesday, erected
a furnace in his cellar and reduced the body
TO ashes.
The Southern papers take much mott
Of the planting of corn in their vicinity,
and encourage the planters by giving men
ton to those who are preparing for corn
crops.
"A bill is before the New York Legisla-
society with power to barn the bodies Of
the dead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has written to
bis friend, at Glasgow who wish to make
him lord rector of Glasgow university.
that they are at liberty to propose his name
and that If he is elected he shall endeavor
TO meet their wishes aud those of tie uni
veIsity as to the time and the duties which
-Senator.e Washburn, of Massachu.
sets, says that he il a believer in srecie
payments, and had always favored the
McCu;loch plan of resumption, and voted
against the measure that had made il i'm.
practicable. But while fayorinr a return
hard money. he is prepared /, advance in
that direction only as fast a, the business
interests of the c,untrv warrant
The office shall reouire.
Saratoga SPRINGS contain, 81 licensed
places for the sale OF liouor. or one for cy
ery l23 Inhabitants. men. women and chill
drcn in the town. The town received for
such licenses The sum of 81. 500. or more
than enou1b 10 meet the demands unon The
moor fund for the past wear. ,o which ru nd
il is bv Law ,nplicd Tho yearly liouor
traffic of Sarator, is estimated TO he over
so5o GOO.
Four negroes were bon.cd nt Thomas.
vile. Ga. saturday: three of Them named
f. Mccormick. NimroJ Austin and Cbarle,
Walker. for the murder of A plan,er named
Hall and. the fourth. Webster Lvons for
noisoninr his wife with trvcbninc
The mombors of the New York bu,ter
and cheese exchange are making war on
the vendors of oleumarnarinc. commercial
substitute for hutter. the description OF
which Is not verv appctizing.
Samuel W. Hildreth, aged seventy.
was sentenced to IMPRISONMENT for life on
Tuesday, at Lowell, Mass, for the murder
of Oliver A, DJland. aeeJ seyenty-two.
LISA singular fact that when the funcr-
al Of the late senator simmer WAS nassing
through the streets of Boston. some oh.
struclion in the way clmpclied tho hearse
TO remain standing for ahout ten minutes
directly in front Of the residence of the Ia
DIV who had once been the dead mans
wife.
Prince I.oliiohoku bro,ber If the nras.
emf KING of the Sandwich islands and
IL '..., 4, It, t
make tour in the United States, aud prob.
ably Journey to Europe, during the pres