Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-02-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

-lu MISSISSIPPI Tue Dleut'-UoNcTHOri
Secretary of State, Superintendent of Edu-
cation, and Speaker Of tho House of Rep
rcsentatives are negroes.
1t is estimated that $50 900 people in
India are suffering from lack of sufficient
food.
Six detective officers brually murdered
an Irishman in New York few nights
since in his own house, because he sought
to protect his family from a ruflianly as
sault.
A womens convention. was held in
Worcester, Mass, last Thursday, TO protest
against the taxation Of property held by TO-
males without the right of suffrage.
The Georgia Legislature has determine
ed not to call a convention to revise tho
Constit ution of tho State at the present
time.
The Maine House of Representatives
has refused to pass the bill abolishng the
death penalty 10y vote Of 20 TO 81.
A child three years old, namel Cleaves.
was accidentally burned to death, near
Newburg, N. ", on Monday, his clothes
having caught fire from stove.
George Lynch, aged twenty six COM
miticd suicide Tuesday morning at Balti-
more, by shooting himself through The
hoad. lie was to have been married in the
evening.
Princess Louise of Lornc did not 90 to
her brothers wedding because the laws of
etiquette, not permitting a person not of
royal blood TO be seated at tho Emperor's
table, she was not willing to enjoy any
courtesy in which her husband could not
share.
The magnificent new capitol at Albany
ing spring before another stone can be cut,
the law forbidding the commissioners TO
iLcur any debt whatever.
Guinea fowls are bred now in the vicin-
ity of the city rs a regular article of food.
They are largely displayed by poultercrs,
and growers are beginning to include the
eggs Of these fowls among their attractions
for customers.
The Louisville Courier-Journal calls
the attention of the Ohio praying women
10 the circumstance that they are attacking
the saloon-kecpers who are merely middle
men, but not the supply nor the demand
ior Intoxicating liquors, between which
other channels viii he ope-ad while both
supply and demand exist.
President White, of Cornell UNIVERSE
ty, in a recent address, paid high tribute to
Senator Morrill, OF Vermont, for pushing
through the agricultural college bill, add
ing that "a statue will be erected - his
memory when those who opposed him
shall be forgotten"
"A New York court has decided that
passengers on a crowded train may occupy
seats in a palace car, without paying extra
therefor, and has awarded a man $4,000
damages for being put Off a train because
he refused TO pay for a seat in such a car
when there were none vacant in the other
part OF the train.
The President insists that the plan now
in operation in selecting Indian Agents
from different religious denominations
works well in practice, that the records
prove that the service now is less corrupt
than ever before, and the Indians have
been moro peaceable. lie does not favor
the transfer of the case of the indians to the
army except in the punishment Of refrac-
tory tribes.
Steve Lowery, the last survivor of the
notorious band of Robson county robbers,
was instantly killed in the upper part of
Robson county, North Carolina, on Mon
day, by three farmers. He was tuning
banjo preparatory 10 playing for some was-
oners, when three shots were fired at him,
taking efI:seI in. tho I,oaJ.-A State -s.-aYI
of $4,000 is due the men who killed Lowery,
and there is great joy that the community
is rid of the desperate.
Gen. Louis Y. Wgfall, who died at
Galveston, last week, was Carolinan by
birth, but Texan by early adoption. He
was elected, in 1859, 20 the United States
Senate and was considered ono of the
ablest of the "iire-eatcrs." He was promi-
nent in the organization of the southern
confederacy, and commanded Texas
brigade in the war, until his election as sem
ator to the conleder ue Congress.
The fact has not become very general
ly known, although the order was issued
some time since, reducing the fee from Is
to eight cents on letters registered to any
part OF the United States, Great Britain,
Prussia, including all the German states,
Austria, Italy and Switzerland. The de-
mand for registered letters has materially
increased since this reduction was made,
and the number Of such letters issued now
approaches the number of money orders,
although the money-order business has in
creased very materially since the commits
sion on orders not exceeding $40 was re-
duced from 10 TO five cents. The money
order rates are now: Under $40, cents
$40, 10 cents; $50, 10 cents; $40, 20 cents
$50, 25 cents.
The Duchess of Geneva lies in preca-
rious health at Utica, and Is attended with
great anxiety and medical care. She is the
eighth of her line, and worth 100000
high price for a COW.
"A generous, noble-spirited man in this
city had a sick wife not long ago, and the
doctor said that sleigh-rlde would do her
good. Did the fond husband hire two
horse sleigh and dash out over the breezy
plains? No! he borrowed a sled of the
boy next door, placed his wife on It, and
made his hired girl draw the sled up and
down the sidewalk for an hour. But the
wife failed to thrive on the treatment.-
Springfield Republican.