Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-11-12
TIE NEWS IN nnInF.

Mrs. Lincoln has entirely recovered
from her insanity.
AT the Brooklyn rink meeting Tues
day evening Mr.. Moody is accused Of call
ing Bostonlan, who happened to bo pres
ent, the "Cblef Of Infidels."
The proprietors of the "Tribune gin
mill" have secured license TO sell strong
drinks from the excise commissioners,
Notwithstanding the remonstrance of sew
eral merchants.
The steamship Pacific, plying between
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, was
lost last week between Vancouver Island
and the last named port. Two hundred
persons were on board and II is feared
that all but ono we're lost.
Chicago had It's Mrs. O'Leary, aud
Virginia City has It's Kate Shay, in whose
shanty the recent terrible confiagratiun
started. The rebuilt, Ing of the city has
vigorously begun.
Another victory for woman. Her name
is Mrs. Emma Haddock Of Iowa City, and
she has been admitted 10 practice in the
United States circuit aud district courts Of
that city, thus being the first female law
yer ever admitted TO the federal coutts in
the United States.
| A Washington report informs the pub
| lie that Gems. Crooke and Sherman tell the
president that the miners are pouring into
the Black Hills by the hundreds, and that
they cannot be kept out. In consequence
the administration has concluded, after
conference with Secretaries Belknsp and
Chandler, to let the miners, the Indians
| Il 4, III 4. ~,
The Union Hin IN. J.) Bible war RACES
tiercely. Many Of The pupils in the public
schools there now attend school in West
Hoboken, since the reading OF the scrip
lures has been discontinued. A mass
meeting is to be held for the purpose of de-
nouncing the action of the board of educa-
ton removing the Bible from the schools.
Official announcement has been made
that the centennial exhibition at Philadel-
rhio will be opened May 10, 1915, and re-
main open every day, except Sundays,
until November 10. Fifty cents will be
the fixed price Of admission 10 all the build
ings and grounds.
An immense new cemetery has been
opened near London, England, where plots
o feet by 4 may be bought for sl3, the COM
pany agreeing that the lots shall be perpet-
ually cared for. 1t is owned by the Re-
formed Funeral Company, which has been
formed 10 conduct funerals at less than the
prevailing high prices.
Evansville, Indiana, has received half
a million of dollars as an endowment for a
great educational institution to be estab.
lished in that city. The donor is Willard
Carpenter, a wealthy man, who also an
nounccs that after the school is established
he will make further gift of $780, 900.
Two years ago, millionaire, named
Johnson, while riding in an Indiana rail-
way train fell in love with pretty girl sit
ting on fence, and subsequently married
her. Now, express train passengers say
that all the fences along the Indiana rail-
roads are daily lined with handsome girls
rs thick rs crows in cornfields.
Some 10 sandstone basins were IL cent
ly discovered near emingsburg, KY,
under ledge, where they are supposed 10
have remained since the stone-age. They
We're arranged in mathematical circle at
a distance of about seven feet from each
other. On an average they were about six
feet in diameter and eight to ten inches
deep, mounted with conical, IL icely fitting
covers, which bore evidence of having
been sealed. 1t is thought that they were
used for some sacriflcial rite.
Thomas Haviant, a wealthy French
tradesman, has probably lett the most re-
markable will on record. Among a num-
Der OF singular requests was one institut-
ing at the annual village fete a race with
pigs ridden by boys or men. The rider of
the winning pig was 10 have prize of $500,
on condition that he wears mourning for
two years amer The race. The municipality
accepted the bequesi, and the race was held
according TO the conditions.
Plymouth church, on Thursday eve
ming, after an adjourned business meeting,
dropped the names OF Dea. West aud Mrs.
Moulion from the roll Of church members.
The reason assigned in each case was pro-
louGod absence from the services and or
diuauccs OF the church. Dea. West made
no objections and was quite willing TO be
dropped. Mrs. Moulton was present and
entered protest by her counsel, Roger A.
Pryor. The meeting, however, voted to
drop both the members named. The
ground Of Mrs. MOulion's absence, as sta
ted in her protest, was the crime OF adul-
terry committed by Mr.. Beecher, which she
knew 10 be a fact from the confessions of
both parties implicated.
The theory generally accepted at the
close Of the war that the negroes at the
South were destined 10 die out, is being
concluslvely contradicted by facts. The re-
cent statistics and registrations of voters in
Louisiana aud Mississippi show great in
crease in the negro population of those
States, while a recent census of Charleston,
s. c., shows the increase of the colored pop
ulation in five years TO have been forty
three per cent, while the whites have in
creased just half as fast. The women are
| in excess in both races. The comparison
OF the number of childreh Of the two races
| in Charleston, shows a startling superiority
| in the rate Of increase Of the blacks. While
the total population of the city is 2i,528
| whites and 32,0l2 blacks, there are 10 SIG
colOred children TO 1858 white. That Is, the
black population exceeds the white only
one-third, while the number of black chill
dren is over three times the number of
white. These are figures that may well
| prove discOuraRing 10 the white mems par
| ty. 1t Is evident that no activity Of the
kuklux can keep down such rate OF in
crease.
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