Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-01-07
NEWS ITEMS.

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es.
William Marcy Tweed is supposed 10
have enjoyed his Christmas reasonably
well but none " the detectives can give
any information on the subject.
The latest fraud Is the man who makes
regular business Of deserting his wife and
children among strangers. The latter usual
ly give them money and needed articles,
after receiving which the family joins the
husband and they repeat the game in some
other place.
AT 81. Louis few days since, Ida Hall
was divorced from Eugene Hall, on the
grounds Of desertion. During the exami-
nation OF the plaintiff II was developed that
tie parties had been divorced from each
other in Decatur, Ill.,, several years ago,
but had remarked and lived together un-
til January, 1874.
On Wednesday afternoon the supervis-
or Of internal revenue in Chicago, with the
aid of dozen assistants, seized no less
than seven large distileries in that city,
most of them OF large capacity, in conse-
quence OF reliable evidence that has been
accumulating for some time, that they had
been defrauding the government.
The Louisville Courier Journal says
whatever the present lower house of Con-
gress may leave undone, and no matter
how much time it may squander, 1t can
look back with swelling pride to that day
when, by vote of123 TO 90, 1t changed the
name of the steamboat Tom Jasper to Gen.
tennial. We are, indeed, great people.
"A singular career was that which end
ed with the recent death Of Alanson Palmer
in an insan asylum at Ovid, N. Y, at the
age OF 81. Forty years ago, he was the
richest citizen of Buffalo, with the immense
fortune for those days OF 81, ,OOO, 900, but h,
lost everything in unfortunate speculations,
and the final crash in 1887 drove him crazy
and lcft-him penniless TO live a public
pauper for over :. generation.
"A man whom DR.. Chalmers engaged TO
manage a disorderly Sunday school kept,
his eyes wide open during prayer and
when one boy thrust pin into another, he
marched up the aisle, still praying, ard
cuffed that boys ears, and went back
again, praying all the way. After that he
was master of the situation, for the boys
thought that man who could watch and
pray like that could not be put down.
Life imprisonment in Illinois means
about seven and half yelrs' confinement.
Such has been the average in previous
years, and on Christmas day Gov. Beve-
ridge turned loose two murderers, one of
whom was sent up for life in July, 1867,
and tho other for 20 years in March, 1868.
The danger of being portly just now
was realized lately by a stout man who
was crested at Ogden, Utah, on suspicion
that he was Boss Tweed. Twenty-eigbt
ladies named Mrs. Smith, claimed him as
being Mr.. Smith, and this was considered
sufficient 10 prove an alibi, or an alias,
whichever it was that was required.
"A keen satirist of our society has de-
scribed typical young lady as looking at
you with an expression which said, "Slap-
our-face-for-two-cents." Unhappily, the
description is true. We have all met that
young lady, although we may not all have
the honor of her acquaintance. She may
be handsome, and she doubtless is very
smart but she is not very lovely.-NeO
York Times.
The ravages of The cholera in Syria dur
ing the summer of 1875 have been fearful.
The disease was introduced into Aleppo by
Turkish troops from Arabia, and by the
fatalism of the Mohammedans and The neg
lect of the authorities 1t spread to Damas-
Gus, Ems, and other places. In the pachalic
of Aleppo there were 2S,0O0 deaths, in Da-
mascus and its neighboring villages II, 900,
and in other places 1000. The scourge has
lately again broken out, and 60 deaths daily
are occurring in Aleppo.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner de-
scribes the case Of lady in the southern
section of that city, Mrs. Shupp, residing
at the foot of I'd street, who has been treat
ed, and is at present using the oil and meat
of dogs as cure for lung disease. She
says that she has eaten a whole one and
nearly finished the second. In The morn
ing when she gets up the first thing she
does is to swallow a half cup full of oil,
and then go down stairs and eat some OF
the flesh stewed, and says she knows it is
doing her good that her cough is relieved,
can sleep at night, appetite is good, feels
better, and is much stronger.
George Scott Jeffery, a telegraph oper-
ator at Waynesburg, Pa, and Miss Lydia
Cutler, telegraph operator at Brownsville,
Pa, were united In marriage by telegraph
few days since, the ceremony beginning
at P. NJ. The officiating clergyman at
Waynesburg read the ceremony TO the
groom, who telegraphed the same to the
bride, who responded by wire. All other
business was suspended in the two offices
during the ceremony. Four years ago q
lady of Pittsburg and gentleman OF Rome,
N. Y, were married by wire.
An old woman and her middle-aged
son are under sentence 10 be executed in
Herkimer county, New York, for the mur-
der ofa neighbor. The principal witness
against them is a daughter Of the man, who
is married to son of the man murdered.
She now coniesses that her husband was
the murderer, that he killed. his father to
get rid of him, and that at the instigation of
her husbands mother, who wished to save
her son, she falsely swore that her own
father and grandmother were the murder
ers. The execution of the sentence has
been postponed, and there will be
thoIouBh lhNestlRatlon oi tne iacts oI tuc
case.
The cause of the fatal gas explosion on
the South Boston bridge two weeks ago, is
no longer matter of doubt. There was
under the sidewalk an enclosed place capa-
BILE of holding gas, and near 1t has been
found an open valve in a gas pipe through
which the gas evidently flowed, until the
place was full. The immediate cause Of
the explosion is unknown, though It Is
guile probable that tho escaping gas was
ignited by a street lamp.