Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-05
NO. 40.
IN GENERAL.


A Kentucky farmer poisoned some water
melons to kill thieves, and then sold them by
mistake to his customers. Several persons
were taken sick and one died. The farmer
fed.
A Minneapolis miller asserts that -four
manufactured from the new crop of wheat
will make 10 pounds more bread 10 the barrel
than the -four from last years wheat.
One of the war songs popular in the Rus
sian camp has this sentiment Bear down
upon the confounded Turks and take no pris-
oners! They have skinned and impaled the
Christians and burnt them alive. No quarter
can be given them"
The postal money order business fell of
materially in the last fiscal year The de-
crease was over 81, 900, 00O This shows that
the persons who generally send money through
the mails have less to send than heretofore.
A New York firm has been drumming the
post-Oilice for year or two for missing let
ters, and has only just discovered that lazy
ofiice-boy showed them into desk instead of
taking them to the office. They found only
2i00 letters in the desk.
From under TIE bluff on which the town
of Huntsville, the capital of Madison county,
Ala, is situated, bursts an immense spring.
clear and cold, supplying the whole town with
water for domestic uses, for watering the
streets and for use by the fire department 1t
is the largest spring in Alabama
M. Thiers small stature WINS often rdi-
culed. One day, as he was walking up the
Champs-Elysses, two ladies. who wished to
get good view of him, approached and one
of them exclaimed "How little he isl" Eyes,
madame, replied NJ. Theirs. turning around,
'but am somewhat bigger at a distance"
The old report comes from Bangor, Me-,
that since the prohibitory law went into eff
feet, private liquor clubs are springing up
everywhere. There are now Mt least % in the
city, one of them with a membership of 75.
and including some Of the most prominent
citizens.
John Henderson. who made pretended
confession to the Philadelphia police July 10.
that he had murdered Sergeant Wheeler of
the English army and fed across the ocean. is
now found to have told a lie. His object was
to get free transportation to England.
A suit has been commenced in the United
States court in New York to recover from Gen
John G. Fremont So, OOO salary drawn in 1861.
for three months subsequent to his appoint
ment as major-general and prior to taking ac-
tual command.
st. John, n. b., is going to have a good
lock on that door this time to prevent the
theft of any more horses. Henceforth she
will have salaried Inspector of Buildings to
whom all plans of new structures or con-
templated improvements on old ones must be
submitted before work is begun. This officer
is to be held responsible for all evasions of the
law and is the public prosecutor of all who
offend in this respect.
Nelson II. Carr, prominent and wealthy
citizen of Danbury, was explaining to friend
recently, the operation of dynamite holding
some of the powder in his hand. when it ex-
ploded. Mr.. Cars body was fearfully man.
gled, his bowels being torn out his left arm
nearly to the elbow blown away, his right
hand torn to shreds, and the lower part of his
face blown off. He was about 30 years old.
His friend, who stood within two feet of him
when the explosion occurred, though badly
Jared, received no external injuries.
A writer in the Syracuse Northern Chris
tan Advocate is much disturbed by the efforts
of the Roman Catholics to proselyte the freed
men in the South. He says: In nearly
every Southern city gigantic schemes are on
foot to accomplish this result. The Catholic
schools are being established i'll the centre of
large colored populations. In many cases tu-
ition is offered free, and in others they are
hired to come. The priests and nuns are
lynx-eyed and ever on the alert to gain an ad-
vantage"
The story of the Clairmont savings bank,
which IS the latest failure among those insti-
tvtions in New York city. reveals a case of
pure rascality on the part of the officers. Last
.july they swore to a surplus of $4,000, but the
investigation of the Bank Examiner shows
that on deposits amounting to $137. 600 there
is deficit of SG7, 600 and that $27 600 re-
turned as cash assets were without any value
whatever. The fraud seems to have been
perpetrated in the interest of a single member
of the board of trustees, who used the money
for his own private purposes drawn upon
worthless collaterals.
Alpine climbing has received another
shock i'll the recent death of whole party on
the Lyskam, Zermanth. There were two Eng
lishmen, Lervis and Patterson by name. ex-
perienced climbers, and three guides. They
started early on the morning of September 6,
and never came back. The next day it was
found that the five bodies were at the foot of
a precipiee 1000 feet down. The bodies were
recovered later, and the event goes on record
as the most terrible that has ever occurred in
that locality. There being no survivors, no
one can tell how the accident occurred, but
the evidence is against carelessness and
against mountain climbing too.