Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04
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from Chicago Monday night, killing FIVE |
men and woundlng others.
"A Pennsylvania has lately died of
lockjaw, caused, It is asserted, by his boot
chatting his heel.
"A self-styled doctor has been fined $500
in Sacramento for having praclced medl-
cine without authority.
The holders Of Centennial stock will
realize about twenty-five cents on The dol
lar for their investments
Since the gubernatorial adjustment in
South Carolina the value of real estate in
Charleston is said to have advanced very
considerably.
They are fencing Off the Yosemite Val
ley, erecting barbados, building walls,
and preparing 10 mako every patriot pay
cash down for all he sees.
An oil painting of Gov. Hampton has
just been sent TO Germany 10 be Autograph
ed. More than 5000 copies have already
been ordered by his admirers.
Editor Watterson of the Louisville
Courier Journal is to deliver a memorial
address over the graves Of the Union SOL
diers buried in the National cemetery at
Nashville, Tennessee, on the 3lst of May,
"A dead body was found on the shore oil
Lake Erie at Euclid, Ohio, on Sunday,
which was at first thought to be that of
p. p. Bliss the sacred song writer, who
persisted at Ashtabula, but further investi-
CATION shows the remains TO be those of an
unknown person.
"A prominent Democratic citizen OF De
Kalb, Kemper county, Mississippi, was as
sassinaled one day last week. On Sunday
four men were shot dead and one fatally
wounded by party OF friends OF the de-
ceased, merely on the afIidavit Of two ne
groes, who swore that these men were par
Elephants in the murder.
The owner of the American side OF Nj
agara Falls Is to be classed either with the
great geniuses or great lunatics of the age.
He proposes to sell the Falls to drive cot
ton mills with, and he has written to the
Governor General of Canada and Queen
Victoria about IL.
Insanity, once unknown among the
negroes, has become a great aud increasing
affection. To relieve 1t Virginia has es-
tablished an insane asylum for negroes,
said to be the only Que In the world, where
more than 800 are cared for.
The Empress Eugene loves TO travel
quietly. When she left Florence lately she
wouldn't allow the aristocratc danes of
her acquaintance TO accompany her TO the
station, and she refused a special car, pre-
ferring to take the ordinary carriage.
The Atlanta Constitution says that
there are men still hiding 10 the mountains
of the upper Georgia counties who have
never heard Of the conclusion of the war,
and are afraid TO venture out lest they
should be conscripted for service in the
rebel army.
A shocking tragedy was enacted at
North Weare, n. H., on SundLy. Mrs.
James Hurd, who for two months has been
insane, during the temporary absence Of
her husband killed her son, ten years old,
nearly chopping his head off with an axe,
and then hung herself.
| Master James f. Whitney, siA years OF
age, son of James Whitney of Nashua,
n. H., received a severe cash from knife
while at play with scAoolmate named
Lewis Shattuck, lad of about II years
old. The two boys got into dispute
which resulted in young Shattuck's
drawing a knife and striking at the Whit
ney boy three times cutting through his
clothing twice aud the third time the knife
entered a little below the hip to the depth
of about two and half inches.
A Philadelphia hotel is provided with
an electric apparatus that, whenever the at
mosphere In any room becomes hotter than
ITO degrees, rings an alarm In the office.
On the day after the fire in st. Louis some
young and jocose guests held lighted
matches under one of these contrivnnces,
thus causing a false alarm, and the prompt
employees turned a stop cock that immedi-
ately caused the thorough wetting of the
room. The jokers succeeded in alright
ing all tho people in the hotel, but the fun
will cost them $3.50, that being the amount
of the damage done by the water.
A fracas recently occurred near Holme-
Pierrepont, an ancient English parish, in
which the son of the American ambassador
to the court of st. James bore q conspicu-
Gus part. 1t appears that young Pierrepont
is fitting for college under the tutelage Of
the rector of Holme-Pierrepont. On Sun
day, the lst inst, the rector, young Pierre
pont and three others were returning from
church in company, when they came upon
IL young roughs from Nottingham who
were engaged in foot-racing. One of them
ran against the rector and knocked him
down. Pierrepont came to the rescue and
feled two OF the roughs, but a third one
knocked him down in turn. An Oxford
tutor, one of the parsons company, pluck
lily assisted Pierrepont, and these two with
stood seven of the foot-racers. The matter
came before the magistrates, and the young
roughs we're fined two guineas each.
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