Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-19
NO. AZ.
IN GESEnAL.


Col Robert G.. Ingersoll of Illinois win
remove TO Washington this winter TO practice
law
st. John, n b., has 100 cases Of typhoid
fever owing to exposure and other evils at
tendant upon the great fire.
A horse named Sweetser paced a mile on
the Cleveland, Ohio, track last week, in = 2lG.
the best time on record.
In view of the numerous murders in
Iowa, the Dubuque Times calls for the resto-
ration Of the death penalty.
Although the Brazilian law recognizes the
death penalty, the present Emperor has never
yet consented to sign death warrant.
A building has been erected near Brig
ham Young's grave forthe shelter of aParty of
men who keep continual guard over it, day
and night.
Moro than 90 per cent. Of those who died
in Massachusetts, last year were under ! year
of age, and more than 33 per cent. were un-
der years.
Director General A. I. Goshorn of the
centennial has been knighted by the Russian
government for his attentions to the Russian
centennial commissioners and exhibitors.
The young Napoleon, called by those who
hope for restoration of the Empire in France
Napoleon ~, affects the cosmo motically pointed
moustache of his father.
The Raleigh Observer claims to have in
formation that there are now in operation
eighty gold mines in North Carolina,
some of which are operated on very extern
sive scale.
There is no concealing the fact that the
permanent exhibition at Philadelphia is in a
bad way, and unless aid comes TO it at once in
the shape of cash the company will be COM
PEELED to make an assignment
A panic was created one evening last
week at the Academy of Music. Fall River,
Mass. by the advent of skunk among the
audience. An alarm of fire could hardly have
been more morked in its results.
A rock weighing forty tons fell upon
freight train at Cars Rock N. Y. Saturday.
One car loaded with grain wns completely
wrecked and several others went off the track,
but no one was injured.
There is serious disturbance at Santo
Elizaro, Mexico, between a party of Ameri-
cans and the Mexicans. growing ont of dis
pute over the possession of salt lakes which
are owned and worked by New York firm.
A Canadian priest lately sued q young
man whom he had married for his wedding
fee, which he stated at S1j. The jury found
for the defendant, on the ground that the
youth had received no appreciable value.
A man guided large party of prospectors
to place in the Big Horn country where he
shlu tneTe were flCn ulHglnBh. Dut COl1tbSeu
when they got there that he had deceived
them whereupon they hanged him to a tree.
The Massachusetts, Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals has offered n
prize of $500 to the person or persons who
shall do most to lessen the suffering of animals
in transportation by rail during the year end
ing July l. 1878.
1t is rumored that Amadeo, ex-King of
Spain feels SO severely the loss of his wife, n
gentle and lovely lady, that he has resolved to
take holy orders and enter cloister. 1t is
said, further, that he has written to this effect
to the Pope.
A politician who sued the Springfield Oil.
Journal for $4,000 damages for calling him an
intolerable nuisance, has been given by an ap-
precative jury n verdict for one cent. Even
this the paper refuses to pay, and it threatens
to appeal the case.
An Illinois man says that Il lawyer, now
upon the Supreme Bench in that State. once
presented him fee bill of 800. but when he
learned that the amount of the claim was only
SSj he compromised by taking the amount of
the Judgment.
The telephone has been utilized in n mine
II lr st. Austell, Cornwall. The wire extends
from the surface to depth of 252 feet, and
conversation, in whispers even. eau b. carried
on between the men above ground and those
down in the mine.
A Bloomington Ill, liquor seller being
unable to pay anything to n woman whose
husband got drunk at his saloon and was run
over by railroad train, the court has held the
owner of the building responsible in the
amount of S25OO.
A Swedish Moody. q young man of -,
f. A. Skosberg by name, has been conduct
ing a series of most successful revival meetings
in Minnesota. He is said to be a speaker
much like Moody, simple, earnest and elo-
quent, of fine personal appearance, and gift
cd singer AS well.
Gen Clusters funeral at West Point N.
Y. Wednesday, was largely attended. Mrs.
Custer, Mai. Gen. Schoteld, Gen. Clusters
father, and Gems Marcy, Fry and Kiddoo
were among those present. Rev, DR.. John
Forsyth the post chaplain, conducted the ser
vices
The rascalities of Gilman the New York
forger, multiply rapidly. He swindled lady
of Connecticut out of Sl2. 900 and another
woman. who requested him to register some
government bonds for her has never seen them
since. Nothing is yet known of his wherea-
bouts
On Saturday last James Smith whipped
his son. aged fourteen years. to death, i'll VIII
Jamestown, Oswego county, N. Y The body
WAS hidden and has not yet been found. There
is talk of lynching Smith, who comes from
Canada He had previously been arrested for
murder, but got clear
Some distilleries at South Mountain,
Burke county, N. c.. that have hourished
ever since the war, have been raided on re-
Gently by United states revenue officers. Five
men. one hundred and twenty-five gallons of
brandy, and three stills were taken. The
raiders were fired on, and Deputy Collector
Gillespie was dangerously wounded.
Where did you get that ?" an officer on
Tuesday night asked an old man whom he
! found staggering along Fulton street, New
! York, under the weight of n large rocking
chair. The man slowly lowered the chair to
the walk, sat down cOmposedly in it, and an
swered laconically, stole it, His name was
Patrick Murphy, and he has been sent to
prison for the theft.
The following advertisement appeared in
one of the Cincinnati papers Personal
| Wanted. The undersigned, q healthy young
man, unable to procure other employment at
which he can make an honest living, desires
to inform professors of medicine and surgery
that he win submit himself to experimental
operations Ofalmost any description for reason
| able compensation. Address 'Nivisection.
One good word is due tobacco. An Ohio
couple quarreled, and in the heat of the mo-
ment the man packed his carpet-bag and left
her forever. short distance from the house
he discovered that he had forgotten his tobac-
co-box. To go back for it was the work of a
moment. Then, having filed his mouth with
the weed, he looked upon his wife with molli-
fed eyes, and in another moment both were
protes ting that they had only been in fun any
how
The statistics of the Military Prison at
Oberhaus, in Bavaria contain some curious
information M to the capacity of the Bavarian
soldier for beer. One, nm artilleryman, who
was discharged for lung disease, said that
twenty quarts did not exactly hurt him. A
second, mason by profession, said, II never
count up to more than ten or twelve quarts,