Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-01
NO.9.
IN GENERAL.

Edward Newman, who killed Kate Hayes
because she refused TO marry him, has been
sentenced to the state prison at hard labor for
life.
A lady in Laporte Ind, who had ten
teeth extracted. tainted twenty five times the
same evening, and came very near bleeding
TO death.
Nine thousand people are being fed by
the provident association at st. Louis, but
their funds are running low and increased
suffering is feared.
Cocoa rooms are being opened in the cit
les and towns in England in the interest Of
temperance among the workingmen who want
something to drink.
The wife Of clergyman in NewLury-
port, Mass, was at once annoyed and delight
ed by the discovery that her little. boy was
peddling her cookies two for cent.
Don Augustin Edwards, the leading mil
lionaire of Chill, died near Valparaiso, Jan 9,
leaving a fortune estimated at 81, 900. 900
He was the son of an English physician.
Nelson Morris's beef packing house at
Chicago. the largest in the country was burn
ed last Thursday, with large quantity of
beef, hides and tallow. Loss about $50, ,OOn.
with small insurance.
The first official act of the new King of
Italy was to commute eighty five death SEN
tences, with the declaration that he was hap
py to begin his reign by the virtual abolition
of capital punishment.
Mr. James Farson, of Chicago. was awak-
ened about O'Clock on Tuesday morning of
last week, by burglar trying to open win
dow in his bedroom, and with his revolver
he shot the burglar through the head killing
him instantly.
Old Anton Miklancic died recently at
Trieste, Austria at the comfortable age of
4 He xtao horY, Ar,,-i Rra
years before the birth of Napoleon l. He
was probably the oldest man in Europe, and
nearly the whole city turned out at his funer-
al
A worthy college professor preached in
| Michigan church the other Sunday, and
doubtless little prosy, for the excellent
pastor of the church, who sat in the pulpit
| with him, fell into gentle slunlber, which
lasted until the last of the 'fnallies."
The Charleston (S. c. News has these
cheerful headlines to an article announcing
the accession of a new Judge to his seat
HE Enters upon his Judicial Duties by Pass
| ing Sentence Of Death on Robert McEvOy--
| The Favorable Impression Made by Him."
| A convention of the Greenback party of
| the United States met at Toledo, Ohio, last
Friday. Fifteen States were not represented,
among them New Hampshire and Vermont.
Pennsylvania sent the largest delegation. The
| usual SpeecneS were nlhut anu u SET OF reBO-
| lutions adopted.
Mrs. Lucy Nichols, of Waterbury, Conn,
celebrated her hundredth birthday on Sunday.
At 10 PM, as the New Haven Palladium mar
rates. when the company thought of retiring,
| she was still fresh and wanted to make a
night of it, saying: when get started, l
like to go the rounds"
Frank Thornton, a steerage passenger
who had his leg broken on the steamer Colon,
while on the voyage to San Francisco, by the
falling of n chain box upon it, has sued the
| Pacific Mail Steamship Company for $25, 900
damages. 1t would be interesting to know
what price he sets upon his whole body.
This is good from the Philadelphia Bull
letn Carpenters emancipation picture is
doubtless all the critics say of it. But why
don't Congress pass an act declaring it of par
value with Raphael and Reubens! That
would make it high art, right of, according
10 the doctrine of the silver swindlers.
Among the curiosities in the army nedi-
cal museum at Washington il the withered
hand and arm of a man which was found at
Gettysburg. A cannon ball carried it to the
top of a high tree, where the crows overlook
ed it for the more abundant carrion of the
field, while the wind and sun sbrivcled it up
and preserved it.
1t being reported that an Indiana surgeon
recently succeeded in migrating some new
brains upon a patient the Chicago Inter
Ocean suggests that ''the man should be sent
East at once 10 write anti-silver articles for
the press" That's right. Men who remain in
the West to write pro-silver articles do not
quire brains.
A tooth the size of a small ham, and SIM
liar in shape, weighing 12 pounds. was recent
ly extracted from the jaw of one of the King
of Slams white elephants, while the animal
was under the influence of chloroform. This
operation was performed to relieve the animal
of the great pain caused by the exposure of
nerve resulting from the decay of portion of
the bone.
-Four hundred years ago occurred one of
the most remarkable state executions on rec
ord. George, Duke of Clarence, being SEN
fenced to death for taking up arms against his
brother Edward ~, King of England, was
given his choice of the mode of his death.
He chose to be drowned in a butt of Malmsey
wine, and his wish was complied with.
A dogfish became entangled in the net of
some French fishermen, near Cape Agde, late
ly, and, after dragging their boat about dur
ing the entire night at the rate of twelve miles
an hour. was finally captured and brought to
land 1t measured over 16 feet in length,
and weighed about 25OO pounds. It's enormous
stomach contained the head, feet and several
other portions of a mule, as well as two half
digested funny fish.
The records kept by the leading New
York hotels show that there has been great
and steady falling off in the number of their
guests since the year 1865. The books of two
hotels, in prominent locations in the very
: heart of the hotel business, which gave daily
average of $50 and an aggregate of 205, 900
guests for 1865, last year recorded daily aver
age of only 260 and an aggregate Of but o.
O00 Every year since 1865 reveals falling
off. The fact is attributed to the decline of
= New York as a business centre.
} Rachel H, Whipp has gone to the Ohio
State Prison for seven years. She married an
, aged and wealthy widower in Medina in the
expectation that he would soon die and leave
her his property but he continued in robust
, health, aad threatened to make a will giving
her no more than the law compelled him to.
: One night he awoke TO find a moose around
his neck and his wife pulling at the rope,
which ran through staple in the wall of the
! room. She intended to hang him and make
people believe he had committed suicide.
Since 1910 the fast steamships in the At
lantic trade have increased their speed from
SO knots per hour to 1916 knots, and the con-
sumption of fuel per 100 indicated horse-pow-
er has been reduced from ~ cwt. to 10 cwt.
In 1877 there were 1872 steamships of 55G, $50
I tons in the service of which 1876 of 377, ,0O5
tons were English. The record of rapid pas
sages since 1910 shows a gradual reduction
from 4 days to I, and during the same time
90 steamers have been lost with 443O lives
, The year 1873 was the most disastrous of any,
vessels with S29 lives being lost among
them the Atlantic with 5i5 lives. In 1854 the
City of Glagow with 4S0 lives and the Arctic
with 322 lives were lost making that year,
next to 1873, the worst on record.
! The Cincinnati Gazette tells this brief
Shaker romance Louis Robbins, 81 years
old. for Il years has been working as a broom