Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-11-08
IN GENER

Tile report that kitchen garbage had
been used for street filling at New Orleans is
confirmed by committee of investigation,
who say they found an area three acres in ex-
tent by four feet deep, mass of rottenness
and decay-the accumulation of years of
kitchen garbage, dead animals and other foul
substance. Hogs to the number Of two hun
bred were tearing away the surface and feed
ing and fattening on the impurities below,
while the stencil was of the most disagreoablc
kind, poisoning the milk of the diaries in the
vicinity and causing sickness in every house
in view.
A fatal railroad accident occurred last
Friday morning at New London. While the
locomotive stafford" of the New London
Northern road was standing at the depot
ready to take the o'clock train north, its
boiler burst and a piece of the copper feed
pipe struck Conductor b. C.. Rand of New
London in the temple, injuring him so that
he died in two hours. Conductor II. b.
Downer, who was standing beside Rand on
the platform, 10 feet from the engine, was
hit on the shoulder by the same piece of pipe
and severely bruised. No one was on the en-
CINE at the time. The engine was some %
years old, but had been rebuilt and was sup
posed to be in good condition aud the engin-
eer was one of the most experienced on the
road,
Reports from the famine stricken dis
tricts of northern Brazil show great diminu-
ton in the death rate and in the suiferngs of
the people. Public relief is now given with
much greater promptness and certainty than
formerly, aud much has been done, by emf
grafton and otherwise to relieve many of the
towns from their great burden of starving ref
ugees. There is yet much distress, however.
Another electric inventor, named Sawyer,
IL. Il Of N.,,.1 ,.,1 ala q,
have perfected an electric lamp for domestic
use, which will be very much cheaper than
| gas. Somewhat in the same line is wonder.
| full new composition of petroleum for fuel,
| which can be applied to the melting of iron
| and glass with wonderful results and which
promises to revolutionize the founding OF
metals.
A Iowa farmer recently displayed great
GOODNESS and presence of mind under trying
| circumstances. He was actively engaged in
| fighting a prairie fire when he observed thai
the flames had crept around him and entirely
| cut off his retreat He quickly took in the
situation, and running to place where the
grass was thinnest threw himself down upor
his face and awaited the coming of the flames
| The fire rapidly swept over him and onward
| TO the thicker grass beyond, of course setting
his clothing instantly in blaze. When the
| flames passed by he quickly sprang to hi
feet tore off his blazing garments and escap
ed with blistered back, and face and hands
This curious fact has been observed abOu
the yellow fever in New Orleans-its ravage'
have been most terrible in the cleaner parts o
the city. The Cincinnati Gazette notices {
similar fact about the cholera in that city IL
1882. 1t is well-known fact in Rome tina
the Roman fever is almost unknown in tn
low, damp, thickly populated district near thu
Tiber, while it has depopulated the campaign
aud the breezy hills, which are easily drained
like the Esquiline. Unless these facts shoy
that there is possible state of filth which i
too filthy for these diseases, though men AM
women may learn to live in them, they are
puzzler for sanitary science.
A Texas man recently went to q neigh
boring town with a load of wood and his wifi
and two children, sold his wood for dolla
aud got $I.25 for his wife by the sale of he