Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-29
IN GENERAL.


- Both branches of the Ohio Legislature
have passed bill prohibiting pool selling at
| elections.
A Jersey City rag, bone and paper pick
er, who died recently, willed his property,
| amounting to SIG, 000 to Queen Victoria.
"A Boston savings bank recently paid an
| estate $1,000, the accumulated interest on
| 500 which had been depofited with it 40
years ago.
Two brothers named Starr of Hampton.
| n. y, bit each others faces horribly during
recent quarrel. and both will be disfgured
| for life.
Harriet Mcdonald has been awarded
| $1,000 damages by the courts at Albany, N.
Y, against Benjamin Franklin for selling
liquor to her husband.
That pretty Swiss school-house which at
tracted so much attention at the Philadelphia
centennial is TO figure as a restaurant in New
Yorks Central park hereafter.
Philip Jacque, aged II, tried to slide
down an elevator rope in a Biddeford, Me-,
mill Saturday, but, missing his hold. he fell
from the fifth floor to the basement. crushing
his skull and killing him instantly.
A family tragedy has occurred at Foster,
r. l. William Ide, returning home drunk
last week one night, beat his wife, who had
also been drinking, and, when he fell asleep,
BIC tOOh u hnOl-Buu anu killed. MIN.
The number of those who cannot read
and write is decreasing in England, but the
returns show that out of 4O2, 42i persons mar
ried in 1875, nearly one-ffth, or Il, 1926, to be
| exact were unable to sign their names.
The pieces of silver for each new dollar
in the Philadelphia Mint, are weighed by wo-
men, on account of the delcacy of touch and
| sight required. The scales on which this
weighing is done will note the sixty-fourth
part of grain.
Christian X. Ross is in Boston following
up information in relation to parties connect
ed with Mosher and Douglass, who abducted
Charley, and who were afterwards killed
while committing burglary at Bay Ridge,
/. l.
| AT Cannes, i'll front of a small boot-inak-
| er's shop, the English tourist may find the fol-
lowing inscription in his own language: Re
pairs hung with stage-coach." After long
and anxious thought he may arrive at the cob
blers meaning, who only wishes to inform his
numerous patrons that repairs are executed
with diligence"
-Larkin Turner has just died in Meri-
wether county, Ga. at the age of 10. When
| hr felt the approach of death, he settled him
| self firmly in his chair, (refusing to lie DOWN.
and died sitting erect and without struggle
During his long life he had but one short at
tack of fever, and never took dose of medi-
cine until that time, which was when he was
about 100 years of age.
-Four men were killed within as many
minutes at junction City Tex, a few days
ago in quarrel growing out Of a suit over a
yoke of oxen owned by Peter and John Bras
| hear. Mayor Wright got out n replevin writ,
and, as he rode up to the Justices office. the
Brashears fired and killed him instantly
whereupon the bystanders shot the two broth
ers while the sherifT's brother was also killed
by one of the 16 shots fired in the melee.
| Work on the new Brooklyn bridge is be-
ing pushed with vigor. Two thousand tons
of wire have already been suspended across
the river, and the workmen are now running
out ten tons or so a day. Work on the ap-
| proaches is also being rapidly pushed. 1t is
| expected that the cables will all be finished
this fall, and the completion of this latest
wonder of the world" ought not to be long
delayed thereafter.
A two-year old child of Jacob Arman of
Baltimore met horrible death by scalding,
| Saturday morning. He was left alone in a
room with large tub filled with boiling wa
ter, and during the mothers absence, it is
supposed, accidentally fell into the tub. The
mother, upon returning, found him strug-
| Cling in the tub and so badly burned that he
lived only few minutes.
| The half-dozen youngsters, two of them
| girls and the oldest not over l3, children and
wards of Mr.. Fallow, a respectable and we'll
to-do planter at Edgefield county, S. c., have
| been tried and acquitted this week ON the
| charge of numbering a troublesome cOlored
boy of Il, who attacked them while they were
picking cotton n few months ago and got a
fatal wound in the scuffie that ensued
A Washington belle, the daughter of a
| distinguished judge, at a recent dinner party
was seated next to gentleman who had lost
a case before her father, and who took occa-
sion to refer to him in terms by no means
complimentary. A pause in the conversation
| indicated that something was wrong, when he
| turned to the lady at his side and expressed
hope that the judge was no relation of hers
To the great amusement of those present she
| replied ''Oh, no; only connection of my
mothers by marriage"
The house of Henry Grazer, four miles
| west of Fort Madison, Ia, was burned Thurs
day night, and Mr.. and Mrs. Grazer were
burned to a crisp. The verdict of a coroner's
| jury is that they were murdered. They lived
alone. He was quite wealthy, and was
! thought TO have considerable money in the
house. A revolver which was not his was
| found near the bodies, with one barrel dis
| charged aud the hammer raised. There is no
| clue, but a strong suspicion, as to the muir
derer.
John Connors a tree-cutter, few days
previous to the recent storm, took his wife
over OH lle l4llue Laramie river, near OHey-
enne, Wyoming, left her in an old sheep-cor-
raj ithout food or bedding, and went away
osteusbly 10 got employment. During the
storm while thus alone and destitute, the wo-
man gave birth to babe. She was found on
Wednesday. Herself and the child were both
buried in the snow. The child was dead and
the mother beyond the hope of recovery.
The Augusta Journal tells this whale
story: "A Maine schooner, while fishing of
the Banks of Newfoundland, with some 200
fathom of cable ont and sails clewed was sud
denly found to be under headway. 1t was
soon found that huge whale of the finback
species had got his tail entangled in the cable
and was hauling the craft at the rate of IL
knots an hour, and, growing more and more
excited was keeping his course TO the sea-
The whale finally tore away by breaking the
cable"
An uncommOnly atrocious crime was the
rape and murder of Mrs. Ryan at Tomah,
Wis. last week. She was poor Irish wash
erwOman, and had to support an invalid hus-
band and family. She had been at work at
the house of one MeGaryey, and was about
going home when she was outraged
by McGaryey, Pat O'Reilly and two
Germans named Balifranse and Berger.
Then she was dragged to her own premises,
where she was again violated by Berger. All
the guilty men but McGaryey have beenar-
rested.