Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-02
NEWS ITEMS.

enough TO secure their crops.
"A generous friend Of Dartmouth College,
whose name is modestly withheld from the
public, has sent his check to the President for
$4,000.
A London despatch announces that the
Marquis of Lone has been offered and has
accepted the position of Govemor-General of
CANADA, succeeding Lord Duilerin.
-Wisconsins offer of $4,000 for sue
full steam road wagon has produced one which
has hauled a wagon weighing $500 pounds
over the POI miles from Fort Howard to Mad
ison in 33 hours, or over six miles an hour
A curious legacy of the st. Louis heat is
the overpowering drowsiness which has af-
flicted thousands of the citizens, causing them
to go about yawning and nodding, as if sleep
was the only thing worth living for,
-Four tramps were stealing ride on the
under side Of u freight car near Monticello
Ind, the other day, when the car fell through
n bridge into the river 30 feet below. Such
conditions would argue catastrophe, but the
car turned over in its descent, and its Nalua-
bic freight reached the bottom excited but
uniuiurcd.
A schooner cruising on the Pacific const
about 100 miles north of San Francisco, dis
covered japanese junk, deserted and with
several corpscs on board, some of them shack
led together. with indications of having been
dead for several weeks. Some of the bodies
were dressed in rich garments. There was
no food on the junk.
-Aeronaut Atkinson, who met his death at
Elmwood, ILL.,, by falling 300 feet after losing
his hold ON the rope Of IA hot-air balloon, took
Donudson's place under Barnums manage
mcnt. when that hall6onist so mysteriously
di.appgarcd Three years ago Atkinson fell
| 1000 feet at Calhoun, Ky, when his balloon
caught tiue, but he struck the branch Of tree
and lived to fall again.
-Alphcus H. Gallnluc, heroic young
| New York engineer. pulled a boy out Of Mott
| Haven canal The other day. and reconstructed
him after lac had been eight minutes I'M
| der water. it being the eighteenth life he has
saved since lac ran away from his fathers
| home in a Methodist parsonage when seven
! years old TO escape a whipping for breuRinga
| patc
1t is estimated that in the famiue.stricLen
| districts of China The norulotiou has bocn re.
| duccd over five millions by actual starvation.
! and the nrosnect cont nufs ms gloomy MS at
| the brcinning Further the diseases which
| follow fouin9 have cousod tLo death Of tbr,e
! ~ III. nnIl. hand of for,io,, mi. sornri.s on
gogrd in relief work and have also stricken
| doyyr tba Chimes Uioh Commissioner Yum
! PooLeng
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6olin6o Jotr and Min Lock-, ny brotb,rs
bavc bc,n Sentenced y, he bunp nj Bennrtts.
| yiua < q Au,r,st ~ for The murder of AN
! I,i.b neJdI,r Am associate of theirs in tLe
crime a negro desnerndo already awaits exc
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in The trial which secured iustic, to The North
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full births and when they do occur the chill
dren have scarcely been known to live. In
this case the mother and children. in the COM
mon language on such occasions. are doing
we'll
The fresh collection of WASHINGTON relics
inst arrived ot the canital include n variety of
| ia,,.,tnl1 c,,,,,;,,,ro ,ni,ro,y cardIeeticls
at;,,o ,,i,t.d ,vore etc Tho roba i'm which
| WosLino,,or was cbrist,ncd n g,1tar which he
,,rose,tSd IN NalTo Custis his private Iedpcr
boIf icng,b nortrait miniatures Of Gen. and
NJ Wos6irGton Inv TrpmbuIl and MINER.
ons Other articles There is no doult of the
Authenticity of these relics, which have been
in possession of the Lewis family since the
death of Washington. having been received
| originally by Mrs Lawrence Lewis, his adopt
Il
A svnonsis of the crop reports WAS issued
! IN, IN. Denortment of Agriculture July -
| II ,,r+s tba oreo Of corn mt "a. ono Ono ocr,s
and condition below average The condition
of wheat is nut at lOl rye. oats and berley
tho so,ne. corn and onts are unusuollv GOOD
at the South Apples are an average crop
| neachcs and rralIes below. Tobacco is ~
| nor cent below uyerape in acreape. Since
| ib.p renorts bnve reached the drnartnent
rinIlv I'ssenad in the northwest bv storms and
heat,
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An important "hdlnteres'nS post hor'en
examination was recently heid Al Hanover
n A. on the BODY OF Jason Feltee; "h'