Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-22
IN GENERAL.


A Sacramento Gal Chinaman was killed
the other day by potato thrown by hood
lum, and it was found that the walls of his
heart were so thin that the slight shock rup-
tured them.
A New York thief fed to Texas some
time ago, and few days since the chief of
police received a letter from him offering to
surrender himself, as he would rather go to
state prison in New York than stay in Texas.
Coy. Mcclellan of New Jersey has secured
the confirmation of his recent nominations, in
spite of the fact that they were not only not
indorsed by the democratic party bosses but
were actively opposed by them.
Edward S. Stokes, Jim Fisk's murderer,
hasn't prospered in business since he left the
state prison, and is going to st. Louis to man
ufacture a stone pavement, the patent of
which he bought of "A fellow-convict
There is greater destitution among the
Cincinnati poor this winter than ever before.
At least 2j,OOO people depend on charity,
il whole or in part, and most of them receive
some aid from the city and the various relief
societies.
Stanley, the African explorer, is greatly
honored in London. He dned with the Prince
Of Wales Thursday evening, then went to
meeting of the Geographical Society, where
he was received by some 5000 persons, in
Samuel Weeks of Lyndon married David
Curriers' sister while Currier married Weeks's
daughter for his first wife, and the widow of
Weekss son, who was also Weeks's niece, for
his second wife-and now the two men are
puzzled to find out how they are related to
each other.
President Wheeler and Speaker Ran
dali are in hearty accord on the temperance
question, and are making life at the capital a
dreary waste to the honorable gentlemen who
banker after little 'stimmilent' occasional
ly. Since strong liquors were abolished by
the presiding officers from their respective
restaurants, the thirsty statesman has been
able to quench his thirst with drink of lager,
but now even the sale of beer has been pro-
hibited by Mr.. Wheeler
A somewhat doubtful story is told of
terrible discovery recently made at Alexander
in Western New York While two young
men were out hunting, one of them, kneeling
down to drink from spring, discovered a
| hole i'll the bank, which investigation showed
to connect with a cave about twenty feet
| square. In the cave was the corpse of a
| young woman about % years of age, to Whose
right leg was a stout chain, attached by
brass paddock to an iron ring set into the
stone wall Nobody knows who the woman
was or how she came there, and the matter is
being investigated.
Mrs Hayes, Washington correspondent
says, 'has repudiated the traditionary system
| of issuing invitations to state dinners at the
| White House, and makes selections from the
Judges of the Supreme Court the Cabinet,
| Senators and Representatives, or the same
| day. The table presents strange appear
| ance to some of the older dignitaries who
have for years found when dining there six
wine glasses at their right, which were filed
during the repast with as many kinds of wine.
| Now, cold water is the only beverage, and a
| praiseworthy example is thus set to the coun-
try
The evidence brought out in the investiga-
! tion into the causes of the recent Metropolis
disaster on the North Carolina coast leaves no
| doubt that the vessel was unseaworthy, and
the opinion is even freely expressed that, in
any case, i'll the average weather at this sea-
| son of the year, with the load of railroad iron
which she carried, she could not have reached
| her South American port in safety. She was
an old vessel, and all sorts of eXpedients had
been resorted to to brace up and strengthen
her hull, while numerous accidents had hap
! pened to her machinery on previous voyages,
showing that there were serious faults in her
! construction.
1t is said that Mrs Ross the mother of the
! lost Charlie Ross. still maintains the utmost
confidence in the ultimate recovery of her
child. though Mr.. Ross says he has no knowl-
| edge OF opinion on the subject, but so long as
| life and strength lasts he will never give up
the effort to find him or ascertain his fate
Mrs. Ross believes that he was taken from
her for some good and wise purpose, and the
| good that has come to so many unfortunate
and desolate children by this investigation
/ and pursuit of her boy she values as a species
of compensation for her grief, and goes on
hoping and trusting in God for his safe return
to her at some future day.
The silver question is playing havoc with
| the unity of the Democratic Party. There is
talk of deposing Senator Barnum from the
Craftsmanship of the National Committee be-
cause of his advocacy of honest money, and
Mr.. Belmont has just published reply to the
| position of Mr.. Hendricks on the demoneti-
zation scheme which is calculated 10 discour-
| age any Presidential aspirations which that
| pliable parsonage may base on the support of
| the Manhattan Club. Among other things,
Mr.. Belmont tells the late Democratic candi-
date for the Vice Presidency that compared
with the silver doctrines he enunciates ''the
assumptions of the Paris Commune We're
clumsier attacks on the rights of property"
| If the proposal to debase our coinage does
not lead TO a reconstruction of parties, it is at
least having an unmistakable effect in dis
! solving them.