Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03
NEWS ITEMS.

A tight rope performer, while perform
ing at Catasauqua, Pa, last Friday evening
fell 10 feet to the ground, AID was fatally in
jured.
There is IL case Of true leprosy in the Bal
timore city hospital in the person of Abraham
Brown, New Yorker, who contracted the
disease in Cuba or South America.
Andrew Burwick, insane through rum.
stabbed himself 20 times in the Cleveland (O)
Jail Sunday, then cut his throat and died. lie
was formerly q well-to-do and respected citi-
zen.
Washington has the only college for deaf
mutes in the world. There are at present Sc
students in the institution. representing 10
States, among which the Western predonin-
ate.
Louis Somault, an Italian rag-picker,
who had stolen some paper boxes from the
Novelty manufacturing works at Chicago
Monday and was captured by Nicholas
McCue, Is years old, shot McCue dead Som
ault then hurried to the police station to es-
cape lynching
An unknown man, with gray hair, and
about M years old, walked to the centre of
the new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls,
n. Y, last Thursday, threw of his coat and
hat and jumped into the river An envelope
was found in the coat addressed to Edward
The records Of the Department of Build
ings in New York show that there are n 900
tenement houses iu the city, out Of total Of
81 900 buildings Of all kinds, which average
four stories in height and contain 10 families
each. When all these buildings are full it is
estimated that the tenement house population
Of New York amounts to 10000.
Mat Weaver, cashier of the Citizens Ma
tional bank Of Urbana, o., has embeZzled
Sc, 900 Of its funds Weaver resigned II week
ago, when the defalcation was discovered.
but the affair was kept secret until the amount
was made up by assessing the stockholders,
and the bank is now in good condition. Weav-
er appropriated over $7j,OOO, but two direc-
tors recovered 500, 900.
Miss Leggett, who keeps a book and sta
tionery shop in New York, has opened a SEN
sible workingwomen's hotel, where they can
board for 81 week and have all the comforts
| Of n home, including piano, sewing ma
chimes, books, papers and other things dear
to woman's heart. Every room in her hotel
and there are forty of them-has been tax
en-.
The Superintendent of Castle Garden at
New York has stated to a correspondent of a
Western paper that he can do nothing with
the women immigrants. He sends men of
every day for hard work on farms at IS n
month, but the most ignorant, shiftless. and
unpleasant young woman refuses the same
wages for housework almost as if the offer
were an insult. A half clothed, untaught girl
fresh from turf-cabin and emi-starvation.
| demands the wages of well trained servant
and til inks she is being cheated when less is
offered.
The horse ''Comanche" which is the on
ly survivor of the battle of the Little Big
Horn in which Custer met his death. was
found on the battle field grieyously wounded.
two days after the fight, and as he was the
charger of Captain Keogh of the Seventh cav
airy, attempts were made to save him. He
finally completely recovered, and now Gen.
Sturgis orders that the horse shall never be
hereafter ridden, and shall do no work but
that a special stall shall be built for his ac-
commodation and that whenever the regi-
ment parade on an occasion Of ceremony.
"Comanche, saddled, bridled, and draped in
mourning, and led by mounted trooper, shall
be paraded with the regiment.
Last years hog crop, taking the country
over, WAS considerably larger than any of its
predecessors. The Western cities during the
winter packed &, 500 900 hogs, and the yield
of cured meat alone was $50. OOO. 900 pounds.
which, with the lard and other products.
made a vast total. The expectations in this
| line of provisions have exceeded by 80 per
| cent. those of former seasons, but the prices
have not been so low before in forty years
In the same markets where last year pork
brought twenty dollars barrel it now brings
ten, and with more pork producers will
make less money. But pork is one of the
domestic staples. and there may be more gem
eral gain than loss in low prices after all.