Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-06
NEWS ITEMS.
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The number of commercial travellers in
the United States is estimated at 60, 900.
Insurance against storms, German prac-
tce, is getting foothold in the West. The
st. Paul hail insurance company has just paid
$4,000 in Carver county, Mimi, for damage
to crops. d.
Colorado boasts real, living glacier, on
the celebrated Wind River Peak. II was re-
Gently visited by party of travellers, and is
supposed to be the first living glacier discov-
cred in this country
Mrs. Hicks Lord, heroine of the famous
marriage, occasionally rides in Central park,
but her husband, the aged Thomas Lord, is
now bedridden, and it takes three servants to
put him in carriage.
The supreme court of North Carolina
holds that it is sufficient ground to give the
defendant new trial if the Judge allows the
plaintiffs counsel in n civil case to beratc and
villify him in his speech to the jury.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines gains possession
of her New Orleans property only to find her
self attacked by English claimants to seven
eighths of it, who offer New Orleans lawyers
half of their share to secure their rights
Mrs. Fry, aged los years, died at South
Albion, N Y, last week, and Martha Russell
of Butler county, Pa. 1903, died of no partc-
ular disease, the machinery of life having
simply worn ont.
Tho life-saver Of Augusta, Ga, is Thco
johnson, a one armed colored boy, who late
ly rescued II mate from drowning and had
previously saved one white man and two col
ored boys from like fate.
Charles Brdgefeld had an almost mirac-
ulous escape from death at Rochester, N. Y,
n few days since, in bounding from side to
side down wheelpit 20 feet deep. a plank
gave way with him at the bottom and he es-
capped with few bruises.
Two young French velocipedsts have re-
Gently returned to Paris from n trip of 1000
miles through middle and southern France,
Italy and southern Switzerland. They made
a daily average of II miles on their bicycles,
the longest days run being the 30 miles from
Turin to Milan in nine and n half hours.
A firm Of manufacturing chemists in De-
troit announce the discovery of n new remedy
for yellow fever, and offer to forward TO the
physicians of the afflicted cities of the South,
free of expense, an abundant supply to test its
efficacy. It is the fluid extract of the leaves
of baldo, shrub found upon the Andes in
| Chilli
The Mormons declare that the death of
Brigham Young did not discourage any in the
Mormon faith. Their numbers are augment
ed by almost weekly arrivals from Europe, and
| an immense Mormon settlement is going on
south of Salt Lake. They have no intention
of quitting Utah.
Near Bromley, Ont, stands log house,
| erected over two years ago, built of poplar
and Balm of Gilead logs, which can now be
| seen growing, rs green as green tree, sprouts
having been thrown out from the logs both
inside and out, and making the structure one
mass of foliage.
A Sherman (Texas) special says: "A
| man claiming to be n devout Baptist minister
has been victimi2ing the people of Howe sta
ton in this county stole n horse from a
brother, skipped for the Indian Territory
was met there incidentally and confronted
with 5000 reward The last heard of him
he was among the limbs of an oak tree, engag-
ed very earnestly in n trapeze performance"
| --Coney island, near New York, is a strip
| of land five miles long by one in breadth, and
| separated from the main land by narrow
belt of water. The island is gradually yield
| ing to the power of the Atlantic surf, 1t was
once double its present size, and an OCCASION
nj storm at present suggests that gradually
the furious ocean may batter it out of exis-
| tence.
-Four years ago Victor L. Saunders, n
young married man, was convicted i'll Rock
ingham county, Va, for killing a man in a
sudden passion, and was sentenced to four
| years in the pententiary. His wife got di-
vorce while he was in prison, but Saunders
| was released last week and returned to his old
| home met his former WIFE the old love was
| renewed, and in less than 81 hours they were
REMARKED. They have gone West to live.
1t would appear that life on the Island of
| Cyprus is not very agreeable to Englishmen.
There are no comforts to be found there.
There is no wood to burn, aud all building
material must be brought from Malta. More
over, the climatic conditions of the island are
in no way suitable to Englishmen, good air
being as rare as other nece ssities. The whole
island is filled with miasma, and potable wa
ter is almost everywhere wanting.
The Mosque of st. Sophia in CONSTANT
nople is always fragrant with the odor of
musk, has been so for hundreds of years ever
since it was rebuilt, and nothing has since
been done 20 keep it perfumed. More than a
thousand years ago the mortar with which it
is built was charged with musk, and the odor
is there to this day.
Georgia feels proud of its gold mines.
Sales's mine in Lincoln county has yielded
$4,000 in the precious metal without ma
chinery since January /, and is just exhibit
ing solid bar worth $1,000; a new mine has
been discovered in Murray county, and in an
Oglethorpe county pasture grains have been
washed out as large as kernels of wheat.
The funniest somnambulist to date is
the Herkiiger county On. Y lover, who rose
from his bed one night recently and walked a
mile in undress with lamp in his hand tC
call upon his lady. She and her mother were
about retiring for the night when they an
swered his knock. In astonishment they con
Quoted him to chamber, receiving his expla
nations in the morning and procuring more
suitable clothing for his return trip.
Among curiosities that are works of arr
Mt Stewards is "A shawl that was made for the
Empress Eugenie 1t is the most exquistely
fine embroidery of flowers on Il groundwork
composed of small haud-woven squares sci
together in the most delicate manner. Sc
fine is the embroidery that to a casual obser
yer it looks almost like applique work. Thu
shawl was bought by Mr.. Stewart for 500, O0I
at the time the Empress Eugenie's possess
ions were sold. For flounce of Brussels
point lace he paid 100000.
Mary Dean, a widow living near Hills
boro, Mo, has been arrested for numbering
her two children, and she says she did it be
cause she was too poor to give them food
She relates that she murdered the baby frs
and when she undertook to put the little five
years-old boy on the bed to cut his throat hi
chung to her, pleading, 80, mamma don
kill Inc don't kill me-" After cutting hi
throat, she struck him on the side of his heat
with II piece of iron to complete her work
She is about 10 years of age and presents
woe-beGone appearance. She possesses littl
or no intelligence and some believe her in
sane.