Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-08-23
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ptNItNlIg otuuIh ~ III lIon ONtINOIhs
and has gone to spend few weeks in the AL
leghany Mountains.
The oldest inhabitants Of Cape May re-
late that the sea has advanced some 800 yards
on the land during the last forty years.
Stacy Baxter, Professor of clocution at
Harvard college, was drowned at Cape May
Point, N. j., last week Thursday.
The Keone boy, John T.. Pelkay, who re-
Gently confessed to attempts to wreck trains
ON the Cheshire railroad, has been consigned
to the reform school for IL years.
A western artist named Glover, has in
vented torpedo designed to make the rob
berry of graves hazardous and unpopular
business, and has taken the necessary steps to
procure letters patent.
jay Cookies estate viii pay sixty per
cent of his indebtedness, and it is becoming
clear that, but for his having been forced in
to bankruptcy, he could have paid one hun
drod per cent.
Charles w. Angel, secretary of the Pull
man palace car company at Chicago has been
discovered to have swindled the company out
of Sl2O, OOO aud has fed Since the death
of his wife three years ago Angel has fallen
into disroputable associations
Emil lluedel, who attempted to assass-
nate Emperor William, May II, has been be-
headed at Berlin. lIoeders age was n.
Mr. Frederick Ernest Appleyard, young
London hcyclist, recently made n run of 100
miles in hours, IL minutes, - seconds-the
fastest time on record.
Austin New, was damaged over 500, coo
Thursday night of last week. by n cloud burst
which flooded the business part of the town.
Many business buildings were wrecked, but
nobody killed.
Rev Dr. Wade Hill Of Rutherford coun-
ty, n. G., shot and killed his son-in-aw, Ma
ior Andrew Scroggins, on the nth inst. The
killing resulted from Il family quarrel, in
which Dr. l'ill appears to have only acted ON
the defensive,
Twelve thousand people celebrated, ON
Thursday in Cherry Valley, Otsego county,
n. Y, the centennial Of the massacre which
took place there during the Revolution A
monument was unveiled, and addresses We're
delivered by Ex-Governor Seymour, Major
Douglass Campbell, and others.
A cold-blooded murder is reported from
| Pacific Junction, 20 miles south of Council
Bluffs Iowa, on Saturday evening, where two
laborers in stone quarry were shot, proha-
| bly, for the 800 which Zone OF them had on
his person. John McCreary, a fellow-work-
man of the victims, has been arrested on sus-
picion of having committed the deed.
| At Wheeling W. Va, ON the It'll, Prof.
alleled feat of making 80 consecutive bulls
| eye shots at distance of 500 yards.
Eagle City, Ia, reports the mcanest man
to date-the farmer so busy harvesting that
| he could not stop an hour to attend his wife 5
| funeral after the neighbors had prepared her
| for burial. wife could be got any time, he
said but harvest only came once a year.
The payment of the SIS, 900 appropriate
ed by Congress for the loss of the steamer
Il. p. Cheney has been stopped, it having
been nscertained by the rebel archives that
the rebel government once paid the owners
thereof n large sumfor running her into their
| lines.
A carrier pigeon belonging to John
Green. Brooklyn, n Y, was liberated at
Stonington. Conn. at six o'clock Tuesday
morning and was home ih three hours and
fifty minutes. having flown one hundred and
thirty miles. The bird is but six months old.
A woman of Steele county. Mimi, had
her husband and son killed by lightning five
years ago She married again and her sec
ond lord was killed by lightning last week.
d. L. Moody has given to the permanent
fund of Wesleyan College, from the proceeds
of the sale of the Moody and Sankey hymn
books. $4,000. 1t will be permanently in
vested in Moody and Sankey scholarship,
educating yearly some deserving beneficiary.
-- W dlllnBlOlu people uhNC luuh ldI luIhihl-
ed all the food and clothing needed by the
sufferers by the tornado aud none of the con
tributed aid fund has yet been touched. The
fund amounts TO about $40, 900, of which n
| little over $500 will come from the railroad
company's excursion plan.
As Gen. Mezeutzow. chief of the Empe-
| rors private police, was leaving shop at st.
Petersburg a few days since, lac was fired up
on 10y two persons with reyolvers and fell
wounded. The assassins jumped into a
droschky and drove oil, and have not yet
| been arrested.
Six outgoing European steamships SAILED
from New York, Saturday, with the usua
cargocs of produce including 2O,OOO bushel,
of grain, 81, 600 boxes of cheese, 60 sheep
100 head of cattle, so tons of sole leather fol
Russia, and large quantities Of tobacco fol
Germany.
A receipted bill found in Peace Dale, Il
L. 81 miles from the scene of the Walliug
ford disaster, has been identified as having
come from the house Of Patrick Clyne, which
was blown so completely away that even th'
timbers have not yet been found. The bill
was in n bureau drawer at the time of the dis
astcr, together with $50 in money, but NJ
news of the latter has been received, though
Mr.. Clyde would be pleased to hear from it.
A wen authenticated case of longevity j
reported from Lexington, Ind, where Kinde
Ferguson. the oldest man in the State, bear
the burden of lO7 years. He voted 70
George Washington both times that he was
Presidential candidate has used tobacco 5
years ard liquors occasionally, and now hi
sight is gone, though his memory is goo,
and lao is still able to walk about.
"A true heroine has come TO light at Wash
ingtou who. when she found ont recent
; that the $1,000 salary of man with a fanlil
J Il. l..
{ the authorities and begged that the reduction
might fall upon her 1920 salary, ms she ha
no others to support and could bear the rC
duction better. She requested that her nam
might not be mentioned, but it leaked out
and she was much confused when her CRATE
full felow-clerk came to thank her.
A treasure has just been discovered i
the ancient ducal palace Of Andria, near M
pies. 1t consists of 100000 ducats, abou
$1,000 600 in gold. The present owner, in e>
amining Il plan of the building, noticed
door marked where none now exists. ii
had the wall pierced and found an entrauc
into a chapel, in which was deposited a col
fer containing the coin. 1t had been col
7 cealed there by the Duke dAndria when Ii
emgrated to Germany at the timo of til
French invasion of Italy.
DR. L. L. Van Giesen OF GreenpOint, 1
! l.. says he would rather be bitten by 20 ma
dogs than by one enraged man, and the deaf
!, of NJ. J. Russell of Brooklyn, who consulte
I him about such bite, confirms his prefe
= ence. Mr.. Russell had his finger bit wolisl
ly by Thomas Kelley, II drunken tenant,
:. whose quarrels he interfered. In a mont
the poison of the wound extended to IL
r., whole system, and the patient died terrib
death from modification. Mr.. Russell Ina
;, been very robust man and he lay for thr,
DAYS enduring the death agony.
) A terrific powder explosion occurred net
, Pottsville, Pa, Saturday, where Il magazr
! in which some 100 barrels of powder wei
3 stored, was struck by lightning and blew u
4 with fearful violence. Aparty of picknickel
X near by were struck by timbors and stone
: and three of its members were killed m
Y many wounded Glass was broken and eel