Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-17
IN RNERAL.

The Susquehanna 'er at Han .isburg is
now lower than it has been before since 1903.
At Delhi N. Y. funeral the other day
the moumers were dressed in white, instead
Of the usual black, in accordance with the
wish of the dead man, 10 believed that
white was more in sympPthy with his expect
ed entrance into happier world.
The postal-card agency at Holyoke re-
ccivcd an order for ,. 900, 600 cards on the sth
inst, the largest received In one day since the
cards began to be made. The average order
during these early days of the quarter is not
over 1000, 200.
A child was recently arrested at Paris, by
the guardians of the peace, for stealing cats,
Inquiry disclosed the fact that the unlucky
felnes were disposed of by the childs father
to the keepers Of eating houses What the
latter did with the cats is not stated.
1t is estimated that the production of silk
manufactures in Paterson, n. j.. this yea
will reach fully $4,000, GOO. The weekly
consumption of raw silk is estimated at TO-
600 to II, 900 pounds, and between ., 900 aud
10000 persons are engaged in the industry.
Paul II. Hayne, the southern poet, thinks
of making his home in the North, saying that
the South shows little appreciation of letters,
and gives no encouragement to the profess
sional literary man. He has been for some
weeks with Whittier in Ossipee, n. H., and
has enjoyed the hospitality of Longfellow and
others in Boston.
A schooner which recently arrived from
San Francisco from the Arctic Seas brings
shocking news from st. Lawrence Island,
where hundreds of the natives have died
from starvation. Rum, which the traders
have taken there has been the prime cause
of the loss of life the natives preferring to
al,
starved from lack of supplies, which they
might have secured.
Miss Jennie Flood, who according to re-
port, is betrothed to L. s. Grant, Jr., is the
only daughter of James G. Flood, the head
of the Bank of Nevada, and, next to Mackay.
the richest man ON the Pacific slope. Miss
Flood is about twenty-four years old, has
dark brown, luxuriant hair, blue eyes, full
face, beautiful teeth, and n tau, handsome
form. With the exception of brother who
has been feeble from child food, she is an on
ly child.
A crime that recalls the revolving mur-
ders of Pomeroy has recently been committed
in the vicinity of Herhana, Middesex county,
Va. A colored family, comprising the two
parents and three children, live there. Last
Sunday the father and mother went to church,
leaving the eldest child, a girl of eight years,
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wished to go to church herself, and was dis.
appointed and sulky at not being permitted
to do so. When the parents retuI hed the
baby was missed, and, in reply to the aux
ious inquiries of the mother the girl said that
'ragmuflin" had come to the house aud
carried of the baby TO the woods and there
killed it. The parents wild with astonish-
ment and grief, hurried to the woods, accom-,
panied by the girl. There, sure enough, wa
the horribly mutilated body of the infant. IT.
throat had been cut from ear to ear. An in
quest was held and the girl was questioned
| At first she held to her story, but, on closer
examination, she confessed that she herself
had committed the deed with a common Ia
ble knife, but that she did not think she wa,
doing any harm. As yet nothing has been
done with the child whose liberty in any
community may be regarded with terror, AnC
the punishment of whom forms problem OF
even greater difficulty than that in the case O
| POmerOy.