Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-02-14
IN GENERAL.

The report that Henry NJ Stanley is to
lead the Belgian exploring expedition to Afri-
ca is confirmed.
1t is now said that Stewards body has
not been recovered. and that the story of its
return, recently published, was only ruso
on the part of those interested to make the
thieves believe that the body had been re-
turned and identified to the satisfaction of
Mrs. Stewart
F. l.. Cardoza, the colored secretary of
state under Chamberlain, in South Carolina,
who a few months ago was appointed a 81
20O clerk in the sixth auditors office, has at
last risen TO the dignity of a second-class
clerkshp, reaching that elevation after an cx-
animation in which he worstcd tweuty.one
competitors.
Judge James d. Halliburton, who admin
istered the oath of Office when JEFF Davis was
made rebel president at Richmond, Va, has
just died at that city in his 18th year The
judge was a fellow-student with Edward
Everett at Harvard, and hio mother wac q
nece of Martha Washington who belonged to
the cambridge family in the days of her maid
enhood.
w. Il. Lithgow of Manchester, Va, has
a curious relic in the shape of funeral ticket,
dated Dec. l6, 1899, inviting the Nichols fam
lily of Dinwiddie to attend the depositing Of
Washington in the family vault at Mount
Vernon. The paper bears the seal of Wash
ington and is somewhat Worn, but the writ
ing is well preserved.
1t is stated that the enormous sum of
$50, 600 was spent in the Hunter murder case
at Camden, n j., by the prosecution and de-
fence. The county of Camden is out about
S15 5OO0 by the murder and the taxpayers
have this sum to pay. The Hunter family
spent money so freely that more than equal
expenditure was required Oh the part Of the
public
DR.. Schliemann is ambitious to be United
States Consul General at Athens. He is an
enthusiastic American, has married Greek
lady, and is building fine palace in Athens.
He is on good terms with the King, and
would gladly give his services gratuitously,
besides doing all he could for the United
States in the various archaeological eXplora-
tons now going on.
Capt. Paul Boyton the famous swimmer,
will go to Washington in a few days, where
he will give a public exhibition with his
swimming suit on the Potomac before Pres-
dent Hayes, the Cabinet and members of the
Senate and House of Representatives. The
exhibition will take place as soon rs the river
is free from ice. Capt Boyton also has ac-
cepted an invitation to go to Pittsburg, and
will swim from Kittanning ON the Allegheny
river, to Pittsburg, a distance of 80 miles.
Later he will visit Canada to fulfil several en-
gagements already made.
A silver vase was recently presented to
Thomas Mast, the caricaturist of Harper's
Weekly, at the residence of Col. Church in
New York, as a token of esteem from $500
officers and enlisted men of the army and ma
Wy. The presentation speech was made by
Gen. Crittenden, who said that when tho
army and navy were in their utmost straits,
Mr. Mast was their friend, and by his match
less cartoons had done them invaluable SER
vice The vase is shaped like a soldiers can
teen, is about sixteen inches high, and is sup
ported by two eagles.
A case of wholesale poisoning by wo-
man has developed at Clarence Hollow, near
Buffalo, n. Y. The woman, named Annie
Cox, becoming enamOred of q man named
Taft took advantage of his absence to send
to his wife letter purporting to come from
him, and stating that he had been exposed to
smallpox, and desired her 10 administer the
enclosed powders to herself and the three
children as n precautionary measure, Mrs.
Taft acted accordingly, and she and the chill
dren soon fell i'll from arsenieal poisoning,
and two of the children will die. Mr.. Taft
proved the letter forgery, and Miss Cox has
been arrested
AT ST. Petersburg, not long ago, govern
ment functonary died in utter destitutiOn, as
atives two small children, one of whom was a
boy seven years old. Alone, moneyless, food
less, with his little sister crying for bread, no
wrote ON a piece of paper, the petition,
please God, send me three copecks to buy
my little sister roll" This he carried TO the
nearest church, to drop it into an Rlms-boI
and start it on its way to Heaven. priest,
seeing him trying to put the paper in the box,
took it and read it, whereupon he carried the
children to his house. fed them and clothed
them. The next Sunday he preached ser
mon ON charity, in which he alluded to the in
cident The collection that followed amount
ed to nearly $1,000.
In Paris the other day young lady went
into one of the great drapery houses TO shop
with her maid, They keep watchers there
and one of these, making sure he had seen
something presently tapped the young lady
On the shoulder and asked her TO follow him
% the searching-room You have Just put
pair of new gloves in your pocket, mademoi-
ielle don't deny it," II know have" said
he young lady quietly; ''and if you will be
good enough to look inside them you will see
hat, as they were bought at another house, -
hey could hardly have been stolen from this"
This proved to be the case. The watcher had
simply made a mistake and he and the whole
gang of searchers began to grovel in excuses
Now" said the lady, turning to her maid
'go to the nearest Commissary of Police and
.ell him that the daughter of Prince Orloh re-
Iuires his protection" 1t was the very awk-
Harddest of blunders her father was the
Russian Ambassador. The contrite drapery
company is offering thousands to hush It up.