Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-11-19
NO. Az.
IN GENERAL.

CtEub
Negligent landlords in New Orleans who
have failed to attach proper fire escapes to
their buildings have been indicted by the
Grand Jury
Illinois has practically wiped out her
State debt after the first of January, when
the last payment will be made, she will have
100000 in the treasury.
Cashier John J. Berry of the Bergen
County On J.) Savings Bank and the Bergen
County Bank has speoulated with the funds
and lost 500, 600.
Tho Lyons silk manufacturers give out
the raw silk to the workman, who has his
hand looms at home and on these looms the
best goods are made.
Gen. Grant has rented the residence of
ex-United States Senator Jerome B. Chaffee,
on Fifty second street, New York, and will
hereafter make his home there. Mr. and
Mrs. U. s. Grant, Jr., will also reside at the
same place.
General Hancock makes the fourth de-
feated Democratic candidate for the pres
idency now living. The other three are Cen
eral Mcclellan, who was beaten in 1864;
Horatio Seymour, who ran in 1868, and Mr..
Tilden.
Mark Twain thinks it happy circum-
stance that the Connecticut Republicans elect
ed seven out of the eight sherifs in the State
because criminals and officers ought to be Of
opposite parties
"A young married woman was recently
found dead in a garret at Scranton Pa with
an infant two days old by her side. A few
days before she had cut off her hair and sold
it to buy food, while her worthless husband
was carousing in a saloon.
Paris is much mystifed over double"
of the Prince Of Wales, who resembles him
with Photographic fidelity, and whose ap-
pearance in the gay capital caused the an
nouncement by the entire Partisan press that
Albert Edward had arrived, when in reality
he was with the Queen in Scotland He is
said to be a resident Partisan.
The result of the late Presidential con-
test was known within twenty-four hours af-
ter the last ballot was THROWN throughout
the length and breadth of the country In
1910, when Harrison was elected by major
ity of IA votes in the Electoral College, def
mite news was not received until the day be-
fore Thanksgiving.
"A New Orleans lawyer, in arguing di-
vorce suit, held that husband had legal
right to make his wife stand in a corner with
a clothespin on her nose. IF such mild
means of compelling obedience are forbid
den," he said, what is to become of the
husbands authority as the master of his
household3"
One of the veterans of the war, who lost
leg, was urged at the polls in Maine to vote
for Hancock. II can't do it. l had q dream
last night. dreamt went to the polls and
deposited Hancock ballot, and Just as did
so l received tremendous kick. looked
round, and there was my old leg which was
buried nearly 20 years ago just as lively as
a cricket. No, Sir, no Hancock vote for me-"
80 1t is said that ~, $40, 900 packets or 49,
740, 900 single pins, are manufactured
rl.r in tln Init taI Naka hoty,
of 4GS pins for every person of the popula-
| ton. Fifty years ago it took one man a min
ute to make II pins, now a single workman
can make IA, 600 in the same time.
-Stopford Brooke, the clergyman who is
becoming so famous as the leader of the ad-
vanced school of thought in the English
Church, is said to be remarkably handsome
| person. His face is refined and intellectual,
aud he has dome-like forehead, reminding
one of the portraits of Shakespeare.
Justice Smith said, on opening his court
at Connorsville, Tenn. William Henry
Smith is arraigned for assaulting his father"
| The magistrate had on the previous day
knocked his father down with a club. and 1t
| was himself that he was now arraigning. He
continued: THE evidence is conclusive, and
| I'm not sure but l ought to send myself to
| Jail for ten days. But as this is my first Of
fence, and 1 certainly had a good deal of
provocation, I will simply impose fine of
| ten dollars"
President Diaz of Mexico recently had q
narrow escape from capture by bandits, who
had laid plan to seize him and hold him
for ransom, 1t is his habit to go out shoot
| ing on Sundays with his little son and a few
| friends, and he had planed an excursion of
this kind for Sunday, Oct. a. but was de-
tanned by important business. The plot hav-
ing been discovered, the brigands themselves
were surprised and captured while lying in
wait for the President.
President Hayes is quoted as saying that
when he returns to his much neglected pri-
vate business in March he will carry away
| very pleasant recolectiOns of his life in the
White House. THE first two years were
hard, he adds; ''as hard, perhaps, as any
| year of Lincoln's administration. The two
| last years have been as easy and pleasant as
perhaps any President has enjoyed In my
case the sunshine has followed the storm and
! clouds"
An old negro named Ally, at Brooklyn,
ILL.,, who was very feeble and liable to die at
any moment, had often expressed hope
that he might live long enough to vote for
Garfield. When election day arrived assist
ed by several friends he tottered to the pol
ling place. He gave his name and deposited
his ballot, then turned to 60 home, but be-
fore he had made half a dozen steps stagger-
ed and fell dead. His one hope had been
fulfilled, and then the end came.
Some prospectors among the mountains
near Silver Cliff, Colorado, who were caught
in snow storm aud obliged to seek shelter
under lodges of rock, discovered a series of
caves connected by narrow passages, which
they explored. In one of the caves they dis
covered a number of human skeletons, but
no trace of any tool, knife or gun. They al
so found several very rich specimens of gold
bearing quatz, which proved to be worth
5000.
Kansas has gone little further than any
State in prohibitory legislation, by adopting
an amendment to the Constitution prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors, except for medical, scientific and
mechanical purposes II is reported that
this has been adopted by a majority of 2O,-
900 votes. As part of the Constitution,
this prohibitory law cannot be changed or re-
pealed, except through two-thirds vote of
each branch of the Legislature, ratified by
vote of the people.
-Japanese paper air cushions are said TO
have some advantages over those made Of
rubber. They may be rolled into package
of smaller dimensions, when not in usej they
will not stick together as rubber does after 1t
is wet, and for pillows they are better because
they have no odor. Their strength is marv-
elous; a man weighing 100 pounds may
stand upon one without bursting it. They
are said to be waterproof, and to make eI-
cellent life-preservers.
Gen. Garfield will be the twelfth of the
Presidents who were college educated Wash
ington, Jackson Van Buren, Harrison, Taylor,
Fillmore, Lincoln, and johnson never went
to college. Grant was educated at West
Point, the two Adamses at Harvard. Jefer-
son, Monroe and Tyler at William and Mary's
college, Madison at Princeton, Polk at the
University of North Carolina, Pierce at Bow
doin, Buchanan at Dickinson, Hayes at Ken
yon and Garfield at Williams.
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