Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-18
IN GENERAL.

-Wihelmj, the violinist has made SlG,-
600 this season.
The weather in Ireland has been very
fine, and the promise of a good harvest is in
creasingly bright.
-Four men were hanged in the upper edge
of Brown county, Tex, last week, by a mob
for crookedness with cattle.
Ellison Hampton (colored) living near
Sumpter Court House, s. c., beat his 10
years.o old son to death with leather thongs the
other day.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has telegraph
ed to the mayor or every town in the United
States and Canada, requesting further aid for
the starving Irish.
against five bogus Philadelphia medical col
leges which have made a practice of selling
diplomas for II or IL years past.
Mr.. Waterman of Duluth, Mimi, cured
a corn that exasperated him by shooting a
pistol bullet through it. The corn is perma-
nently cured but the toe is still under treat
ment.
Joseph Hurd had his wife prosecuted for
running away with another man at GAINESVILLE,
Wis, and secured her sentence to prison.
Then he went about with petition and OBJ
tanned her pardon.
Moses Spratt, a colored dog -fancier of
Fairview, n. j., was fatally mangled by his
blood hounds, last Friday night, the brutes
failing to recognize him when he ventured
among them under the influence of liquor.
President Hayes and family will not oc-
cupy the Executive Mansion during the warm
season. as at first intended but will move in
about two weeks to the Presidential cottage
at the soldiers home, which is being put in
order.
The Bosten Herald tells the story of an
enthusiastic veteran, who, upon getting his
pension papers emitting him to $1,000
arrears remarked as he left the City Hall.
by George, if could meet the dastardly
rebel that shot me- would treat him."
Postmaster General Maynard is native
of Massachusetts, and his wife is a native of
Vermont, daughter of the Rev. A. Wash
burne, Congregational clergyman in Royal
ton.
The project for a subterranean railroad
under Broadway, New York, has been reviv-
ed, and the certificate plans of the company
have been filed in the registers office. The
route extends from the Battery to the Harlem
river.
At Omaha a curious freak was recently
performed by the wind. Florence and Will
low lakes north of the city, were blown near
ly dry, the wind scoOping out the water. The
ground near the lakes was covered with dead
fishes which were blown out of the water.
The Chicago Inter-ocean having come to
the conclusion that "a fun-grown man who
throws banana peels upon the sidewalk is no
Christian, the Cincinnati Commercial anxious
ly inquiries "Well, what do you think of the
banana peel that throws full-grown man up
on the sidewalk 2"
-Agle Takoto, secretary of the Japanese
legation in Washington, committed suicide
Sunday morning. The only clue to the cause
of the suicide was letter left by the deceas-
ed in which he stated that he had been con-
cerned in the insurrection of 1877 in Japan,
and had forfeited his honor.
Tom Lee of New York is a Chinaman, a
grocer, deputy sheriff, and the possessor Of
$50, 600 He broke up a Chinese fight in
Mott street. Sunday night, brought several of
the offenders into court, where they were
fined, and was commended by the judge for
his bravery and good sense.
The Alps have their tunnel and Mt. Vesu-
vius has its railway. The tourist may now
be carried comfortably to the top of that un-
certain protuberance instead of scrambling,
sprawling and shambling up after the old
fashion. The new railway was opened last
Sunday, and the traveller will now be trans
ported from the foot of the mountain to the
top in eight minutes All this may take a lit
tie of the romance out of the ascent, but it
will be a great saving of legs and perspira-
ton.
After the explosion of the Washburn
mills in Minneapolis year ago, IL out of the
40 companies who had taken risks refused to
pay on the ground that they had not insured
against an explosion, but only against fire,
| Judge Swayne, however, sitting in circuit
court at Cincinnati, has decided in a liberal
opinion that, as it was the -four dust which
exploded in grinding, being the very sub
stance and manufacture insured, the COM
panies are liable.
Reports from the vine growing districts
of Burlington and Ocean counties, N. j.. say
that the army worm is destroying all the
vineyards which escaped the recent forest
fires. Around this place the farm lands are
being eaten up. Stamping, rolling, bitches
and Paris green and London purple have
been used against the worms without effect,
| and the only hope of the farmers now is in a
protracted spell of hot weather. The affect
ed district extends from the Highlands and
Port Monmouth on the north, Monmouth
Junction and Heightstown to the westward
and to Tuckerton TO the southwark, covering
a larger area than the forest fires.
An almost perfect house has been lately
disentombed at POmpeii. 1t is the best pre-
served of all the Roman dwellings hitherto
| discovered. There are two atria and a very
spacious peristyle in the middle of which
there is an ornamental fountain. There is
also a complete bath, which must assist in
clearing up some of the doubtful points con-
cerning the arrangement of Roman baths.
The paintings in the interior of the house
were executed with considerable taste, and
they are in good preservation. Those on the
first floor, representing for the most part ma
rine animals, are especially interesting. The
fresooes also, which are contained in the
wings Of the building, are excellent represen-
tatiOns of the scenes from animal life.