Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-26
TIE NEWS nRIEr.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
"A competent commission is about 10
make thorough examination of the White
House.
Chicago has fixed a day in 1882 when all
telegraph wires must go underground.
Alexander H. Stephens is busy writing
reply to the recently published book Of Jeffer-
son Davis.
The will of the widow of ex-President
Willard Fillmore leaves public requests to
the amount of $500 among which is S2O,-
600 to the university Of Rochester.
General Sherman is to visit the New
England fair in Worcester Sept. I, and at
special meeting of the city government it was
voted to extend the Inequalities of the city
to him and the gentlemen who accompany
him.
Three children in one family died on the
18th inst, in President, Penn, under pecul-
lar circumstances. Two of them, while play
ing in the yard were bitten by snakes. Their
mother, going to their assistance, left ket-
tie of boiling water ON the floor, and the third
child fell into it.
The Stephen A. Douglas monument at
Chicago, which has just been completed 10
years after it was begun, cost in all $35, 500,
of which S2j, 900 was for the land.
-Krupp, the great German gunmaker, has
been obliged, by the press of orders for ri
fed guns, TO employ an additional force of
5000 workmen, bringing the total number of
men employed by him up to 1900. This
does not augur well for European peace.
Edison must look to his laurels. At the
Paris Exposition OF Electrical Apparatus Just
opened in Paris the Swan lamp was the great
success of the occasion. 1t is simple in con-
struction. 1t is hand lamp with globe
wick of carbon gives out soft light with
out heat, and it is said to be of indefinite du-
ration. 1t is lighted and extinguished by
turning button. The lamp is an English
invention. It is said that il is cheaper than
gas, but far more brilliant All Paris is in
ecstaces over this lamp.
Another astonishing instance of the ig-
norance of even educated Englishmen con-
corning this country occurs in the August
number of the Nineteenth Century. Sir Ed
ward Sullivan, writing on free trade, says
Chicago, the capital of agricultural America,
is rapidly becoming one of the largest manu-
featuring states in the Union"
Capt. HowgAte's peculations from the
U. S. treasury are now believed to be $780,
600 more than previously reported.
Two Louisville (Ky.) young fellows had
q pie-eating match the other day. One ate
II apple-pies in % minutes with apparent
ease, while the other succumbed on the 18th
The reports Of the failure of the peach
crop this year seem to be well grounded for
once. The latest estimates show that Della
ware, which usually produces some four mill
ion baskets, will yield this year not more
than one hundred aud twenty thousand.
Orange Tex, has vigilance committee
who have lately hanged two negroes and shot
six more belonging to lawless gang.
- II II.
plorer, Stanley, is lying dangerously ill half
way between Stanley Pool and the mouth of
the Congo.
Murray Meacham, son of selectmAn
Meacham Of Orange, Mass, was struck by a
freight train Wednesday night while lyingint
icated on the track near the Orange depot. He
escaped with the loss of one foot, but will
probably not survive the shock of amputa-
| ton.
Clouds of winged black ants have of late
been flying over Emerson, Man, and the
Red river is covered with them.
All the business part of Irving, KY, and
several dwellings were burned last Friday
night, causing loss of $50, 900. Two stores
only are standing.
COL A. b. Lawrence of Warsaw, N Y,
who was presented with the original gate
| post 20 the Andersonville stockRde, recently
has had a section of it sawed up, and sent to
the several q. A. II. Posts in the state suita-
BILE pieces for gavel heads.
Nine girls from 10 to II years old are I'M
der arrest at Manchester, N. H., for syste-
matte course of shop lifting and stealing from
clothes lines covering period OF several
weeks. Dress goods, shoes and other articles
pertaining to female wardrobe are among the
| goods recovered.
| Seven wholesale houses at Evansville
| Ind, were burned with their contents Wednes.
day, causing loss of $500, 900. One fireman
was killed.
| DIR. Tanner, the starvationist, is in the
wilds of Pennsylvania, fattening himself fol
the ninety days fast which he proposes soon
| to undertake.
There was a terrible ARRAY at Soudan re
Gently, between the population and the soldi
| cry, caused by the preaching of a false pro
phet. One hundred and twenty Egyptian
soldiers we're killed.
Secretary Window has awarded the golC
medal of the life saving service 10 Capt
Charles p. Smith, the gallant commander OIL
the Inflated Seawanhaka, and the medal was
received from the mint on the day before
Capt. Smith died.
"A new religious sect, called the lover
Corners" has sprung up at Chicago, headed
by few people who were prominent in thu
| Moody movement. They claim 10 nave oil
rect revelations from Christ or the Holy
Ghost, with outward visible signs of his pres
ence Their religion is type of Spiritual
ism, but they claim to live earnest and devou
Christian lives. They believe in sort Of
purgatory in which all souls will probably
overcome their evil propensities.
A whole family was murdered Tuesday
night, 10th inst, in Terrell county, Georgia
Frank Hudson negro, went to Daniel Leei
farm house after the family retired and told
Lee his woods were on fire and his fences
burning. He went out with Lee, split hi
head open in the woods and returned. II,
demanded supper of Mrs. Lee. She refused
saying supper was over. lie felled her will
an ak, killing her instantly. Two colore'
girls servant and a cook, heard the nois
and rushed into the room. Hudson fellet
both with the AK and left them for dead. III
found $500 in the house, took it and fled
The cook was killed but the other servant re
covered and spread the alarm.