Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-04
. .1 !" she he, exclaimed somewhat indignantly,

'wo amt been married moren six weeks"
A Galveston man, j Hafney by name,
who is in the interior Of the state received a
.letter from his wife the othor day. It read
Dear husband l have been very anxious
about your personal safety ever since read
Of that cattle train being wrecked"
When you see a young man sailing down
the street shortly after midnight with his col
lar mashed down his neck you can mako up
your mind that there's young girl crawling
up stairs not far distant, with her shoes un-
der her arm and an extinguished lamp in her
hand.
AT German masked ball at Munich, last
week, one Of the artists, dressed in the cos
tune Of an Esquimaux, set FIRE to his dress in
lighting a cigar and then rushed in terror
among others similarly attired Eight were
burned to death and several others slightly
burned.
Abraham Lincoln, in letter written Dec.
IL, 1864, said 'You say you are praying
for the war to end. So am i, but want Il
to end right. God alone knows how anxious
am to see these rivers Of blood cease to flow
but they must flow until treason hides it's
head"
The Japanese Gazette Of Jan. 21 says
that in the province of Iwashiro little more
than 100 miles from Toxic, the weather, since
In the district Of Minami Aidzu.eo and the
neighborhood, snow lies In the fields 10 feet
in depth, while on the hills it is Il or 10 feet
deep. Such vast quantities of snow have
not been known for 40 or 90 years past.
The body of Charles +. Blake, an expert
in patent law, was found floating in the water
at the foot of West Fortieth street last week
Monday, and the police have not yet been
able to determine whether it is case Of sui
eide or he was the victim Of foul play. Mr..
Blake was AZ years old, native of Boston
and son-in-law Of John A. Dix. Tho last
that is known Of him is that he left his part
ner's house on Sunday evening, in good health
and Spirits to go to his own.
John A., son of Brigham Young, has
been arrested at Denver charged with big
amy. He married talented and beautiful
Philadelphia girl, a number of years ago, and
promised TO abjure the practices OF his peo-
pie. But he did marry a Salt Lake girl short
time since, and his first wife brings the suit.
His conviction is by no means assured, how
ever, for he will be tried by Mormon jurors
and under circumstances which, in spite Of
the untiring zeal of the Gentiles in Utah for
years. have secured only very small number
Of convictions
"A curious marriage took place at the can
tonment in the Bad Lands Dakota, Wednes-
u
Henrietta Louisa James, Rev. Mr.. Stevens
Of Bismarck officiating from that place by
telegraph. Frank s. Moode and Engineer
Deutsch were witnesses that the parties re-
sponded 10 the electric marriage ceremony at
one end Of the wire, while the Pioneer Press
correspondent and several others saw the
clergyman perform his duty at the other.
The questions and answers were written, tel
egraphed and responded to and q blessing
was pronounced in the usual form.
Near Glasgow, KY, is n robin roost that
quite rivals the famous pigeon roosts of which
30 much has in time past been written about.
A csdar thicket of about 60 acres furnishes
the birds with lodging place during the cold
nights of the winter, and at sundown great
focks pour in from every direction, at times
obscuring the sky in their flight Men with
torches and clubs resort to the place nightly,
and carry away bags full of BIRDS which they
sell for good prices in the neighborinQ towns.
One man has in few nights killed over 2OoO,
and hundreds and thousands are carried away
nightly but without producing any seeming
diminution in the feathered hosts.
Some solicitude is felt for the safety of
Capt. Paul Boyton, the famous swimmer,
who is thought by some to have been killed
during the late war between Peru and Chill,
Last fall he entered into contract with the
Government Of Peru to superintend a torpe-
do service, for which he received a maRnif-
cent remuneration A friend in PittsburQ,
Pa, to whom he wrote weekly up to Christ |
mas, has not heard anything Of him since
that time, and in his last letter he inclosed
his will The last advices from him from any
quarter were received by his mother under
date Of January 6, when he stated that he |
was well and was about to visit the noun
tains in the interior of Peru.
A.
cred in Long Island village. They induced |
a Brooklyn boy, by promises of a pleasant |
country life with a little work, to come and |
live with them. His pleasant life consisted |
OF uninterrupted drudgery, diversified only |
with brutality. The climax came when the |
boy froze his feet and was left three DAYS in |
q cold garret without attention OF any kind. |
The boys condition having finally been disoov- |
cred, he was removed, aud his feet have been |
amputated in order to save his life. The |
Brooklyn Children's Society has taken steps |
to secure the prosecution Of the brutes who |
so cruelty abused and neglected him.
Theodore Thomas, in an excellently writ |
ten paper in the March number OF Scribner's, |
after discussing some of the bad methods |
of musical culture in this country, says: |
II was once asked by gentleman what he |
ought to do TO make his children musical |
He perhaps expected me to advise him 10 |
send the girls to Italy to study vocalization,
and to set the boys to practicing the violin so |
many hours a day and studying harmony. / |
told him TO form for them a singing class un-
der the care Of good teacher, that they |
might learn to use their vocal organs, 30 form |
a good tone, and TO read music after they |
become old enough let them join choral So
ciety, where, for two hours once q week, /
they could assist in singing good music and, |
above all, to afford them every opportunity |
Of hearing good music of every kind. This
gentleman knew nothing of music, but |
thought the advice sounded like common
sense"