Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-07
IN GEN ERAL.


The liquor question is the leading topic of
discussion in the papers of Northern Texas.
"A boy IA years of age fatally stabbed q
playmate in the breast, in Dominick street,
New York, last Saturday.
All three of the robbers who captured
and robbed the train on the Iron Mountain
road two weeks ago have been captured and
lodged in jail. They have been fully identi-
fed
The theological faculty of Yale college
have voted to use the revised revision of the
New Testament at morning prayers and all
other devotional services of the theological
school.
The relatives of William Cullen Bryant
have placed a monument on the spot in Cum
mington, Mass, where he was born, bearing
this inscription Birthplace of Bryant, Nov.
8, 1894"
The steamship Anchoria, on her last trip
from Glasgow to New York, cut in two sail
ing vessel in the night. The small craft went
down with her crew before the AnchoriA
could learn her name, and all perished.
The headings of the two sections of the
railway tunnel under the river Severn, con-
Meeting the coasts of Monmouth and Glouces-
tershire, met last week with deviation of
only three inches The work has been in
progress seven years.
A gold memorial medal of the late Presi-
dent will soon be issued from the United
States mint at Philadelphia. There will be two
sizes, five dollar medal which will be half
an inch in diameter, and a ten dollar medal,
an inch in diameter On one side will be
medallion of Garfield, on the other, Lincoln.
"A memorial window is to be placed in ST.
James Episcopal Church at Long Branch in
memory of the late President. 1t will be op-
posite the seat occupied by President Gar
field the Sunday before he was shot. 1t is
proposed to mark the pew used by him with
an appropriate inscription.
In view of the discussion as TO what
Congress will do for Mrs. Garfield, the action
of that body in Mrs. Lincoln's case is worthy
of recollection Congress passed three acts
in her case, giving her first years salary of
the President-then $4,000; second, the
privilege of passing all letters and packets to
and from her through the mails free of post
age, and third, giving her yearly pension Of
$4,000, beginning in 1870
Among the remarkable operations per-
formed in Germany recently by eminent sur
geons, those in which the stomach or the alb
domen have to be opened have been at once
the most dangerous and the most successful.
After the achievements of DIR. Billroth, Of
Vienna in the removal Of cancers from the
stomach comes now DIR. Schinzenger, with
two cases in which obstructions in the en-
trails had to be removed. In one case, that
of a woman section of one of the intestines
had TO be cut out and the severed ends sewed
together. In both instances speedy recovery
followed.
"A London anti-vacoinator has met with
and caused sad misfortunes One of his
children was attacked by smallpox. The
child recovered. The mother and two other
children took it and died, and three more
went to the hospital The anti-Vaeoinationist
borrowed from a neighbor a suit of black
clothes TO wear at his wife's funeral. He
kept the clothes in the house few days be-
fore returning them. Shortly after their re-
turn their owner also took the smallpox, was
conveyed 10 the hospital and died there.
Since then several houses in the same neigh
borhood have become infected, and some
sixteen cases Of smallpox have been taken to
the hospital.