Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-28
THE NEWS IN. BRIEF.

Owing to the very bad taste Of the city
water the proprietors of some Of the princ-
pal hotels in Boston are buying drinking wa.
ter from farmers who bring them their eggs
and poultry, or from the propretors of the
suburban mineral springs. Four dollars a
barrel is the price, and many wealthy people
are paying this for drinking water.
Typhoid fever and other diseases have
made frightful ravages among the French
troops in Tunis.
Cholera is raging among the Europeans
in Bengal.
The largest cargo Of sugar ever imported
into the United States, and the first one from
the Philippine Islands. arrived at New York
Monday. The Government derived S125,-
600 in duties.
Gen. f. A. Walker, Superintendent of
the Census has resigned, and his resignation
dent-elect of the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology.
The bodies of 1926 horses have been re-
covered from the ruins of the burnt street
car stables in New York.
More than 5000 women are employed in
the railway Offices of Austria Their pay is
from Sl5 TO $50 month. The majority of
them are the widows. wives or daughters of
defunct or active male employees on the roads.
"A young son of A. L. Clark of Big Rap
ids, Mich, who caught man stealing his
fathers horse, presented little stick as If it
were pistol at the offenders head and act
ually walked him off to the Sheriff, the thief
having real pistol i'll his pocket all the
time.
Henry Ward Beecher has sold his inter.
est in the Christian Union and retres wholly
from connection with journalism.
Our cabbage crop is short this year and
Baltimore merchants have Just imported
5000 heads of the vegetable from Germany.
The experiment is likely to be repeated.
The general committee of the world Is
fair at Boston met at the Hotel Vendome,
Monday evening, listened to the reports of
the subcommittee and appointed a committee
Of thirteen to canvass for funds and report in
ninety days. At the end of this time it will
be definitely decided whether the project
will be gone on with.
AT jackson, Cal, the residence of A.
Jelitch was burned early Thursday morning,
goth, and all the inmates, Jelitch, his wife
and two children, girl of two years and an
infant son, persisted.
The two Malley boys at New Haven
have been held for trial in the superior court
for the murder of Jennie Cramer, without
bail.
"A New York broker named Erwin Davis
last week paid $1,000 for a special train from
Chicago TO Omaha. He went to see his
brother, a celebrated miner in Montana. who
was sick and at the point of death.
j. X. Keene's three year-old bay colt
Foxhall won the Cambridgeshire nondon)
stakes, Tuesday, defeating field of 32 com
petitors. Horsemen regard this as the most
remarkable turf exploit of the year
Three men attempted to rob an express
train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago railroad, near Bucyrus, Ohio, Monday
night. They shot at the conductor, but meet
ing resistance, jumped from the train and es-
capped.
"A man named Lauier, who killed d. S.
Love, at Greenyille, Miss. last Friday for a
gross calumny on Lanier's wife, has been dis
charged, the Judge saying the prisoner did as
any man of honor was bound to do.
Mrs. Mary Bradford, sister of Jefferson
Davis, died at New Hope, KY, on the ped
inst, aged 81 years.
The silver cup for the greatest excellence
in marching in the Yorktown review has
been awarded to the New Jersey regiment.
In the Cascade Mountains of Oregon
about seventy 1--WE miles from Jacksonville. is
remarkable sheet of water called the Great
Sunken Lake, II is thought to average 2OOO
feet down TO the water all around. The depth
OF the water is unknown. The surface is
said TO be never ruffled, the banks being so
high that air currents do not affect it. Its
length is estimated at twelve TO fifteen miles
and its width at ten to twelve. There is a
mountain in the centre having trees upon it.
The lake lies still, silent and mysterious in the
bosom of the everlasting hills, like huge
well scooped out by the hands of the giant
geni of the mountains