Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-29
IN GENER AL.

-Rey, DR.. Pusey, the noted English theo-
logian, is dead at the age Of 81 years
Mrs. Garfield has bought for $50. 600 the
Ralph Worthingtou mansion on Prospect
street at Cleveland.
-Swinburne, the English poet is coming
to this country, and will give public readings
from his own works.
Secretary Folger in eleven months has
saved the United States Treasury, from the
customs service alone one million dollars.
Mrs Melville, wife Of the Jeanette ex-
plorer, has been pronounced insane, aud has
been placed in the Norristown pa. asylum.
The contract has been signed for laying
cable between Lisbon, Spain, and the United
States, touching at tue Azores.
A new explosive has been invented called
panclastite, which is claimed to be both safer
and more powerful than any previously
known.
Silk culture is becoming an important
industry with large colony of Mennonites
located in Nebraska. They feed the silk
worms with leaves of Russian mulberry.
A telegram has been received announc-
ing the arrival of Henry NJ. Stanley, the AZ
rican explorer, at Lisbon. He will proceed
to Brussels at once to visit the King.
-Rerdell and Miner, the two convicted
hIhf-fOuLb men, nave Dceu Ibluhtu Dhll Since
the trial, and are in fail, treated like other
prisoners. They feel their humiliation deep
ly.
The engagement of Chester A. Arthur,
Jr., the Presidents son, to the daughter of
Richard Crowley, Representative from New
York, and one of the Presidents most trusted
counselors, is announced. The marriage will
probably take place in the White House this
fall.
Capt Mayne Reid, who is now resident
of England, is hereafter to receive pension
from the United States of fifteen dollars
month. He served as second lieutenant in
the First New York Volunteers in the Mexi-
can war. He is reported to be quite poor
and living on a small hired farm.
Some ingenious Frenchmen have recent
| ly been experimenting with the electric light
as a lure for fish, A lamp was placed in an
air-tight globe and lowered at night into the
sea. The result was that thousands of fish
| of all kinds were attracted to its brilliant
light. Boats furnished with nets closed in
and made great haul of fish.
A gang of border ruffians have this sum
mer maintained a regular reign of terror in
the vicinity of Fayetteville, near the north
! west corner of Arkansas, and became so bold
as to notify the editor of the local newspaper
not to report their depredations, but finally
some specially atrocious murders reused the
community, and the offenders are being chas-
ed and caught in kind of general hunt.
The recent cyclone at Winsted, Conn,
performed some strange freaks. At one point
seven huge trees in a group were forced to-
| gether and their trunks twined into a gigan-
tic coil which still stands upright But the
most surprising feat of the tempest was per-
formed upon the person of John Burke.
That worthy Irishman was whirled out of his
room, where he sat reading, and deposited
in pig-sty four hundred feet away.
While Sheriff Cate of Chattanooga,
| Tenn, was on a train with three prisoners to
appear before the supreme court at Knox
vile, recently, a party of roughs came aboard
and shot and killed the sheriff and his dep
uty, took possession Of the train, and liberat-
| ed the prisoners. Intense excitement pre-
vailed on receipt of news of the murder, and
| a large volunteer force started off to capture
the murderers. A reward of $1,000 was offer
! cd for the arrest of the villains.