Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-01
IN GEN ERAL.

and it is stated in Washington that no such
permission will be given.
AT Gross Besskerek, Hungary, 85 women
have been convicted of poisoning their hus-
| bands and 60 more are on trial there for the
same crime.
Henry ]. Hall, paying teller of the Rhode
Island hospital trust company of Providence
confesses that he is defauter to the amount
of S21, 100, and has given himself up.
The development of electric railways in
Europe is considerable. Aside from numer-
Gus lines that are projected, those which are
working show length of about 100 miles.
-Coup's circus has got into trouble in De-
troit, attachments to the amount of S25, 600,
representing claims of employees and others,
having been put on it, and the whole concern
is in the sheriifs hands.
1t was considered worth telegraphing by
cable that a laborer working on board q
steamer at Liverpool found five Yankee po-
tato bugs. The British privy council ordered
them killed and sent to London.
William Black the novelist, thinks it is
wrong to kill beasts for their flesh, never eats
anything but vegetable food, says meat food
is not necessary to man, and calls stock -raisers
coarse in nature and lacking in moral sensi-
bilty, to say nothing of butchers.
Where some escaped prisoners from the
| 1OlGuO lhll BOl tno bLetl SAWS Win WulCu tuty
cut their way to liberty remained mystery
to the Jail officers until the other day it
transpired that a woman prisoner had taken
| the steels from her corset and handed them
to the men who got away.
A few months ago Pittsburg man lent
| S1400 to a friend who was going out West to
| speculate in mines. The other day that
Pittsburg man received by express from his
debtor gold brick worth $11, 600, not, as an
accompanying letter explained, to pay the
debt, but merely as an evidence of good will
A young lady was drowned recently in a
lake near Minneapolis, and steamer was
employed to cruise about the vicinity in Or
| der to raise the body. The experiment
proved successful the stirring of the water
by thu paddles of the boat finally bringing
the body to the surface.
The old-time junks which have long
made Japanese waters picturesque are rapidly
disappearing A native paper says that 'ship-
building in Japanese style is 30 far giving
place to foreign construction that by-and-by
there will be no such thing-as a junk except
in paintings"
"A new article of paper is called 'leath-
eroid, and is made by winding thicknesses
OF cotton paper over each other on a cylinder.
The material is made especially tough by
passing through a chemical bath on its way
like rawhide when it has been dried.
is iron to go out of fashion A young
man at Pittsburg proposes to make nails
from Bessemer steel to weigh but half as
much as the iron article and yet be so stiff
that they can be driven into the hardest wood
and tough enough to clinch, and has invented
a machine which is said to cut them three
times as fast as the old kind are made.
The Lick observatory, in California, is
well under way. 1t is on Mount Hamilton,
IS miles from San Jose, and nearly 4500 feet
above sea level, with an unobstructed view of
the heavens, except a small part of the north
eastern horizon, shut out from view by
neighboring mountain peak. There are to
be two domes, in one of which a 12-inch
equatorial telescope is now erected The
other is to contain the great 36-inch telescope
the glasses for which are now being ground
at Cambridgeport, Mass.
C. A. Tucker, an Euglshman from
New South Wales, who is visiting insane asy-
lums and jails in this country, says in letter
to the Salt Lake Tribune that he visitt d the
Utah insane asylum Tuesday, which is under
the charge of Dr. Seymour B. Young, a
nephew of Brigham Young, and three Mormon
commissioners, and found 2l patients in the
most filthy condition imaginable. Some
were in iron cages outside the main building,
while others were in irons bound hand and
foot. OF these two are perfectly sane and
have no idea why they are confined. One of
them was robbed Of his wife ten years ago
by a Mormon polygamist and has been con-
fined in the asylum ever since.
AT Newport, on the Isle of Wight, few
weeks ago, Prince Albert Victor and Prince
George of Wales, the sons of the Prince of
Wales, who have recently returned to Eng
land from an extended tour at sea, were con-
hrmed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as
sisted by the Dean of Windsor and Canon
Connor The royal candidates wore the uni
form of midshipmen of the royal navy, and
all the officers of the ship, who we're present
by request of the Queen, were also dressed
in full uniform. Besides the Queen and the
father and mother of the young men, there
were present the Duchess of Connaught,
Princess Beatrice, the Duke of Albany, and
other members of the royal family.
There was funny chase for a baby at
Plainville, Conn, the other morning A wo-
man stepped from train moment to ques-
ton the agent, and the train pulled out sud
denly without her, carrying of her baby. Her
frenzy moved the good ticket agent 10 tele-
graph to Bristol and order the baby returned.
The train dropped the infant at Forestyille
aud good man footed it thither and lugged
the baby back to Plainville. The mother,
meantime grown impatient, had gone to For
back went the good man with the baby to
Forestville, there to learn that the frantic
mother had returned to Plainville. The man
then telephoned TO the woman to sit still
half an hour, which she did, and got back heI
infant.
The walls of the old engine. house at Har
, pers Ferry, where John Brown made his last
stand with a dozen men against 1000, now
furnish an artistic background to huge
placard setting forth the virtues of somebody's
liver pad The inscription on the front Of
the building, which tells the story Of Browns
crusade, cannot be read at any distance. The
advertisement of the liver pad is in letters as
long as a Springfield mbsket The grass
, grows rank in front of the historic spot, al
though few pilgrim feet visited it, clump
/ of tall rag weed stands in the open doorway
where young Watson Brown and his brother
! were shot down. The roof is gone, the win
dows have disappeared and there is an air o
neglect and gradual decay about the spo
, thkt acGords well with the stagnstion of the
; town.
: The burning oil well in Washington eoun
. ty, Pa, 16 miles from Bethlehem, is said Il
. be grand sight. The well was bored by the
4 Niagara Oil Company, and at depth Of 25OC
D feet from the surface a vast reservoir OF gai
3 was struck and compelled a suspension oi
t work by blowing,t the tools clear out of the
7 shaft The escape of gas was so immense
Q that it poisoned the atmosphere, and as stocl
. and vegetation suffered, pipe was laid from
0 the well up a hillside, and then light wal
s applied Ever since February the gas hai
I continued to burn in unabated violence, ant
D the supply seems ineXhAust.ble. At night the
Q spectacle is, indeed, grand. The column o.
FIRE is about fifty feet high, and from i've Il
? ten feet thick, while the roaring that accom-
I panies II can be compared TO q feet Of steam