Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-05-19

Senator Edmunds has engaged summer
quarters in Dublin, near Monadnock Noun
tain and Lake.
Mr. Moody, the evangelist, says that he
has seen in one hour more drunken people on
a Saturday night in the streets OF Glasgow
than in any other place he had ever visited.
The Canadians are congratulating them
selves that by the passage Of the bill making
it legal for man to marry his dead wife's
sister he can be certain "what sort of a moth
er-in-lAw he is to have"
The young readers of st. Nicholas will re-
gret the death of Mr.. A. r. Thompson, one
OF the editors of that magazine-the one who
personated "Jack-in the Pulpit" Mr. Thomp-
son was thirty-four years old, and he died at
his residence in Brooklyn.
Mr.. Charles G. Francklyn, the owner OF
the house in which President Garfield died
last summer, has just lost little daughter in
Paris from typhoid fever.
The tea crop on the experimental farm
near Georgetown, South Carolina, has been
gathered and cured. 1t is pronounced supe-
rior in appearance, quality and flavor TO the
tea ordinarily imported into this country from
China, Japan and India.
The New York Evening Post is not san
guine with regard to'the operation of the new
Oulubbb blhs Ino nuOib VIC tAhullu0 TIC
bill the less likely to be executed it seems,
and we venture to predict that a vigorous at
tempt to execute it would in five years cover
its authors with shame and confusion"
Missouri has a law which seems to meet the
case of the sharpers who get farmers to sign
innocent-looking contracts and receipts which
turn up in the hands of confederates as regu-
lar promissory notes. Under il court has
Just held that the holder is bound to prove,
afirmatively, that he bought the paper in
good faith, and that really brings all cases OF
the kind to the ground.
Simon Frazier fought in the war of 1872
drifted ashore on a single timber from his
raft, which the st. Lawrence rapids had
knocked to pieces was blown fifteen feel
into the air by the premature discharge of Q
blast, assisted in boiler explosion on the
Hudson, was brought home half dead from
three other accidents, of which the particu
lars have not been preserved, twice recovered
from illness after his doctors had given hin
up, and finally died in peace at Troy, N. Y.
Tuesday evening, in the Home for the Aged
at the age of 105 years.
Charles Langheimer, the old German msd'
famous in Dickens's american Notes" a.
the subject of pathetic description of thu
effects of the solitary confinement system il
the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
forty-two years ago, and who appeared il
Dickenss eyes as "a detected, heart-broker
criminal, whose life has been cruelty tortured
out Of him, " was released from the service O
his ninth term, since Dickens first saw hin
in that prison, one morning last week. HI
| is a sneak thief of the meRnest kind, umbrel
las and overooats being his specially, and a
soon as he is through with one term of i'm
prisonment always contrives in few weeks
at the farthest to get back into his oil
prison quarters He has daughter living il
Philadelphia with whom he always stay
when he can.
Mr.. Whittier wrote TO Cincinnatian in re
sponse to an invitation TO attend the Forestr
convention; "For many years have felt
deep interest in the conservation Of our foI
ests and the planting of trees. The wealth
beauty. fertility and healthfulness of tn
country largely depend upon it. My indig
nation is yearly aroused by the needless sac
rifce of some noble oak or elm, and especial
ly of the white pine, the grandest tree in ou
woods, which would not exchange for Or
entail palms. have always admin
ed the good taste of the Sakokis Indians
around Sebago Lake, who, when their chic
died, dug around a beech tree, swaying
down, and placed his body In the rent, an
then let the noble tree fall back into its orig
nal place, green and beautiful monumen
for son of tho forest"