Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-13
IN GEN ERAL.

"A man charged with murder in Kansas
was taken from jail at night and hanged by a
mob.
1t is said that Chicago has $4,000 girls
working at the various trades for average
wages of 81 week.
In Missouri child seven years old, hav-
ing quarrelled with playmate aged FIVE, OBJ
tanned a revolver and shot his little adversary
killing him instantly.
Three men employed on Paradise tunnel
near Silverton, Col, were buried 100 feet
deep by a snow slide near that place last Sat
urday.
Two Mormon missionaries who attempt
ed to conduct a service in one Of the suburbs
of London on Sunday were maltreated by
mob
While attempting to escape from Jail in
Texas three brothers charged with murder
were shot and killed, as was also q deputy
sheriff.
The latest novelty is a dress album. A
piece of every new dress is carefully gummed
on one side of the leaf, and the date attached.
Thus the book forms a complete history of
lady's costumes from season to season.
Three boys at Oskaloosa, Iowa, used
powder magazine as a target upon which to
practice with their new rifles. Five hundred
kegs of powder exploded, killing the boys
u
Cotton raising in Kansas the past year
was quite success. The colored refugees
und -rstani the business, and with their help
some of the farmers have turned out crop
excellent in quantity and quality. They
fope that cotton will become as certain a
staple as corn or wheat in Kansas.
The fast mail train between New York
and Washington was delayed more than an
hour few days ago by two elephants that
were on board amusing themselves by pulling
the bell-rope several times, causing the engi-
neer to put on the air-brakes and stop the
train.
The first silk mill in this country was
established in 1910. Now there is $18, ,000,-
900 invested in silk manufacturing, $4,000
operatives are employed, and the annual
product of the looms is $27, 100000. Pater-
son, N j., alone has 80 silk-weaving mills.
The plan of reaching the North pole by
means of balloons has passed the stage of
suggestion and ridicule, and now Command
er Cheyne of the British navy says the meth
| cd is practicable. 1t has been Investigated
by scientific men on both sides Of the Allan
tic and it is possible that the plan will soon
be put TO practical test.
"A Baltimore 11-year-old boy dreamed
that some men were trying to kill him and
attempted to get away from them. His fe-
boys room and found him hanging, fast
asleep, by the hands from the sill of the win
| dow, which was in the second story. He
rescued him with difficulty.
-Rawhide chair-seats are coming into ex-
| tensive use. The material is cut in strips,
and after preparation much resembles cane.
| 1t is exceedingly durable, elastic, cleanly,
strong and light. For car seats it answers
an admirable purpose, accumulnting no dirt
and making a springy and ventilated bottom
and back.
Colorado does little justi6able growing
at the beginning of the new year. Her tax
able property has increased one-third during
1881, and is now $96, ,O59, 900. Her bullion
output was $40, 200, 600. Denver, her push
ing capital city, has spent 81, 900, 900 on new
| buildings. Railroad facilities are being rap
idly increased There will soon be new
line to Chicago and a direct road to New
Orleans.
The list of steamship wrecks for the
year 1881 shows a total of 1885, accompanied
by the loss of 1859 lives. OF the disasters
141 were to British steamships; 10 were
American; 80 vessels were stranded; 80 sunk
by collision 40 foundered burned; II are
missing; were abandoned at sea; were
sunk by ice; l broke in two, and l was de-
stroyed by explosion. Eleven Of the vessels
are known to have been laden with grain /;
23 with coal IL with iron; with cotton,
and l each with copper ore, petroleum, pro-
visions, wool and sugar.
The old repudiated railroad bonds of
Minnesota have at last been practically pro-
vided for, by the payment of a certain percent
age in cash and the delivery of new 4t per
cent bonds of the state The principal bene-
fieiary is Selah Chamberlain, the Cleveland
contractor, who recovered $500, 900 in cash
and 81, ,O00, 900 in bonds. Mr.. Chamberlain
has devoted nearly a quarter of a century to
securing settlement of these claims, and
after this delivery had been made his anxiety
was not ended. The American express COM
pany, to whom he applied for transportation
for his precious freight, demanded conside-
ration of $500 for delivering the treasure at
Cleveland. Mr.. Chamberlain therefore re-
solved to take his own risk, and brought the
presidents car of an Ohio railroad company
through with an armed guard
"A new form of crime has been invented
in the West and is exposed in dispatch
from Yankton. Last winter the Dakota
Legislature organized a new county called
| Douglass, acting upon affidRvits as to its pop
ulation and property which are now shown
to be false. The county has but forty voters, and
its taxable property is only about 81, 900; but
few of its enterprising citizens after elect
ing themselves to the county offices have is
|
New York for market. Bogus stock COM
panies formed to issue worthless bonds is an
old swindling devicei but to organize q
county by perjury for similar purpose is a
novel aud much more dangerous form OF
rascality.
The Kingston IN. " Freeman relates
the experience of a young mother in that
town with her first baby. The mother, 1t
seems, had been reared in luxury, and was
lacking in practical knowledge; THE other
day she undertook to give the child bath in
a small foot tub. The lady's mother, whe
lives with her, passing through the room,
dipped her finger in the water, and told her
daughter it was too cold for the little one and
that she would have to warm ii. Instead OF
adding a little warm water, she placed the
bath tub with the baby in it on small gas
stove, and waited for further developments.
The developments came as soon as the bot
tom of the tub began TO get extra warm.
The offspring gave one yell, when the fond
mother, grandmother and the two servants
rushed to the rescue. In the future, grand
mother will look after the child, while the
mother reads up on the cares OF q mother
! and how to bring up children"