Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.



Capt Webb, the English swimmer, &C
complished a remarkable feat at Horticultural
hall, Boston, last week. He entered the wa
ter of tank at $40 P NJ, Monday, and was
in it continuously till midnight Saturday,
with the exception of 10 minutes in each "a
hours. His proposed feat was to stay in the
water 100 hours, eating, sleeping etc, while
floating. This he accomplished Friday night
aud for wager Of $l000stayed in the water "a
hours more. His condition at the close was
excellent aside from slight chatting caused
by constant motion and the salt in the water,
and a feeling of WEAKNESS from the lack of
natural sleep The temperature of the water
was 80 degrees.
Assistant superintendent Q. S. Childs of
the Cambridge, Mass, cemetery was danger
ousy shot on Coolidge avenue,a lonely piece
of road, last Saturday, by one of two men
who drove rapidly toward him rs he was 60
ing to pay off the men. He fell from his car
riage, and the murderers, rushing up, robbed
him of about 5000. They then cut the breast
plate of his harness, SO that no one could pur-
sue them, and in their own team drove rapid
ly toward Brighton.
james and Edward Bean, two desper-
ADDE'S who killed the city marshal of Cald-
well, Kan, last June, have been overtaken by
constable's posse near Sunset, and shot
dead.
"A negro killed John H. Pope well.to-
do citizen of Atlanta, Ga, with stone last
Saturday and escaped
The stage coach from Prescott, Ariz., for
Williams Ariz., was robbed by road agents
last Friday.
Six negro mill hands have been driven
into the woods at Hickman, Ky, by II
whites under the leadership of a man named
| Edwards, who hunted them down. One ne
gro was killed, two others badly wounded and
| others fled the state The negroes have been
thought quiet and peaceable citizens. More
doings of the kind are threatened.
Pensacola, Florida, is suffering terribly
| from yellow fever. Up to the middle of this
week there had beeu 1877 cases and l4l
| deaths. BY strict precautions the disease is
confined within the limits of the town,
The ravages of diphtheria in Pittsylyania
county, Virginia, are terrible, nearly 200
| deaths having occurred within the sixty days
ending October H. In one family Eve child.
rem lay dead at one time
The New York state Congregational as
ISOLATION now in session at Saratoga has
tabled a resolution to extend fraternal greet
ings to the Universalist general convention in
session at Philadelphia.
The photographing of landscapes from
! the car window of a train running at rate
of even 40 miles AN hour has been recently
accomplished by Dr. Qaudeze of London.
The state of Georgia shows an increase
of $15, 600, 900 in taxable property during thu
year, of which Atlanta claims one-eighth.
Mr. and Mrs. G. @. Howard have jus
completed their thirtieth year as actors il
Uncle Toms Cabin-the former as 'St
Clair" the latter as 'Topsy."
Louisiana rice culture has increased 100
per cent since the war, and now affords
livelihood for 80, 600 people and hasan annua
product worth So, 100000,
Being unable to attend his silver wed
ding, man whose home is in Calves
ton, Texas, sent from his mining camp il
New Mexico a silver brick as his present t
the bride, The weight of the gift Is seve
pounds,
Owing to a Misunderstanding an expires
I train on the Fitchburg railroad, which wa
forty minutes late, ran into the rear of
freight train near East Deerfeld, Mass, Fri
day morning. telescopng a saloon car, bu
causing no derailment. The engineer an
fireman of the express saved themselves b
Jumping. G. f. Howe, express messenger
had q thigh broken by the tender crashin
into the express car, and Mail Agents How
ard and Minis narrowly escaped. The pa
sengers escaped with violent jarring.
Freezing weather has set in in Russil
Ten degrees are recorded by the thermomett
in Nishni Vovgerod, and navigation has bee
suspended in the Volga and Kormor rivers o
account of drift ice.
= 1t appears by the census statistics Il
= Mississippi that the increase of agrieultur
products in $780, as compared with 1870,
extremely encouraging, it being SO per Gel
, in corn 1913 per cent in oats 252 per Gel
= in molasses 1858 per cent in rice, and 10 p.
cent in cotton. Her manufacturing estal
lishments in 1880 numbered 2,34l, as again
], 1871 in 1870.
u. Joseph Dunn, of Conway, Mass, char
. ed With poisoning his wife, was discharge
At the examination for lack of evidence. Dur