Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-15

A drunken Denver burglar blundered
into his own house and robbed himself of a
watch and so.
The committee in charge of a benefit to
Mrs. John Brown have secured six hundred
dollars in cash, with promise of four hun
dred dollars more. 1t is thought that Mrs,
Brown will receive fifteen hundred dollars
from Chicago people.
On Aug. 10, Mr.. Fawcett, when question
ed, eaid that about two hundred and fifty fe-
male clerks are now employed in the central
post office at London. II was intended to in
crease the number during the next six months,
though not more than in the last six months.
Mrs. Sarah j. Hale, editor of Godey's La
dy's Book, who died recently, nearly ninety
years old, was the author of MARY had lit
tie lamb" 1t was written foTty-six years
ago, and first published in Boston in 1880.
Mrs Hale resided in Boston at that time.
In Baltimore a man was convicted of beat
ing his wife, and the convict was terribly sur
prised when the Judge, instead of fning him
few dollars and letting him 60, announced
that under the new law adopted in Maryland
his punishment would be thirty lashes on the
bare back.
The richest man in Mexico is an Irish
man named Patrico Milmo, who owns a
400, 600 acre farm, and is reputed to be worth
SO, 900, 600. When he went to Mexico he
had not dollar, but got a start by for
tunate marriage He has been several times
captured by brigands and compelled to pay a
heavy ransom, so that now he lives in kind
of fortress of his own.
Miss Eva j. Beede of Merden, formerly a
member of the faculty of the Tilton Acade-
my, and more recently the successful pre-
ceptress of the Wilmington Conference Semi
| T.Io. ka. h.. Il NaA 0,va
ceptress of the Centenary Collegiate Insti-
tuie, Hackettstown, N. j., one of the largest
and most prosperous educational establish
ments of that state.
Frederick Douglass'a wife, who lately died,
was remarkable woman. She was free
woman in Baltimore when he escaped from
| slavery and met him in the North, JOINED
his dangerous fortunes and was his grea
support in all his days OF trial No wonder
Mr.. Douglass writes after A years with her
that life cannot hold much for me, nov
that she has gone"
The New Orleans school teachers have
been for long time unpaid, and some tim
ago when they were in great straits sued TO
their salaries, and obtained jugRents agains
the city. For doing this, sixteen lady teach
ers have been peremptorily dismissed the ser
vice. First to starve the teachers and the
to set them adrift if they try to collect tn
money due them, appears to be the New Vi
leans idea of school management
While Isabella jackson was testifying
few days since in Justices court of Shelb
county. Tennessee, the magistrate said
her: Don't you know you are lying" Sh
answered, ''Yes, sir" and made no replies
farther questioning An officer approache
TO remove her from the witness stand, whe
she fell to the floor paralyzed. 1t was foun
on examination that she had been struo
dumb. The people believed it to be man
festation of Divine wrath. The woman die
on the following day.
The "boss" wstermelons seem to
raised in Georgia A grower at South Moui
tain, that state, has one ripening which no
weighs 65 pounds, and is expected TO alta
20, and perhaps 70 pounds, before it is reat
for gathering The largest watermelon tn
I this man has previously raised weighed
pounds, and when it was cut into sectio
like barrel hoops and the pulp removed, Il
body of a man weighing 200 pounds was e
sily passed through the ring taken from
largest circumference.
Enterprise begets enterprise. After {
terrible yellow fever times at Memphis
= 1879 the city plucked up new coural
constructed a thorough system of drai
age and determined to keep clean. I
d work was very expensive, but it pays. Me
phis is now one of the healthiest cities in
South. II is also one of the most prospl
Z GUS. The enterprise of cleansing the c
and fortifying it from disease has aroused
dividual enterprise, and the very character
the people has changed in many respec
Memphis bids fair to grow rapidly, and
: yellow fever, terrible as the scourge was,
Ss likely to prove q blessing in disguise.