Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-20
HN GENERAL.

Daniel Camp, Pine Bluffs ARK. plant
er, died the other day from eating watermel-
ons which he had poisoned for the benefit of
thieves. Three of his children were also
alarmingly poisoned
The agricultural college at Hanover,
n. H., will admit women pupils at its next
term, who will be given a special course OF
study, including butter and cheese making,
and dairying in all its branches.
There is a farm of 5000 acres in Bexar
county, Tex, which is devoted to the raising
of Shetland and spotted ponies for the use of
children. The diminutive horses roam over
the prairie with the docility and contentment
of sheep.
Mrs. Charles Turner a widow of Liver
pool, has given $500, 900 for the erection of a
home for incurables in that city, and will
make ample arrangements in the shape Of en-
dowment for the maintenance of the institu-
tion.
Miss Frances Z. Willard has mapped out
her autumn and winter work as follows A
trip through the South-the third made in
the interests OF the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union: trip to the Pacific coast
and all the Territories; and later on, trip
to the Canadian provinces. There are ear
nest calls from all these quarters.
Miss Alice Welch, on being nominated
for county superintendent OF schools in Full
ton county, ILL.,, by the Democrats, was es-
corted to the platform and made speech
which was declared the finest effort of the
convention, and caused the rock-rooted men
who thought the nomination Of q woman an
innovation on Democratic doctrines, to de-
clare that they we're captured and would
'vote for the woman"
IT the newspaper stories are true, there
is an invalid widow in Tennessee who desorv-
es something more than honorable mention.
She has not been able to stand or walk for
twenty years, but some years ago she began
to make shoes with a set of tools her husband
left her at his death. She has persevered so
that now, while sitting in bed with her tools
beside her she plies her trade successfully
and has very nearly paid of the mortgage on
her little farm.
Last Friday there was a,celebration of a
unique character, on an eminence in the town
of Woodbridge, about six miles from New
Haven, Conn. 1t was in honor of what is
said to be the oldest oak tree in America.
From where it stands there is view of 30
miles around, to the shores of Long Island,
and it has long been a landmark. The tree
is said to be from 1000 70 1900 years old Its
circumference at the base is thirty feet, and
some of its branches extend 60 feet from the
trunk. Despite its age, it is still full of vigor.
Mrs. Emma B. johnson of New Orleans
has published a pamphlet entitled silk Oul.
ture in Louisiana and in the Southern States
which gives plain, practical directions for the
management of silk worms IN the South.
Mrs. johnson is a dealer in silk-worm eggs
and mulberry trees and cuttings, and makei
a specially of what she calls "LouisianG
eggs" breed that has been produced in thai
state for thirty-eght years. The coeooni
from these eggs are said TO be unusually fine
in size and color and no disease has ever de
veloped among them.
Mime. Gonzales, who has been visiting
Senior and Sonora Roa, at the Mexican Lega
ton, Washington, is the wife of the Presi
dent of the Republic, and has como to thil
country to perfect herself in the study o.
medicine and surgery. She learned the ru
dimonts of both on the battle fields of Mexi
co, where she won the name of the "ModerI
Joan of Arc" Her name and deeds are ia
vorite themes for song and story among thl
writers of Mexico. She is'said to be of me
dium height plump and well proportioned
with keen dark eyes and an aquiline nose.
A striking illustration of how the ex
| tremes of life sometimes meet is given by
recent incident in a New York tenemen
house, the second floor of which was occu
i pied by three families. In the middle apart
ments merry dancing party was in progress
When their fun was at its height there cam
knock on the door. 1t was an undertaken
bearing the coffin of a young man who ha'
Just died in rear room, and his errand wa
to ask that the door might be opened to al
] low the turning of the casket in the marrow
passage. The pleasure seekers, of course
complied and expressing sorrow at their igno
rance of the presence of death, quietly lef
the house, greatly to the relief of woman il
the front apartment who had that morning
breast.