Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-05-04
NO. 49,.


The wives Of several of the Molly Maguires
who were hanged in Pennsylvania few years
ago are now keeping dram shops.
The steamship Great Eastern cost her
owners 5000 for maintenance last year.
and earned SG5-fees paid by sight-seers.
Cleveland, Ohio, has a company incor-
'Dorated to build a $1,000, 600 elevated rail
road from the business part of the town over
the flats to the South-side.
Three prominent japanese statesmen are
now in Europe studying the details of vari-
Gus constitutions, with a view to preparation
for the introduction of the Parliamentary
system promised by the Mikado for 1890.
A painted advertisement in huge white
letters upon the rocks of Lookout Mountain
caused a spirited horse to run away one day
last week. and horse and driver went head
long over a cliff and were killed.
Some deliver in old newspaper files down
in Maine has discovered that the Widow Ross,
Of Lyman, advertised in the Kennebunk Ga
zelte Of May o, 1880, for information about
her son Charlie Ross, who had mysteriously
disappeared.
An Arizona newspaper says that the eli
mate of that Territory is undergoing a mark
cd change, the once arid lands now being
blessed with considerable moisture. The
change is attributed ito the DETECTING of
'iN-hiAS ANAithNo ~ luG AhllIOhh5
A Michigan woman announces her inten-
ton to set out May from Paw Paw on a
tramp across the continent, delivering lee.
lures on the way. She expects to reach San
Francisco by Sept. l. The people on the
line of march cannot complain that they
have not had fair warning.
"A stranger, of respectable appearance
and somewhat solemn demeanor entered
flour dealers store in Oswego a day or two
ago and said that he wished to pay for bar.
rel Of -four fraudulently obtained 30 years
ago He calculated" that flour was then
worth ! barrel, and without another word
he handed out SIG and went his way.
1t is estimated that the canal now in
process of construction through the Isthmus
of Cornth on the eastern coast of Greece will
be finished in four years 1t is to be four
miles long, and Of the same width and depth
as the Suez canal-seventy two feet and
twenty six feet. Vessels going through the
canal from Mediterranean ports will save
ninety. five miles, besides avoiding the dan
gers of Cape Matapan.
"A San Francisco young woman some
time ago gave her infant in charge of anoth-
er woman, promising to pay her for taking
care of it, The mother being unable to pay
promptly, the care-taker attempted to confis-
cate the hapless infant by process of law.
Dut a ttuutI uedtltu JuuBe uSclueu llhI In
fants could not be regarded as available assets
in the eyes of the law, and the mother bore
away her child in triumph.
The organized territory of Wyoming is
situated between the states of Nebraska and
Colorado, and the territories of Dakota, Mon
tana and Utah. In this territory there is an
area of 30, 900 square miles at the extreme
western end of the section which is said to
abound in petroleum, in consequence of
which a number of English capitalists are al
ready endeavoring to purchase those tracts
of land in that region for the purpose of con-
trolling the business
When a man gets mixed up with two or
three women SO that no one can tell which
one or whether any one of them is his legal
wife he is likely to get a taste of hot here
after before his death. Mr.. A. D. Clark, Of
Battle Creek, Mich, is undergoing this expe-
rience one alleged wife having shot and
killed another alleged wife, and, considering
the figure Mr. Clark cuts in the affair, it
seems a great pity that he was missed when
the shooting was going on.
1t is estimated that 52SG tons of ivory
were imported into Great Britain during the
nine years from 1873 to 1881 inclusive. This
quantity represents 29G, ,01G pairs of tusks
DR.. Webster, the American consul at Shelf
field, in recent report called attention to
which were offered in market indicating a
corresponding slaughter of very young ele-
plants. To show to what size many of these
might have attained, Messrs. Rodgers &
Sons of Sheffield exhibit the tusk of an At
rican elephant, which is feet long 21 inches
in circumference and weighs 100 pounds. 1t
is one of the largest there is any account of,
and is valued at nearly 800.
"A thief was caught in q London estab-
lishment short time ago opening safe con-
tanning fortune with key as perfect as
though made originally for the lock. The
man was convicted and his prosecutors, out
of curiosity, begged him to tell them how he
got the key. Nothing easier" he replied.
I'VE knew who carried the key and what it
was like. So me and my pals We gets into
the same carriage with your manager when
he's going home by rail. One of US has
bag which he can't open. Has any gentle
man got key? Your manager produces
bunch and my pal has wax in his palm, and
takes likeness of the key of the safe while
seeming to open his bag. There's the secret
for you
Twelve Arabian acrobats from Fez, AL
giers, aud Tunis arrived few days ago in
New York city. To Times reporter, who
addressed them in their native Arabic, one of
the number said "We thought the steamer
was going down every moment. We hardly
ate anything during the voyage, and we do
not feel very strong just now. We made vow
TO our saint, Sid Bed Abbas, that if we
reached land in safety, we would give him an
Offering of gold so when we got to New
York we took some gold coins, tied them up
in a cloth, and threw them into the sea they
will find their way to the treasury of the
saint just the same as if we put them there
ourselves l said to the sea oh, you blue
sea, if they ploughed you, and sowed seeds
on you, and the grass were to grow all over
you, I'll never trust you again