Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-03-23
THE NRMs IN RRIEF.

lnhLlOu III OTuBT TO ascertain IDB extent OF
her injuries, she determined to carry out her
intention and take drive, but on returning,
and when attempting to leave her carriage,
she found that she was unable to do so, and
had to be assisted by her attendants, who
found it necessary to carry her to her room.
Her Majesty's physicians were at once sum
moned, and upon examination they found
her knee to be badly swollen and inhamed.
Wednesday "a full corps of royal physi-
clans was reported as in attendance upon
her She suffers a good deal of pain, but
the doctors say that there is no fear of dan.
gerous results from the hurt. The Queen is
so well along in years, however and has
been in such delicate health of late, that
there is an uneasy feeling among the people
that serious consequences may follow even
80 slight an injury. When these facts be-
came known in London there was great and
general agitation in the city. Many business
men "closed up" and sought news of the
Queens condition at their clubs the houses
of Parliament were crowded with people
anxious for the latest information, and the
streets at the newspaper offices we're thronged
with workmen eager for the last bulletin. So
great was the crowd at one point, the des-
patches say that but few could read the bullet
ms, SO strong voiced man mounted pile of
stones aud shouted out the news to the null
titude who listened barehCaded and with sol.
emn silence.
ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS MURDER NEAR BOSTON.
"A horrible murder, very similar to the still
mysterious one of Mrs Bell in Boston, oc-
CURED at Watertown, near Boston, last Sun
day. At about 1880 on Sunday evening a
little tye-y ear-od daughter of L. +. Carlton
appeared at a neighbours in her nightdress,
saying, Something is the matter with mann
ma, and begging some one to go and see
about it at once. The neighbor Immediately
started for Mr. Cartons, and on entering the
front ball stumbled over something which
proved to be the PROSTATE body of Mrs.
Carlton, bleeding from savage wounds in the
head. The woman was nearly unconscious,
and died soon after. The facts seem to be
that Mrs Carlton, after tea, had allowed her
servant to go out for the evening, and about
dark took her children-the little girl before
mentioned and boy of two years--up stairs
to bed. The children were undressed and
their mother was sitting beside them, when
about $50 there came two sharp rings at the
door-bell. Mrs. Carlton left the children to
answer the bell She WAS gone some time,
and the little girl, hearing noise down stairs
and becoming impatient at her mothers pro-
longed absence, left her bed and went down,
calling "Mother" as she went. At the foot of
either surmising that something was wrong
the entry being dHrk-or else directed by her
mother, she ran, as before stated, to a neigh
boris for assistance. The murder was done
with large paving stone. The whole affair
is mystery. The womans husband, who is
a liquor dealer in Boston, was not at home at
the time, and did not return until midnight.
Rumor says that the couple did not live hap.
PLY together, but Carlton seems entirely
Frustrated by the shock. The police have a
number of clues, but none, apparently, in
which they have much confidence.
Telephone conversation is now carried
OH regularly between the New York and Cleye-
land offices of the postal telegraph company
"a distance Of $50 miles-with the same ease
as over short distances. A patent has been
applied for on the invention by which this
long. distance speaking is accomplished
At Bridgeport, Conn, last Friday, Mrs.
Ann Boland was kneeing in front of a stove,
saying her prayers, when coal fell on her
clothing. She was terribly burned, and died
the next morning Three daughters were also
badly burned in trying to save their mother.
An inquest upon the bodies of the Jud-
son sisters of East Hartford, Conn, who
were burned with their house last week, de-
veoped clear evidence that they were muir
dered, but as yet there is no definite clue to
the murderer
Forest City, California mining town,
was nearly destroyed by fire last Sunday loss
several hundred thousand dollars.
"A cold rainstorm in Texas last week kill
ed large numbers of sheep; estimated loss,
$3.50, 900.
In Pawtucket Or. L., recently, a pupil
whistled in school, The teacher asked who
it was, and, failing to find out logged the
entire school, with one EXCEPTIONS girl, who
preferred to be turned out instead There
were 5S scholars, and 81 of them got five
blows apiece from a rattan. The teacher was
a woman.
Karl Marx the founder of modern So
cialism, died in London last week, aged IS.
He was man of vast learning and wonderful
intellect.
The public will not be gratifed to learn
that, owing to lack of appropriations, Chief
Hazen has decided to cut of a number of sig
nal service stations and discontinue the tele
graphing of the A. NJ synopsis and specia
bulletin to printing stations.
1t seems to be as good as settled that the
New England conservatory of music in Bos
ton is to have the big organ in Music hall and
that the building now occupied by the con
servatory corporation, formerly the st, Jame
hotel, will be enlarged for its proper accom-
mediation.
"A st. Petersburg despatch says a SUDDEN
who attempted to commit suicide while in
bath last month, has confessed that the nihil
/ lists commanded him to shoot the czar at thu
| banquet and ftte given by the Finland regi
ment. The student was present disguised a
a waiter. His courage failed him at the las
moment, and, knowing his fate from the nj
hilists, he resolved to commit suicide.
-Rowles, one of the prisoners awaiting
trial in connection with the Phoenix park Dub
linz murders, died in an epieptic fit in Xii
mailman Jail Monday night.
Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, presiden
of Bowdoin college, is suffering from wound
received in 1864, and dangerous operation
is deemed necessary
Two men suspected of having set fire Il
barn u miles from Helena, Mont, Friday
were hanged by a vigilance committee Sun
day night,
The severest change in the weather thi
winter occurred at St. Louis Monday evening
The mercury in the afternoon stood at 771
and at / p. NJ. at the freezing point, wit
nearly an inch of snow on the ground. Re
ports from Omaha and other points in tn
northwest stated the mercury to be from ger
to IT. below.
panied by an earthquake, destroyed severl
houses. The people living near the volcan
are panic-stricken.
Very heavy rain and hail storms and flood
are reported from Victoria, Australia an
Queensland. The crops have been destroye
and many sheep killed.
The Yellowstone country stockmen est
mate that the loss of cattle in Montana by tn
cold will not exceed Eve per cent.
-Twenty-fOur Mormon elders went throug
st. Louis the other day, en- route for varior
parts of the South to act as missionaries
The Nova Scotia rivers have overfoweC
bridges have been swept away, the lowlant
are flooded, and considerable property hs
been destroyed.
The rains have been so light 10 Oaliforni
that it ID feared the whsst and barley croI
will be almost total failure except in Goa
counties which may be aided by fOgs. I'll
fruit and grape yield promises TO exceed thu
of any previous year. Reports from Centr
|, Illinois indicate that the cold snap has dan