Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-06-29

The Italians arc talking about a worlds
fair at Rome next year
There were - deaths from starvation in
London last year.
Thirty five Tennessee towns have had
their charters repealed SO that they might sup
press whiskey selling.
-Promenadng on the Brooklyn bridge has
fallen to the normal point, the number cross
ing on foot being now from -, 900 to 32, ,OUO
daily.
Harmon Adams l2-years. old negro
boy who dragged Owney Nelson, II, to
death at the heels of his horse near Houston,
Tex, last April, has been sent to prison for
life.
Alas for Barnum! An elephant bigger
than Jumbo has just arrived at Liverpool
from his native jungle. He weighs nearly
five tons aud has a trunk b feet in circum-
ference.
Several suits for personal damages in the
sum Of 500 GOO each, for injuries received in
the Brooklyn bridge disaster, have been begun
against the cities of New York and brooklyn
and the bridge trustees.
During a thunderstorm at Morrisonville,
n. Y, the other day, a widow who had been
partially paralyzed for two years was cured
of her palsy by flash Of lightning whi,h
struck tho house she was in.
Huxley, Tyndall and some 47O members
of the British association for the advanced
sciences will meet in Montreal in August of
next year, the Canadian government having
| appropriated $50, 600 for their entertainment.
The Southern Pacific railroad has had
locomotive built for heavy service on steep
| grades which weighs 90 tons. On a level
track it can draw all the freight cars that can
be made to hold together by ordinary meth
ods
OF the FIVE field generals of the Oonfed-
| crate army, j. E. johnson and Beauregard
survive. Gen. johnson is the general agent
of prominent New York insurance comps-
| ny, and Gen. Beauregard is the adjutant gen
| eral of the state of Louisiana.
Pennsylvania has a fre-escape law, ao-
cording to which every hotel room above the
second story must have a rope long enough
| to reach the ground, aud there must be six
| for each floor in academies, colleges, school
houses, factories, asylums, hospitals and ten
| ement houses.
! George Emery, didnt-know-it- was
loaded idiot in Missouri, goes to the peniten-
| tiary for two years under conviction of man
slaughter in the fourth degree He playfully
tiourished the pistol in the presence of sever
al persons, refused to stop his antics when
warned that they were dangerous, and mo-
ment later killed a friend named Hammond.
A Missouri oleomargarine concern got Ros-
coe Conkling to go out there and astonish the
natives with an argument in lawsuit upon
the right to sell bogus butter without distin-
gushing marks, hut it was no use. The
court held that tine state had police power
over its markets, and that even an article
made under a United States patent was sub
jeot to regulation.
The magnificent Cologne cathedral is al
last actually completed, G35 years after il
foundation, and nothing remains but to take
down the last shed and put the terrace in or
der. Over 81, 100, 600 has been spent in this
work since 1861 but about $4,000 more
than the money on hand is needed to teal
down the enoumbrances, and this will be
raised by another and final lottery.
Lieut.. Schwatka whose arctic expert
ence is calculated to inspire faith in his sue
cess, has undertaken an expedition for th'
exploration of the Chieat and Yukon rivers il
Alaska, aud more particularly of the latter
Except near tho coast this groat territory il
unknown, but the geographical knowledge Z
be gained is apparently not SO much the OBJ
ject of the trip as the discovery of the ricl
mineral deposits which have long been re
ported as existing in tho interior.