Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-12-14
IN GENERAL.

"A new religious sect has arisen in Eng
land, which worships Mother Eve.
-Four young persons were drowned in Viz
ginia Sunday, 4th, while returning from visit
to a sick friend, their boat cspsizing
"A female beggar who has travelled over
the state of Texas with child and monkey,
has collected $4,000, and will go into business
at San Antonio.
The anti-license people in South Carolina
are being successful in all except the larger
towns. The colored people are on the prohi-
bition side.
Mr.. r. T. Booth, the American apostle
Of tie Diue-ribbon movement in England,
claims to have had l 200, 900 signatures to the
pledge at his meetings since his arrival.
In Illinois II distilleries are turning out
l03, 600 gallons of whiskey daily against 90,-
600 gallons stthe same time last year. Illinois
now manufactures double the amount of any
other state.
"A Mexican living near Pueblo, Mex,
killed his child for burning up $500 in paper
money recently and then in remorse threw
himself before a locomotive and was killed.
His wife has gone mad.
Two sons and a daughter of Geo. E. Rit-
ter, prominent builder of Baltimore, were
married in the Church Of the Fourteen Holy
Martyrs, in that city, on Thanksgiving day.
Three weddings in the same family in one day
are decided novelty.
A part of the old Murray church at
Gloucester, the first Universalst church in
America, built for Rev. John Murray in 1880
and used as a barn upon the Pearce farm
since about 1906 was recently blown down,
aud the remainder has now been removed.
Sergeant Mason, Guiteau's would-be exc
cutioner, has several offers of places on the
STAGE but rather thinks he will take the
$500 clerkship offered by Chicago clothing
concern. With the $1,000 fund for Betty and
the baby and all the rest the shot proves q
very good financial thing for the sergeant.
The New Hampshire young woman who,
wooed by letter, went West to meet the lover
she had never seen, upon condition that he
should pay her fare home again should he not,
on personal inspection, be satisfactory to her,
is now happy bride, their novel love- making
having proved a success and the wooer having
passed muster.
Western Montana is greatly excited over
the discovery of rich deposits of silver, gold
aud tellurium. Some very rich hauis have
been made, and some nuggets have sold for
| $500 apiece. People are rushing there at q
rate which promises fully 10000 people by
June l. The Pritchard river, near by, fur
nishes good supply Of water.
-Mollie Beckett, aged 16, has just died in
| Cincinnati after fast of 52 days. She was
one of the inmates of an Ohio convent who,
some time ago, we're simultaneously attacked
| by st. Vitus's dance. The rest all recovered,
but Miss Beckett was never well afterward.
Since the first OF October she has been abso-
lutely unable to partake of food or drink, aud
gradually died of starvation.
Fire broke out Saturday evening, 80, in
Farwell block, the largest business building
| in Chicago, but was confined in two stores,
| l6S and 10 Market street. In the upper
stories several hundred girls we're employed,
but all but two escaped. These, in attempt
ing to use the fire escape, became frightened
and fell to the pavement and were killed.
While nearly every engine in the city was at
work upon this fire, an alarm was sounded
from the Office of the Evening journal, and
the upper stories of the building were gutted,
causing loss of $50, 600
During the trial OF a lawsuit in Prescott
| Ariz, before Ohief-Justice French, recently,
Attorney General Churchill and District Attor-
ney Ruch quarreled and came TO blows. While
the officers were trying to restore order, Nc
Atee, the defendant, drew knife and fatally
stabbed an old man named Moore. Turning
on O. W. Beach, late editor of the Prescott
Miner and son -in-law of the plaintiff he stab
bed him in the neck. He then made for the
court reporter and was about to plunge his
knife into him, when Mr.. Beach shot him
through the spinal column. 'This," the de.
spatch naively says, restored order"
A conspiracy of grocers' clerks to rob
their employers has been discovered in New
York city, and Christian Kroz, Henry Precht,
a clerk of l.. Anderson at $40 Second avenue,
aud Herman Leitjen, clerk for grocer named
Fuller at 1923 Third avenue, have been arrest
ed. They are members of union, OF
which Kroz was treasurer. One of the rules
| nf he aaaOaiafion xuau that ZACH nnambaF
should steal 1926 month from his employer
and deposit it with Kroz. The members we're
to be given $25OO from the society's funds al
the end of the year If they wished TO go into
business themselves, and If sick were to re-
ceive 81 day until we'll.
Two New York widows" wealthy and
highly respectable" entertaining the pub
lie with curious lawsuit. They live in Gale
donia, Genesee county, owning adjoining
farms, and quarrelled about the line fence
and when one had an Irishman dig post-holt
where she thought it ought to be, the Other
sailed out and stopped proceedings by putting
her foot in the cavity, turning her back to the
enemy, and leaning we'll over on her own land
so as to avoid committing trespass. This
proved too much for the diggers feelings, anC
she marched up and routed her antagonist
3 with sound kick, Hence the lawsuit and O
7 lot of amusing testimony.
3 "A North Carolina farmer has $4,000 law
suit on hand because he hired young Richard
} TuTney to work year for his daughter,
;. double-barreled shotgun and his blessing
8 The daughter is 22 years old, homely as siI
Q in the primer, and IN. l.natured to match bu
Q Richard toiled patiently on the paternal tobac
B. 90 acres l2 long months, and dreamed dreams
q The year was up last week, and the farme
Q passed over the shotgun and called the gin
o out and told her Of the arrangement, but tn
9 goods resisted delivery. She had given he
e heart and promise to another fellow, AM
o wouldn't bulge, and the old man goes sadl
!, to a court OF law for breach of contract.