Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-16

The Ohio at Cincinnati at o'clock Mon
day night was over GG feet above the mean
level.
Wolcott, the New York fellow who tried to
eat two quals day for 30 successive days,
performed the feat and won his wager-and
the next Saturday night brought up in the
Tombs, drunk and disorderly.
Col. Ingersoll has been ealing on strang.
ers' again. H used the stultfyiug excama-
ton Good Lord" in the star-route trial on
Friday, and got prompt rebuke from Judge
Wylie
The first report of the destruction of the
fruit crop is received. 1t comes from Illinois.
Other states will follow in order and next
summer the markets will be glutted with fruit
as usual.
David Davis has good deal of sense left,
no matter if lac wasn't a success as an "inde-
pendent party" all by himself in Congress-
In recent conversation he had this to say
concerning his reported intention to get mar
ried; Seriously, now, look at me-old as
the hills, and nearly rs big as one what do
you suppose l want to get married for; Aud
do you suppose l want to make a fool OF my
self, even though some girl might be willing to
take me for what I've got No, sir; l don't
believe any sensible girl would let me be such
fool, and l certainly wouldn't marry one
who had no sense"
Only one railway line is able to run its cars
into Cincinnati, owing to the flood, and no
steamers touch there because there is no
landing.
-Four ex.governors have died within the
past few days. Gov. Davis of Texas and OK.
Gov. Jewell of Connecticut died last week,
and during the early half of the present week
eX-Govs. Smith of Wisconsin aud Morgan of
New York passed away,
The assertion that the soldiers of the guard
at President Garfeld's tomb open the coffin,
identify the body and exchange receipts as
often as they relieve each other, is explicitly
contradicted. by Lieut.. Burbank, the officer
in charge. This is the order of the secretary
of war, which is strictly observed "Until
otherwise ordered by competent authority,
no one, save Mrs. Garfield, the wife of the late
President, must be allowed to view the re-
mains in your charge
The spring elections in Ohio are beginning
to excite attention in that state. They are
looked to as showing the drift of the politi-
cal tide, and are generally taken as an indica-
ton of how the state will go in the following
October.
John Howard Payne's body is expected at
Washington March -. ". w. Corcoran has
ground in the Washington Oak Hill cemetery,
on the crest of hill sloping down into the
valley of Rock creek. A beautiful black
beech tree shades the spot. The monument
to be erected by Mr.. Corcoran will bear the
simple inscription; John Howard Payne,
author of Home Sweet Home > born June
o, 1892; died April 10, 1852.
1t is said that next October the Maemilans
of London will begin the publication of an
illustrated magazine at sixpence number to
compete with Harper's and tho Century for
the possession of the English market.
When the late Hon. Marshall Jewell first
left his fathers home and lanyard to seek his
fortune in the West, he went to Rochester,
N. Y, to work in telegraph office But
when he got there he did not find the vacancy
he expected, and his means were so exhaust
ed that he could not travel further. So he
accepted the first opportunity that was pre-
scented for earning a livelihood, namely,
clerkship in the old Eagle hotel, which was
then the principal hostelry in that part of the
state. He worked faithfully in that position
for some time, until an opening was found in
his chosen calling.