Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24

Germany is now experiencing tempe
rance revival.
Philadelphia has two base ball teams COM
posed of female players, who are characteriz-
ed by dignity and perfect modesty.
Edmund Wood of Deering, n. H.. was
fatally shot by an unknown man last Saturday.
-Four hundred kegs OF blasting powder
were exploded by railroad accident last Fri
day near Winchester, Ky, and one man was
killed and several seriously hurt.
Electricity has been successfully applied
as a motive power to omnibuses in Paris.
The old town of Boscawen, N. H, cele-
brated it's 15Oth anniversary on the 10th inst
Mrs. Esther Sargent of Sandwich, N. H,
died recently at the age of 10i years, months
aud 1G days.
No less than 100 persons have been kill
ed by railway accidents in the state of New
York during the last six months.
They have forty five murderers confined
in the Minnesota state prison.
Eight million acres of Government land
in Dakota have been disposed of to private
persons within year.
The Swiss railroad companies now cover
portion of their carriages with phosphor-
escent preparation which makes them visible
at night
Great things are claimed for a new motor
invented by Pittsburg, Pa, man, in which
the power is derived from the vaporizaton OF
bi sulphide of carbon.
The birth rate in England is 33 per 1000,
and the death rate 20 per 1000. At this rate
the natural growth of the population would
be nearly half a million year. but the real
increase is much less owing TO emigration and
occasional epidemics.
Martin Casey a desperate who has been
the terror of Stephentowp, N. Y, and adjoln-
ing towns, was captured last week Thursday
and placed in Pittsfsld jail.
England boasts society for the proven
ton of blindness.
AT Springfield, Ind, large timber wolf
lately attacked Norwegian girl, but she over
powered him after a desperate struggle, and
! held him till help came.
William Writ Sykes, the author, died on
Saturday at Cardiff, where he was consul.
Two Boston ladies did a clever piece of
detective work on Sunday, capturing five
young store breakers with their plumber
An Evansville Gnd) man owns 2-year-
old calf that is credited with racing record
of 2:20, and has already won seven races IN
contest with horses.
The grape growers along the shore of the
Hudson river, in Orange, Duchess, Columbia
and Otner counties, hro JuDllhul ONoI the
prospects of a glorious crop of Concords.
The vines have never been stronger or the
fruit better than this year. Peaches also
promise to equal the crop of 1881, which was
one of the largest known for many years.
A twenty-five thousand dollar church il
being built in Boston by DR.. Cults, trusting
entirely to prayer, and securing the needfu
rapidly.
At Howe's cave, Schoharie county, N. Y.
last week Thursday, Frank Blood, aged q
years, was bitten on the wrist by little do(
he was playing with. The wound was trih
ing, but Blood asserted that he would di
from it. He became violent at noon ant
three men were unable to hold him. At 3.3'
o'clock he became unconscious and died at
O'Clock in the evening. He drank water fire.
quently during the day, showing that it wa
not case of hydrophobia. A council o
physicians decided that Blood died from ner
vous exhaustion caused by fright
Charles W. Griswold of New York, for
merly one of the proprietors of the Fifth Av
enue hotel and man of considerable prom
nence in the business affairs of that city, die
at Long Branch, Tuesday, of Bright's disease
He was a native of Walpole, N II.
Rev. William NJ. Baker who was the al
thor of several notable books including 9Th
Inside-A Chronicle of Secession, and III
} Majesty Myself" died at South Boston o
} Monday.
. The races at Charter Oak park, Hartford
/ to take place Sept. AT, promise to be the fiji
/. est ever given by the association. The famor
. ivs.year-old trOtteF jay -Eye-See, with q re'