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

OluWayO, Tue Lulu culei reported Killed
is now said to have recovered from the inju
ries received in the late engagement between
his forces and the insurgents, aud has asked
Queen Victoria to have full inquiry mad,
into the treatment he has received
II. H Turner and wife Of Greene county
Ia, have got corner on the office OF county
superintendent OF schools. he being the Re
publican and she the Democratic candidate
A steady growth of sentiment favorable to
the nomination Of David Davis for president
is reported among western Republicans.
The Massachusetts Democratic state conven
ton will be held September 20 at Springfield
Hon. Charles =. Thompson will preside anC
Judge Woodbury. will make the platform.
There are yearly 20. 900 German voters il
Iowa, and they are said to be solid against th,
Republican party on the prohibition issue
This loss is but partially offset by the disafec
ton OF the temperance Democrats with their
party.
Ex.Confederate General Roger A. Pryor Of
New FORK is reported as saying that Presiden
Arthurs nomination would make four south
ern states more than doubtful. He thought
he would carry Virginia and North Carolinl
without doubt
The Third Maine Regiment association. al
its meeting at Maranocook last week, adopted
resolution asking Congress to enact law
providing homes for such tx Confederate sol
diers as were disabled in battle and are nov
needy. The Maine delegation in Congress
was asked to take the initiative in the matter
Judge James jackson Of Georgia, in an art
icle in the North American Review on the
southern custom Of Shooting at Sight, says
The day Of the grogshop and Of that which
It produces-the inhamed passion aud tn,
VA ~ av,f1
local option retail law generally pervades tn,
state Of Georgia county after county pro
hibits the traffic, reduces expenses and dim
inishes crime The prosecuting officers Of the
state are paid according to the number oil
criminals tried, and they tell the writer tina
In those counties where this traffic is prohib
tied the Office of solicitor general is worth
less
Iea-drinkers will be interested in learning
that recent inspection of teas ordered by
the government proves the existence of gyp
sum, soapstone, common sand brick dust
and Prussian blue in their favorite beverage
as now sold. Some of these pleasing sub
stances are used in order to give the tea a color
which unadulterated tea never has, some &c
make II weigh more, and some to dissemhlt
the fact that the tea has been used before and
that the virtue is gone out Of it, curiosity
by each successive handler of the tea on it,
way from the fields to the consumer that be
is the only rascal in the procession. This as
sumption, so honorable to human nature
makes the ultimate resultant Of all these pro
cesses most wonderful compound
One Of the sad incidents of the yachting
season this year is the wreck of the Mystery,
fast craft belonging 10 the New Haven
Yacht Club, and the probable loss of all on
board. The Mystery sailed from New Haven
for Nantucket, Aug. 10, the cruise being ex.
pected to last about three days Since theI
nothing has been heard from the vessel, but
the finding Of several bodies, clad in yachts.
mems garb, along the shores of Cape Cod, ap
pears to settle the fate Of the unfortunate
party.
Referring TO the recent earthquake at Ischia
the Pail Mall Gazette makes this curious de.
duction The earthquake was very horrible,
no doubt. The suddenness of the catastro.
phe, the horror Of an immediate and unex-
pected doom, and the grim contrast between
the gayety and merriment of the Italian wa.
teTing place on summer evening and the
wide wasting ruin which filed Ischia with
desolatlon, naturally impress the Imagination.
But, after all, the deaths do not exceed 200O-
less than the total number of those who are
condemned to death every week by preventa-
BILE disease in this country alone, and, not
withstanding its appalling accomplishments,
it is eesier to die by the earthquake than to
perish of typhoid fever.
The Chemical Review has collected statis-
tics in regard to brewing, by which it appears
that the consumption of malt liquors is in
creasing faster in America than any country
in the world New York, Pennsylvania and
the states west of them produce the larger
part of the beer made in the country. One
might attribute this fact to the presence of
the German element but statistics show that
the German nation consumes less beer than
the English.
Col Casey of the engineer corps, and Act
ing Secretary Of State Davis went to West
moreland county, Va, last week and visited
the old Washington homestead there for the
purpose of selecting a site for the monument
authorized by act Of Congress to be erectad
al the birthplace Of Gen. Washington. The
site they selected is about 800 yards from the
house in which Washington was born, and is
at the base Of bluff on a spot particularly
well adapted for the erection Of a monument.