Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
IN GENERAL.

The value of Canadian fisheries in 1888
was $17, 900, 900.
There are now eleven states in which wo-
men are allowed to vote in school affairs.
"A man in Cleveland, o.. lately died of
blood poisoning from the bite of game cock.
"A diamond weighing 3O2 carats has just
been unearthed in the Kimberly mines,
South Africa.
Immense crops of peaches and small
fruits are promised this year from the Della
ware and Maryland peninsulas.
Mormon converts are so numerous in
Mississippi that a church conference has
been established.
"A Baltimore man has been sentenced to
three months Imprisonment and to pay a fine
of S25 for lying in horse trade.
In this country, 20 years ago, there were
~ women doctors. Now there are 800 in the
field and an army of recruits in training.
An odd invention to be seen at the patent
Office is a life. saving coffin, made so that II
a person is buried alive the least motion will
give an alarm.
The Boston Watohman says that within
the last nine years nearly 800 churches have
been burned in America, mostly through de-
fective heating apparatus.
British railroads killed 1880 persons last
year aud injured 1923 Others but more than
half of the casualties were due to careless
ness in crossing tracks and the like by the
victims themselves.
"A man in Canajoharie, N. Y, has made
clock that will run six months from q single
winding, and promises to make one shortly
that will only require to be wound up once a
year.
Cyrus H. Mccormick, the Harvester man
of Chicago, leaves an estate valued at $32,-
20 sI0.uv ,1 Go oh
sons and two daughters. One of the last acts
of his life was to give 800, 900 to the North
western theological seminary.
William o. Grover, formerly OF the Gro.
yer d Baker sewing machine company, has
bought the big organ which is being taken
out of Boston Music hall, and will give it to
the New England conservatory Of pusio when
a suitable hall is built for it.
A ''Sleepy Hollow" town is Decatur, Ga.
Forty years ago it refused TO allow q railroad
station to be built there, and thus made way
for Atlanta, six miles further up. The town
council passed two ordinances last week, one
forbidding children to play marbles on the
streets and the other allowing hogs TO run at
large
Mrs. Lewis, wife of the noted Dlo Lew.
| is, figures in the New York newspapers as 3
heroine. A tramp, finding Mrs. Lewis alone
in the dwelling, walked into the dining room
and demanded that he be served with a meal
like a gentleman. Mrs. Lewis ran for re-
volver, leveled the weapon, seized the tramp
by the ear and propelled him into the cold,
cold world.
Great destruction of cattle by gnsts Is re-
ported in certain sections of Louisiana In
Franklin parish, where a partial census has
been taken, over 5000 horses, cattle and hogs
have perished. Farmers are unable to make
their crops, and have petitioned Congress 10
aid them. The gnsts have also attacked hu-
man beings, causing blood poisoning and
death
1t is said that year ago last Christmas
Mr.. Fish, president of the now defunot Ma
rine bank of New York, gave each of his
three daughters $50, 900 in money, and last
Christmas he told them TO go and select good
houses and let him know what they found TO
their taste; the deeds would be in their stock
ing on Christmas morning.
The New York Tribune says 'As an
evidence of how completely the sons of Gen.
Grant are used up financially, Col. Frederick
ID. Grant is about to take a situation as clerk
in the house OF friend down town. Having
given up his house and handsome furniture
to his creditors, the friend advanced him
money TO buy furniture and commence house
keeping in fat"
"A foolish youth is Richard Garden Of
Philadelphia When three years Of age he
was adopted out of pure sympathy by the
wealthy Davidson family, and when the late
Mary L. Davidson died she left $4,000 in
trust for him. Her Tesiduary legatees, In 40
oordRnee with her wish set aside an addition
al $1O, 900 for him, the gifts being valid in
case he proved good boy" Last Decem-
Der the house was robbed OF two gold watch
es, some other property and $25OO in money,
and when subsequently the robbery was trao-
cd to Garden the family turned him out and
withheld the additional $4,000. The court
has approved of this action, and the wayWArd
boy not only loses the $40, 900 and his char
acter, but bis prospect as preSumPtiVe heirto
the surviving sisters.