Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-13
NO. "a.
IN GENERAL.

There are 1877 ocean-g going steamers laid
up in the Tyne and Wear rivers and at Leith
because Of the depression in English trade.
Reports from the interior Of Louisiana
represent the spring floods as still continuing
and desperate state Of things existing on ac-
count of them.
Why shouldn't we be a happy people?
There are now thirty. nine cirouses travelling
through the country, most Of them with ta-
cred white elephant.
1t is now said that the substitution Of
iron for wooden sleepers on railways is only
q question of time. The change has already
made considerable progress in Germany.
C w. Russell Of Philadelphia thinks he
has the biggest gold nugget ever found in the
eastern states. II came from North Carolina,
Weighs over four pounds, is over 80 per cent
pure gold and is worth not less than $1,000
"A woman arrested at Varonda, Hungary,
recently, has confessed that she has poi
soned four husbands and hundreds of women
during the past two years. A number Of ac-
complies have been arrested.
"A man named John @. Taylor has Just
died in New York leaving $500, 600 locked up
in the safe deposit company's vaults with no
will and no friends A man living near Phil
adelphia ia trying TO prove relationship.
Miss Rachel Ewing, the oldest teacher In
the Pittsburgh, Pa, public schools, has Just
resigned her position at tho age of 76. She
began when but girl, and kept at her work
until compelled to desist by the infrmities of
age.
A herd of G0O0 head of Texas CATTLE
which had been without water for five days,
stampeded at the sight Of the Nueces river,
and the rush was so great that hundreds were
killed and manned. Altogether no less than
2000 are missing.
The leaves on some of the trees about
Waterbury, Conn. turned brown with the re-
cent frost and once in a while tinge of red
like the autumn coloring could be seen, and
people went out to the woods to secure speci-
mems of the novelty.
STANDARD time is now in use by oil the
railroads of the country except the Union di-
vision of the Union Pacific, the Central Paci-
fo and the Southern Pacific, west of Deming,
N. NJ Less than 10 per cent of the people
Of the country are using local time
From Texas come loud complaints of
long and frequent transforms, which have de-
layed the putting in of many crops and injur-
ed those already in the ground. Wheat and
corn have suffered severely, a great area Of
winter wheat being entirely killed by the cold,
wet weather.
-Rapides parish, La, has voted for prohi-
bition under the local option law by a very
large majority. A great many women stayed
at the polls with coffee and other refresh
ments, and it is remarkable that blacks as
well as whites were well represented among
them.
Toronto is the best Sabbath keeping city
in the world The only stores open on the
Sabbath there are those for selling milk and
medicine, and these only for an hour or two
in the morning and evening-the druggists
not being allowed to do business as universal
providers, selling confectionery, cigars, drinks
and knick knacks.
The committee, consisting Of Chief JUS
tice DAILY, Judge Brady and Rev. Robert Coll
yer, appointed as judges to award the prize
Of $780, offered by p. Il. Barnum for the best
poem upon his sacred white elephant" re-
port that three poems Of the thousand sub
mitted to them have merit, but none of them
is in their judgment, worthy of the prize Of
fered.
The Garfield memorial hospital was for
mally dedicated on the 3 At ut. Justice Miller
of the supreme court preside nt of the board
of hospital directors, delivered an address. A
garden party with dancing, music and other
entertainments, followed the dedicatory ser
vice. A resident physician and five nurses
will comprise the staff. There will be accom-
modations for 40 patients.
"A remarkable dwarf who is not in a show
is Abechem Sawyer of Cedar Key, Fla. He
is 40l inches high, weighs 80 pounds and is
90 years old. He is we'll proportional, very
bright, and can make a ghod speech in high
voice that sounds like a child's. He WAS once
a reporter on the Key West Democrat and is
now clerk in a grocery store. He has a sister
II years old who is just quarter of an inch
taller than himself.
Laura johnson, a Milwaukee girl, became
so indignant on reading letter from her be-
trothed in which he expressed the desire to
break off their engagement that she tried to
snatch the engagement ring from her finger,
but II was so firmly fixed that she could not
remove it. Seizing hatchet near by, she
then deliberately chopped the finger off and
sent it, with the ring attached to the faithless
lover.
Gloucester, Mass, has lost 254 men since
last August who were engaged in the ocean
fisheries. The loss is largely due to the in
security of vessels, the zeal of their owners
prompting them to provide vessels Of speed
and adaptability to quick fishing, and avoid
ing measures of safety in construction and
operation. Men leave the ship in open boats
without food, shelter or compass, and get
lost in the fog, and large part of the ves-
sells capsize because built shallow and long
masted.