Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-30
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BRILLIANT OPENING OF THE MONTREAL oARN1.
VAL.
A Montreal despatch of Monday last
says The third winter carnival was insugur-
ated here to-day under brilliant auspices, the
weather being delightful and the city crowd
ed with visitors, chiefly from across the Dor
der. All the trains since Saturday have been
filled with strangers. All the principal at
fractions, such as the ice castle, the condorA
and huge ice lion, in different squares of
the city, were completed at the last moment,
and present an imposing appearance. The
program Of amusements began with the open
ing Of the tobogganing slides in the after
noon, which we're patronized by thousands of
both sexes, nearly all dressed in various col
ored blanket costumes. In the evening the
slides were all illuminated with the electric
light, and presented gorgeous appearance.
The Emerald Ladies' Suowshoe club in fan
tastc costumes was feature of the evening
on their tramp over the summit of Mt. Royal
to fashionable hotel, where a gay time was
spent, large number of American visitors
being present, A skating carnival was held
in Victoria rink in the afternoon, and some
rare science was displayed by both ladies aud
gentlemen. The Inauguration Of a boulevard
and corso on the st. Lawrence river was
largely patronized, and great merriment was
excited by the exhibition Of equine exercises.
A hunters camp was inaugurated on st. Hell
ems island, in the river opposite the city, and
its unique appearance drew immensely. At
the unwilling of the lion there were a grand
illumination and display of fireworks. The
ice castle and the ice condora were illumina-
ted with the electric light, amid a gorgeous
display Of pyrotechncs. Everything was a
success the spectators, as well as the actors,
having never been 10 well satisfied and pleas.
cd NTH ha faoiivitiau LAT hnnr
Governor General and Lady Lansdowne, with
Sir John A. Macdonald, premier arrived by
special train from Ottawa, and will remain
throughout the carnival.
"A young man named Otto Funk has been
arrested at Chicago for having in his posses
sion over 5000 valuable books stolen from the
public library. The books were seized at his
house in large boxes, which on being remov-
ed to the new city hall building and opened
were found to contain six or eight internal
machines with dynamite, any one sufficient to
blow up an entire building. The detectives
believe that Funk had devised the machines
TO blow himself up should his populations be
discovered
Mrs. Carrie L. Winslow at Newport, KY,
last Sunday, choked her seven-y ears old boy
to death, beat her ten. years old daughter with
a base-bal club, and then killed herself by
cutting her throat with a razor. She was for
some time in an insane asylum but was dis
charged few months since as cured. The
little girl says she feigned death after her
mother had knocked her down, for fear she
might be again attacked, and that she saw
her mother cut her own throat.
The steamer St. John, OF the Peoples
| line, running between New York and Albany,
was burned at her well-known New York dock
Sunday morning; loss $3.50, 600. The orig-
nal cost of the steamer, 2l years ago, was
$780, 000 beside expensive upholstering.
During the storms in Oregon and Wash
ington territories during the past six weeks
several people and thousands of cattle have
persisted.
"A few nights ago FIVE white scoundrels
entered house in the Indian territory where
dance was in progress and provoked fight.
| The lights were extiDguished and when the
massacre ended seven men, including three
of the whites, were found dead on the floor.
A miner, who was being drawn out OF .
deep shaft at Kingston, Pa, last Monday, " as
thrown out of the bucket by an accident to
the engine and fell 800 feet to the bottom
He was terribly mangled.
"A Thermometer bulb, containing mercu.
ry, and two inches Of glass tube, was swal-
lowed a few days ago by ten year. old son of
George Bdwell of Pitts6sld, Mass. Efforts
to dslodge the obstruction have thus far
proved unsuccessful.