Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-05-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.



This "e1traordinary and exciting ocean Incident
IL related IN despatch from st. Georges bay the
west coast OF Newfoundland, under date Of May 20
"a French vessel arrived here yesterday from Saint
Mao, bound 10 Port-su-Chox. She came for the pur-
pose of landing Miss Louise Journeaut, who was
picked up from an open boat at sea- some twenty
miles on the island Of Jersey, the French coast.
The lady with gentleman companion named Farue,
went boating on sunday evening, the 18Th Of April
after leaving church While rowing, the gentleman
let slip, ond in attempting to recover 1t, lost
the other. Being good swimmer, he instantly
jumped overheard TO recover the oars. The Wind
meantime was freshening aud there was strong
rent setting from land The boat fast dfifed beyond
his REACH aud be was compelled either to swim for
the land or sink. Miss Journeaut alone Ia the little
cockle-she boat, drifted rapidly away to sea. The
boat almost Allied with water, aud the lady for nearly
forty hours lived In solitary agony AZ length, She
was fortunately rescued by the vessel, board Of
which she received great kindness from the captain
and officers The violent of-shore wind prevented
the Frenchman from reaching Jersey, but the lady
was carried across the Atlantic and landed the
shores Of Newfoundland. Farne reached 81. Hilares
harbor safely, but his story was disbeeved. People
from the shore affirmed that they heard cries Of muir
der from sea. Farne was arrested and indicted for
homicide. His liberation Is Of course, certain, Miss
JourneauH having cabled yesterday her miraculous
escape"
There was an unexpected sensation at st. Louis
on Monday In the trial Of maxwell" for the trunk
murder. J. +. Mccullough, a New York detective,
appeared on the stand aud told how he bad got him
self committed TO the same Jail with Maxwell for an
alleged crime and had there made Maxwes acquaint-
ance, got bis confidence and induced him to confess
how he killed Preller, beginning by injecting NOR
with chlorOform held under his nose. He then took
Preller's money, s650O in ALL put his body IN trunk,
left It at the hotel aud skipped for San Francisco and
New Zealand. When the detective FIRST appeared on
the witness stand Maxwell at first shrank and grew
pale, but almost instantly recovered himself and re-
sumed his air Of indifference. Maxwell testified in
his own behalf Wednesday, and said he accidentally
killed Preer by the Of chloroform prior to in-
tended surgical operation.
The grandfather of Miss Folsom, the supposed
afhanced bride Of President Cleveland, died at his
home near Buffalo, n: y, last Friday. Mics Folsom
was his favurite granddaughter aud she will inherit
large portion OF his estate, which amounts to at least
toOOOOO The gossips guess that the gentleman,
death will the postpontment Of the Presidents
marriage until next August.
bari, the Italian city where the mortality from
cholera is slowly but surely increasing has popula
ton OF about 10000 and Is situated the AdratiC
some so miles above Brindsi. Cholera has also ap-
peared on the west coast Of France, aud very argJ
death rate In Marseies indicates that the disease IL
again at work there.
| -EI-Gov. Long aud Miss Agnes Pierce were mar
ried at l45 last Saturday afternoon In the First Uni
yersalis church In North Atteboro Mass, where tn,
brides father was pastor for many years. The cere
mony was private owing to the receut death Of tn,
| brides mother. The bridal couple spent Sunday Al
e1-doy Longs home In bingham and on Monda!
went on to Washington.
DIR. Do Lewis, the author and reformcr, died a
his home at Youkers, N Y, Friday Of erysipeias. 1t
accordance with his request bis body was incineratc,
! al the Mt. Olivet crematory, Long Island, withOu
public ceremony OF any kind.
The losses by the recent storms at the West Zoo
M total Of ~ persons killed, l2s wounded, and 81,
| 100000 worth Of property destroyed.
, The main building of the New Orleans e1position
which cost over f500OO0, was put up at auction tn
| other day, and the highest bid received for It wa
| f9O5O.
DIR. Chichester A. Bell, cousin Of Prof. AleNaude
Graham Bell, claims to have made wonderful dis
covery, by means Of which sound waves, which caus
vibrations IN fluid jet, can be photographed aud &C
curately reproduced by the aid Of micruphone. Thi
rival of the phonograpb, Prof. Bell says, IL Of NOR
Importance aud Of greater prospective practical vau
than even his own Invention Of the telephone.
The third anniversary Of the opening Of the Ne
York and Brooklyn bridge, which occurred Moudal
noted by the display Of hags upon the towers. /
the last three years s5 s54 Passengers have cro
ed the BRIDGE and the receipts have been 81 ,G @ y ii
The average travel is now 500 900 a week, aud la
week the receipts were s4 97974-the largest in II
history Of the bridge.
Two victims Of the cocaine habit were taken cat
Of by the police at Emirs, N. Y, on Tuesday. The
were father and daughter, whom the landlord OF Il
Delevan house reported as carrying on like a pair
mauiacs. They were removed to the city hospital al
the drug taken from them. The father. who
physician from Pennsylvania, named HaEen, BEGAN
almost frantic, while the woman fell asleep. Att,
trying for some time TO arouse her, the doctors
succeeded In doing so by giving her, her father
rected large doses OF cocaine in ected hypodermical
She then rallied, aud IS minutes after Hazen had be,
granted bis customary dose be was apparently hmso
again. He IL a weleducated man aud has been pra
ticing medicine at Evansville, Ind. He acquired Il
habit through experimenting upon himself, and h
taken ~ much a. 40 graina day. The daughter
only 10 years Old, and has used the drug but sew,
weeks, bat il already confirmed in the habit.