Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-07-30
IN GENERAL.

Samuel Gay, chief clerk in the ,ttsburg,
Pa, pension Office has absconded with about
| 100000.
The United States hotel, Long Branch,
refuses to receive guests with pug dogs on any
| consideration.
"A recently invented device husks corn at
the rate Of more than u bushel a minute.
There was some phenomenal shooting in
the rifle matches at Wimbledon, Eng. last
week. marksmau named Rigby made Ii
consecutive bulls-eyes &C 600 yards.
William Hill & Son, one Of the largest
creamery firms in Iowa. have failed for $50
| 600 The alleged cause is depression result
ing from the introduction of butterne aud
oleomargarine. The failure closed . cream
cries
Eighty carloads OF tea from Japan to
Europe are on their way across the continent
| by rail to zee whether freight shipments can
| be made quicker via America or the SueZ
canal.
The trial of Willie Sells, 1G years old, for
numbering in a most brutal and lnethodioal
manner his father, mother, brother aud sister,
is in progress at Topeka, Kan. Dime novels
caused the crime.
"A Halifax despatch reports the drowning
OF ! I sailors OF the British war ship Goshawk
at Port Royal Jamaica on the 27th ult
Nineteen had gone ashore on leave and when
| they were returning storm capslzed their
boat, and all but FIVE we're drowned.
A disappointed Nashville (Tsuu.) lover
named P. II. Monahan who had been engag-
ed to Laura Carney but caused her to break
the engagement because of his Jealous dispo-
sition, entered her home the other night, shot
| her In the head, and slightly wounded Mrs.
Carney and John Olapp. lie then shot him
self, and his wound and that of Miss Carney
may possibly prove fatal.
Sol. Joyner, an aged and inofTensve citi-
zen of Southampton, Va, was murdered
few days ago, while sleeping soundly after
hard days work, by his two daughters, aged
respectively II aud IS. They went to the
bedside of their father, armed with an axe,
with which they chopped the head of the old
man into a jelly. After making sure of their
deadly work, the girls made their escape in
the night into Sussex county, where they
were arrested They have been committed
to the county jail to await trial The girls
only motive for the crime was revenge for a
severe whipping which they had received
from their father for stealing provisions aud
clothes from neighbor.
Such heavy rains have fallen in South
Carolina that many streams are over their
banks. Ga the lower Wahee the cotton plan
tations are five feet under water, while the
crops in Terrelrs Bay have been under water
for eight days. On the Waccamaw aud the
Pee Dse rivers, also, the water is running
over the plantations to the depth OF several
feet aud all crops are destroyed.
Two l2-yesr old boys who saw boulder
weighing ton fall on the track of the Derby
road in the Arlington Cut near New Haven,
COun., found a bandana handkerchief and
tagged an approaching train, which was
stopped 100 feet from the obstruction.
A year ago Fred Hollar of Jacksonville,
H., was arrested on charge of stabbing
Mrs William Mclaughlin and her sister so
that they were nearly killed. The next night
after he was locked up, party of masked
men broke into the jail and shot II ollar, who
just before he died insisted on his innocence.
Now the husband of Mrs. Mclaughlin, who
had deserted her, has confessed on his death
bed that be did the stabbing.
II. j. Curtis of Rutland has been an en-
gineer on the Rutland division of the Central
Vermont railroad for 35 years, and has not
met with an accident of any consequence
during that time, nor has any passenger on
his trains been injured. As it is 81 miles to
Burlington, he travels 1874 miles day or A.
942 miles in year, which in 80 years would
amount to l 1919 miles, or equal to nearly
80 trips around the world.
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
woman at San Diego, Cal, aged 40 years,
has given birth to a daughter. The husbands
age is 10 years.
The Boston jury in the test case of Ber-
nard p. Verne, charged with violation of the
statute by keeping his barber shop open on
Sunday, returned a verdict Of not guilty last
Friday. Judge Barker, in his charge to the
jury, held that shaving, cutting hair and
shampooing are works of necessity and char
ity, for which men would not be indctable if
they did themselves, and for which a barber
ia not indictable If he does them in a suitable
and ordinary way. magistrate In Troy, n.
Y, has also lately held that Sunday shaving
is work Of necessity and comfort.
William and John Main, of Amelia
county, Va, aged respectively II and -
years, went out hunting, Johns gun was &C
cidently discharged, the load tearing away
his brothers head and killing him instantly.
John is now a ravng maniac
Charles Hutchns, the we'll known gen
eral business agent of the American Board of
Foreign Missions, was fatally hurt at the Bos-
ton Lowell railroad station, Boston, last
Friday morning. He got off the wrong side
of the train and then in attempting to cross
the next track was struck by an engine and
tender that was backing past Mr.. Hutchins
was a native Of Thetford, this state.
"A queer pair were married in Lowell
Mass, recently, the groom being a Yankee
unable to speak any tongue but his own, and
English. Their courtship, as described, con-
sisted of each staring the other in the face
and laughing.
James F. Gordon, the inventor and man
ufacturer of reapers and binders died at his
residence in Rochester, n Y, recently, aged
4 years, and leaving an estate valued at over
800, 600. lie had been in the business since
1862 and in 1868 put the first self binder ever
made in the field.
The Australian colonies are all legislalng
against the Chinese. The Government of
South Australia propose shortly to introduce
into Parliament bill similar to that in force
in Queensland to prohibit alien Asiatics from
working on the gold6elds for three years after
discovery. This is done to secure to Euro.
peans the fruits of their labor.
"A number of cases of small pox have oc-
CURED in towns of Iowa, Michigan, and other
western states the disease, it is believed hav-
been introduced by immigrants who were af-
hicted with it when they left the steamer at
New York.
Rodney Lee, son of the famous Confed-
crate general, is q candidate for Congress
from Alexandria, Va, and therefore asks
Congress to remove his political disabilities.
The Springfield, O., school board has de.
cided that coored children shall not attend
the public schools with white children any
longer, but shall go to a school of their own.
The oolored people are indignant and excited
The board bases its decision upon some old
unrepealed blue laws.
The sunk steamship Oregon of the Gu
nard line is rapidly going to pieces She has
broken in two between the mainmast and the
foremost.
Wagons loaded with families are passing
through Fort Worth, Tex, on their way east,
fleeing from the drouth prevalent in the west
ern counties. The most gloomy accounts of
the condition of the crops and the lack of wa
ter for stock are given Hundreds of families
are abandoning their cattle and going east
ward to keep from starving to death.
The steamer Gate City which went ashore
on the rocks of Nauchon island in fog was
hoated on Friday Of last week, and taken
across Vineyard Sound to Vineyard Haven.
The next day two tugs towed her safely into
Boston, where she will be repaired and re-
stored to the service
The Almeda (Cal.) man who turned the
| gas on full head, cut his throat with a razor
and glanced two bullets of his forehead is re-
covering.
The feet OF the statue of Liberty have
actually been put in place upon the pedestal
on Badloe's island, and the statue will be
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