Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-07-02
IN GENERAL.

Two TRANSACTIONS of Gen. Grants book
are announced in the papers of Toxic Japan.
A remarkable cave, said to rival the
Luray caverns, has bsen discovered in Tucker
county, West Virginia.
AT PATHS wedding breakfast, according
to an old French custom, the bride presented
to each of the guests piece of her garter.
Chicago boasts so women lawyers, 800
women physicians, several women ministers,
"A, $50 women and CSC girls employed in in
dustrial pursuits
Sponge growing is a new industry on the
Connecticut coast. 1t is found that young
sponges transplanted from Florida waters
grow rapidly in Long Island Sound.
Seventeen years ago Thomas Stewart, of
Chicago, was sentenced to Imprisonment for
life for the murder of Harry Hubert. 1t now
appears that Eliza Kelley, woman for whom
he had a boyish devotion, committed the
crime, and that he voluntarily sacrificed him
self in her behalf. He was released from the
penitentiary on Tuesday last
One of the prime causes of the passage
of the law in New York for the abolition of
Imprisonment for debt was the case of Ca
madam named Ross, who was perfectly hon
est, but who was kept in Ludlow street jail
for over six years on judgment of $500, OBJ
tanned against him because of the transac
tions of dishonest partner.
Herman Reedle was digging a well at
McAlster, l. L. He arranged charge for
blasting, lighted the fuse, and was hoisted to-
ward the surface forty feet above. When
half way up the rope broke, and he fell to the
bottom. He tried to grasp and extinguish
the fuse, but was too late. The charge ex-
ploded, Herman was blown nearly to the top
of the well, and fell back dead with every
bone in his body broken.
Charles L. Webster, of the firm publish
ing Gen. Grants book, who sailed for Europe
last week to arrange for the more extensive
sale of the book on the continent, says that
the edition of 1926, 600 of the Grant volumes
is now so nearly exhausted that new edition
of pa, 900 Is about to be published. The next
check to Mrs Grant Of profits on the work
will be paid on his return, and it will prOba
bly, amount to $3.50, 200.
An oil we'll i'll the Puente ranch near
Los Angeles, CAL, has been producing 80
barrels a day A few days ago the borers
sunk the well to lower depth, striking a
new stream of immense strength, which
threw the apparatus out of the hole with great
violence, hurling man sixty feet in the air.
He escaped with his life by catching on the
top of derrick. The well threw out 800 or
600 barrels of oil in few minutes.
"A young lady at st. Paul, MINI, has
done an act for which she should have
monument as soon as the stones for it can be
piled upon one another. She has sued one
of the st. Paul newspapers for libel. The
libel consists in printing one of the villainous
pictures which are passed of for portraits of
the living and dead. The young lady COM
plains of such counterfeit presentment of
herself, and if she gets her case before a sen
sble jury she will be awarded swinging dam
ages. The prayers of an afflicted public will
back her up in all parts of the country.
As a matter of good taste the publishing
of a long list of wedding presents is question
able, but the list recently published in a
country paper liz, in one sense, interesting,
including as it did; From father and mother
of the bride, one Jersey calf from bride to
groom, hair wreath made from hair of her
entire family, and also six fine shirts; from
brother Elias, one book Of poems, one Dream
Book, one Polite Letter Writer, and dog
from Aunt Harriet six hens and a rooster,
also one jar tomato catsup; from Cousin Sa-
rah, one poem made up by herself on bride
and groom, fifteen verses in ALL"