Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-15
IN GENERAL.

The Australian harvest is over. Ninety
thousand tons Of wheat will be available for
export.
In Plymouth, Pa. fourt' Gu suits for
damages, each for ) 100, 900, have been brought
against the public water works by relatives
Of persons who died OF fever during last sum
mer's epidemic, alleged to have been cs1sed
by the use Of impure water.
Mr. l.. NJ Ludlow, the oldest actor in
America and perhaps the world, died at his
residence in st. Louis last Saturday, aged
nearly 30. Mr.. Ludlow was famous in his
day, prior to 30 years ago, and was known
the country over, both ~ an eminent actor
and a successful manager.
1t is said that the post office department
has adopted and will soon issue a stamped
letter sheet. This is letter sheet aud en-
velope combined, with a perforated line run
ming around the sheet and so contrived that
the sheet may be folded and securely fasten-
ed, while the recipient can easily tear it
open along the perforated line, leaving the
letter intact
-Abram White, who mysterously dissp-
peAred two years ago from the Buffalo, N.
Y, insane asylum, returned to his home in
Perry, N. Y, Thursday night of last week,
completely restored TO reason. He had gone to
New York, where he shipped on vessel, and
went to England, Scotland and France. He
was accompanied by brother. His wife and
children had given him up for dead.
Another suicide" has been caught in
the act of throwing himself of the Brooklyn
bridge, with letters In his pocket stating his
destitute condition and his need of mon
ey. II he had succeeded in going over, no
one would have known what was the matter.
As he was caught, his wants have been
liberaly supplied by a sympathetic public
This promises to become an established in
dustry.
An exodus of negroes from the CArol-
mas. Georgia and Alabama to the West is
increasing each week Fully 1000 have pass
ed through Chattanooga, Tenn, in the past
fortnight. The movement is more general
than ever before. and is produced chiefly by
high rents, bad crops, and the defective ten
ant system in that section of the South. The
movement is beginning to be felt in all the
states OF the South, and is attracting wide
spread attention.
New Orleans dispatches say that the ex-
position management is again financially
embarrassed. About $35O0O was raised
last year, OF which 500, 900 came from the
railroad companies and the remainder was
raised by private subscription. Nearly every
uted toward it, in the belief that it would be
of lasting benefit to New Orleans. But it has
not paid, and now the management want the
city to buy their buildinRs-the city now
owning the ground-for $l25,00
The Congo Free State has entered the
postal union. A list OF postal rates ranging
from five to fifty oentimes has been adopted,
and five different postage stamps ISSUED all
bearing the profile of king Leopold and the
words, "Etat Independant du Congo" The
business OF the new state is transacted in
Brussels by four ministers who preside over
departments Of justice, finance. foreign af
fairs, and commerce, and the interior and po-
lice. The state is divided into four admins,
tTative districts, each having governor, and
all under the charge OF Col. de Winton, the
administrator. general. The four governors
have had several years experience on the
Congo, and were among the most trusted and
enthusiastic Of Stanley's lieutenants.
"A daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton gives an amusing account Of the way
her mother and Miss Susan b. Anthony worh
together on their "History OF Woman Suf
frage." Mrs. Stanton is q stickler for the
philosophy of the suffrage movement, and
Miss Anthony is punotlious about dates. The
two dear old ladies often get into excited dis
cussions over their subject, and dip their penl
into their mucilage bottles and their mucilag'
brushes into their ink bottles in their agita
tion. They sit at opposite sides of large
double desk in Mrs Stanton's library, AND
occasionally they find each other so persistent
in opinion that they sit back and stare at eact
other in q silence that is very near anger
Once in q while they will march out of thu
room by different doors, and It seems likely
that their beautiful friendship Of 40 years 4
about TO be broken but after a while they
will be found peacesbly at work again togeth
or. They never take time to do any making
up" but cover their dsAgreements with th'
mantle of dignity and silence.