Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-02-05

President Bartlett OF Dartmouth college will
deliver the oration. President Cleveland and
cabinet, members Of Congress aud state gov
ernors will be invited. The statue will prob
ably be placed in the state. house park.
The l5-year old son OF Harvey d. Had
lock, a prominent lawyer Of Portland, Me-,
committed suicide on the 22d ult. in a very
tragic manner. Mr.. Hadlock told his son
he had made arrangements to send him away
to school. The boy said he did not want to
go, and upon his father insisting, he excam-
ed, well, won't go to school !" and, rising
from bis chair, drew a revolver from his
pocket and, before his father knew what he
was doing, placed the revolver between his
eyes and fred. The boy fell and the father
sprang forward TO catch him. Mr.. Hadlock
thought at first the boy was folding and that
the charge was blank, but he Immediately
found the head bloody, aud summoned help.
The boy died instantly, the ball going through
tue base Of the brain. He has been very
10th to go to school aud had run away once.
A clock, rivaling in mechanism the cele-
brated Strasburg clock, has recently been
brought from Germany to New York. II oc.
cupes q space OF 200 cubic feet; its
weight is 1900 pounds and it has 2G5 wheels.
1t is kept in motion by one pendulum and ~
weights. or the latter the first is wound up
every eight days and the last at the end OF
2O00 years. The dial plates indicate seconds,
minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years
aud leap year from the year l to 10000.
There are beside, 122 movable figures, which
appear at certain times. Among them are
representations Of Old Father fine, the four
| ages Of man, Death, the guardian angel, the
~ apostles, the seven heather deties, the ~
signs Of the zodiac, the four seasons of the
year, the four phases of the moon, the globe
and incidents in the life of Christ
-Au unwelcome visitor boarded train
near Silver Bow, Montana, a few evenings
ago. The train was passing some cliffs when
the engineer saw q dark object alight upon
the COW catcher. Nothing further being no.
ticed, he thought that possibly il was a lump
Of dirt which had rolled of again. The fire.
man went to oil the engine soou after and
discovered large animal crouching on the
cowcatcher. On seeing the fireman the beast
| started toward him along the footboard, the
man getting back into the cab Just in time
to save himself. The engineer recognized in
the creature a huge mountain lion. and open
ed the steam whistle, which frightened the
| beast so that he Jumped OF. The lion was
afteTward found dead by the track, its neck
having been broken. The carcass weighed
800 pounds.
"A st. Louis paper tells a story Of sew en-
brothers who became simultaneously insane
and we're taken to the Bloomington, Ill.,, asy-
lum at one time. They lived in the Ozark
mountains, and in misery ways, on the farm
left them by their father, they had acquired
considerable property. Three years ago
they were inveigled into investing their mon
ey in wildcat Nevada silver mine, and
when the crash came and their visions of i'm
mense wealth were dispeled their disappoint-
ed greed for gold made them raving msniscs
While on the way to the asylum Uriah, the
most violent OF the seven, attempted to es-
cape from the car. He was chained to the
Others but dragged them and four of the
| commissioners assistants the entire length Of
the car, biting and screaming. HIS actions
excited the other brothers TO such a degree
that it took the efforts Of several persons to
keep them from escaping. Daring the fren-
~ Uriah bad his arm terribly lacerated and
the arm of another was broken midway be-
tween the shoulder and elbow. The other
| brothers noted like demons