Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-03-19
IN GENERAL.

A great fire has destroyed the stores in
the custom house at Catalinas in the Argen-
tine Republic loss estimated at $4,000, 600.
Two hundred commercial houses are affected
by the losses.
Frank Carpenter, who was a lieutenant
in the Sth Vermont regiment has among his
rebellion relics, copies of the Richmond Daily
Inquirer published in 1864 He was a sub
scriber of the sheet while in Libby prison,
paying $50 for three months subscription.
He got word to his family of his whereabouts
by paying So for a personal in the sheet
which happened to be copied by New York
paper.
Philadelphia has eight woman physicians
whose practice is reported to reach $4,000
a year for each, while twelve others have in
comes of $40, 900, and there are twenty-five
who earn over $4,000 year.
The Merced Cal, Express tells of a
hawk seen flying with snake in its talons.
Presently a skirmish took place in the upper
air, and the hawk futtered and acted strange
ly. The bird finally came to the ground with
a thud, when the snake was found coiled
around the body tight enough to shut its
wind of The pair were left to fight it out,
and the reptile won.
Some Japanese military officials have in
vented hemp boats each OF which is capable
of carrying eight men, and can be folded up
for transportation so as to occupy very little
space.
There is a thrifty custom among the Po-
lish peasantry of charging each male guest at
a wedding one dollar for kissing the bride,
and when she is young and very pretty quite
a neat little sum is often realized for the
young couple by this sale of osculatory favors.
Trinidad Alvarez and Senior Paredez
prominent men, fought a duel with pistols in
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three shots being fred by each. Paredez
received three wounds and will probably die,
while Alavarez is dead, a shot that struck
him in the forehead after two others had
missed him, proving instantly fatal.
There are cases of cholera at Venice and
traces of the plague also in Spain and so the
spring comes on with depressing Fremont
tions of another grapple with death in south
ern Europe. Our health boards at the vsri-
GUS ports should take warning. Medical men
predict cholera in New York city for this
summer.
A Mississippi river steamboat exploded
its boiler just below Vicksburg last week
Thursday, killing the mate and five men and
| disabling the pilot and engineer. In the ab-
sence of Capt. Sargent the owner, the pilot
was in command. Mrs. Sargent was in charge
of the office. The explosion tore away the
whole office, pilot house, chimneys, forward
boiler deck, and all the forward part of the
cabin, throwing them into the river Imme-
diately after the explosion she took command
of the boat, went below helped to launch
the yawl and commanded those who were
able to rescue those in the river. By this
time the debris around the boiler had caught
FIRE, aud she seized the draw bucket, drew
water from the river, and quenched the
flames, after which she took a shovel and
threw the red-hot furnace brick overheard.
Mrs. Sargent by her heroism saved the
wreck from burning and with it the lives of
the wounded on board. She never lost pres
euce of mind. Her clothing caught FIRE sew
eral times, but she would then tear of the
! burning garments.
Patrick Ford and John Murphy were
hanged at New Orleans last Friday noon for
the murder of Capt. A. H. Murphy Decem-
Der l, 1884. The final act of the tragedy was
| a fitting climax for the sensational scenes
which had gone before When the keepers,
at 1880 A. NJ, tried to arouse the condemned
men, they could not wake them. After an
examination the physicians concluded that
the men had taken beladonna. The sheriff
telegrsphed to Gov. MoEnery for instruo-
tions and the governor answered with an or
der to go on with the execution. Six wit
nesses we're accordingly sworn in, the death
warrant was read to the men as they lay in
their cots in senseless condition, and they
were taken and carried to the soafold where
they we're placed in a sitting posture with
their backs to the wall, the ropes were ad-
justed and then they were swung of. After
hanging 20 minutes the bodies were cut
down. The same jury which witnessed the
hanging viewed the bodies, and the coroner
gave a verdict of death by hanging which
dislocated the neoks Of both men.
Henry j. Hail. ~ years old, committed
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New York, by shooting himself through the
head. He was born In Connecticut aud was
a mining engineer. He is said TO have sunk
the first shaft in California at the time the
gold discoveries began, and was millionaire.
lie was suffering from dyspepsia.