Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-10-29

A tunnel under the Detroit river, for the
use of the Grand Trunk railway, is talked of.
Prince Kornatsk, uncle of the AIikado of
Japan, has arrived in San Francisco. He will
visit New York and Washington.
"A Michigan man has paid S2l costs in
vainly trying to collect % cents by suit in
court
OF Gen. Grants sons, Col. Fred D. is as
sistant treasurer of the New York Steam Heat
ing company, Ulysses is on his farm, and Jesse
is on his way to Mexico, seeking to enter the
railroad business there.
Since September, 1885, % vessels belong
ing to the Gloucester, Mass, district and va
ued at $1G4 900 have been lost The loss o
life has been 104, leaving % widows and 30
fatherless children.
1t is estimated that the California raisin
crop this year will amount to $50, 600 boxes,
against AS, 600 for 1880 and 175, 600 for 1884.
A steady improvement in quality and appear
ance is also noted.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt's daughter, it is
said, will shortly be heard from concert plat
forms in the United States. Her appearance
will be awaited with unusual interest, as she
is said to have Inherited her mothers voice.
The old stone house at Valley Forge, ia
nous as the headquarters of Gen. Washing
ton, has been purchased, together with two
acres of land, by a memorial association, and
the house and land will be kept intact az a
memento of the revolutionary struggle.
According to official reports from India,
that country, even more than the United
States, is at the present time the great sup
porter of the market value of silver. 1t is
absorbing that metal at the rate of $40, 000,-
600 per annum, and is not treasuripg it up in
uov MT vanilla hut AiatribnfinnY II
the people.
The theory of Pasteur concerning the
cure of hydrophobia has attained such prom
inence and confidence that patients flock from
all parts of the world to his laboratory. One
morning recently there were no fewer than
$50 sufferers awaiting treatment, while since
July, 1885, more than 1000 persons have
been operated upon.
On an allowance of $4,000 for household
expenses President Cleveland scraped along
during the year past on Si65l, the smallest
amount expended in any year since 1877.
The statistics crsnks are waiting for the re-
ports year from now, when they will esti-
mate the cost of supporting wife.
The ex-empress Eigenie has constructed
at marlborough, England, a splendid church,
in which the bones of Napoleon Ill and the
prince imperial will be deposited. Only
French priests, the Premontres fathers of st.
Michel de Frgolet, will serve in this church.
These fathers expelled from France by the
governmental DEGREES, took refuge in Eng
land. They will begin their guardianship of
the tombs next May.
The 16-years-old son of w. S. Lawrence
of Hyde Park, Mass, recently found his
father in the woods hanging from a tree with
a rope around his neck The boy climbed the
tree and cut the rope, and father and son
both fell distance of 10 feet. The boy sue
ceeded in resusctating his father and they
went home together.
Charles Gilman, a Chicago contractor,
who built house for Andrew Anderson, in
which the latter was married, took occasion
Just as the wedding was well under way to
take possession aud endeavor to nail up the
doors and windows because he held lien on
the building for an unsettled balance. All
hands turned on the intruder and put him
out, and there was such a row that the police
wagon was called and the entire party arrest
ed except the minister, who escaped. After
explanations all were released but Gilman,
who was held and fined. The others went
back, found the minister, and the wedding
was concluded
From Chicago comes the story that a
Mrs Fraser gave birth to a child in that city
and after a few days illness apparently died.
Dr. Mark H. Lackersteen, who was attending
her, tried hypodermic Injection of ten drops
of a solution of nitro glycerine. As result,
first there was a gasp, then respirations and
pulse movements. The face next flushed,
speculation came back to the eyes and the
patient became conscious. The doctor says
that in all cases of shock or collapse this rem
edy ought to be tried before the patients are
given up for lost. For some little time it has
been used for epilepsy and for certain forms
Of Hf1nau q ha CiU
through the mouth. 1t is a l per cent. solu-
ton of alcohol of nitro-glycerne.
If all the incidents of the Charleston
ton earthquake could be collected and print
ed they would make interesting reading. One
of the latest published relates to young
| couple who we're counting when the shock
came. 1t extinguished the lights, filed the
air with dust, and iammed the doors so that
they would not open. The young man rush
ed to window leading to the piazza, but in
the dark plunged both hands into a large
plant urn full of water. Starting back to
| the young lady, he threw his arms around
her, and said Darling, tidal wave is COM
ing 1t is already up TO the windows Let
us die togetheri" in which position they
were found soon afterward by the family.
At Kauakuha, Wis, workmen engaged
| in exeRvating a sewer came upon the uins OF
a stone building at the depth of eight feet
The stone first found bore traces of fine
workmanship and polish. Further digging
developed a quantity of ashes, about 20 bush
els, which were removed, when another wall
was struck. The stones were finely faced,
some being blacksned as II by fire and smoke
others must have been subjected TO great arti-
fetal heat, as they had crumbed into lime.
The work was found but foot or two above
bed rock, and shows evidences of workman
ship that could have been performed only by
a highly civilized race. 1t must have been
done centuries ago, ~ a large elm tree had
grown over the ruins. The discovery has led
to the advancement Of many theories.