Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-11-09

IN GENERAL.

Five men two Of them United States
soldiers were robbed on a stage coach i'm
Texas Sunday morning 10y one highwayman.
who frightened all Of his victims into docil
ity.
The Babylonian expedition Of the Uni.
versity Of Pennsylvania has been wrecked
in the Mediterranean.
a big fire in Huenfeld. Germany. has
destroyed POO houses and left 1900 people
homeless
Mary Ann Irvine. a notorious and miserly
character, who lived amid filthy surround
ings, has just died at Sioux Falls. Oak. a
search among her effects revealed deeds.
mortgages, notes, bonds and cash amount
ing in the aggregate to $50, 900.
Immediate steps are to be taken to send
food and clothing to the imprisoned whalers
in the Arctic regions
The Leheigh Valley railroad company is
settling with the relatives Of victims Of the
Mud Run disaster on a basis Of Sl3. 800 for
the head Of "A family and $500 for those
under / years Of age and unmarried
A United States man of-war is to be-
sent at once to Hayti to protect American
interests
The ninth annual report of the govern.
ment Indian training school in Carlisle Pa.
shows the school to be in Furnishing con
dtion There are 631 Indian boys and girls
at the school, the Apache Indians consti-
tuting the largest element Of any one tribe.
The population Of Dakota is GAG. S23, a
gain Of 81, 345 the past year.
Australia is building fence of wire net
ting 5000 miles long to keep jack rabbits
out of Queensland
Mrs. Grant has paid Gen Badeau $40. 600
IN settlement Of his claim against Gen.
Grants estate 1t is stated that she has Sc
cured from him an acknowledgement of the
fact that the Generals memoirs were his
own work and that such work as Badeau
performed was only in the nature Of revis.
ion and correction
According to official statistics there were
2641 avalanches last winter in Tvrol and
Nonarlberg The number Of human lives
lost was j3, and about 800 beasts were
killed. Many hundred buildings were de
stroyed
a terrible prairie fire ragged last week in
the Sioux valley in jackson township, Mimi
Henry Ray was burned SO badly that he
cannot live. a four-weeks-old baby, a girl
Of lG, and woman and her son were
burned to death.
On Sept lG, the British steamship Os
prey captured three slave dhows off Mocha.
ON the Red Sea, with POI slaves on board
The captains Of two Of the dhuws were
killed IN the contest, as were four OF the
slaves and four other slaves were wound
ed
beautiful girl at Los Angeles Cal
who had pair of large, liquid blue eyes
that commanded general admiration. began
about year ago to USE various drug, IN
order 10 enhance their fascination. The
last drug used made her eyes sparkle Ike
diamonds, but they began to shrink. aud
some time ago the right eye had to be taken
out Now she has lost all the sight in the
left and will be blind for life.
The first reliable intelligence of Stanley
comes from carriers who have arrived at
Zanzibar. Stanley had been i'll with fever
As he has been many times in the course of
his life IN Africa, but he was in November.
1887 in good health with 2jO men under
his command and making that terribly
slow progress which would wear the heart
out of any one but an African explorer.
As yet there is no reason to despair of
Stanleys safety.
A wonderful water fall has been discov-
cred 10y "a hunting party on Rifle creek p
stream spreads out 10 width of 300 feet
at the brink, and the water glides over the
rocky edge, spreading out into a thin sheet
as II falls "A distance of $50 feet 70 the bot
tom of the calon The party, creepm.
along the base of the perpendicular wall
passed behind the fall into hooks and cav
erns beneath the overhanging lodges The
walls and arches were studded with stalac-
tltes and stalagmites of rare beauty. This
Is supposed to have been the first visit of
white men.
Mrs. l. ;. Grants new home in West
End avenue, New York is IA picturesque
structure Of brick and graystone. When
fully furnished its cost 1t is stated. will
In not far from $500, 900.
The physicians at the Bellevue hospital
have advertised for ur-handed baby
1t should not be concluded, however. that
they intended 10 encourage the production
OF this freak of nature. 4 year ago girl
baby with three nearly perfect hands at
tached to her right arm was brought to the
hospital, and the physicians wish to redis-
cover the phenomenon. Think what IA
servlceable handmaiden this infant will be
come
The interior of Africa Is still harrassed by
kidnappers and slave dealers. 1t is est
mated that 30, 900 persons yearly are stolen
from their homes. Until within a few
years lively export trade has been car
ried on, but since that has ceased the kid
mapped negroes must find a market in their
own continent. Large numbers are bought
by Arabs and set to work on the large
plantations they have started for 300 miles
on the Congo river.
a writer in Forest and Stream SAYS that
frogs are dying out. The supply of frogs
to New ork markets comes mainly from
Canada and places of sparse population
where they are not extensively eaten.
Forty years ago Americans did not eat
frogs and every marsh in the country con
tanned large ones Now they are almost
extinct near cities in the state of New
York, and do not breed and grow rapidly
enough 10 pay TO catch them. He has tried
10 feed them without success, and considers
frog culture delusion.
In the town of Sutro, New, there is a
silver mine, the main gangway of which
runs from beneath that place h Virginia
City, four miles distant. Frequently this
tunnel route, IA it is called, is used bv
Sutro parties desiring to 20 to Virginia
City theatres. The parties enter the tun-
mel almost at their own doors chamber into
car drawn by several mules and are car.
rled the full length of the tunnel in ii cor
paratively short space of time. Once there
they are hoisted up shaft 1910 feet deep
issuing within few minutes walk of the
Virginia City Opera House The route Is
cool in summer and warm in winter The
cars are so clean that the best of dresses
may Ice worn without disastrous result