Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-08-03

IN GENERAL.

| 'l'li'ii'0 Nhut' ~ T~p'
Charlie, the eight year old son Of f.. +.
and Della Gaines, was recently found dead
in lot adjoining their home in Castleton.
lie had been sunstruck.
Capt f.. H. O'Neil Of schooner Avcrill
was struck by Burlington and Lamoille
train at Burlington Monday and instantly
killed.
The trustees of the Vermont Episcopal
institute announce that "Bishop Hopkins
hall, the new building for the Diocesan
school for girls at Rock Point, Burlington
is nearly completed and will be opened in
September with n full corps of teachers.
Particulars may be had Of Rev. Lucius NJ.
Hardy, principal, Burlington.
A terrific hail storm in Franklin county
on Tuesday did great deal of damage to
growing crops and gardens. 1t accumulat
ed in drifts a foot deep in some places One
farmer lost If acres Of corn.
Two iiremen and seven deck hands we're
killed one evening last week by the expo
sion Of a steam pipe on the towbuat Can
airy, near Westport, Ky.
Through misunderstanding of orders,
two trains collided in a cut at Forest De
pot, Va, last Sunday, causing the death of
ten men
John l.. Sullivan, champion pugilist has
| Doris circus and will run the show alone
through Western Massachusetts,, New York
and Pennsylvania.
NJ. Jervis, the French aeronaut means to
| cross the Atlantic IN monster balloon this
summer. lie will come to this side and
start in one Of the storms which periodical
ly sweep across the Atlantic from west to
| east. As the balloon will not retain its
! buuyancy for more than - hours. it will
| take "A wind travelling at the rate of 60
or - miles an hour to watt him to Europe
The machinery of the great silk mill of
| the PhuniX manufacturing company in
Pottsvllle, Penn, was started last week
| The mill has been one year in construction,
! is the most extensive and completely euuip-
ped establishment of the kind in the coun-
try, cost $3.50 600 and will employ 1000 op-
| eratives
The estate Of the late Edward Richard
son Of jackson, Miss comprising - cotton
plantations, was recently divided among
his five heirs by lot, each receiving seven
| plantations. \ large amount Of other
| property remains to he divided. lie was
the richest cotton planter in the world
The Norwegians break up wornout wood
en- ships in "A singular way. They take the
vessel to some dangerous point on the cuast
into bits 10y the sea in the first heavy gale
/ The fragments are carried ashore. aud are
collected and sold at good rates for lirewood.
4 big bloodhound attacked lively game
| cock in yard at Columbia Pa, few DAYS
ago, and not only got beaten, hut had the
sight Of both eyes destroyed by the fowls
spurs.
Eugene Kelly, the Irish banker Of New
/ York, Is probably the wealthiest lrishman
engaged exclusively in banking in the
world. He is rated at SlO, 900, 900 He be
! gan his career many years ago in New York
state, tramping from town to town as ped
dler, selling needles, thread and buttons
In 1919 he caught the gold fever and went
to San Francisco. He became millionaire
dry goods merchant there and returned to
New York about 20 years ago.
The Baltimore Sun tells Of well-known
baritone singer in a church in that city who
inadvertently placed "a slur on the wrong
note He had adapted the air of The
Jewish Maiden" to hymn beginning Be
fore the Lord we bow, and Instead of plac.
ing the slur ON the first two svllables he
placed it ON the last one and rendered it
thus Before the Lord we bow WOW wow"
| The effect was immense. As he had and
stil has powerful and beautiful voice, his
hearers were thoroughly electrified at this
unwunted and unlooked-for canine imita.
ton. He has never entirely recovered
from the effect of his ludicrous mistake
The way in which the novel; Ben Hur"
was written is described as follows Gen.
Wallace wrote first on a slate to rub out
easily, then on soft paper with "A pencil
The final copy of the book was on large un-
ruled paper, so eXqusitely done that the
professional reader at Harper's pronounced
it the finest manuscript ever offered him.
f. 5. Stokes has started a new down-to town
cafe in New York which is simply gorgeous.
1t has floor of Italian mosaic, which cost
! Sl2, 600. The octagOnal bar is Of Mexican
onyx and white mahogany, and cost as
much more. The supporting pillars are also
of white mahogany and onyx, and silver
dishes are incidental To the magniicence.
The church of the Holy Trinity in New
York imported the Rev r. W. Warren as
its rector. an act which was in violation of
the contract labor law, and the United
States court decides that the church must
pay the penalty of $1,000.
The Crawford county GllD farmers are
bound to get rid of the chinch bugs at any
cost They agree to raise no more wheat,
barley or rye for the next three years ex-
pectng in this way to completely starve
the bugs 10 death.
issued gives that state a population at the
present time Of over 300, 900, nearly twice
the population of 1855, according to the Off
cial census
The slaughtering of aigatuIs, says IA
Florida newspaper, for the sake of their
hides, has had IA marked effect on the wa
ter supply in the cattle districts. When
alligators occupy "A pond of water they al
ways keep the mud pushed up ON the banks,
and even when large herds of cattle stamp
the banks down, the alligators immediate
ly repair the damage But now they are
disappearing before mans butchery, the
ponds are fast filling up, and the cattle find
no water where once 1t was abundant
The statement comes from Rome that the
Pope is much embarrassed as to the dspoS-
al Of the wines which he received as iubi
lee offerings, there being upward of OO,-
| 600 bottles and still more puzzling ques-
ton has arisen as to the embroidered slip
pers, of which there are no fewer than 30
600 pairs There are many thousands of
chasubles and stoles which are to be dis
trihuted among poor churches in various
parts of Europe, and several hundreds of
French statues of the Virgin, who is usual
ly represented as II jolly, buXom female,
and of saints who have anything but an
ascetic appearance, which will be given 10
!
In regard to the recent floods in Mexico
IA San Luis potosi correspondent of the
Troy Times says that 21OO lives were lost
that the Mexican Central railroad lost IA
round million of dollars by the destruction
of track that 7, 5,OOO, 900 acres of growing
and ripcning corn were destroyed within
radius of 25O miles of the city of Leon,
and that while two crops are annually
raised ON these ,, ,OOO, 900 acres the floods
have rendered it impossible to prepare the
land for the second. The rains still con
tinued ON the 9TH of July and public tray.
el was dangerous.
Prof. Powell, director Of the geological
survey, made an argument before the Sen
ate committee on appropriations ON Tues
day in the matter of the proposition tO de
velop the arid land regisn. Prof Powell is
very enthusiastic in the belief that his
views as TO the irrigation of this vast re
giOn, by establishing great reservoirs in the
Rocky Mountains for the supply of water,
is entirely practical. The committee is
very much interested in the subject, and it
is probable that "A considerable apprupria-
ton will he made to enable n test to he
made of the practicahility of the under
taking.
The Engineering News, which recently
published AN exhaustive article accOmpani-
ed with illustrations, ON the present con
diton of the Panama canal, has supplement
ed this service to the public by treating the
Nicaragua canal in the same manner The
estimated cost of the latter enterprise made
upon the basis of the survey of 1889 is SGi,
600, 600 and the News says that the survey
of December last may possibly Justify an
increase of the estimate somewhat, hut
| making full allowance uDou all itams of