Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-28

Bombay has the grundest railway station
IN the world. 1t cost nearly $2O, 900, 600.
Senator Reagan Of Texas has appointed
his wife as his private secretary. Every
senator not the chairman of a committee
is allowed private secretary, who receives
a salary Of 81 day during the session
John Jacob Astor has given $50, 600 to
erect an additional building for the New
York cancer hospital. Mr. Astor's gifts to
the institution thus far exceed $500, 900.
Henry Iandsiedel, German anarchist
Of Allegheny, Pa, attempted to shoot his
wife last week, and then put bullet
through his brains Landsiedel in the past
- years had had seven wives-each of
whom had to leave his house to escape his
cruelty.
John r. King, who lived in a lonely place
10 miles from Cooksville, Texas, was burn
ed in his house one night last week with
his wife and six children, who were from
two months TO l3 years old. Kings char
red body showed that he had first been
murdered and then the house fired to con
ceal the crime.
great petition, indorsed by $3.50 600
names, is to be presented to Congress this
winter asking that Sunday work he pro-
hlblted in all government employments and
in interstate commerce Cardinal Gibbons
is said to be among the signers.
Lyman Puslee, "a fratricide, was shot
recently near Ushkaomma, Indian Terri
tory, IN the presence of several hundred
Choctaws, in execution of "A judicial sen
tence He met his fate stoicallv. sitting
erect and cool on his coffin while his hands
and feet were bound and his eyes handaged,
and did not appear to finch when the exc
cutioner gave the command TO fire. His
death was instantaneous, three bullets,
from as many Winchesters, piercing his
breast near the heart
Senator Quay has received a pair of fine
blooded horses from the Republicans of
Tennessee as a token of their appreciation
of his excellent management Of the late
campaign.
map of Dakota, with Indiana. Maine.
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,.
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey,
South Carolina and Delaware within its
limits, with quite little room to spare. is
being published in the western states as an
argument for the immediate admission of
the territory to the Union. South Dakota
itself would make two states the area of
Ohio,
President elect Harrison's school teacher
has come To light. She taught him his "A
t. Cs' Mrs Converse is her name, and
she does not want an office.
company proposes to scrape the entire
bed of the Chestatte river in Georgia with
lredges 1t has long been known that the
he'd of the stream is very rich in loose gold
aud that is what the company is after.
The largest tumor ever known to Penn
Svlvania physicians was removed from Mrs.
Hannah Littre of Whitehall Thanksgiving
lay. 1t weighed 100 pounds when re-
moved After the operation the woman
weighed about % pounds, or five pounds
less than the weight of the tumor itself
She is recovering.
The running time between Washington
aud Philadelphia over the Baltimore x Ohio
road has now been reduced to three hours
1t is but a few years ago that passengers
we're ferried over the Susquehanna. the
cars were dragged 10y horses through Balti-
more, and the time and Inconvenience
made it an unwecome ride.
1t is proposed to supply Paris with water
from Lake Neufchatel three hundred and
twelve miles away. of this distance. TWEEN
ty-two miles would he tunnel The estima-
ted cost is nearly SlOO, 0O0 600.
Duluth is booming More than 100
buildings, costing more than 50 0O0 900,
have been erected there this year. and
three manufactures, with capital of 50,
10000, have sprung into existence
The great globe for the Paris exhibition,
now in course of Of construction, will be
forty metres in diameter, and will repre-
sent the earth on "A scale of one milonth
A cast-iron tower will serve as a pedestal
for the globe, which will revolve on its axis
once in twenty four hours. Galleries run
ming round the sphere will enable the visi-
tors to observe it from different heights.
The inside is to be fitted up as lecture
hall capable of seating three hundred per
sons.
1t is asserted that an American syndicate
with capital of $50, 900, 600 has been
formed to construct a railway in Siberia,
and that several former and present Amer
lean diplomats and consular agents are in
terested in the undertaking.
A singular looking pair could be seen in
the big promenade on Pennsylvania avenue,
/ Monday, says one Of the Washington cor
respondents. One was man about six
feet four inches tall, with broad shoulders,
massive head and smoothly shaven face
/ The other was an old looking little man,
the top of whose rather rusty tile reached
/ Just above the giants shoulders. He sport
ed brigandish white mustAche, and wore
long white hair touching his coat collar
As his big companion strobe along he al
most trotted to keep alongside, and his look
up TO his friends face was only few
points off from the perpendicular, He had
an umbrella under his arm, though the sun
was shining with Washingtonian brilliancy
and little rain couldn't have lowered the
tone of his tile very much The oddly as
sorted pair attracted much attention, and
people nudged each other and smiled, The
big man was Justice Harlan, aud the littl,
man was the chief justice of the supreme
court of the United States