Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-04-05
IN GENERAL.

Tuesday, not Friday, is the unlucky day
in Mexico
Rochester n. Y, capitalists have formed
a dried apple trust.
Mrs Hinkson, a native of Barnet died
recently in Michigan, aged 104
Six merino bucks valued at $1,000 each,
recently arrived at Middebury.
A fish which was recently caught in the
Savannah river measured 6 feet 10 inches
in length and weighed 400 pounds.
A Rockport, Mass, veteran recently
coughed up piece of lead which entered
his lung at Antietam - years ago.
A machine by which bristles NAV be in
serted into brushes has been invented by
North Bennington man after 10 years of
hard work
William S jackson, husband of the late
Helen Hunt jackson, was married to his
third wife in Colorado Springs recently.
He is prosperous banker in that city.
A man at Scranton, Pa. ran needle in
to his foot. Surgeons sought for it in vain.
His foot was held near an electric dynamo
and in 10 minutes the needle was drawn
out.
All the coal mines in the Pttston, Pa,
region, employing 10, 600 men and boys, are
terrible blow to the men, who for months
have been on very short time, and are now
in very poor condition.
Thirteen miles from Cheyenne, Wyo,, is
what is said to be the largest horse farm in
the world. There are 100, 600 acres of land,
where roam 5000 horses, which require the
constant attention of sixty-five men. One
hundred miles of wire fence keeps the ami
mails in bounds.
The Mid Continent of st. Louis recently
announced that railroad is to he built
from Japan to Jerusalem, the word ia
PAN being a misprint for "Jaifa. But
several religious papers took the statement
in good faith, and solemnly discussed its
feasibility.
The Car is said to wear always ring in
which is embedded piece of the true cross
that was given to an ancestor of the Gar
by pope long ago The Car is said to he
superstitious about this ring, and once
when he had started upon long journey
and had forgotten it, he had his train held
while messenger went back upon loco
motive and fetched it.
Few people realize what great changes
have been going on in Japan in the last
thrty-fve years. From nation knowing
absolutely nothing of the civilized methods
of government they have come to the front
with new constitution, establishing par
| lament, partly elective, and giving the
right of suffrage to all men who pay taxes
to the amount of twenty-five dollars, and
ordaining liberty of religion, freedom of
speech and the right of public meeting.
Mrs. Emma Gatewood Ccolored) died re
Gently at Scottdale, Pa, aged III years,
She was the mother of II children, all of
whom, except one, are living and over 80
years of age She was the grandmother of
81 children, the great grandmother of 4G
children, and the great great grandmother
of 36 children. She had distinct recolec
ton of Washington and the Incidents of
the revolutionary war. She was born in
Virginia and was a slave for a number of
years.
A case of heartlessness almost beyond
parallel occurred a short time ago near the
Bahama islands c. f. Smith. wife, daugh-
ter and maid, from Chicago were on a
pleasure trip from New York TO the West
Indies A few days out the little girl was
taken sick with diphtheria At Nassau the
family were taken from the vessel by the
quarantine officials, and landed on an unin-
habted coral reef which had been used as
"a yellow fever pest house, with provisions
for only one day No other steamer would
the child died. A small schooner passing
the island was hailed, and by paving an ex
orbitant price and enduring many hardship'
the family was finally landed ON the Florida
coast
1t looks as if the sentence of death
against Mrs, Whiteling, the Philadelphia
murderess, would be carried out, despt,
the pleas of the sentimentalists in her he
} half. and the fact that IA woman has never
4 yet been hanged for murder there, The
! board of pardons has ignored her plea fo
"a communication of the death sentence an,
an appeal to the governor has resulted onl!
. in months respite. Mrs. Whiteling de
lberately poisoned her husband. her o years
old daughter and her little boy, in order T.
obtain insurance money ON their lives. Sh
confessed her crime after having been con
) fronted with the evidence against her, am
! it was the unanimous testimony of all VIII
studied the facts in the case that only til
extreme penalty of the law would he con
sstent with the enormty of her crime.