Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-10-04
IN GENERAL.

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IN GENERAL.
! Two young men were drowned in Lake
/ Poutoosuc, Pittsiield, Mass, Sunday, 10y the
/ upsetting Of small row boat.
The stuffed skin Of Barnum's famous ele-
/ phant Jumbo was placed in the Tufts
college museum last Saturday.
The grand cross Of commander Of the
Legion Of Honor has been bestowed upon
| Thomas \. Edison by the French minister
/ Of foreign affairs.
The character of Joshua Whitcomb in
"Ihe Old Homestead, caused the death Of
a woman in Reading, Pa. She laughed so
heartily that she swallowed her false teeth.
The failure Of the large Chicago publish
ing house Of Belford, Clarke x Co., who
have issued great number OF the cheap
books now in use, is announced.
An Albany, y. y, German has invented
an instrument which it is believed will
make a sensation in the musical world
/ The keys are operated like those Of piano,
but they pass over strings like a violin bow.
\ coroners investigation at Chicago
showed that the recent railroad accident in
the suburbs Of that city, in which six per
N'''e' am "oIs" ..i''. ,'n.ie, anu
ing drunk
\ man, two women and two little girls
were drowned in pond near Fall River,
Mass, last Friday. The water was only
/ five feet deep. An empty whiskey bottle
was found in the boat.
There was S2O, 900 fire at Wright Mills.
/ Muntpclier last week Wednesday. The
/ l"unhrN pattern Ntorthouse, TWO vacant
"weIlIns houses ami the bridge were burn
'' an" '"e i"""''! was ''''''aE'"'
IIe verdict at the inquest was that tine
''atnS "y i4r recent disaster at '3uent'
we're result "i th" Er"N, ana rulPahi'
neglect on Lhe part "i the irH'rhI 'Ol'yr5
/ ih hp' "ul'"'hE 'h' ""'I'9Ses recommends"
. 10y tne ''l engineer III INN".
., \ 'hI scandal Is "elns nhe'rIhrd al 'h'
MhseH'hu7ettS rrIormaI"ry "t O"hIor"
N-;'' "I tue "H'ers nave ".'h ilakiuE
ai-r i'IuI'itl'hs "h the stat Tor '''lhIi,E
i"r the prisoners ana theh Nei'lhE the 'I"Ih-
. 'hE a7 rags III ha'e7 L" JUNK dealers
\ single sheet OF paper six feet wide and
/ seven and three quarters miles in length
has been made at the Watertown ~. w.
/ paper works. 1t weighed 22o' pounds ana
/ was maze ana rolled entire without S'lsle
"fr"k'
The Vermont university at Burlington
ha, received the gift Of 800 volumes of val
unble classical books from the library Of
the late Prof. John II. Wheeler Of the uni
versity Of Virginia. His widow, formerly
a Miss Johnson oi Ne"hury' male the gut
y Richford, Vt, despatch of sept. p
says Fifteen Chinese merchants and as
many laborerS, from Boston. passed through
I..~. F..l .latr {. 4 -4
ceived permits at the custom house here to
return good for one year.
The great mining enterprise Of uncover
ing the bed Of Feather river in California,
at Big Bend, has proved a failure. The
stream was successfully diverted, hut the
! gold expected to be found at the bottom
was not there. 1t is said that . oOO, oW
was expended on the project.
Last Friday was day of railroad acci-
dents Besides the one recorded above
there was collision ON the Baltimore "
Philadelphia road, killing one man. coils
ion ON the Baltimore ~ Ohio road smashing
six cars, "A smash of 10 coal cars near Wa
tertown, y. y, and the wreck of
train near Bcllefonte, Pa, by a COW ON the
track.
Ocean steamers can now 20 to Matadi.
at the head Of navigation on the lower
/ Congo, the point from which the railroad
is to start for Stanley Pool There is a
channel sixty feet deep. Goods can be
shipped from any of the ports of the world
to the foot of Livingstone Falls without
| breaking bulk
Evangelist Moody is conducting a Chris
tian conference at CHICAGO. something after
the character Of the Mortified conventions.
which will extend over to October e. 4
permanent Bible institute has been estab-
h,hed there bv him. with tuition free, for
the instruction of both sexes
4 colony Of l5O German families in Shell
10y county, Ia, in revolt against the prohibi
tiun policy, has secured a tract of land near
GAINESVILLE, Tex. and will emigrate in the
spring The ~ 600 majority vote against
prohibition in the latter state convinces
them that that must he the real land of lib
erty to drink beer.
David q Weems, the inventor of the
new electric railway which has recently
startled the people Of Baltimore. has been
in New York perfectiug arrangements for
the experiment station which is to he built
near Garden City, Long Island. At the
station near baltimore It Is sald that speed
ol three miles minute mas been developed
nut II Is asserted that at Uarueh Olty hNe
miles minute Will he reached
The various women's organizations of
Washington have taken preliminary steps
toward erecting monument to the memo
ry of Mrs Lucy Webb Hayes Two prop
ositions are suggested, one to build a tenn
Pile containing hall in which meetings of
women's associations could be held, the 9th
er to erect a statue with a fountain. A
committee will be appointed to correspond
with prominent women and wumen's asso-
clations ol the country "lth we" 10 or
Gahlllhg MIS- hayes memorial asS"cia
ton
Postmaster General Wanamaker has is
sued an order ahuishng the post office at
Luverne, Ala Mr. Bonez. "A culored man,
was recently appointed postmaster, and the
citizens, it is said showed their opposition
to him hy hoycotting him in every way aud
finally in burning down an old building
which he had succeeded with great dinicul-
tv in securing for a post office. In view of
these facts, Mr. Wanamaker decided that
the 500 inhabitants of the place could 20
three miles for their mail and do without
post Office facilities for while.
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