Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-12-06

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the ruins are 800 years old or more. They
brought home many photographs. The first
! person to discover any ol these ruins was
Richard Wetherill a ranchmau of Mauco,.
who came upon them last December
An Act of Heroic scIf-SscriGcc.
An engineer ON the Old Colony railroad
sacrificed his own life Saturday evening 90
save the lives Of his passenger, A, his
fast passenger train was passing near the
Branch avenue bridge at Providence. he
saw switch engine ahead Of him ON the
track and quickly put on the air brakes aud
reversed his engine. He saw, however,
that there must be collision, and he
thought of only one way 20 save the train
by pulling the coupling pin from the en-
gine, sending it ahead oi the train full
speed into the switch engine Ihi, was
done but Burnham fell on the track and
had his head cut of 10y the cars following
behind. The fireman also received fatal
| injuries The passengers were saved
though they were badly shaken up.
Another man was instantly killed in New
York city last Saturday night by coming iu
contact with an electric light wire.
Thirty thousand people saw the Princeton
college foot ball team defeat the lnles lu to
q near New York city last week Friday
There are more than 10000 Chinese in
San Francisco They form nearly one
seventh Of the citv's population and it j,
computed that they send Sl2, ,uOO, 600 year
from their earnings to China
The centre Of population Of this country
has now moved from the point occupied by
Erie, Penn, which was the centre in lSsO.
| 10 point further west and north, -o that
now it is near Columbus ..
A new calculating machine invented 100
| France and given gold medal at the cN
hibition, does addition, multiplication and
division with astonishing rapidity, and all
| 10y turn Of the wheel.
Four little girls children of a wealthy
mine owner, found key Of powder in am
abandoned working Of a mine in West \ir
| ginia, on Thanksgiving day morning. In
some way they exploded it. and We're blown
to pieces Their mother lost her reason
when told Of the fate Of her children.
The Baltimore Sun saws that a great syn
dicate, with headquarters iu New York.
and doubtless with English capitalists iu
the scheme, has undertaken to huy up all
/ the heavy cotton duck mills ol the country
/ and to consolidate them under IN, control
oI one great '"I II"Ihll'H. \ 'dI''" ~ N'l'
| ""rouo Z" >IN'"o'o" Is required I"r Tue
accompaniment oi th' enterprise
The Emperor of China has sent large
tablet Of wood, six feet iu length hy tv"
ieet III width covered With EoId zeal aud
/ bearing beautifully W"rked inscriptions in
/ Nhlhese characters expressive "I me r.ih
/ perors acknowledgement Of the gratitude of
the Chinese people for the assistance ren
/ derpd by Snuth Australian u-0t,l. iluriur
the iamine. he tablet. winch is very
handsome, VIII Ice hung IN th"'wnrd 'hnm
Der at Adelaide.
An American Thanksgiving dinner was
| given at the KaI,erhof ju Berlin. and WAS
attended 10y 100 persons Minister Phelps
presided Among those present We're
Count Herbert b'smarrE. Fnnr" RaA"HL
I ProiS Momsen and 'nrtIn' "nd American
Consul Edwards Mr. thtIr~ toasted Ire>
hent Harrison an" Emperor " ilini"
Count BISMARCK responded Nr0 lhtIps
presided at "a reception ami tail gwen alter
the banquet
John Murray. a tramp ~ho died at the
city hospital in Newark, y. j., from lock
Jaw, turns out to be William Montague
Rushbridge, Of Montague hall. Surrey. Eur
land. His mother j, said 10 bee Lady Alur
ray. Murray was b years old. lie was
known about Orange for several years. lie
was always retlcent about hI, history, re-
tusing to tell why he pTelerrrd tramp 5
HE IN tins country When he might have
llNed IN luxury III England.
At the Merrlmac county, y. H.. poor
farm, in North BoScaweu. ir~t week Thurs
day, during the temporary absence Of the
matron from the building, am insane " oman
named Bennett who was committed from
/ .rl.s l..ln
cate woman, from Chester. Sarah G..
Wood. Selling her around the body she
carried her to bath room, threw her int
tub, held her down. and. turning ou the
cold water finally drowned her.
A terrible explosion at Marseiles. France
one evening last week caused widespread
terror throughout the city The three
masted ship Vile de Marselllcs. with d
cargo of 1000 barrel, Of powder, shppeH
for Mozambique caught fire Au attempt
was made to blow up the ship with dyna
mite, without success. The fire in "a shur
time reached the torchold, where there
were 1000 barrels of powder. tcrrih.
explosion followed All the windows tul
"a mile around were shattered lragmeut
Of the Inflated ship we're picked mp lo'
metres away from the scene ot TIA" disaster
No lives we're lost
Five tons of nitro glyceriur exploded 90
the suburbs of oil CITY. Pa SATURDAY aI
ternonn. with disastrous results load o
the nitro glycerine had lust been takel
from the boat containing 1t when thre
Young men who we're returning from hunt
ing began firing at "A mark and II Is though
"A stray shot struck the boat and caused th
, explosion They were found 200 feet frou
the scene Of the accident their limbs tor
from their bodies, which were unreco-nlla
bic. Houses We're unroofed and ever
window on the south side of the city wa
smashed, and whole fronts ON the mort
side were blown ont Horses and pede,
trans were knocked to the ground, and
> great many narrowly escaped being kile'
by flying splinters
The annual tales of destitution and suffer
ing among the fishermen of the Iahrado
=. coast are pouring i'm. and it /, evident tha
many deaths from starvation will have {
be cbronicled before relief rpaches thes
unfortunate people next spring. Nea
Point Esuuimaux families have been III,
r covered on the verge of starvation. sui
I sistinp on the flesh of dors Alta numbe
of fishing stations. anticipating a scarcit
i e g..l al .a,-.l tl,, ,..Ft,.
! from their fish which they ~ared. an
habtants alive. The fisheries, upon whic
4 tihey entirely depend, were a la4ur'' an