Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-11-08
IN GENERAL.

Authentic news has been received from
Stanley up to the end of August.
The New Orleans Times is authority for
the statement that in one of the wealthiest
and most prosperous counties of Texas no
liquor has been sold for six years, and that
in consequence the jail has been empty all
the time.
The Judge of United States district
court in Arkansas sentenced last Friday
nine murderers to be hung Jan. l6, 1890
The murderers are all full-blooded Indians
except one, and the crimes were all COM
mitted in the Indian territory within a
year.
President Cheney of the Nicaragua Canal
company declares that ships will undoubted-
ly be able to pass through Centeral America
from the Atlantic to the Pacific by the close
of 1894. Work is being pushed vigorously
and the controversy between the govern
ments of Nicaragua and Costa RIca has been
settled
The new postage stamps will he about
one eighth smaller than the present stamps,
and the same size as the English and other
European issues The one-c cent stamp will
be blue as at present the two cent carmine,
the three cent royal purple, the four cent
chocolate, the five-cent light brown, the
six cent vermillion, the ten-cent green, the
fifteen cent steel blue, the thirty cent black,
and the ninety cent orange.
A carpet factory in Glasgow was crush
ed last Friday by the fall upon it of the wall
of new building just being erected, and
a large number of women and girls were
buried in the immense mass of debris The
dead bodies of more than thirty have been
taken from the ruins The scene was ter
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new brick building at Passaic City, ~ j..
collapsed and. buried lG workmen, six of
whom were seriously hurt.
One Of the curious results Of the decay
of placer and hydraulic mining in the foot
hill region, in California is the development
of orchards where it was once thought the
only valuable thing the earth produced was
gold. In Butte, Narba, AmadOr, FL Dorado,
Placer, Nevada, Calaveras, Stanislaus aud
Tuoume-the seat of the richest early min.
ing-the chief industry now is fruitgrowng.
These steep foot hills, which were once look
! ed upon as worthless, are now being planted
to vines and choicest fruits.
John Armbruster of Grafton, West Va,
aged G4, who killed himself by jumping
OFF four-story building, was man Of en-
! ergy and determination. lie first broke
into drug store and swallowed poison.
The doctors saved him. but he followed this
up with three attempts to hang himself
Failing to leave the world by this route, he
| cut his throat with IA razor, aud with the
blood streaming from his wounds, he went
TO the roof and jumped of While his body
was being prepared for burial, some twelve
wounds, made with pair of scissors, were
| found on his body
A delegation of colored men representing
the late general Baptist convention, with
| Rev. William Gray as chairman, called on
Attorney General Miller at Washington last
Friday, in regard 10 outrages perpetrated
upon colored men in the south for attempt
ing to exercise the elective franchise. 4
member of the delegation, they said, who
had been subpunaed as witness in the ap-
! preaching trial Of election frauds in Florida.
| has been threatened with assassination
should he return 10 the state for the PURPOSE
of testifying. The attorney general said
that while he was not prepared 10 say pre-
cisely what action would be taken in the
case in question, they could rest assured
that in any matter in which the federal
authorities had jurisdiction the laws would
be enforced So far as in his power aud all
the officers and witnesses protected