Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-28
NO. 2G.
IN GEN ERAL.

A new Atlantic cable is to he laid he
tween Canada and England, aud a Pacific
cable is talked Of between San Francisco
and the Sandwich Islands.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell. the
telephone millionaire, has built a "house
boat, in which he will cruise in Nova SEQ
tian waters this summer This novel craft
was put together in the catamaran style,
and contains large parlors, billiard rooms.
etc. On board this boat Mr. and Mrs. Bell
will entertain many friends
May Wreck James is the dolorous name
inflicted upon a little Johnstown innocent
born during the flood
A curious case is reported from Mon
treal. Dennis Carroll, a man so wears of
age, undergoing virtually life sentence
for murder committed a year ago, was par
doned through the efforts of influential
friends Friday the warden of the prison
had Carroll called TO the office. and told
him he would be free Saturday. "My
God, | am pardoned and free :" cried the
aged man, and he dropped dead at the war
dens feet. Joy killed him
A Kansas City despatch tells of two far
mers' children, living at Roster, who went
fishing last Thursday They failed To re
turn at night and searching parties were
organized to look for them. Their bones
were found Friday evening near a ledge of
rocks that had long been known as VOLTS
Den. a band of timber wolves have used
| TINS section for years. and it is thought the
boys were killed and eaten by the animals.
II is said that the largest pine tree ever
| cut in Michigan was felled recently near
Hobart. 1t was six feet in diameter at the
butt and scaled 10000 feet of choice lum-
| ber.
negro drum corps, parading the streets
OF Wilmington, Del, one evening last week.
were annoyed by party of small white
lads ana opened on them with pistols at
short range, killing one aged 1G, and seri-
ously lnJuring two others. The negroes
were arrested
The house which has been built by Mrs.
Edward F. Searles formerly Mrs. Mark
Hopkins) at Great harrington. Mass. is a
palace, and with its stables, etc, is esti-
mated TO have cost 50, 500, 600. 1t is built
OF blue dolomite, quarried in the vicinity;
It's roof is crowned with imposing towers
and massive chimneys, and its inner finish
lngs are of imported marbles and carved
oak and other costly woods Mr. and Mrs
Searles have recently returned from Eu-
rope, bringing with them valuable paintings
and other adornments for their magnificent
home
The local government board of London,
which inspected recently district where
twenty children had died of Group and
dlphtheria, found that in three cases the
disease had been communicated by cats go
ing from house to house, and in more than
one case where children had died cats had
died also.
The height of snobbishness is reached at
English bazars where money is taken as
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beauty or titled lady presiding over tables.
Quite number of large buildings have
been built in Eastern cities with hollow
bricks They are said to stand the same
pressure, up to 00O0 pounds, that the best
solid brick will stand. They cost one third
less than the solid form, and make the
walls proof against fire, moisture and frost,
being warm in winter and cool in summer
The bricks are set on end, thus making a
wall hollow from top to bottom
The Churchman, speaking of the death
OF Damien, the leper priest, says that out
side of the walls of Jerusalem is a leper's
hospital tended by deaconesses from the
German religious houses. Year after
year these heroic women, without preten-
tlousness, without any trumpetng of their
work, almost unknown to the world, have
waited upon lepers, while themselves liter
only come to light by the chance notice of
travellers"
The discovery that brass tubes, when
annealed, have resonant qualities
far superior to bells of the same compare
tive weight and cost, is being utilized in
Germany, where tubes are being used for
chimes IN church towers. IL is stated that
a tube three inches in diameter outside and
one half inch thick, twelve feet long, can
easily be heard distance of one mile. and
under favorable circumstances two or three
miles. In Providence, r. l., these tubes
are now being used for chimes, which are
rung by the clock movement at regular in
tervals.
The constitutionality of the new law for
the execution of criminals by electricity in
the state of New York is to be tested, the
appeal for a stay of proceedings in the case
OF William Kemmler, the condemned muir
derer, who is the first to come under the
new dispensation, being based on that sec
tion of the bill of rights of New York
which forbids the inhiction of cruel and
punishment"
The government board made test of two
Maxim automatic guns at Annapolis few
days ago. One of the guns fired $50 shots
in minute, and the other $50. Commo-
iore Sickard and the brother of Henry
Maxim, the inventor were among those
present. The Maxim gun is used in Ger
many, Russia and France and is claimed TO
be superior to the Gatling gun in rapid fir
ing. 1t is the invention of an American
and was first offered to our government,
but through lack of appreciation or needless
delay 1t was allowed to pass into the control
of the English government, of which the
guns must now be bought.
William i Hilton oe Erankl;n
wealthy and miserly old merchant, who is
supposed to be on his death bed, told a negro
attendant the other day to burn keg which
ne said contained few nails and papers
The negro did as he was directed and des-
,royed about $50, 900 worth of greenbacks
and bonds. Hilton is at sword points with
ais wife and son, and did not care to have
hem inherit his property.
Lightning in recent storm played some
strange freaks on farm near Dana Centre
Mass. 1t stunned a man who, with his
lorse and carriage, had driven into one of
,he barns. One bolt struck at two different
points on stone wall, disarranging many
tones The spots where this bolt struck
appear as if a plow point had been run
llong the ground Another chain of light
ling struck in field of oats, digging
number of holes, two of the latter being not
ess than three feet deep. Further on an
lpple-tree was struck, the bark peeled off,
md the cows on one side of it scared as if
/ fire had passed over them.
Bennington has the Oldest church society
N the state and the church at Newbury
was second Both are Congregational, and
we're organized in December, 1862, and 1864
respectively. The first Methodist church
was organized at Vershire in 1896. The
irst Baptist church was organized in Shafts
,ury in l76S The first Protestant Episco-
pal churches were organized in Arlington
md Manchester before the Revolution, and
he first Freewill Baptist church at Shafts
lury in 1894. Rockingham has one of the
oldest church editces in the state. 1t was
quilt in August, l1SS, and remains the same
inside as originally constructed, containing
he sheep pen" pews, the gallery extend
ng around three sides and the high pulpit
with sounding board. The town has re-
'tored the outside to preserve it, and the
Young Mems Christian association of Bel
ows Falls is now holding Sunday services
here.
Lock Of WRHhingIOn's Hair.
Among the most interesting relics of the
a