Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-11-29

The herOism of tasablanca has recently
| been equalled by an Australian lad : years
/ old, residing near WodOnga, who. during
/ the recent rising Of the Murray food wa
/ ters was left in charge Of his fathers
| stock. which had been rounded up on an
| upland Gradually the water surrounded
/ the flats, and flying neighbors, seeing the
/ boys danger, begged him to leave the cat
/ tie and save his life All his reply was
| Father told me 10 stop The deluge went
on the encroaching water crept to the
foot of his rise, steadily grew up to it.
| Surrounded ON all sides 10y the drowning
/ flood, sustained only by the sense of duty,
Father told me to stop, the poor boy
awaited what seemed to be an inevitable
| death At the last moment, when hope
seemed gone, the father dashed through
/ the flood and rescued the brave boy.
Five years old Willie Calvin fell into
/ Hopedale pond at Milford last Saturday
aud sank to the bottom His mother. hear
/ ing Of the accident. waded in where he was
last seen, though unable to swim, and
searched for him with her feet She finally
/ found him, and, with the water chin deep,
/ brought him ashore apparently dead. A
ueighbor resuscitated the boy after o min
utes' work Mother and child we're pros
trated by cold and exhaustion, but prompt
treatment saved both
Seven half finished buildings between
Ninth aud Tenth avenues, New York, col
lapsed about midnight last Thursday night
The material used in the buildings was
good, but the continued rain made it impos
sble for the mortar to dry. The loss 70 the
builder is SIS 900
l.um Smith, editor Of the Agents Herald
Of Philadelphia, convicted Of libelling An
thony Comstock of the New York Society
for the Suppression Of Vice. has been sen
fenced to six months imprisonment
1t is said that the Canadian Parliament
will be asked at the next session TO enact
laws against polygamy in order to cover Of
fenses committed by the Mormons of the
Northwest territories.
An explosion of natural gas took place
last Friday in the basement Of a dwelling
at Pittsburg, Pa wrecking the building
aud fatally injuring a servant girl. On the
same day two story brick building at
Braddock, Pa. was blown to pieces by an
explosion Of natural gas Two persons
were fatally burned and six others seriously
injured. The day before there was an ex-
plosion of the same kind at Washington
ILL.,, in building over Il prospecting shaft,
and several persons were terribly burned.
James Smith, letter carrier, shot and
/ killed his two years old child Elizabeth. aud
| fatally injured his eleven months old baby
in his tenement in New York city last week
Friday. He then slightly wounded himself
in All attempt to commit suicide. Smith 5
wife left him a short time ago, taking the
two children and nearly all the furniture
away. 1t Is supposed that Smith stole the
children back from his wife and took them
to his room to kill them. He is a consump-
tive, and acts as if crazed hy illness and
trouble
Three Austr SSssI men arrived at st. Paul.
MINI. one day last week, on trip around
the world from Melbourne, a bet having
been made that they could accomplish it in
less than eight months One of the condi-
tions of the bet was that they should cross
the American continent on foot. The trav
elers have made the distance from Tacoma
since Sept 20, and are confident of success.
voluntary increase of ten per cent in
the wages of the employas in many Of the
blast furnaces IN Pennsy lvania has been
granted
Seventy horses "A day are now slaught er-
ell in Berlin for human food
\ Michigan paper says Port Huron is to
have "one of the most comfortable morgues
in the state.
The trans Pacific steamship record wa,
made two weeks ago by the White Star
ship Oceanic, which crossed from Yokoha
ma to San Francisco in IL days, Is hours
aud p minutes.
\ terrific snow storm struck Montana al
the end of last week along the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad and the He'll Gate
river. All travel was blockaded and sew
eral serious wrecks were reported
Two Rhode Island farmers were riding
home from town last Saturday evening,
and not guiding their horse the beast went
into "A pond and both men and horse were
drowned The men had spent the after
noon in loading up with tange foot.
The town of Wolfeboro, n. H., viii
eventually receive the entire income OF
funds amounting to 81 300 900 by the vii
of the late John Brewster Of Boston. Al
ready new town hall and library building
has been erected at a cost of $50, 600 anC
the westerly wing of a free academy, cost
ing $40, 600 About Sl2j, 900 is TO be spent
on the latter before it is finished Mr.
Brewster was born at Wolfeboro, digni
fled old town ON the shores of Lake Winn
piseogee.
Athol Mass Y. W c. +. L. has rented
AN entire block ON a business street and be
gun to take buarders, to aid her tinan
cially and give larger field of influence
The largest sailing ship in the world, tn,
Palgrave, left Sandy Hook recently fo
Java with a cargo of 1872 600 cases Of re
fined petroleum, or about ,32O 900 gallons
1t is the largest cargo ever exported in any
one vessel.