Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Trouble is reported in Central America,
force Of 5000 Gautemalaus having been
defeated in an engagement with San Saliva
dorians.
At st. Louis Mo, last week Thursday,
box which had been among the unclaimed
baggage at the Union depot for five months
was opened, and found to contain the chop
ped-up body of woman. Part of st.
Louis newspaper of February was wrapped
about the body
The main building of the Western Union
Telegraph company at New York was gut
ted by fire last week Friday, accompanied
by large pecuniary loss, narrow escape from
great loss of life and temporary paralysis
of the telegraph business.
England has been experiencing the hesv
lest rainfall known for l2 years and the
loss to the farmers from ruined crops will
be very great.
The explosion of a receptacle containing
10 tons of melted iron at a New York
foundry last Saturday afternoon severely
burned 10 workmen, several receiving fatal
injuries.
Dispatches from Europe announce a rev
olution in Sofia, and there is apprehension
that the Balkan war cloud is on the point
of bursting.
Four nice old ladies called on Mrs. Har
rison recently, one of them bearing a
unique gift for the President, which she de-
livered into Mrs. Harrison's care and keep
ing. 1t was silk quilt, blue on one side,
old gold on the other, and was made entire
ly by hand. In the absence of the Presi
dent, Mrs Harrison received the gift, enter
tanning the old ladies gracefully throughout
their call
American naval officers who have adopt
ed the cholera belt in the tropics find it 50
beneficial that they often retain it in all
latitudes 1t is simply broad band of fan
mel worn night and day the year around
tight about the waist, SO as 10 protect the
stomach from sudden changes of tempera
ture Those who wear the contrivance in
sist that it is an admirable promoter of
digestion, and thousands regard it as well
nigh an absolute preventive of stomachic
disorders
Lord Tennyson, though his health has re-
Gently improved, is said TO be much broken
by age and illness, and matches his physical
decrepitude by very obvious mental slow
ness.
Joaquin Miller has now become such
recluse that he will not receive visitors at
his home near Oakland, California. He
does all his literary work in the morning,
writing until noon, generally in bed. In
the afternoon he superintends the olive tree
plantation of 80 acres, of which he is very
proud. His wife and daughter are now
with him. From his house there is a superb
view of San Francisco and the Golden
Gate"
The pneumatic dynamite gun, the inven
ton of Capt. Zalinski, has been given
final test at Cold Spring, New York. 1t
easily threw 500-pound proiectile two
miles 1t has been purchased by the Eng
lish government and will be shipped in a few
days to WOolwich. The gun is 80 feet long
and has bore of 10 inches, Compressed
air under pressure of 1000 pounds to the
square inch serves in lieu of powder.
Stanley's illness Just before his wedding
may be traced to the serious trouble which
he has had since 1882. He was attacked
with stomachic disease when descending
the Congo, on the way home, in 1881, and
then thought that he had been poisoned by
some vindictive native but later on he was
visited in Europe by the same attacks,
which were brought on originally by priva
ton Exposure to the cold and disagreea-
BILE climate Of England, after long residence
in Equatorial Africa, coupled with the haste
and excitement of his recent social life, are
doubtless responsible for this latest out
break 1t may be necessary for him to re-
turn to warm climates at once.
President Charles Kendall Adams of Cor
nell university, who is native of Derby,
this state, was married recently at Pad
dington chapel, London, to Mrs. A. S.
Barnes of New York. They go to Oxford
and Cambridge, and various cathedral
towns then on a visit to Mr., Carnegie at
Cluny Castle, Scotland, before sailing to
America on August %. The announcement
of their marriage was great surprise to
their many friends.
The wheat growers of North Dakota are
startled by the announcement that the grain
elevators will this season refuse TO store
their grain. This will necessitate the i'm
mediate sale of the crop at such price as
the farmers can get, and in many cases
they will suffer greatly in consequence.