Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-05-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The experiment of opening the Provi
dence, X. l., public library on Sunday was
tried for the first time last Sunday for
reading room use only. and the innovation
is considered to have been a great success
Advices from Sydney by the steamer
Zealandia, state that the greatest flood in
the history Of Australia took place April
| IL, at Bourke, on the river Darling. The
river broke through the embankment sur
rounding the town and submerged it to a
depth Of three feet, leaving the town in the
middle Of an inland sea 40 miles wide.
An extraordinary electric storm broke
over Paris last Friday afternoon, and the
Eiffel tower WAS struck no less than six
times by lightning. The flashes came zig
gag out of the clouds and ran straight
down the conductor visible all the way,
leaving thin golden streak. The thunder
was deafening.
Thirty one fine horses were burned to
death in a fire in stables at Cambridge,
Mass, last Saturday.
An extraordinary feat in telephoning
was accomplished recently between St.
Peter sburg and Bologne, distance of 2485
miles.
Among a large number of private pen
sion bills passed by the Senate last Satur
day was one granting pension of 500 a
month to John Swearer-a mason who vol
unteered to assist in the defense Of Fort
Sumter and who was the first man wound
ed there, and the first wounded in the war
of the rebellion
A lad in Maiden, Mass, eight years old
had his nose bitten off by savage dog on
Monday. A doctor stitched it back in
place
The committee of relief steamer which
arrived last Sunday at Shreveport, La.
from the Black and Dooley bayous, give
narrowing description of the condition of
the people in that portion of the country
flooded by the Mississippi overflow. The
whole section is deserted and is like vast
inland sea Houses have been washed
away and families are scattered, and few
escaped with the necessares Of life. Hun
dreds OF people were rescued from their
homes standing in several feet Of water.
Mrs. James A. Garfield, who has been
spending few days with her daughter,
Mrs. j. Stanley Brown, at Washington,
called on the present occupants of the
White House, the visit being the first she
has made there since President Garheld's
death.
The second white man to be killed and
eaten in the Congo basin in Central Africa
is Mr. Musy, the commander of the French
post at Bangui on the Mobangi tributary of
the Congo. With a party Of l2 he was
massacred January 3, but the station with
in "a days was reestablished and the canni-
balls driven back to the jungle.
One Oh tue most startlng hegiras OF the
n"t;r.a . '"T T";e';uL Taer. t Vi iee'AnI oy 'ne
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present wear They % mainly 10 tbs O.
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sgricultnra are rnncb ha,,ar tha, l., tLa i,
terror Of Iceland whence conna The hull ot
the emigrants
Gan Frorno,. hoo 1-.;,.I
nau Ueen q ~ 0Hl tue Ohi1eu
on account Of transsct;ons in CaLforn;s ha
fore the var--so sa;d tba traos,'r,, br,Is
The other dav he anneared AZ the trassnry
denartment At Wasbington 20 s,a,s ,hat ~
would he in actual want n b;s ssisrv ss "a
tired major general was denied him in "a
vor of the ola debt Tho second controlier
bethought himself to investigate the ac
count carefully, and was surprised TO find
that instead Of the generals being a debt
or, the government had been owing him
gel 900 for 40 years. When told about it.
the old man tainted on the SPOT.
Judge A w TourgAs has basn gr.r,sd
a nension of S3o nae month It'll ~
Dension of So5Ig 96 No, nncb Of = ntooIis
errand" about that
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he'd in the United states and was oris;nsIiv
laid with oaken rails on Which VS. Ia;d
stran iron and the oars or noaohas '0,n
they really then were. were drawn bv
mules.
The site Of a prsb;storic vi,l.ga b.s h.a,
discovered on the banLs Of ,ba 6b;o 80
near Parkersbnrg W Va II covsrs
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