Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04

except himself and the mate The schooner snpl,
lullnedatey ana the captain drifted Oft ON TIM.
EoHer 3t the wheel nouse He was picked up the
Canary islands. None of the others were saved
The Concord. \. H., Monitor caused a rinna of
excitement last Friday by the publication of a long
article headed, rs Amy to be- frey 4 terrific
possibility" The substance of the nrtirle ,ro tt
in consequence of announcing Almys sentence
When he was absent from the court he would rs
cape hanging, as the sentence would be ILLEGAL
There is no probability, however that he will ns
cape for this reason "
II the low water in the Eastern sections of FIN,
country continues to prevail the paper industry
Will he seriously affected Eighty pef cent of tbe
paper made for printing newspapers is from wood
pup and for economical reasons the mills must
run 10y water. The prn1uction of This EinJ 80 ,,,,
per is 1000 tons a day less than it was month b,
AMI II there had not been an overproduction for
some time the market would already bp seriously
effected. ''
Frank Breckenridge a Norwich. Conn. mason
teil from the top of block 81 feet high at that
place last saturday. He struck the tpleprnub
wires. bounded back to IA lower staging ognin
tuuled with the wires then bounded back again to
the building and finally fell to the ground No
bones were broken, hut when taken M he was nm
conscious. and the blood was flowing from the
ably recover.
A. a. Stage, the we known base ball and foot
pail player and general athlete has received an Of
Ter from Yale college. his alma mater to ion the
faculty as professor of physical culture Stap-
IS now connected with the Y. VI. c. A. training
agreement to 20 to the Chicago university as ply
seal Instructor next September. Ii is thought
That he will secure his release from this institution
and return to Yale.
The six day eight hour day international hi,
cycle race, over l5-lap track in the Mechanics
building at Boston, came to an end saturday
night. Ashinger. an American, won. covering 152
miles and breaking the worlds Is hour record
LumSden. the ScOtChuan. was second with ,35
miles For four days these two riders and Robb
the Englishman. were tied for first position but nt
4 Rnl a VA I'M -batt fol,
On the last day Ashinger forged ahead.
After eating an immense supper with class
mates at West Chester Pa. few evenings ago
Stephen j. Hughes, IA Normal school student said:
Yes, twas hearty meal, but could eat 100
large oysters on top of 1t in less than ten minutes
If had ,em. Some of the largest oysters ever
seen in West Chester were provided by the cater
err. In ! minute and 81 seconds by the watch
Hughes ate the first 80 great bivaves; the other
10 ne swallowed in mnuteS-lOO in ~ minutes
Malcolm Ford, the eX-Champion amateur ath-
lete of America is not mentioned in the will of his
father. the late Gordon Ford. who left an estate
valued at Si,5O00OO. The young man incurred his
fathers i'll will by devoting himself 80 athletics
Recently, however, reCOncilement had been effect
ed. and IL is supposed that the fathcp would have
changed the will if the fatal illness had not come
upon nun so suddenly. The young man says that
his father had right to do he pleased with his
property and that he will not contest the will
/ The annual report of the superintendent of the
government life saving service shows that during
the past year the men at the 23s different sta
tons in the country saved 3ll5 persons from
'S1l vessels and only - persons ON these vessels
were lost. The estimated value of the vessels
and their cargoes a little less than s.. OlO $40
and the value Of Improperly saved was over
S5,Gm,OoO II is said that the best men in the.
service are giving up the work, as the pay which
they receive. considering the work and danger of
their positions, is but mere pittancc.
murder ease. which is unparalleled in its
character and Incidents is now being tried ar Den
yer, Colo. II is that of DR. Graves of Providence.
T r. l., charged with being the person who sent a
bottle Of poisoned whiskev from Boston to Mrs.
Barnaby at Denver. OF this whiskey Mrs Baruahy
who was the widow of the celebrated Providence
clothing merchant of that name. drank. causing
her death. Mr. Barnahy's will made Graves thu,
executor and one of the henefcarirs of her es-
tate. Graves pleaded not guilty and the work of
securing jury has been in progress for several
days.
/ somewhat sensational story has been made
out of the case of little deaf. dumb and blind
girl from Texas who is now at the kindergarten
for the blind at Jamaica Plain Mass. The story.
told by an enterprising New York sun CORE
spondent. is that the child is being kept by her
teachers without any instruction whatever in re
gard to God or immortality, as an experiment to
see whether by intuition she will find ont these
I things for herself. Prof. Anagnos who is in
/ charge of the school. says, however that is not
true; that he simply means to instruct the child
in the essential things of religion and leave her to
formulate her own individual religious belief with
out prejudice or suggestion from any outside