Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
statue to stonewnIl Jackson.

A statue of Stonewan jackson was un-
yelled at Lexington, Va, Tuesday,
3Oth anniversary of the battle of Bull Run.
The city was crowded with visitors, and il
was estimated that 30, 600 Confederate vet
Grams were present. Wade Hampton pre-.
sided and Rev. DIR. Hopkins of Charleston.
W. Va, chaplain on JaCkson's staff, offered
prayer. Gen. Jubal A. Early was orator
of the day. The statue is of bronze, nine
feet in height, and represents Gen. Jack
son in full uniform, his coat buttoned
tightly around him and his sword unstrunp.
The body is erect with the head uncovered.
the eyes as if looking into distance. The
face is taken from the dead mask and is
an excellent likeness. The hilt of the
sword shows in large letters Limited
States This has created considerable
comment. The pedestal is of Virginian
granite plainly dressed but beautiful in de-
sign. The statue faces the south. On the
front is the inscription jackson, 1921
1863 and on the rear is the word ''Stone-
wall
4 beautiful memorial cross of red gran
lite has been prepared in England. at the
expense of the national leprosy fund to be
erected over the grave of Father Damien.
of the cross on its arrival at Mookai and
attend to putting it i'm its place. 1t bears
an inscription in both English and Hawai-
ian which reads ",Joseph Damien de
Neuster Born January 3, 1910. Died
April -, 1889, Greater love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down his life for
his friends. John, XIV, -. This monu-
ment is raised to his memory by the people
of England
The city of Santiago, Chilli has lust
been visited with the severest fire ever
known in South America, the loss being
estimated at more than S2,OO00 900. The
British legation was consumed with all of
the archives and personal property of the
minister. The fire started in a restaurant
NJ. Pasteur's official report for 1890 de-
clares that out of 1,540 cases treated at his
institute for hydrophobia, only five died, and
he claims that his medicine was impotent
in these instances only because it was ad-
minstered too late to be effective.
A Chnaman in an advanced stage of
leprosy was discovered last Friday. bv the
New York board of health, running pri-
yate laundry in the basement of a tenement
house in that city. He seemed to be doing
good business, and when visited by the
officers was briskly at work doing up
shirts. He sprinkled the clothes in the
regular Chinese way by squirting water
over them from his mouth His head was
swelled with the disease and his whole body
was affected. The officials left him alone
claiming that they had no place to take
him to, and holding that leproSy is not con-
tagious in this climate except by actual
personal contact.
During storm at st. Mary's. Ohio, last
Friday, the chain works of the Standish
manufacturing works were struck by light
ming. Seventy employees were knocked
speechless by the shock, and some were
severely stunned. The lightning set the
factory on fire, but the flames were exiting
ushed.
Several of the richest men in Kansas
City, Mo-, have organized for the purpose
of supplying cold air throughout the city
through cOnduits. The common council
has granted the company a franchise. The
projectors are confident of success and will
sell fresh air to any part of the city at a
very low cost per cubic foot. In the win
ter hot air will be sent through the pipes
Miss Nina Van Zandt, who was married
by proxy to the condemned anarchist, Au-
gust Spies, was married in Chicago last
week to StefanO Malata, an Italian.
The suit of Mrs. Nancy w. Little against
the South Fork fishing and hunting club of
Pittsburg, Pa, is being pressed for trial or
settlement. Mrs. Little, in behalf of her
self and eight children, asks for $4,000
damages for the death of her husband
John A. Little, who was lost in the Johns
town flood. Mr.. Little was a travelling
salesman, and at the time of the disaster
was a guest at the Hubert House in Johns
town. The South Fork club, it is charged,
is responsible for the flood because of the
negligent and unskilful manner in which
the dam at South Fork was constructed
Nat X. Jones, son of United States Sem
ator James X. Jones of Arkansas, was
shot and fatally wounded at the senators
home in Washington, Ark, last Saturday
afternoon by schOol-teacher, named j. +.
Shepley. The two men had a row uptown
and Jones followed Shepley to the depot
and into passenger coach. where the trag-
edy took place
j. c. Culliman, an absconding station
agent who was located at Globep, ILL.,, has
Just been captured after a four years
chase. The case is remarkable for two
reasons. Culliman was almost helpless,
having but one arm and one leg, and de-
tectives all over the country were looking
Tor him in order to gain reward of $1,000,
yet he escaped arrest
Lynn, Mass, suffered from another bad
fire on Friday evening The loss is estimat-
ed from 5000 TO 100000. The fire
broke out in Blake block at Union and
Mulberry streets and this and the five stO-
ry block adjoining were destroyed and the
five story Currier block partially burned.
The entire street for 200 feet was in dan
ger at one time and help was summon
ed from adjoining cities.
An old farmer named James Rooney,
living at Valley Falls, n. Y, met a terri
BILE death by being trampled by untamed
colts. In the morning he took measure
ol oats and went out to the pasture to
catch some horses. In the pasture beside
the horses were about 40 unframed colts.
The old man having been gone an unusual
length of time, his employer went out to
ascertain the cause. He found Rooneys
body lying on the ground near the barn
surrounded by the animals, who, in their
attempt to get at the measure of oars, had
tIamped his body into shapeless mass.
1t appears from the latest census bulle-
TN that the number of paupers in the aims
houses in this country in 1890 was 1908,
against SO, 203 in 1880 To these must be
added the outdoor poor who are permanent
~ supported at the public expense, and
who number approximately, APO, max
lhS altogether close upon 100000 paupers
IN the country. The number of paupers
IN the New ENGLAND states is. MaSSachll-