Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-10-21

Fifty cases of scarlet fever exist in Wal
than, Mass.
All the troops have been withdrawn
from Homestead, Pa. The cost to the
state of Pennsylvania to maintain the mil
tia there was 100000.
Six men died at Port Royal, small
Pennsylvania mining town, from the effects
of drinking beer. A large copperhead
snake was found in the keg.
Jaehne, the first of the New York Doodle
aldermen to be convicted, was released
from Sing Sing prison Saturday after serv-
ing sentence of six years and six months
\ mad dog ran through Chestnut street
at Philadelphia Sunday, biting one girl
and more than dozen men. A police
man knocked the dog down, stunning it.
He quickly placed the animals head be-
meath the wheels of a passing car and its
life was crushed out.
Rev. W. j. Aney, the Methodist preach
er who has won 5000 in racing premiums
this season in Michigan, has sold all the
horses except 2:30 roadster, and will re-
turn to the pulpit, having received a call
to a church in a Minneapolis suburb. The
salary is only $1,000, but the racing parson
says he 'likes the pulpit better than the
sulky."
Edward Kelley, an old farmer living at
Gritfin's Corners, n. Y, sold tract of
land for large sum- He placed no faith
in banks and hid the money with his 9TH
er savings-in all about Sl0,000-in an old
box concealed among quantity of news
papers. A few days ago when he exam
ined his treasure he found that mice had
destroyed it, not piece large enough for
Identification being left.
/ Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, is
drawing immense crowds nightly to Spur
geon's tabernacle, in London, where he is
| conducting revival. Five thousand per-
sons are turned from the doors every even
| ing, it is said, because the seating and
standing room is taken. At the opening
/ hour people struggle for admission, and
often an hour before the doors are opened
hundreds of persons are waiting to be adj
mtted. The conversions are said by Mr..
Moody to number a thousand daily.
Clifford Calverly, a young Canadian,
performed a wonderful feat when he cross
ed over the gorge between the American
and Canadian sides of the river at Nj
agara last week, between the cantiever and
suspension bridges on wire three-eighths
of an inch in diameter. The distance To
the water below was 200 feet. Instead OF
walking carefully Calverly ran along the
wire, covering the distance much quicker
than Blondin or Dixon. Afterward he
laid on the wire, hung by his toes and per.
formed other similar feats.
The schooner Evelina arrived at Boston
last Saturday with a group of about 80 ma
tive Eskimos on board which the vesse
was sent to Labrador last June to obtain
for the worlds fair. They were watched
by curious group as they were landed al
the wharf clad in the queer native costume.
and bringing the boats, sleds, bone uten
sis, dog teams and other paraphernalia o.
their home life. They were taken to Chi
cago by special train. 1t is a question
whether they can survive the heat of next
summer.
Chicago is to have the largest and mos
powerful telescope in the world 1t is tn,
gift of Charles T. Yerkes, the street rail
way magnate, to the Chicago university
Alvan G.. Clark, the famous telescop,
maker of Cambridge, Mass, has under
taken to cast the glass, which will be 4;
inches in diameter, or IL inches create
than the glass in the telescope at the Licl
observatory. The new telescope will prob
ably De turned on the skies for the frs
time in the autumn of 1895. The OUTLAY
which Mr.. Yerkes will meet is estimated a
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