Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-06

The Belfast, Me-, Age devotes two pages
to a history of Dana's sarsaparila manu-
factory which is located in that place. In
1886 the entire sale of this medicine
amounted to 400 bottles, in 1892 the sales
will reach more than 10000 bottles.
The verdict of $4,000 damages in the
suit for SANDER brought by Rev w. w.
Downs against three members of the Bow
dom square Baptist church at Boston was
a general surprise. The case will be taken
to the supreme court on exceptions.
The new engine on DIR. Webb's Adiron-
dack railroad, which is built on the COM
pound principle, promises to revolutiOnize
freight traffic. A few days ago it drew 70
loaded cars and the following day 13l emp
ty cars, making a train more than mile
in length.
a despatch from Chicago announces a
combination of the Westinghouse electric
manufacting interests with the foreign firm
of Siemens IL Halske, for the purpose of
| opposing the Thomson EoustOn aggrega-
ton, which has absorbed the Edison, Brush
! and other companies, and is now a new
concern with capital of S50,000,0O0.
The carelessness of a DIR. Briggs in
handling naphtha in the Cayuga, big fiat
York city, last week Thursday started
fire which destroyed one-half of the struc-
ture and rendered 40 families homeless.
Two women were burned to death, and the
doctor and two other men were terribly
disfgured.
An elevator inspector dropped a lighted
candle among pile of papers in the big
Household building at Pittsburg, Pa, last
xt-hf Il, IL.
extent of $780, One hundred girls
who were at work on the sixth floor were
thrown into a panic and in their efforts to
escape fell headlong down the stairs and
several of them were injured.
There was a severe wind and rain storm
in some sections of the West on Monday.
In Michigan many bridges were swept
away and the fields inundated. At King
fisher, Oklahoma, a cyclone DESTROYED II
houses and killed two persons. In the
vicinity of CrestOn, Iowa, 20 miles of the
Chicago, Burlington IL Quincy railroad
were submerged. The loss there will ex-
coed 100000
Sewall & Co., the ship builders of Bath,
Me-, are soon to begin the construction of
the first steel sailing vessel ever built in
this country and the first iron ship produc-
ed in New England. So far the United
States has built three iron sailing ships
two from the yards of Gorringe and one
from John Roach's-vessels of about 20OO
tons. The Sewalls' will prepare to build
the largest vessels that may be desired.
A farmer in Manchester, Me-, is reflect
ing sOrrOwfully upon the maxim that "Hon-
esty is the best policy Several years ago,
in order to avoid paying some debts, he
conveyed his farm, worth $4,000 to hiswife.
The wife died recently, and, according to
law, the property goes to her three children,
the wdowers right of dover excepted.
The children refuse to reconyey the farm
to their father.
Ferdinand Ward, the partner of the son
of Gen. Grant, whose trial in October, 1885,
for his connection with the Marine bank
iniquity, attracted widespread attention,
was released from the prison at Sing Sing
Saturday. He was sentenced for ten years,
but by good behavior in prison has .educed
his term to six years and a half. Ward
returns to the world still young man,
being only 30. He says that he will en-
gage in business i'm one of the large cities.
During his Imprisonment his wife and
father have died.