Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-07-14
MINOR NOTES.

Letters are now in transit from Sidney,
Australia which are expected to make the
circuit of the world in 30 days.
President Cleveland is recovering from
his illness, and is able to 90 a-fshing from
his summer home on Buzzards Bay.
The reason for the small attendance at
the Worlds Fair Sundays is that only a
part of the wonders can be seen that day.
A special bulletin of the weather bureau
states that 10 lives have been lost and
s1,500, 900 worth of property destroyed by
cyclones in southern and western states
this year.
The Ludlow Tribune is 10 be continued
under the management OF Mrs. E. c..
Crane, with Rev. Evan Thomas, late pastor
of the Congregational church at that place,
as editor
The trunk lines have agreed upon single
fare excursion rates to Chicago for four
days in a week. The fare from New York
will be from SIT to $50, the tickets good
for 10 days.
At a special meeting last week Burling-
ton voted to bond the city for S6j, 900, for
the purpose of extending the intake of the
water works further into the lake. The
water at present is drawn from the lake
near the sewers.
Business is paralyzed in Australia and
tens of thousands of people are out of
work. The government of Victoria, New
South Wales and Queensland are doing all
in their power to relieve the situation,
with some degree of success.
Frederick L. Cowles &C Washington,
d. c., succeeds Major Homer +. Riggs As
special pension examiner for tine district
embracing Addison Rutland, Chittenden,
Bennington and Windsor counties. His
headquarters will be at Rutland
RMrs. Asenath Miller who died recently at
ST. Charles, ILL.,, was within 40 days of COM
pleting her 106th year. She was born in
Vermont in 1887, and settled with her
family in 1886 in Illinois, when her only
neighbors were Indians.
Mount Tacoma is the highest mountain
in the United States, recent measurements
showing the mountain to be over 5000
feet in height. Mount Whitney, which
was supposed to be the highest mountain
in this country, is only 14,s0s feet high.
National banks during the past two
months have increased their circulation
nearly $4,000 600, orders for new circula-
tion to the amount of 81, 900 having
/ for hxrC
troller Eckels.
Senator Proctor and Mrs. Proctor have
gone to Caledonia Springs, popular wa
tering place in the Province of Quebec, for
brief visit. They will be joined there by
Congressman Grout, and DR.. Gates Bullard
of st. Johnsbury.
DR.. j. n. Jenne of St. Albans has been
appointed to the chair of materia medica in
the medical department of the University
Of Vermont, made vacant by the resigna.
tion of DIR. j. II. Woodward, who has ac-
cepted a special professorship in the insti-
tuition.
DIR. Geo. S. Bidwel of Hartford, Conn.,,
has been appointed assistant superintend-
ent of the Vermont asylum for the insane
at Waterbury. DR.. Bidwell has been con.
nected with the Hartford Retreat for sew
eral years. He is a native of Rutland, a
graduate of the University of Vermont and
the medical department of that institution.
A portrait of Major General William
Wells has been hung in the Capitol beside
the portrait of General Philip H. Sheridan
with whom he did efficient service during
went out as lieutenant in the Vermont
First cavalry and was rapidly promoted
He died in April, 1892.
Lewis Tewksbury, the millionaire banker
will establish in New York in the fall
high class weekly society journal on tn,
order of Labouchere's London Truth anC
comprising the best features of William
, Waldorf Astor's Pail Mall Budget. Croker
, Gilroy and other Tammany chiefs are saiC
} to have secured a controlling interest il
the venture.
Andrew j. Lang has severed connection
with the St. Albans Messenger, with which
he has been identified for about 20 years
and will engage in mercantile business il
St. Albans. For 13 years prior to the re
organization of the Messenger company
, Mr.. Lang was the active business manage
of the establishment and has won the es
TEEN and confidence of his associates ant
fellow townsmen.
Twenty former teachers and pupils O
the Randolph State Normal school met AM
enjoyed together an informal feast on tn
Worlds Fair grounds the evening of July 8
Each related some chapter from his expe
rience since leaving Randolph and a spiri
of loyalty to the school, each other and oil,
Vermont was shown. The party include,
Prof. and Mrs. Rochleau now of Minnesota
Miss Alice NJ. Guernsey of Chicago an,
Miss Barker of Brooklyn, teachers at Ran
dolph in former years, with representative
of different classes from ~ to 80 as fol
lows DR.. and Mrs Wallace Abbott, Dr.
Arthur Freeman, Mrs, Estabrook, Georg
Royce and John Haley, all of Chicago; Mrs
Wilson and Mr.. Messer of Iowa, Mis-
Abbie Leonard of Brooklyn, Miss Ladd o