Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-09
IN GENERAL,

Lizzie and Emma Borden have ordered
a granite monument to cost S2250, to be
erected in Oak Grove cemetery, Fall River,
in memory of their murdered parents.
DR.. Holmes was spoken to some time be-
fore his death about "Elsie Venner," and
said in reply, that it was many years since
he had looked at the book, and that
though the people in it were mostly por-
traits, they had begun to fade completely
from his mind. He seemed to remember
only one of them at all definitely.
At the funeral of a faithful negro ser
want in Lynchburg Va, last week, the
pall-bearers were the members of the lead
ing Episcopal church including the
mayor of the city-and the services were
conducted by a brother of her employer, a
clergyman, who had come from the other
end of the state. This reads better than
lynching reports.
Senator Peffers son has been dropped
from the payroll of the Senate as assistant
doorkeeper. Until short time ago the
Senator had three of his children in posi-
tions connected with the Senate. His
daughter is his private secretary, one son
was assistant doorkeeper and another was
a special messenger. PETER is the leading
Populist, and believes in ''paternap' gov
! ernment.
A compact Watermelon and dynamo
combined, for use in lighting country
homes, has been put on the New England
market by NJ. A. Hicks of Springfield,
this state. The combination consists of
Little Giant water motor and a first
class direct-current dynamo, built togeth-
er as one machine, on the same shaft, and
bolted to a heavy iron base-plate. 1t can
be used for power purposes during the
day, and lighting at night, or for electric
transmission of power to distant points
when not required for other purposes.
The main purpose of this machine is to
take advantage of the water-powers now
running prodigally to waste in many
country section.
The Boston Transcript says: "James
Anthony Froude, the historian, was in
this city during Boston's great fire in 1872,
delivering course of lectures in fremont
Temple. He was greatly moved and agita-
ted by the terrible spectacle of the con-
flagratiou which laid so large part of the
business portion of Boston in ashes, and
whose effects are still felt in many families
and institutions. Mr.. Froude had Just
finished his course of lectures the evening
on which the fire broke out, and the man
ager of the course held in his hand check
for $1000-the net proceeds of two or
three of the lectures. He proffered the
check to Mr.. Froude, but the warm
hearted Englishman Immediately ordered
it paid to the proper authority for the
benefit of the sufferers by the fire."
One of the relics of the almost number
less attempts to start Southern boom
towns, while that fever was on, can be
J found in the Shenandoah valley of Vir-
ginia. 1t is a ten-acre cornfeld, in the
midst of which is a large brick block and
several electric light poles. 1t was for
merly observation-disclosures farm, and the
entire tract was purchased by spectators
5 for the purpose of building town there.
At the sale the farmer who sold the land
q in the first place became so excited thai
he bought in lots for the entire amount
of his purchase money. Then he bull
: the block and became merchant, using
D all of his available funds. The town was
= failure, the property sold for debts, and in
q stead of a three-hundred-acre farm, will
money in the bank, the old man has ten
acre tract encountered by useless building
9 and electric light poles that are in the way
r of his plow,
f The wonderful geyser well near Bloom
: ingdale, ILL.,, continues to be a marvel
+ The well is a tube four inches in diamete
It and two hundred feet deep. When it wa
e sunk to that depth the gas forced the drill
weighing six hundred pounds, out of tn
l. well to height estimated at eighty feet
q followed by an eruption of gravel an
3 stones. Then came water mixed with tn
d gas, and rising fully $50 feet in the all
er The stream threatened to convert the farI
T. into lake and to wash away the farm
e. house. A barrier of two-inch pine plank
If was built TO shield the house, but the waite
M and gravel sawed it in two in a short time
~ After difficulty the pipe was capped and
IL gate valve adjusted. Afterwards the valy
i was opened with pressure standing on
r hundred pounds. A solid stream of waite
a arose 125 feet, and rocks and gravel she
20 nearly as high A half-inch board he
over the stream was cut in two in twent
sV seconds
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