Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-25
NEWS NOTES.

1t is said that 100000 of Eastern
capital was withdrawn from Kansas dur
ing the Popuist delusion. The estimate
is probably not exaggerated, nor does that
measure all the state has lost. Populist
supremacy has been more costly than the
Border war to Kansas.
1t has been estimated that there are fully
fifty thousand deaths from diphtheria in
the United States annually and in Europe
fully three hundred thousand. 1t is be-
lieved that anti-toxine would save at least
eighty-five per cent of these lives if it could
be easily procured at a moderate price.
Ex-senator Edmunds is retained in a
number of cases now pending before the
United States courts, involving questions
of great public interest, including the sugar
trust cases, the income tax contention and
the construction of the long and short haul
clause in the interstate commerce law.
The Hovas in Madagascar have $4,000
men, well armed and disciplined and COM
manded by English officers, to meet the
1000 men which the French have sent
against them. The Hovas are fighting for
their affairs and their fires The Hovas are
q civilized christian race and it is to be
hoped that they will win.
The post-ofice department is about to is
sue circular to express companies warn
ing them against carrying matter in enve-
lopes without a stamp, as this is tirst-class
mail matter, and according to law should
not be transported except in stamped en-
velopes. This action of the department is
to prevent express companies from carry
ing lottery advertisements.
Official investigation by counties shows
that the farms of Ohio are worth upwards
of 100000 less than a year ago, and
that the net mortgage Indebtedness OF the
owners has increased within year by the
net sum of about $1,000 600. These con
| illusions are based upon actual sales of
realty during the year, and the county
registration records of mortgages.
William Waldorf Aston has made a CON
| tract with a Broadway florist to put for
one year daily over his wifes coffin a COW
erlet of fresh flowers exactly like that
which attracted so much attention on the
day of the funerals Each floral blanket is
to be composed of lilies of the valley with
a violet cross in the centre and a cross of
white orchids at the foot. Tassels of VIC
lets hang at the side. The cost of this is
put at S3S, 900.
Japan's conditions of peace, besides de-
handing war indemnity, will provide
under japanese suzerainty; that China
cede certain islands, raze the forts at Taku,
dsmantle Port Arthur and Wei-Hai-Wei,
and demolish all Notifications on the route
from Corea into China, and that Japan fix
the future number and type of Chinese
warships. The establishment of relations
looking to a Chino-Japanese alliance will
also be required.
In the budget of war news brought by
the latest steamer from Japan the remark
able statement is made that the total loss
of life in the Japanese army up to Decem-
Der & was only $50. OF these 43O died of
diseases, leaving only $50 killed in actual
battle. The statement seems incredible
when it is remembered that the war has
been in progress seven months and in that
time the japanese have driven the Chinese
out of Corea and forced their way into
Manchuria, storming strongholds, crossing
rivers, and fighting guerillas on their way
and are now closing in on Picking.
Pennington, n. H., boasts of the larg-
est pleasure sled in existence. Hervey b.
Pearl, whose hobby is coasting, has built
a quadruple runner seventy-siX feet ten
inches long, weighing 1900 pounds, with a
carrying capacity of seventy people 1t
consists of three sections, two seds being
used on the first and one on each of the
others. The owner is manager and under
his supervision it is being successfully used
every evening, except Sunday, on the main
street of the village, a slide of about a
mile. 1t is estimated that it attains a
maximum speed of eighty-five miles an
hour.