Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-05-02

inc SNOW, anu u required the lnborious services OF
eight men for an hour before the banks were 50
shovelled away as to admit of passage
In cXcayating for q cellar for Gov grimes's now
house Mt Burlington Iowa, t'e worlmen came nm
On an nrched vault some 10 feet square, which. ON
being opened, was found to contain eight human
skeletons of gigantic proportions. The wall oft6c
vault was about fourteen inches thick, we'll hid Nm
with cement Of indestructible mortar. The veul,
is about feet from the base to the arch. fbe
skeletons are in state Of preservation, and, the
burlington paper says, are the largest human re-
mains ever found, being a little over feet long.
A mail steamer, to be called the Scotia. Is now
building on the Clyde, to run between Lverpool
and the United States. She will be 150 feet in
length, which is 60 feet longer than the Persia Mt
present the largest ship ahoat. The Scotia will #
is expected, surpass in speed the Persia, the tastes,
steamer in the world.
The American enterprise of raising the sunkeu
ships Mt Sebastopol, has been very successfullv
commenced Sixteen vessels have already been re-
covered, among them the steamer Chersoncse of
2G0 horse power, four transports, one brig, two
tenders and six smaller craft. The four TRANSPORTS
are already afoat, and are engaged in CARVING
sonese is under repairs and will soon be launched
The Russian government has six sailing transports
and several steamers, and has but lately purchased
five new steamers to cruise along the eastern shore
Of the Black Sea-
The English government has agreed to furnish
three steamships to assist in laying the telegram
cable-one Of the ships to make soundinps, and
two to carry the cable. The "a gun ship Agamem-
non will accompany the IT, S. Steamship Niagara.
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July.-The closing parliamentary elections were
being held, and although Palmerston has an un-
doubted majority, it will require an actual division
on test question to establish the precise figure so
conflicting are the statements. The London Post
thus summaries the result: ministerial 1873, oppo
siton, 2O6, liberal conservatives. "a; by which
the ministry have gained 60. Sidney Herbert ia
spoken Of to succeed Lord Panmure as minister ~
war.
II is singular how much our people are fond Of
initiating and apeing foreign names, manners and
fashions. Mrs Eastcott is now singing in England
as Madame Lucia Escott. But her name has un
dergone a change comparatively small by the side
of other famous singers, as gather from Dwight's
Journal Of Music. Charles Jacobs of New-York
is singing in the Royal Italian Opera, London,
under the name Of Signor Jacopi. Sophie Cruyel
became the famous Sgnora Cruyel Fraulein
Deutsch delighted the Bostonans as Signora Te-
desco. Signora Florentini was at first the COM
on-pace Miss Jennings, and Madame Sabbater
the great Italian contralto, was a German girl,
Fraulein Ungher. The Yankee Sam Willard Of
Boston is now singing in London as Signor Henri
Millardi! The Journal says: "When the next
manager brings as an opera troupe from sunny
Z Tto1, IL
TOwnshend, Pelatiah Jones, Abigail Barnes, Lois
Bgelow and Hepzibah Bacon--how the-ahem -
will he Italianize their names? !"
Some singular things have lately occurred at
Salem, in the presence of the mayor and other gen.
tlemen. Among others, upon the arm of Miss
Coggswell from Burlington, VT, the names of de-
ceased persons appeared in letters raised upon the
flesh, which continued few minutes and then
gradually faded away. The letters were percepti-
bic to touch and sight, but created no sensation
upon the skin. The spectators assert that there
was no possibility of deception trick, and they
know Of no way to account for the phenomenon
Salem has always been fayorite locality for witch
craft.
bill was introduced into the Massachusetts,
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porate the "Boston Journal Newspaper Co." The
CorpOrators are Chas. o. Rogers, present proprie-
tor of the Journal, James A. Dix, editor, S. n
Stockwell, chief reporter, and S. n. Touker Tie
capital stock is not to exceed $50, 900 in real es-
tate.
Marshall Rynders, of New York. has seized the
clipper schooner 'Storm," which had been fitted
out for SLAYER lie went on board disguised as
countryman, found out her real character, and then
everhauled and seized her when she had got down
the bay. She was well fitted for the slave trade
GoOld Brown, the grammarian, who died at Lynn
on the 9lst ult, of the first philoogists of
his period. Probably no antecedent or contempt
rary writer. either in England or America, made
any approach to the copousness. minuteness and
critical acumen with which he treated the grammer
of the English language. GOOld Brown was fine
scholar, and good man.