Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1868-07-31
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Alaska is ours.
The "headless rooster humbug has
been exposed in New York.
The first prize for defamation at Har-
ward College was taken by colored youth,
named Richard Theodore Greener; and
the second by Godfrey Morse, jew!
A gold vein has been discovered in the
town Of Clinton, n. Y. An assay of sam
pies Of the quartz rock by competent metal
lurgists, shows that it contains S15.45 of
gold to the ton, and about twenty per cent.
of silver.
The state convention of New York
teachers at Oswego, last week, resolved in
favor of legislation compelling all children
of sound mind and body, between the ages
of and Is, to attend regularly the public
schools, unless under instruction elsewhere.
Rev. John p. Hubbard, the Episcopal
clergyman Of Westerly r. L., who admitted
Baptist clergyman to his pulpit last win
ter, is really TO be tried, and an ecceastical
court has been summoned to meet at Prov
idence on the second Wednesday Of Sep
TENDER, for the purpose.
More than one hundred guests of ho-
tells in Greensboro, KY, were poisoned by
drinking milk at supper a few days since.
They were all very sick at the same time,
and great excitement and CONSERVATION
prevailed. AT last accounts they were all
in a fair way to recover.
Mississippi by thousands. 1t travels quite
rapidly, going over fifty miles of territory
Ill week, and the mortality is generally
from sixty to eighty per cent. of cases at
tao ed. Animals while grazing suddenly
fall and die i'll few minutes.
The United States has taken possession
of two small uninhabited islands i'm the Pa
ciiic Ocean, about half way from the Sand
witch Islands to Japan. This is the first
acquisition of territory ever made by our
government in this manner. The islands
are near together, and each is about mile
and half long, by three quarters of mile
wide. They are 10 be known as the Mid
way Islands.
Baltimore City and the surrounding
country was visited with a terrible flood
July I'D, destructive both of life and prop
erty. The principal streets of the city were
submerged, in some places to the depth of
over seven feet. Buildings were under
mined, property in cellars was ruined,
street ears were swept from the tracks, and
about five persons were drowned. The
damage will amount to s., 600, 900. At Eli
colt City, uttwenty miles from tie city,
on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, the Granite Mills were swept away,
and sixty persons were drowned.
Over twelve hundred emigrants from
Scandinavia, Holland, England and Wales
were recently received mt Castle Garden,
n. Y, by agents Of the MormOns from Salt
Lake City, to whom they were consigned,
and forwarded west by rail. over two
thousand more are expected daily and
these will follow the others. They are
workmen, mechanics and agricultrirists.
Brigham Young has contract for build
ing part Of the Pacific railroad, and these
poor foreigners will probably be put to
work upon that great highway of nations.
The project is revived in England of
tunnelng the Channel to France. Evil
dence has been obtained that the soil over
which the sea flows is white chalk, gray
chalk, and green sand further below. This
fact was ascertained by borings on the En-
glish and French coasts. The two points
on each side of the Channel being not more
than twenty miles from each other it Is
but reasonable to suppose that the same
material will form the submarine soil from
coast to coast. The chalk can be easily
worked, and the expense is placed at $50
OOO, 900 gold--twice the cost Of the Abyssin-
ian war,