Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-06-17
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"A severe drouth prevails in the agri-
cultural districts of France.
Over $50 lives were lost by the great
fire at Constantinople, and the damage to
property is estimated at s125, 100000.
Since Jan. l, los, 800 emigrants have ar
rived in New York.
Rutgers college has conferred the Bac-
calaureate degrees on ten young women.
The Pope has written letter, address,
ed to the recently consecrated Bishop of
Tarbes, in which he sustains in positive
terms the dogma of infallibility.
The health of Count Bismarck is still
quite delicate. His physicians have order
ed him to refrain from all manner of work.
Believing that change of climate would
also be beneficial, they have suggested that
he make short trip to England.
With the Presidents signature the Ar
my bill at once goes into effect. The re-
duction of the army is to be completed by
July l, 1871, and after that time the stand
ing army is not to number more than &c.,
600 men. Army officers employed in civ
il duties on leave of absence, such as Min
listers abroad, military recretaries of the
itSlhtHl anu are ItuuiItu W va
cate their civil appointments or to resign
their military commissions. BY these and
other provisions the bill will save over ST.
900, 900 annually.
The monthly decrease in the debt is
not the only encouraging financial state
ment we receive showing that the country,
under wise administration, is fastening
to resumption, and consequent prosperity.
The commercial statistics for nine months
of the current fiscal year show that we
hay imported So, 900, 900 less, and exported
sf5,OO0,000 more than during the same time
in 1859, and, moreover, the increase of
imports and exports carried in American
vessels has been marked and significant.
"A law passed at the late session of the
Pennsylvania Legislature provides that
hereafter in that State, whenever any hus-
band, from drunkenness, proflgacy, or
any other cause, shall, for two successive
years, desert his wife, or neglect or refuse
to live with her and provide for her, she
shall, as to every species and description of
property, whether real, personal or mixed,
owned by or belonging TO her, have all the
rights and privileges of femme sole, TO
purchase or sell and convey the same as If
sho were unmarried; and also that it shall
be lawful for any married woman afore-
said to sue and be sued in her own name
upon all contracts, and to sue her husband
in her own name, to recover the possession
of her real estate, or the value thereof, as if
she were unmarried.
Mons. l.. Simonin, a well known wri-
tor on La TjbpIfp hos rannntI,t ANNA A., tho
United States for the purpose of advancing
the interests of the proposed Nicaraguan
ship canal which company organized in
Paris but designed to be international in
its character, wishes TO undertake. This
company hopes soon to raise fund in Lon
don aud Paris for the purpose of making a
thorough survey Of the route, but seeks
above all things to secure the countenance
of the United States. The projectors be-
lieve that the present Darien canal projects
will prove nearly impracticable, and think
that the Nicaragua route furnishes far few,
or difficulties than any other.
The woman suffrage convention thai
met last week at indianapolis, Ind, passed
the following resolutions: The first resolu
ton asserts that the Government is on,
where half of the people are disiranchised
the second demands for women the RICH
to defend her political and civil rights b.
means of the ballot; the third admits tina
If. when she has the ballot her condition /
not bettered, II will be her own fault ant
not the fault of the ballot itself; the fourtl
denies the right of one class of persons +
Iegislate for another class equal in intelli
gence and abilities the fifth asserts the be
lief in the moral power of woman to re
move the evils existing in society, and de