Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25
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In the United States Senate a protest
was presented from the colored members
of the Georgia legislature against the Bing
ham amendment to the Georgia bill.
New murders OF negroes and others in
Tennessee have taken place recently and
the president has ordered regiment of
United States trooTs TO aid the L. 5. Mar
shals in enforcing the laws.
The first coin made in the Philadelphia
NJ int was a copper cent in 1850. The first
silver dollar was made in 1884 and the
first gold eagle in 1895.
Mark Twain says, The information
the ancients did not have was very volum-
inous. Even the prophets wrote book after
book and epistle after epistle, yet never
once limited at the existence OF great con-
tincnt on our side of the water; yet they
must have known it was there I should
think"
The vote of the Regents of the Afichi-
gan University opening it to women was
nearly unanimous, and the two who oppos-
ed based their objection on the ground of
present insufficient accommo dations, there
being already more than thousand stu
is expected that separate provision will be
made for them in the study Of anatomy
and surgery.
"A verbose young clergyman, after
hearing an address from his bishop on the
Importance of diligent, painstaking pre-
paration for the pulpit, replied: "Why, my
lord, often go to the yestry without know
ing what text l shall preach upon, yet | go
up and preach an extempore sermon, and
think nothing of it," '.Ah, WE'LL" said his
lordship, "that agrees with what l hear
from your people, for they hear the ser
mon, and they also think nothing of it,
A well-known citizen OF Topeka, Kan
sas, has at his business Office two large
slabs of red sandstone containing, il is said,
three well-deined impressions from the
feet of a human being. They have attract
ed much attention ON the part of the Tope-
k ans, and are to be submitted to scientific
investigation. II what they purport 10 be,
humanity will be antedated or geology up
set. Only the mnuteness of description
and the respectability of the names men
toned, relieves the suspicion that some
body has been reading "Footprints" and
"Old Red Sandstone" and got things
slightly mixed. Just such discovery was
once made in Connecticut, but more care
ful examination showed that the tracks had
been made by biped indeed, but one that
had wings. The stones will be the subject
of profound scientific interest, even though
the footsteps should be those of "Plato's
man.
-Williston Seminary at Easthampton,
Mass, is one of the best in the State. 1t
has received from Mr.. Willston, after
whom it is called, sums amounting to $780,
OO0 Lately its students came very near
proving themselves all fools, by silly re-
bellion they plunged into; they evinced
however, the reality of their wisdom by
trampling ON their passion and duly sub
jecting themselves to the authority of law
and order. Mr.. Williston has also given
100000 TO Mount Holyoko Female Semin-
airy lhe school founded by Mary Lyon,
and a similar amount to Amherst College.
The distinguished donor is now between
20 and so years Of age, and is worth five or
six millions. His wealth has come from
the buttons which he now makes for half
the world; or rather from the Yankee
shrewdness of his wife, who first taught
him how TO cover button, having herself
first learned, by picking to pieces foreign
one.