Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-04-14

The first organ manufactured in the
United States was made by Mr.. Henry
Pratt of Winchester, n. H., in 1899.
Indiana boasts of an ancient dwarf who
lives in Decatur county is 40 inches high,
II years old, weighs SO pounds, and calls
himself Peter Denham. He claims that 20
years ago he was five inches taller, and
weighed ten pounds more than now.
An eccentric COW lately killed In Corn
wallis, Ohio, held in one of her stomachs
two pounds of nails, some of them over
two inches long, a jack-knife, chunk of
lead, a rock the size of hens egg, piece
of gold watch fob, five cent piece, and
seven or eight large coat buttons. The
stomach had almost worn through.
-Janesville, Wisconsin, is noted for its
smart boys. The latest story Is told Of q
youth of six summers who was taken to
task by his aunt for some supposed offence,
which he persistently denied. "Now,
Johnnie" said she, "I know you are not
telling me the truth see 1t in your eye"
Pulling down the lower lid of the organ
which had well nigh betrayed his veracity,
Johnnie exultantly replied, "You can't tell
anything about it, aunt; that eye always
was little streaked.'
A girl of tender sensibilities eloped
with man near Knoxville, Tenn, recent
ly, and when her father sought to detain
her, she knocked the old gentleman down
with shovel. Her parent pursued the
couple after marriage, and the husband and
father having exchanged shots, the blush
ing bride empted revolver at her liege
lord, disabling him completely, and then
returned home with papa. Who says the
age of chivalry is over in Tennessee?
Sixteen tons of ice are made daily at
the New Orleans ice factory. The estab-
lishment is very large, employing hum
dreds of workmen, and supplying not only
that city, but others along the Mississippi
with ice. There are six separate ice max
ing machines in operation, each costing
s25, 900 in gold. The water is pumped up
from the Mississippi, purified, and frozen
into blocks about two feet long, foot wide
and three inches thick. 1t is then stored
in vast ice house, ready for use.
The New York Times says it is conf
IDENTIFY expected that this week will see the
end of the coal strikes. The men will re-
sumo work without having gained sim
gle point which they demanded, though
there appears to be some prospect of the
formation of "A permanent board of arbi-
tration and conciliation, composed of six
representatives from the miners and six
from the operators, with an umpire mutu-
ally agreed upon. whose decision shall be
final.
Chicago boasts the greatest lumber
market in the country, if not the world.
Her wharfs for this indispensable commod-
| ity stretch for more than 10 miles, and seem
almost interminable. Thousands OF car
| loads are constantly leaving for the west
and south and east, and the railroads and
lake are as constantly bearing In their great
burdens TO supply the constantly increas-
| ing demand. With all this immense array
of almost endless piles of lumber and tim
ber, it is almost impossible without the aid
| of art to furnish it in sufficient quantities
dry enough for use.
A gentleman of the old school thus de-
scribes the rendering of a well known hymn
| by a modern fashionable choir: Firstly,
the soprano In a soaring leap, sings, Take
thy pil"-followed by the alto and tenor In
duet with like advice, (while soprano is
magnihcently holding on to the "pill, y and
as the deep base profoundly echoes tho
same, "Take thy pill'-they finally unite
and eventually succeed in singing, "Take
thy pilgrim to his home," etc., greatly to
the relief of both minister and people, who
seem alike awfully impressed with the sug-
gestive advice so emphatically reiterated.
There are reports of increasing Indian
outrages in Arizona. They attacked gov
ernment supply train March 10th, killing
two men and running of sixteen mules.
Kinds and Hooker's beef supply train was
attacked the same day, and two herders
were killed. On the 18th Mr.. Cook was
killed at Camp Crittenden, and the stock
stampeded. on the same day Basq ui
rancho was also attacked, and the seutinels
at the infantry camp were fred on. Other
murders and attacks by Indians are re-
ported. A memorial from the Arizona
Legislature to Congress setting forth the
helpless condition of the citizens OF the
territory who, by the withdrawal of troops
are left to the mercy of Apaches, has been
published. The memorial is accompanied
by the affidavits of 100 persons who have
each witnessed from one to dozen muir.
ders and robberles by Apaches within this
last two years.