Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-24
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Mrs. Hawthorne, widow of Nathaniel
Hawthorne and the sister of Mrs. Horace
Mann, died in London on Sunday, Feb
20. Her maiden name was Sophia Pea
body. She wrote gracefully herself, and is
the author of volume of travels. Her
age was nearly sixty.
Rev. DR.. Deems, in the course of his
remarks at the funeral of Alice Cary, said:
"Men loved Alice Cary, and women loved
her. When man loves woman, it is of
nature when woman loves woman, it
is of grace-of the grace that woman makes
by her loveiness and it is one of the fin
est things that can be said of Alice Cary
that she had such troops of friends of her
own sex."
The report that the pope is to leave tn e
Vatican is not trSe. The question was dis
cussed with the pope by Antonell, at the
instigation of the Jesuts, hut the pope has
decided to remain, and cheerfully, because
if he leaves the Vatican, the Italian gov
ernment will contiscate it. The pope is
suffering and is in weak health, and fears
that if he departs, the people would say
the papacy was discounted.
When Thackeray was at the Revere
House, in Boston, one Sunday morning,
says The Commonwealth, he asked the
landlord, Paran Stevens, where Theodore
Parker preached. The landlord said he
did not know. Don't know r. exclaimed
Thackeray in his most astonished tones.
"Why, Sir, we've heard his voice away
across the Atlantic. He is the greatest
preacher in America" Stevens tells this
story himself and how cheap he felt in
running about his house to find where the
great preacher held forth.
The verdict of coroner's jury upon the
victims of the New Hamburg New York;
disaster is published The jury believe
that the oil train could not have been stop
ped soon enough to have prevented the ac-
cident; that the employees of the oil train
used all means at their command to prompt
ly signal the express train that the signal
men did their duty in the promises that
the express train was half mile from the
distractions when first signaled, and could
have been stopped provided that all appl-
anees had been effective; that for some
reason to the jury unknown, the patent
brakes were not efficiently applied.
AT the completion of tho Mont Cents
tunnel the last thin partition of rock in
the middle of the tunnel was reserved to
be blasted at the formal celebration. But
a small hole was made in it, and the work
men on both sides, who had for l2 years
and 40 days, been toiling their way to-
ward each other, now, for the first time saw
each others faces through it, shook hands,
and so far as of the same nationality, con-
versed together. When the mine was fir-
ed the lights went out for distance of
about 1000 yards around the spot. The
first to climb over the fragments of rock,
was the Italian Commandant Grattoni.
There was a general scramble from both
sides and cries OF "Viva rItaly.
We find the following item going the
rounds of the papers, and would advise
Rev. Mr., Trask to capture it and publish It
as an anti-tobacco tract: A few years ago
the Swiss government published report
on the natural history of Switzerland. Two
very distinct species of rats were pictured
and described one was large, plump and
glossy; the other was lean, scrawny and
almost berelt of hair They seemed two
distinct species. In the second edition of
the report the rats are reduced TO one. A
naturalist had found how the mean rat
was made. One of its ancestors-a good
plump glossy fellow-had strolled into a
tobacco warehouse and made his abode
there he began to nibble, curiosity led
him on, he went from bad to worse, till
you see where he turned up-so unlike his
grandfather that naturalist mistakes him
for anotherspecies-a warning to all who
nibble tobacco.