Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-09-08
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AT the conclusion Of recent funeral
service at Gloucester, Mass, white dove
suddenly made its appearance in the room.
and after making the circuit of the apart
ment alighted upon the head of the rector
who had conducted the exercises. and re-
manned there until removed.
"A man while crossing railroad bridye
at Shepardsville, KY, recently fell through
and had barely time to catch one of tbe
sleopers with his hands, where he hung sus-
pended 100 feet above solid footing. Io
was finally relieved, but though no bruiso
or other injury could be discovered lac died
as soon as put upon his feet, probably from
fright.
The wife Of prominent merchant in
Buffalo played sharp game on some BURG
lars, recently. Hearing a rafting of win
dow blinds in the night, she crept to the
woodshed and procured an axe. When the
hand Of the most advanced burglar rested
on the window-sill, she chopped off four
fingers, and was not molested further. The
next day she visited the various doctors
with her trophies, and found them to be-
long to a neighbor, who was supposed to be
above such things.
In an article entitled ado We Eat too
Much? ?" a writer in the last number of
Home and Hearth relates the following;
Mrs. Loring, wife of Rev. Israel Lorinp. a
distinguished minister of the CONGREGATIONS
al church, died in Massachusetts, Dec. "a.
1896, in her ssth year. For the last forty
five years of her life she ate but one meal i'm
each twenty-four hours, and that was ord-
narily little bread and cheese, eaten lust
before she retired at night. Yet her health
was such that she was able to conduct her
domestic affairs until ten days before her
DEATH"
An old Brooklyn gentleman started to
go to Albany a short time since, ask ed the
cond uctor If the next station was Pough-
keepsie, repeating his question at each sue
ceeding stopping place, until the irate OIL
cial curly said he would tell him when
they got there, and upon arriving, cxcaim-
ed, ''This is Poughkeepsie, hurry up and
get off, we are behind time" "Oh, thank
you,' deliberately drawled the quondum
questioner, "but am going through. My
daughter cautioned me particularly to take
pill at Poughkeepsie, that's ALL
"A Chicago paper gets up the Ingenious
story of would-be suicider down south,
| who provided himself with bottle of poi
son, pistol, rope, and then strobe OF
with the intention Of hanging himself over
the waters edge. He went down to the sea,
set fire to his pants, drank the poison, and
then attempted to hang and shoot himself.
The jerk of the rope, however, caused him
to miss his marx the pistol ball passed
through and severed the rope; he fell into
the sea, which instantly extinguished the
fire at his pants; the salt water made him
sick, and he disgorged the poison; and
finally the waves cast him on shore-a live
and healthy individual, but forever after a
being of disappointed ambition.
"A leading western paper regrets that its
region has been so productive this year, and
it puts the subject in this way "Iowa has
pro duced 100000, 900 bushels Of corn this
year, and every other western State has
produced corresponding overplus. Corn
in western granaries during the coming fall
and winter will not be worth above 10 cents
per bushel. In the large cities of the west
it will bring, say 40 cents, at the seaboard
rs to so cents, and the market will be heavy
and slow at these figures. If but half the
crop had been raised, the farmer would
have received As to so cents, the market il
large western cities would have ruled &C
tive at rs to so cents, and upon the seaboarC
81 to Sl.10 would have been freely paid
Activity and remuneration would have at
tended the production, carriage and hand
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gishness and loss attends over-production.'