Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-06-16
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men aud children.
1t is shameful the way game is slaugh-
tered in the Prairie Siates 1t is said that
tons Of birds of choice kinds are shot and
SHARED out Of season, md, finding no mar
ket, are boiled down aud fed to hogs.
Tile Kentucky Judge Cooper, who has
just decided that negroes are citizens, and
as such have the right to give evidence in
the courts, was provost marshal general of
Joe Johnstons army
One of the large Starch factories of Cen
tral New York has twelve acres OF flooring,
six hundred large cisterns, and twenty
miles of steam pipe. II turns out more
than twent-six tons of starch day.
They say that ifthe grog-shops Of Pbila-
delphia were placed in a row, they would
reach just twenty-five miles. Fifteen mil
lions of money annually are spent in the
places.
"A lady who had great horror for to-
bacco got in railroad carriage the other
day, and inquired of a male neighbor, "Do
you chew tobacco sir?" "No, madam, /
DON'T was the reply, "but ! can get you
chew If you want one
A well known English lord is said to
have given the following instructions to his
steward: "We are coming down, large
| party in day or two, to eat strawberries
and cream. We shall want plenty of the
latter, so don't let any ofthe cows be MIXED
meanwhile"
A couple were married in a church a
few miles from jackson, a short time
Al
| gave out the familiar hymn, commencing,
"This is the way I long have sought, and
mourned because I found it not" 1t is
needless to say that the choir broke down
in trying to sing the hymn.
The music in the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's church costs $1,000 year. The
organist gets Sl2O0, the conductor $1,000, the
| tenor $1,000, the soprano 5000 the contralto
$500, leaving $500 for incidentals. The
| paid choirsing the solos as concerted pieces,
but the hymns are sung by the whole con-
gregation, led by a volunteer choirof about
seventy persons.
According to the law of England, As in
terproted by the Court of Chancery, in
recent case, dead father has more iurisdic-
tion over a chld's education than living
mother. 4 widowed mother has no rights
that the relatives of a deceased husband are
bound to respect. Her duty is to bring
up her child according to the faith which
the father professed when he was alive,
even though she utterly disapproves of it,"
slys the court.
Uncle Sam-a downeast farmer, known
far and wide by this patriotic title-had a
neighbor who was in the habit of working
on Sundays but after while this Sabbath
brea>er joined the church. One day our
friend met the minister to whose church he
belonged. "Well, Uncle SAM" said he,
''do you see any difference in Mr.. P
since he joined the church?" "oh, yes"
said Uncle sam, "a great difference. Be
| fore, when he went out to mend HIS fences
Sunday he carried his axe on his shoulder,
but now he carries it under his coat"
A French ludy of New York, it is an
nounccd, has apprsed Mr.. Bergh of her
desire to bequeath her estate, amounting to
| $50, ,OOO to the Society for the Prevention Of
! Cruelty to Animals. \ will to that end
has been prepared. Very recently Mr.
Bergh also received from stranger the
sum Of 5000 to aid in the prosecution of his
work. 1t will be remembered that some
time since large legacy was bequeathed
the Society by Mr.. Bonar, an eccentric, but
kindly ly-hearted French gentleman, who
held the work of the Society in high esteem.
Truly Mr.. Bergh in his earnest, humani-
tartan labors is meeting with just apprecia-
ton from grateful public.
The omission of the single word "regen-
crate in the ritual service, has occasioned
the suspension and final degradation Of
| the Rev. Mr. Cheney, of Chicago. The
| case has been one of unusual interest, and
still occupies considerable attention. Mr.
Cheney still continues to officiate in his
| church, but it is said that u number of his
congregation do not approve of his course,
and will take legal steps TO remove him.
| Throughout the country, however, he APP
| pears to have warm friends and sympa-
thizers. Some sixty-three cergymen and
laymen, 'all persons of prominence in the
Episcopal Church. have written to Mr..
| Cheney words of commendation and en-
enlargement.
"A Washington negro has Just returned
"home," after an absence of twentyeight
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avoid punishment for aiding slaves to es-
cape. lie found that his wife, surprising
him dead, married again twenty years ago,
| but her second husband had died on the
very night of his arrival. So leaving her
to bury her dead in perhaps blissful igno-
rance, he sought ont his daughter, who is
| the wife of messenger in the Internal
| Revenue Commissioners office, and with
her reioiced as one returned from the dead.
A letter received at New York from st.
Johns, n. f., states that information has
Just been received there of the total loss Of
a small eoasting schooner, with forty souls
on board. The schooner left st. Johns for
Old Pelican in Trinity Bay, and forty men
of the crews ofthe Nimrod aud Hector took
passage in her, returning to their homes
with the proceeds of their successful voy
age. They were nearly all married men
with families. The unfortunate vessel has
not since been heard Of, and on May % part
of her cargo was picked up N sea. 1t is
supposed she struck ON a low iceberg dur
ing the darkness, and went down immedi-
~.
Gen. Mcclellan, cngineer-in chief to the
New York board of docks, has submitted
a report recommending the construction Of
a new water front for the city. The system
which he proposes consists of a solid river
wall of Beton aud masonry, or of masonry
alone, so far outside of the existing bulk =
head as to give river street two hundred
and fifty feet wide along the North river,
two hundred feet wide on the East river.
from the Battery to Thirty-first street, and
one hundred and seventy-ive feet north OF
that point. Piers of ample Dimensions are
to extend from the river wall, which, it is
calculated, will give whaif line of thirty
seven miles. 1t is proposed that the new