Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-03-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

Fast day in Massachusetts, April 4 in
Connecticut, March 20.
I. S. Belcher, formerly of Vermont has
been appointed judge of California's SUI
preme court.
Since the outbreak of the revolution
October, 1865, Spain has sent IL 900 men to
Cuba. About two-thirds of this number
have died.
California has had over 80 inches of
raj n, this winter, or more than double that
of last. That's what the matter with the
weather here-perhaps.
The Japan Herald states that the mika-
do OF Japan will visit the United States as
soon as the japanese embassy, now in this
country. return. lie is % years of age.
Seventeen thousand bushels of wheat,
nineteen thousand bushels of corn, and
nineteen thousand bushels of oats, were
destroyed by the fire in an elevator at Buff
falo, n. Y, Saturday morning
-Advices from Spain represent another
''crisis" at hand. King Amadeus is con-
centrating an army around Madrid dis
arming the national guard, and preparing
to defend the throne.
Alexander Campbell and wife, of Pop
lar Grove, ILL.,, were poisoned on Friday by
drinking aconite, given by a druggist in
mistake for whiskey. Campbell lived but
few hours. 1t is thought his wife will re-
cover.
Gen. David NJ. Stanton, internal reve-
nue. collector for the fifth district of Mary
land, was arrested at Baltimore, Monday
evening, on the charge of being defaulter
to the sum of from $4,000 to $4,000.
Nearly the entire business portion of
the town of Laurel, Ind, was destroyed by
fire on Monday. Fifteen houses were
burned to the ground, besides number
of stables and sheds. 1t il impossible 10
estimate the loss at present, but it will
probably reach $4,000. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
A man searching for minerals in the
mountains of Warren county, Pa, stumb-
led into woodchuck hole, where he dis
covered specimens of mica. He bought the
property, which is rich in mica, and is the
only deposit of the kind known to exist in
the United States, except one in North
Carolina.
In consequence of the numerous frauds
Vienna bankers have adopted the custom
of sending, with their letter of advice, a
photograph of the person in whose favor
the credit has been issued, and they stop
payment when the person who presents
himself does not resemble the picture.
For the boys: Could you love u girl
who daubed her upper lip with lamp
black who defiled her mouth with tobac-
co, and loaded the air with fumes of Gig
airs who staggered home several times a
week the worse for liquor? who swagger-
ed around the streets with questionable
eompanlonsY
For the girls Could you love man who
who wore false hair on his head when he
had enough of his own who painted his
face and improved his form as you improve
yours? who pinched his feet with small
shoes, his hands with small gloves, his
waist with corsets and then, as II he had
not deformed himself enough, tied a huge
hustle to his back and thrusts tiny noun
tains of ware into his bosomf
A facetious individual, not many miles
from Danbury, Conn, sought to "draw his
wife OUT by pretending to be found dead
with an empty laudanum phisl by his side
And that lady was good deal shocked at
first, bat having read that a needle intro
duced into the human flesh would indicate
OH its surface whether that flesh was dead,
and being woman Of eminent practically,
she at once armed herself with a polished
instrument of nearly two inches growth,
and with throbbing heart and bated breath
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