Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-05-17
NEWS ITEMS.

-Gratz Brown has red hair.
It. Buchanan Read, the celebrated poe,
and painter, is dead
-Twcnty-one Mormon missionaries sail
ed for Europe one day last week.
-Abou, 800. 900 bushels of peanuts were
raised in the United States last year.
Most disastrous floods have occurred
in India. 1t is reported that one thousand
| lives have been lost.
One half of the keepers of Auro-
ra, ILL.,, have iven up business on account
of the state temperance law.
The 100000 conflagration that laely
swept over Marshalltown, Iowa, was lin
died by n locomotive spark.
1t Is now estimated that the Hocsac
Tunnel, when completed, will have cost
the Stale of Massachusetts $4,000, 900.
The tide of travel to Europe Is tremen-
dous and increasing The steamers are
crowded, and ''everybody," seems to be
going.
"A new paper is to be started at Green
ield, called the "Times," its principal
hacker being Henry A. Buddiuaton, insur-
ance agent, etc.
Rev. DR.. L. ii. Chaplin of New York is
in very critical state of health He has
long been an acute sufferer from govt in
his lower limbs.
A fAtber at Laconia, n. H., dug up the
dead body of his son n day or two since, to
obtain from the grave clothes Masonic and
Odd Fellows emblems.
AT recent trial of bicycle velocipedes
In London, one of the riders made Two
miles in less than seven minutes, and a.
mother four miles in seventeen minutes
| and twcnty-one seconds.
III g area of New Jersey is about Two
hundred square miles less than that Of
Massachusetts, yet the former has 2i0,e0
acres more of improved land than the TAT
| ter.
The Meridian bank at indianapolis,
Ind, was robbed of S25 900 few DAYS since
by an adroit rascal, while an agreeable one
conversed with the cashier. The officers of
the bank offer reward of $4,000 for the
arrest of the robbers.
There are now In course of construc-
ton on the Delaware, near Philadelphia,
twelve iron steamships, from 500 to 3, 500
tons capacity each, and to cost, in the sg-
gregate, sG,2OO,OOO. Four of these steamers
are for the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa.
ny, and will be the largest iron steamers
ever constructed In America.
There are at present upward of 20 mills
in this country exclusively operated in the
manufacture of oil from cotton seed. and
over one hundred and fihy thousand tons
OF seed are used annually. The oil-cako is
sent largely to England, where il is used
as food for cattle. The oil goes mostly to
Bordeaux, Barcelona and other olive grow
Ing sections of Europe, from whence, amer
"doctoring," 1t comes back rs "purc olive
OIL"
The consumption Of paper collars in
the United States Is two millions day
Tho war caused them to be appreciated
they could be thrown away when dirty
and they were very light, two important
considerations to soldier. Ten years ago
their use was limited, now II IL general.
and forty factories are required To supply
the demand.
The following are the dimensious Of
tho great bridge now being erected ba
tween New-York and Brooklyn; Total
length, 6S02 feet length of central sna,
1000; elevation above high water, 1870 fee, .
width of bridge floor so feet height of
towers above high water, 2GS feet base of
towers at water line. l2a by SO feet.