Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-26
NEWS ITEMS.

Horace Grecleys wife is reported TO be
hopelcssly i'll.
Tho trial of Boss Tweed is now in pro-
gress at Albany.
The New Hampshire hay crop is esti-
mated TO be one-half larger than last year.
j. ]. Greenough, of Deerfied, Mass, is
raising nineteen acres of cucumbers for
pickles.
A California sheep raiser owns 10000
sheep, which brings a yearly income oil
100000.
Hiram A. Daniels, Treasurer of the
Wilton Manufacturing Company ut East
Wilton, n. H., is a delauler to the sum OF
$4,000.
Three hundred thousand dollars were
stolen from the United States mails by dis
honest clerks and postmasters in the last
year.
Col. Jno. b. Batcholder of this State is
about to compile Guide-book for the use
of persons visiting the battlefield of Gettys-
burg.
-"NTe are the children of the devil" was
the text of a divine in the morning, and in
the afternoon he said, "Children, obey your
parents"
A gentleman dining ut Il cheap restaur-
ant the other day was heard to give the
courageous order: "Waiter, let the cheese
move this way"
"A little boy accosted his papa thus
"Papa are you growing slill?' mo dear;
what makes you think SOP" "Because the
top of your head is coming through your
hair"
The water Of the Mississippi contains
forty grains of mud per gallon, and carries
400, o O0, 600 tons of sediment annually into
the Gulf of Mexico. The State Of Louis-
ana is the growth Of such deposits.
The New York canals are gated by
6S79 boats, with an aggregate capacity of
,225, 900 tons. 1t takes boat two days to
make the trip between Buffalo and Albany.
An afiectionate wife in Ohio has re-
covered a verdict of $1,000 against liquor
dealer under the now law, "for the loss of
her husbands society for three years"
Sir Charles Lyell declares That the en-
tire continent of North America will be
washed away into the ocean in four and Il
y
tinue TO take an interest in real estate.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
expresses the belief that that city contains
more faro banks in proportion to its popu-
laton than the city of New York, andTne.,;
are literally patronized.
"A new feature in the religious world Is
| the formation in Chicago of a church ex-
clusvely for women, called the church OF
the Divine Maternity. The pastor is a Mrs.
Willard, identified with the Woman SufI-
rage cause.
| The difference in natures was well il
Illustrated at railroad depot. Two sisters
met. 80, my dear sister," said one ex-
haustedly, as they embraced. you've
been eating onions" said the other, calmly
and fearlessly.
The bronze statue OF Lincoln. for the
monument to be erected over the remains
at Springfield, Ill.,, is now receiving the
last touches of the artist, Mr.. Mosman al
the Ames Works in Chcopee, Mass. The
height OF the statue is eleven feet, and II
represents Mr.. Lincoln in citizens dress
standing at rest with his right hand (stiil
holding the pen with which he signed the
emancipation proclamation) resting upon
the Roman iasces, over the top of which is
carelessly thrown the American flag.
The new Illinois temperance law is moi
likely to fall through, or fail of adequat,
enforcement through the apathy of public
sentiment. A large and enthusiastic pub
lie meeting was lately held in Chicago, ant
measures taken TO raise funds and com
complete organizations for pushing the law
to the utmost. The better class of th,
com munity throughout the State are Il
reused to the necessity of prompt action
aud are determined to see the law enforced
The results are already becoming appar
ent, and general uncertainty and lndecis
ion prevails among liquor dealers.
The velocity of electric waves through
the Atlantic cables has been ascertained b,
Professor Gould to be from 1000 TO 500
miles per second. Telegraph wires upol