Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

DO not run in debt TO the shoemaker.
II Is unpleasant to be unable 10 say your
sole is your own.
The feintroduction of ruffs, now so pop
ular In this country, and especially in Bos-
ton, is due, II is said, to a wen on the neck
of an English lady of quality.
An estimate has been made from the
depth of stalagmite deposits in Kenrs cav
ern, near Torquay, taking as basis the
rate OF increase during the last two hun
dred years, which would give half mill
lion years as the period which has elapsed
since fints of human workmanship have
been deposited in the lowest depths of the
cavern.
"A clergyman in Dundee, Scotland, has
announced to his congregation that in con-
sequence of his inability to procure Goals
for study fire, he has discontinued study
ing, and will preach his old sermons until
Goals can be procured.
The annual report of the Connecticut
River Railroad shows the receipts of the
past year to have been $751; 1903, which is
an increase of Sl7, ,965 over 1872. The ex-
pendtures were s749,s79, an excess over
lCf VI Fcbpp' HN IiilS luuu
10 S22S, 400.
"A japanese firm in Shanghai, which
prides itself on a knowledge of English,
has posted this card "Notice. The un-
dersigned SHOP has turned inside house
and everything has removed TO SELL there
until new house is built in this corner. y.
II. Kiyogo & Co., Shanghai, 1lth August,
1873"
After all, the ocean is not full of such
fathomless abysses as we have been taught
to believe. The Tuscarora, which for sew
eral months past has been making sound
ings across the Pacific o cean in connection
with the telegraphic cable project reports
that the greatest depth to be found any
where between California and China, where
soundings were taken, was only two miles
and half.
There are intlnatons from Washing
ton, that a serious attempt will be made 10
initiate the currency as soon as Congress as
sembles. Western and Southern congress-
men seem to be in favor of it, on the ground
that the present amount of currency is in
sufficient for the needs of the country.
The case of the Tichborne claimant has
been extended to Nov. 1874. Among the
recent testimony was that concerning the
ship Osprey, on which the claimant is said
to have sailed and which was wrecked
There is also said to be testimony TO the ef-
feet that the ship-wrecked sailors were res
cued and taken 10 Australia, and that the
claimant was one of them.
The Washington Star says set it down
as absolutely certain that within five years
we shall have: |. A postal savings bank;
.. a government telegraph; 8. A bureau
of railroads and transportation 4. Free
banking. The monopolists and the rings
may fight these measures and succeed in
postponing them for time, but they are
certain to come.
1t is proposed 10 take census of the
country in 1875 the centennial year of the
nation. 1t is said that it can be taken and
published in time for the centennial exhi-
btion and that the gain in population and
resources In five years will well repay its
cost in directing our industrial develop
ments. The secretary Of the Interior will
recommend this census taking TO congress
in his next report. He thinks there would
=,
by official count, tho population and re-
sources of the country at the close of lis first
100 years.
The German Consul of this city has re-
ceived from Strasbour- Germany, the con-
fession of Herman Rudolph Wilhelm
Vollrath, who accuses himself of having
murdered a man in Kings county, Vir-
ginia, in April, 1869. Vollrath was employ
ed by a fishing company on the Potomac. He
says that lie was walking in The woods,
when he met Il stranger apparently Irish,
whom he asked for light for his pipe. A
conversation ensucd, during which Vollrath
saw the strangers pocket book, containing
a large sum of money. He, on the impulse
of the moment attempted to rob him. Be-
ing resisted, and dreading the result of the
escape of his victim, he drew knife and
stabbed him through the heart. He buried
his victim, returned to work, and, con-
seience-stricken, threw the money into the
river. He went TO Germany was conscript.
ed into the army, and is now in a military
prison for petty offence. The confession
was voluntary.
One of the most revolving executions
on record took place at Willamsport, Pa
on the 7th inst, when a brutal culprit nam.
ed Wade was hung for the murder of an
aged man and wife, the crime having beer
committed to secure money which his vic
Tins had secreted in their house. At hi.
execution, when the drop was first knock
ed out, the rope was too long and his fee
struck the ground on second trial th,
rope was too short and his pulse beat fo
seven minutes. While the preparation,
for the execution were being made, Wad,
maintained the same defiant demeano
which had marked his course all tho way
through. He told the jailor 10 "Hurry up
as he had an appointment TO dine in hel
with the devil at O'clock" At the las
moment, almost, he cyncally remarked
that the only thing that troubled him wa,
whether the people he murdered were IL
heaven or hell.
DIR. Livingstone according to private
letter from Borna, is prisoner in Centra
Africa, held by savage tribe, and unable
to pay the ransom demanded 70: his re
lease.
A Wilton, Iowa, woman mistook
| patkaSe ol poWuer lor eAtract coHee an'
threw 1t into the stove. 1t took bottle q
ink to bring the family record up to date.
The sun is now working about TEL
hours per day, but purposes gradual re
duction of time for the next five or 81
weeks, in order to aid the gas compan
and also the dealers in kerosene and tal
low candles. Providence Press.
} Tacoma, the terminus of the Northern
= Pacific railroad, situated on Puget SOUND
in Washington territory, is laying its plan
l.. ocI a