Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

falling into pond and accidentally swal-
lowing some water.
With ono exception the valuable and
famous Duchess Short Horn herd reached
England in safety. A heller which sold
for $1,000 dieu when five days out.
General Fremont has cancer of the
stomach, but has, until lately, kept the
matter from his family and friends. His
physician says that he cannot live year.
Orders have been issued for the re-
moval of the Modocs now at Fort McPher-
son TO permanent reservation with the
Quapaws on the Neosho River, in the ex-
IRENE north. eastern corner of the Indian
territory.
--Gerrit Smith has published letter in
which lie takes strong ground against
granting State or Government aid to pub
lie schools. He urges that the school be
left, like the church, in the hands of the
people.
Lady Franklin, whose years now verge
upon three score and ten, is still faithful to
her husbands memory, and in a letter to
the London Times insists uron his right
fnl claim TO be known as the discoverer oil
the northwest passage. She cites the opn-
ions Of all the geographers of authority aud
knowledge on the point, which has indeed
been generally conceded.
"A hint for Nas,-Uncle James walking
with niece Mary, aged four, points 10 the
moon, on whose disc the dark parts show
quite plainly and says, "Tbere is man in
the moon, burning brush" The ulantile
II l... 1..Nt. 30
saying. "Yes, mel the 'mokev'
The World says that the Democratic
party islands like the storm beaten peak
! of Mount Washington, rock rooted in the
crust OF the earth and buttresscd with eter-
nal hills" Gracious sakes And during
this cold weather, too. Somebody ought
10 pull it out and take it in before the fire
and warm it.-DroOklyn argus.
The wives Of the workmen in the Mid
land railroad work shops at Oswcgo, n. Y,
not liking the long delay experienced by
their husbands in getting payment for
their work, made a bold move on their
own account, last Monday, aud forty wo-
men and children marched to the shops
and began an attack on the company's
wood-piles. Expostulaions were in vain,
and an attempt TO save the wood by force
proved useless. The invaders remained
several hours. until each family was sup
piled with fuel enough to last until the
certificates which have been issued are re-
deemed by the company. Those women
got their rights, certainly.
On the 2lst of August, says the Cncip-
natl Lancet and Observer, Mrs. Timothy
Bradlee of Trumbul county, Ohio. gave
birth to eight children three boys and five
girls. They are all living and are healthy.
but quite small. Mr.. Bradee was mar
ried six years ago to Eunice Mowery, who
weighed two hundred and seventy three
pounds on the day of her marriage. She
has given birth to two pair of twins, and
now eight more, making twelve children
in six years. Mrs. Bradlee was a triplet,
her mother and father both being twins
and her grandmother The mother Of five
twins.
Railroads have hitherto considere,
themselves at liberty 10 kill or mange
dead-hcads at pleasure, but the United
States circuit court at Indianapo polls has Jus,
decided. after two days deiiheration, that
1t will cost the indianapolis and St. Louis
railroad $4,000 10 throw drivers from the
tops of cattle trains upon the ground and
seriously iniure them. Henry Horst, who
was travelling on the road with his drove
Of cattle with free pass, was thus served.
He was knocked from the top OF freight
car by the concussion of train carelessly
lie /,
stipulation that the company assumed no
risks, but Judge Gersham held that this
made no difference, and the jury awarded
$4,000.
"A man in Kentucky, all alive and well,
recently saw statement of his own deatl,
in a newspaper. He did not so much re-
sent the general statement as the inaccuracy
of the details and so he wrote TO the editor:
"Sir: l notice few errors in the obituary
OF myself which appeared in your paper OF
Wednesday last. l was born in Greenup
Co., not Caldwell, and my retirement from
business in 1860 was not owing 10 ill-health.
but to little trouble l had in connection
with horse. The cause ofmy death pds
not smallpox. Please make correction, for
which enclose so CENTS" Could anything
be more exquisite as Hibernicism than
the statement Italicized?
"A story comes from st. John, n. b.,
that family who have done some hunt
ing for buried treasure in their day found
some 90 Spanish gold coin of the 10Th CEN
fury on the coast, few miles from st.
John, last week and between the bottom of
the earthern vessel that contained the coin
and close fitting piece of copper they
found sheet of vellum, which showed
that the coin had been taken from i've
Spanard Ferdinande in We maine sea, near
to Hispaniola," and also that a silver San
kerr had been 'buricd in We b,nke twelve
pixies lenGthes due norlhe, and a eoldene
heade, like TO names, buried iortie
pixies lengthes 20 the northe." Several of
the coins were sold TO a jeweler at st. John,
but the finders very naturally decline to
tell exactly where they'iouud it. They are
now searching for the treasure still buried,
and if their tale is true we shall hear from
them again.