Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-14
NO. 46.
MISCELLANEOUS.

-"Hiomup was the way an uncultured
Rutlander directed letter destined for
"Isle La Motte."
Mount 13na has been threatened with
boils for some time, and is now breaking
out with regular eruption.
The receipts at Washington from the
revenue on spirituous liquors during the
fiscal year of 1873 were S52,095,5O5.
The Michigan Constitutional conven-
tion, after long discussion has adopted
provision for licensing the sale of liquor.
The license fee is to be $500, and Is 10 go to
the poor fund.
The whites Of the Modoc country are
making up bill against the federal gov
ernment for supplies furnished and DANA
ges suffered in the campaign against Capt.
Jack.
Mrs. Peru of Delta, Ia, postponed her
daughters wedding four times, in order to
get sunshiny day. When she got such
day, the bridegroom had concluded not to
marry.
"A Pennsylvania clergyman has made
hit by introducing personals in his pray
ers. For instance: Lord, have mercy
on John Shanahan, who keeps a saloon
near the old red bridge. Either lay him ON
bed of sickness or have him removed
from this town."
1t Is said that man from Missouri Is
trying to buy the Mammoth Cave, with the
intention of shutting out the public and liv-
ing in 1t alone. We fear there is hardly
room enough in the cave 10 accommodate
| so big fool as he is.
The proverbial uncertainty OF the law
has been curiously illustrated at Chicago.
A prisoner was brought up on charge of
burglary, and by advice of his counsel
pleaded guilty. The States Attorney, how
ever, stated his belief that the man was in
nocent and declined to prosecute, and the
judge ordered his discharge.
-Emulous of the metropolis, a jury at
Bonneville, NO., has convicted young
| man who took up rock and dashed out
the brains of another Boone-villan of
homicide, and the judge has fined him s1OO
and sent him 10 the county Jail for sixty
days. 1t was lucky for that man that he
didn't steal an Sls horse.
Iowa is the womans paradise. A ma
jority of the State officers and also major
ity of the State judges of the highest State
Court favor woman suffrage. The State
Librarian is a woman, and the enrolling
and engrossing clerks in the House are wo-
men. Women are reporters, copyists, and
| paper-folders in the State Capitol, and, six
women are serving as, County Superintend-
ents of schools.
The thorough rottenness Of the system
| on which fha co avinU hus;pasa ~
the country has been conducted is we'll il
Illustrated by a New Haven papers state
ment regarding the Howe Sewing Machine
Company, which is well known to be en-
barrassed. 1t says: "The company is now
trying to collect some 1000, 900 due them
for machines, and If this can be done the
concern will be in good running order
again."
| "A singular circumstance one doubtless
without parallel in the history of the
country, is recorded in Schuyler County,
! III. a man named H. NJ. Wheeler, of Bir-
mingham, in that county, enlisted in the
United States Army in Missouri, under
General Lyon, in 1861; was wounded, cap
tured, and paroled, and by some strange
oversight was not discharged from service
| until lew Gays ago, when the. proper pa
pers were made out, and his back pay and
pension, amounting to near $4,000, were
paid him.
The inhabitants of Raleigh, n. c., are
in state Of dire perplexity and fear on ac-
count of a gallon can of ntro-g -glycerine
which is buried somewhere in the public
square, no ono knows exactly where. It
was placed there just before the evacuation
of the place, during the war, and was doubt
less, intended to aid materially in Kidding
the world of Yankees. 1t failed of its pur-
pose, however, and when the war was over
nobody could tell the spot OF its burial. No
one dares to dig for it, for no one cares to
die before his time, and the inhabitants are
treading lightly over the whole area, as If
it were consecrated ground.