Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-12-11
UIaCELLAyEOUS.

chew tobacco till they are thirteen.
Kansas is now the twelfth State with
compulsory education law upon It's books.
A boy who had been absent without
leave nearly all day on his return was
questioned as to where he had been, and
replied, ave been to old Mr.. IS FINN
eral, an l carried chairs, so that they let
me in free"
-"You don't say sor' exclaimed Mrs.
Smiggins at Catskill, when told the view
from the Mountain House extended over
10000 square miles ;-"you don't say so |
Why, London is only 5000 miles off. Point
1t out, please!'
"A law of Illinois requires railroads 10
provide woodman's axe, a sledge ham,
mer, hand saw, and two leathern buck
cts for each passenger car despatched.
The provision is useful one, and is wor-
thy Of general adoption.
They carry politics into the Church in
South Carolina with vengeance. One
Rev. Dir. Jackson, an enthusiastic colored
preacher and politician in Charleston, has
stricken from the list Of tho members of
his church all who voted the Indepen-
dent Republican ticket in the recent cleo
ton.
"A woman in Ohio, whose husband had
been absent eight years, and whom she
supposed to be dead, recently sold his
farm TO neighbor. Her husband after
ward turned up, and the neighbor had to
buy his interest to make the title good.
The husband finally died, and the widow
sued the neighbor for dover in the very
land she had conveyed to him the court
sustained her, and the neighbor had to pay
for the farm three times.
Anybody who wants to experiment in
Matching salmon trout and white fish
spawn will be sent a few hundred on re-
ceipt of so cents Ito pay for the PACKAGE,
by addressing Seth Green at Rochester, n.
Y. parties wishing to experiment in rear
ing the young of the California salmon
will be given few hundred by going to
the New York state Matching house, all APP
plications TO be made during the month Of
December
To be born in prison cell on Thanks
giving day, of a woman sentenced to be
hanged, January 9th, and from illegitimate
FAINT, who first saw the light at Bathurst,
n. b., Thursday. Not the most suspicious
start in life, surely, or an event likely to
be thought of with pleasure in after years.
The mother in this extraordinary case is
the wife of the murdered man Pouline,
and the father was her accomplish, Gallian,
who before his execution, recently, con-
fessed to the paternity of the child.
There is custom by which the Gov
ernor of Massachusetts pardons annually,
on Thanksgiving Day, four convicts in the
State Prison. Last Thursday, when the
first choice fell to a white haired prisoner,
who had been twelve years behind the
bars, shout of approval went up from his
eight hundred Observation-Disclosures. At
the prison gate, his faithful wife met him,
and led him away TO thanksgiving din
ner which she had spread in house bought
with her own earnings during the bus
bands Imprisonment.
Reports from mining districts of Penn
sylvania, represent fearful state of desti-
tuition among the miners employed in the
coal regions. Men without work, women
without food, families in danger of starry
ing, should not only excite our pity, but
| our alarm, for distress so great AS that
pictured by correspondents must surel y
end in crime. The facts are as startling as
they are painful, and should command the
attention of all prudent and philanthropic
citizens. The hunger of starving people
is more dangerous to society than all the
calamities that fire and flood can cause.
"A New Orleans judge, riding in the
cars, recently, from a single glance at the
countenance of lady by his side, imagin-
ed he knew her, and ventured to remark
that the DAY was pleasant. She only an
swered: yes" why do you wear a
veil ?" LEST attract attention" at is a
province of gentleman to ADMIRE" replied
the gallant man of law. "Not when they
are married" "But am not" Indeed T.
"Oh no I'm bachelor" The lady quiet
ly removed her veil, disclosing TO the as
tonished magistrate the face of his mother
in-law. He has been a ravi1g maniac ever
since.
"A horrible tragedy is reported from
Hamilton county, n. Y. A carpenter NAM
ed Elias Williams and an assistant named
George Smith who were erecting a frame
house in the midst of the forest, got into
a drunken quarrel, when Williams in the
course of the struggle threw Smith over 8
wooden saw-horse, and then with a hand
saw, which he all the time held in his
hand, sawed off the head OF his antagonist
severing it entirely from the body. His
rage cooling, remorse followed, and he cut
his own throat with the saw, falling 6
corpse beside the remains OF Smith. A Lad
named Grant witnessed the tragedy and
conveyed the news two miles to the peo-
pie who reside nearest the scene of the
crime. Williams was married man and
Smith bachelor.