Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-11-27
IIESCELEANEOlS.

\ kind hearted boy in Pennsylvania
stole 800 aud presented it to an orphan a>y-
lum.
The value Of the Spougcs collected this
season ON The Florida reefs is estimated at
$4,000.
st. Louis has commenced the exrori-
ment Of making Galveston her port Of Gu
try for foreign merchandise.
Mrs. StOuewall Jackson, who is de-
scribed rs an exceedingly attractive wo-
man, is now residing at Charlotte, y. c.
Hopeless love drove woman of % to
suicide at Santa Rosa, Cal, the other day.
That proves that love is not only blind but
aged.
Col. Forncy says that Philadelphia
must begin at once the construction Of at
least six frst-class hotels TOT the accommo-
da,ion Of her centennial guests.
An Indiana clergyman sued a newspa-
per for libel and dropped dead within a
week. The Detroit Free Press says these
fellows will learn something by and by.
"A Nebraska farmer, who for three
years had been hard at work and was Just
beginning TO prosper, had his eutire prop
erty and his wife and two children swept
away by a prairie lire, few day, ago.
There are at least 1000 men and wo-
men now out of employment in New York
city, and in many Of tine poorer quarters
whole families are now without the barest
necessaries of life.
"A Western man, who was supposed to
be worth 100000, and who has been tanta-
lizing his relatives for years by making
wills and changing them, is now found to
be impecuniouS.
The Toledo Blade rises up aud inquir-
es: (which is the most injurious, the cof-
fee furnished at temperance coffee houses
or the beer furnished at beer saloons !?
Much can be said on both sides"
-Seyenty-tiv Rochester women al out
in card, DENYING that they sleep in cor
sets to keep their forms graceful. OF course
they don't sleep in them, but do they 20 TO
bed in them? That's the question.
That is a rather remarkable statement
of Assistant Postmaster General Barber,
that the country is defrauded by means of
washed and reused postage stamps to the
amount Of a million dollars per annum.
A Detroit wife heard that her husband
had given an organ to a widow in the city
about whom there was considerable gossip.
She accordingly hired dray. went 10 the
woman's house, removed the organ and
carried it home.
A man in Portland, Or, il about to at
tempt the feat Of walking from San Fran
cisco to New York in 100 days. In case he
succeeds he is to have $40, 600, but if he fails
will have nothing. May /, 1878, Is the date
fixed for the attempt.
Prof. Barker Of Philadelphia has dis
covered metallic paint to be applied to
journal boxes ON railroad cars, and
which changes color when the journal be-
comes heated, so that the train hands can
detect the trouble at once.
A colored boy ten year, old, arrested in
st. Louis the other day for creating a dis
| turbance, was found to have a large pistol,
heavily loaded, in his pocket. ON being
| questioned, he stated that he carried il Tor
tho purpose of shooting the white boys and
girls who called him names.
In Wisconsin the other day wedding
procession and funeral proce sion met
and got so mixed that half the people living
near the scene declare that they saw fu-
neral procession accompanied by brass
band, while the other half are ready ia
swear that wedding procession passcd
headed by hearse.
A Partisan danseu-c, who bad been
for long time without a rival at the Chate-
let, was so mortified at bsng unexpected
| ly surpassed by an Italian girl, new
member Of the troupe, that she sulIocated
| herself with charcoal.
An Oakland (Cal.l married lady has
made 100000 on the purchase aud sale OF
mining stocks, during the past year. She
don't ask her husband for pln-money any
more, but she bluns lin when he propos-
es to borrow Of her.
"A paper recently read hefure the San
Francisco academy Of science described a
! little known tract of country in that state
containing about 5000 square lilies, in which
there are over 100 extinct volcanoes. one
volcanic cone beiag higher than Vesuvius,
the lava from which covers about LOG
square miles. An old Indian in that re-
gion says that in his youth these volcanoe'
were In active operation.