Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-05-28
MRsCELLANROUs.

Drury college, at Springfield, Mo.
Recent warm rains in Oregon have in
sured plentiful grain crop.
One hundred Mormon converts are ON
route from Wales to New York.
Strawberry dumplings is a New York
prescription for dyspepsia.
st. Louis is to have great steel mill.
and a capital of s9,OOO,OOO has been sub
scribed.
Tho Methodist conference at Calais,
Me-, recently, ordained 1G Cinnamon as
deacons.
Preparations are being made in Boston
on grand scale for the Bunker Hill CEN
tennial, June IL.
The arctic expedition which England
has fitted out is ready TO start on its mystic
rious voyage.
The treatment of the disease of Gener-
al Frank Blair by the TRANSMISSION of blood
is continuing with striking success.
"A fund OF $13, 900 has been raised by the
women of Richmond, Va, for a monument
TO Gen. Robert E. Lee.
"A recent tornado in East Tennessee
carried away the roof of Andrew Joenson's
residence in Greenville.
The prospects for the peach crop are ex-
cellent in Delaware, New Jersey, and Ma
ryland, unless hurt by late severe frosts.
"A North Carolina woman got crazy over
the idea that she was juryman in the
Beecher trial, and went right off and hang
ed herself
B. Gratz Brown has completed his
swinging round the circle by coming out as
regular Democratic stump speaker.
The 2629th anniversary of the founda-
ton of Rome was celebrated April 21st by
illuminating all the ruins about the site of
the old Roman forum with colored fires.
There is a man Philadelphia who be-
longs to SO secret societies, and he is said to
be occupied most of the time in marching
about in professions.
"A German traveller, named DIR. Rohlis
claims to have discovered in the centre of
Africa race of people whose skin is fair
and who excel Europeans in beauty of face
and form.
81 wish TO be friend to the friendless, a
father to the fatherless, and widow to the
widowless," said gushing youth recently
at revival meeting in the North part of
the State.
-"PigeOngram" is the name suggested
by learned school ma am for the des patch
es sent by the means of pigeons. Carrier
out.-N.O. Bulletin.
II would rather" said Cato, "that peo-
pie should inquire why no statue was erect
ed to me than why had one"
1t is stated that there are eight millions
of German speaking people in the United
States, having 800 newspapers and period
icals in their own language.
before the war;" says a French pub
Usher, 1--WE never sold more than 1000 cop
les of manual of geography. Now we sell
1900 almost before we know it,
This moustrous statement is from the
| New York World: "Vermont has the cred
| it of discovering a use for Patent Office Re
! ports-namely, as prizes at spelling match
es.''
| The high sheriff of Idaho City is to wear
pair OF boots with gold tips and heels,
costing 500, next Fourth of July, after
which they will be sent TO the Philadelphia
| Centennial.
| Truly, childhood has its sorrows. On
| ly think of il! A circus procession parad-
ing the streets and the misses and masters
obliged to stay in the school house and trv
to spell lion, tiger and other similar words.
-Carteret County, NC, is the abode of
a fair and fat matron weighing $40 pounds,
one of whose stockings is utilized as an ex-
act bushel measure.
Striking coincidence The Baptist de-
nomination is rapidly increasing in Cali
fornia, and general system of irrigation
for the entire State is under consideration.
"A Lewiston, Me-, genius has invented
another experimentation machine which
ought to work to perfection when he shall
have found out how to prevent it from stop
ping.
Over 730 tons of arsenic were imported
into the United States last year, and the pro-
prietors of native American ores indignant
ly ask if there is TO be no protection for do
mestic suicide.
The portrait of George Washington by
Rembrandt Peale, has been presented to
the State Library of Virginia. 1t is proper
to remark that this is not the portrait from
which the postage stamps were designed.
The sails of the Victory, Nelson's flag.
ship, on which he was killed at Trafalgar
have just been discovered slowed away in
Chatham dock yard, England. They are
riddled with shot, just as they came off thu
yards after the action.
"A band of Black feet Indians made raiC
into Canadian territory the other day, and
stole all the horses in an Indian settlement
The Dominion government has called upoI
the authorities at Washington to put a stoI
to such doings.
"A young man of Rochester, who wa
severely injured by jumping from train
was so annoyed by questions as to how h,
} was hurt that he had a large number O
( cards printed, which he gave out to every
r one who looked inquiringly at his face Of
said word about it. The card read as fol
, lows: "Busted this nose in jumping from
train Of cars near Fairport, Thursday
April 90"
, The farmers around Eufala, Ca, ar,
compelled to coat the ears, fianks and othe
} parts of their live stock with tar and greas'
to protect them from the buffalo gnat, ant
a also to keep fires burning in their slocl
lots at night. This pest is about half tn,
size, or the common house-hy, jet black
and has hump-back or shoulder, like thu
/ buffalo, whence its name.
"A young man named Alexander v
Brewer OF Schenectady, NY, is said {,
Z have died Of sheer fright week ago las
| Friday. He had injured one of his fingers
, which was rapidly healing, but some on,
told him that the wound was mortifying
and nothing could convince him to tho con
trarv. His fright threw him into feve
r and he died.
Many of the colored citizens of Colum
= bia, SC, affirm that further Congressiona
legislation is needed to enforce their civ /
r rights. AlbeltSit is expressly published
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