Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-08-20
MIsCELLANEOUs.

Peru will pay on her debt with guano
scent for cent.
"A mother drowned herself and three
children at Reading, Pa, the other day.
Hon. Joel Parker, for twenty years
Professor of Law at Harvard University
and for ten years Chief Justice of New
Hampshire, died at Cambridge few days
ago aged so years.
The body of N. S. Grimwood, who ac-
companied Donaldson on his last balloon
voyage, was found Monday on the beach
of Lake Michigan near Stony Greek.
A Grightful accident occurred Tuesday
morning on the st. Louis, Kansas City and
No,thern Railway. A train broke through
bridge, falling twenty feet. One man
was killed and forty persons were injured.
The Canadian rubber company at Mon
treal has been forced TO shut down on ac-
count of American competition, as goods
from this market were sold lower than
they could be manufactured in Canada.
This throws one thousand hands out of en-
ployment.
The richest woman in America is the
wife of Prof CANNED, formerly OF Brown
University, Il. 1. She has an income of at
least million year, her fathers estate,
which she has just inherited, being esti-
mated at fully S2O,OOO,OOO
The whole number of locomotives in
the world is estimated at $4,000, of which
nearly $1,000 are in the United States, and
nearly IL 900 in Great Britain. The aggre-
gate horsepower is estimated at l0,000,0 900,
and all the engines in use-locomotive,
marine and stationary-are supposed to
aggregate IA, 600, 900 horse power.
1t was at the house of a well known
doctor of divinity, and the little toddling
girl, who did not like to see her aunt trim
lighted kerosene lamp, had come honest
ly by somewhat modified theory of pre-
destination. Take carel take care or
We'll get blowed up into the sky, and then
God'll say, Girls, what are you in such a
hurry forH"
"A man and a woman of North Carolina
lately agreed to marry. On the day prevl-
GUS 10 the marriage, the woman decided
over her $4,000 worth of real estate to her
step mother without the mans knowledge.
After the marriage, the husband discover
ed his wiie's game, and brought suit
against her to recover the land. The court
decided in his favor, holding that the wife
had practced fraud, and ordered the step
mother TO deed back the land.
The Greenfield Gazette has won its Ii
bel suit with Mrs. Mary Woodward. The
Gazette made a statement TO the effect that
Mr.. Bailey of Shelurne Falls came to town
to elope with her, in lieu of which Mary's
husband and her brother gave Bailey a
drubbing. After an all-nighl's session the
jury decided for the defendants and the
verdict gives general satisfaction. Mary
asked for $4,000.
The devastation by the floods of rain in
northern New Jersey, has been serious.
At Sparkhll and Norwood the torrents
from the hill-sides uproOted trees and top
pied over huge powders, hurling them
against the houses below, half burying and
in many cases utterly destroying them.
There were 10 landslides on the Piermont
branch railroad, varying in depth from 10
to II feet and in some cases half a mile
long. Several people are missing, and it
is supposed are buried under the stone and
mud borne from the mOuntain-side. Many
others were seriously injured.
Robert Toombs once said that he would
call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill.
Poor Toombs was false prophet, but one
of his ex-slaves, by the name of Graves,
who lives in New York city, and was
made free by President Lincoln's procla-
nation, recently paid a visit TO Bunker
Hill. Under the shadow of the granite
column the old man stood bare-headed,
called his own name, and answered "here."
"But am free man by the grace of God
and the proclamation of the martyr Presi-
dent"