Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-07-02

The original manuscript of Gray's eel
egy" sold for $3.50 in England, tho other
day, aud Dckens's "Chrislmas Carol" for
955.
The jewels which the khedhive sent os-
tensibly to Minnie Sherman Fitch, last
winter, are to be divided between her aud
her two sisters; they were really designed
for family present 10 Gen. Sherman, but the
occasion OF Mnnes wedding was selected
10 offer them nomlnally TO her. They are
now said to be worth something under
100000.
"A farmer in Peeled Oak ia Butt coun-
ty, KY, has found on his land the rufus of
a city having regular streets, with curb
stones, etc, and it is thought that ii will
disclose higher civilization than any sim
liar ruins in the country.
The first pastoral exchange between
mother and son on record has just occur
red between Rev. Phcbe a. Hanaford, pas
Tor of the church of the Good Shepherd at
Jersey City, and Rev. Howard A. Hama
ford, pastor Of st. PauPs church at Little
Falls, N. Y.
The U. S. steamer Saranac which left
San Francisco on the slh inst, for Sitka
and Behring's Straits, ON scientific cXpe-
ditiUn and TO make collection for the
Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, struck
ON the famous Mud Channel rock in Sey-
mour Narrows, near Vancouvcr's Island,
on the 18th, and sank. No lives were lost.
Ever since her incarceration at the
Auburn IN. " state prison, many years
ago, Henrietta Robinson, the yelled MUIR
deress, has appeared with her checks beau
tifully painted, but every effort made 10
discover where she keeps this paint or
from whom she obtains ii has failed
Capt. Boyton, AFTER swimming across
the English channel, made the inevitable
speech, in which he said that his sole OBJ
ject was humanity. Now that he has
shown what could be accomplished, there
was mot money enough in all England 10
tempt him TO do it again."
"A good illustration of the way they
sometimes do things down in Texas Is the
case of man who, riding by house in
Somervile county, the other day, pulled
out pistol and killed a child in group
that were playing by the roadside, and
then rode on as If nothing had happened.
Mr.. Firman, an American Spiritualist,
who proiessed to photograph deceased Per
sons, has been convicted ia Paris of swim
ding and sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment.
JEFF Davis has accepted the presidency
of the Texas mechanical and agricultural
college at a salary of "a, 900 year.
"A stuffed heron was placed on a dam
at Wallingford, Ct, recently, by some
practical jokers, in order to deceive sports
men, and succeeded admirably, much
powder and shot being wasted upon 1t be-
fore the trick was discovered.
The city of Holyoke, Mass, has proba E
bly, the finest water power in the country.
There are fourteen paper mills, three cot
ton factories, two thread mills, three wool
en- mills, one of which is owned by A. T..
Stewart & Co., of New York, and large
machine works. These mills represent n
capital Of over sl4 ,OOO, 900, aud when in ac-
tive operation, give employment to some
6,000 hands. Above the city is a dam
which cost nearly a million dollars.
"A former professor of natural history
in New England college, now occupying
higher position of the same character at
the West, is sometimes quite absent mind
ed. On one occasion, while hearing Il class
in zoology, he put the question: ibid you
ever see porpoise?" mo, SIR" Profess
or, very forcibly, as was his wont: 1.-THE
next. Did you ever see porpoiseH" "No,
sir" 1.-THE next, did you eyer see por-
poise?" mo, sir. At this point forget
ting that his question was entirely extran-
eous, he closed the book with bang, and
an indignant "Tako this lesson again."
amid the laughter of the class.