Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-05-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Somebody suggests that the "Fonrth
Of July" I've postponed one month this ) ear,
ION account Of the weather."
Louisiana will raise 2OO, 900 barrels Of
rice this season, OF twice as much as last
year.
The Northern Pacific railway proper
~ will be sold at public auction in New
York on the first Monday in August.
The Governor Of Missouri, believing
that nothing but The intervention Of Prov
idence can avert the grasshopper plague,
has issued proclamation denoting Thurs
day, June 3, az Gay OF humiliation. fast
ing and prayer.
During April the aggregate losses by
fires throughout the United States and Can
ada amounted to $40, 400; aggregate
losses TO insurance companies S5,476, 400.
This four-ofa-klnd business is getting
contagious. Here's a Jersey City woman
just increased the census by four. This
sort Of thing has got to he stopped or there
will be no security for any married man.
One morning last week four Sing Sing
convicts employed in the stone quarries,
captured a freight train while it was pass
ing through an arch of the prison, drove
Off the engineer and fireman with revolv-
ers and ran away with the locomotive.
Three OF the fellows were subsequently
captured.
Attention Is now generally directed b
the condition of the wholesale markets. In
New York a class of prints sold last week
for 60 cents per yard that were dis
posed OF during the war at forty-fve
cents, and dry goods that sold in war
time for over 80 cents yard now offered at
Q. 1t is said that prints have failed to bring
within two cents per yard the cost OF man
nfacture. In silks. the silk Growers As
ISOLATION points out that within two years
the shrinkage in the value OF the raw silk
has ruled from 30 to As per cent. The gem
eral feeling is, however, that bottom prices
have at last been reached.
A sing liar coincidence occurred in In
dianapolis the other day. A number OF
young colored children lined the edge Of
the sidewalS in front Of a second. rate me-
nagerie and were shouting at the ticket
taker: "GO up, old bald head" when sud-
denly the bear on exhibition inside the
tent broke loose and jumped out at the door,
The little ones, mindful of the fate which
overlook the wicked children who reviled
Elijah, scattered in every direction, aud
the bear was captured before he could do
any harm.
1t Is believed that the low price of but
ter is owing in some degree to the sale of
artificial butter, or "OleOmargarinP," in the
New York and Boston mark cts, and fer ex-
port. The Syracuse Standard says that
dealers "who have spent large portion Of
their lives In the butter trade, handle the
new compound every day without suspect
ng that II is the product of the dead instead
OF the live animal, and the people OF Tomp-
kins, Orange, Onondaga and Oneida eoun-
ties and New York city. are daily consum-
ing oleomargarlne under tho impression
that they are eSting excellent dairy but
ter"
Ann Eliza Young, the 10Th wife of the
Prophet II seems don't get her alimony,
after all. Chief Justice Low of Utah, re-
fuses to compel its payment, as decreed by
his predecessor, on the ground that a valid
marriage is a necessary condition TO the
payment OF alimony and because the pay
ment of alimOny in her case would "be
stow apparent, il not, indeed, real sanction,
upon practice'-that is, polygamy-
(which is hostile to the civilization of the
age, and which the penal statutes of the
land visit with condign punishment"
Gov. Tilden's great assault on the New
York canal ring. which was inaugurated
a short time ago with such a flourish of
drums and trumpets by the democratic aud
''independenr' press, is turning out to be
fash in the pan. The laws which he do
manded Of the Legislature to enable him
to remove and prosecute the corrupt Off
Gals have been passed, but the governor
has shown no disposition 10 use his new
powers. lie has not suspended or remov-
ed anybody, and his manner has lost all lis
virtuous ferOcity toward the guilty officials.
Meanwhile the republican papers are max
ing their little jokes at the governors ex-
pense, and unless he does something be.
fore long be will certainly be fair mark
for gibes.