Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-05-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A strange worm has appeared in up.
per Minnesota, and is devourlng the ma
scout grasshoppers voraciously.
San Francisco, too, has had the coolest,
rawest and most dlsagreesble spring with
in the memory Of the "oldest inhabtant."
"A volcanic eruption Of extraordinary
violence is reported 10 have taken place in
Iceland. 1t is also stated that the weather
there in December and January was the
mldest on record, the pasturago having
been open throughout the season.
Cars ran through from Portland, Me-,
to New London, Ct, for the first time,
Monday, making a through line bet ween
Portland aud New York, via the Rpches-
ter, Nashua, Worcester and Norwich line,
and Long Island Sound.
Rev. W. IL. II. Murray will preach ev-
cry Sunday forenoon, in Music hall, Bos-
ton, for one year, beginning October 8, and
will hold Friday evening meetings aud
give pastoral lectures in Bumstead hall for
the same period. A lot of land ON tue
southeast corner of Berkeley street and Co.
lumbus avenue has been purchased for the
site of a church with Il seating capacity OF
1000 il will DO union church, men of all
denominations uniting in the movement.
There are five or six manufactures of
condensed milk in this ountry. There is
an extensive trade with Germany in this
article, aud some of the companies do
large business with China and Japan.
One of the very best jokes of the time
il the fact that the London Telegraph has
been sold by taking the burlesque police
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veritable court reports. These paragraphs
have been copied and enjoyed far and wide,
and have been generally understood, but
the Telegraph has caused universal grin
by its weighty article on the flippancy Of
| American magistrates, inspired by Lewis's
funny items.
Ida Greeley was married 10 Col. Mich
olas Smith, a smart Young lawyer of Leav-
enworth, KIN, at New York, Saturday,
and The pair sailed for Europe tine same
day, with her younger sister, Gabrielle,
and her aunt and cousins, Mrs. and the
Misses Cleveland.
An amusing incident has come 10 light,
musty with age, of the march Of the Brit
ish through Old Cambridge. Passing
| field where an old mau was sowing seed,
one of the ied-cOats, in jest, said to him,
"You may sow, but we shall reap"
"well, perhaps you may" replied the ma
tive, flor I'm sowin' hemp. II Cambridge
| Chronicle.
| Judge Bradley Of the United States
| Supreme Court wants our System Of
months and years reformed, 80 that the
civil year may correspond with the solar;
his plan is to have the year begin on tho
present 2lst Of December, and readjust the
number of days of the respective months
as follows: For January, February
March, October and November, 80 days
each 81 days from April to September in
elusive, aud December TO correspond In
days 10 the present February. This sys-
TEN, lie argues, would have a basis Of
truth aud reason. He has drawn up bill
for Congress embodying his views. but, il
the change Is ever to be made, all the great
nations ought to cooperate in it.
Boston expects 10 make one OF the
most extensive demonstrations ever seen in
New England at the celebration of the Tooth
anniversary of the battle Of Bunker Hill,
June 18th. There is already some grumblng
that the $4,000 city appropriation is in
sufficient. The entire State militia, num-
bering 1000 men, will he out, and, with
other military organizations, will make
10000 men under arms in town. Among
the visiting military companies will he the
the Ransom Guards of ST. Adams.
In Plymouth, Mass, on Monday, an
officer attempted to arrest Christopher
Stoddard for drunkenness and disorderly
Clubhouse and shot the officer dead while
the latter was looking through the key
hole. The desperate fellow was finally TAX
Gu TO the Jock up, but narrowly ESCAPED
lynching.