Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-11-10
NEWS ITEMS.

prime minister, died on Monday, at the age
of 20 years.
The supreme court al Washington has
lust refused Mrs. Bclva A. Lockwood adj
mission to the bar solely on the ground Of
the accident of sex.
The places In New York city that once
knew the tramp will soon know him
no longer, as an orderto arrest all the habit
ual applicants foriodglugs at the police sta.
lions has gone into effect. All able bodied
paupers were refused admission, and we're
informed that they must work.
The New York Herald estimates the
average cost Of presidential election at ST.
SOC, 900 for each ofthe Two great parties.
-Four hundred thousand pounds Of
mustard seed we're harvested during the
summer in the Salinas Valley of Caliror-
mia, where Chinese farmers max the Gull
tyaion or mustard their sole pursuit.
.-"Thomas, Of what fruit is cider nader"
"Don't know, siri' "why, what 4 stupid
bow What did you get when you robbed
Farmer Jones's orchard?" 81 got thrash
ing, sir"
A new industry has begun in Michi-
gan. Apples are so cheap there that they
can be bought for ten cents bushel. They
are being bought in immense quantities
and made into Jelly, which has good
market
Mr.. Tilden's own friends place his
campaign expenses at round million dol
lars. But he has several million len and
no children TO imporinne him for new
Winter clothes.
The republicans suffer most on account
Of bad weather election d,y, because inval-
ids and old men are generally republicans.
Such persons are TOO near the eternal world
to dare to vote the democratic ticket.
Queen Victoria has given the widow Of
George Smith, tie Assyrian explorer and
eminent interpreter OF Eastern mouumen-
tal Inscriptions, a yearly pension of $3.50.
Next TO Hungary, Pennsylvania is the
most Protestant portion Of Austria. The
Reformed, Lutheran, and Unitarisn
churches comprise nearly one-fo fourth Of the
population. Religious equality has exist
ed there since 1872.
The valley Of the Pc, embracing Pied
mont and Lombardy, is a marvel of sue
cessful irrigation. An agricultural author
iiy estimates the irrigated surface at l,GO0,-
600 acres. The Increase on the rental pro-
duced by irrigation is, at q very moderate
estimate, S4,l50, coo a year. The length Of
canals of irrigation in Lomhardy, iDclud-
ing the great lines and their frst-class
branches, exceeds $500 miles.
BY the last official report Of the Hart
ford insurance companies ii was shown
that 212, 467 people have their lives insured
10 that city. These lives arc insured for
! $3.50, O00, 900 altogether, and the property in
| sured in the fire companies is s645, $4,000
more, so That the total risk which Hartford
carries is in round numbers 81 100, 900, 900.
While church property is free from
taxation, il sill is liable TO assessments for
such purposes as street Improvements.
Some Of the New York churches, however,
have lodged these assessments in a novel
and ingenious method. The managers say
as they are not taxed their property has no
value as it has no value it cannot be as
sessed and so they propose going without
paying anything at all.
The largest box of layer figs ever
brought TO this country has just been re-
ceived at Boston from Smyrna. 1t is four
feet long and three wide, weighs GOO
pounds, and contains over 1000 figs. The
ordinary boxes weigh 10 pounds.
The Miami powder mills, near Xenia,
o., exploded Nov. lst, killing ono man and
wounding several others. Five buildings
were destroyed and tons of powder burnt
"A hundred Sioux Indians have gone to
the Indian territory on a tour Of inspection,
10 see IL they like it well enough 10 per-
suade their tribe 10 move thither according
to the new treaty.
The flood in Cuba, which accompanied
the hurricane of the 10Th and 20lh ult., did
grea: damage in five interior counties, and,
on the 24tb, there was eight feet OF water in
some places, while on the lower lands moth
ing but chimney-tops was visible on large
number of plantations. The inundatior
covered some 40 miles OF TERRITORY.
The recent gales have caused great de
stru ction of shipping on the eastern coas
of the British provinces, as many as so YES
sells having been wrecked along Newfound
land. The crew and three or four passen
gers Of the schooner Minnie Cronan of Hal
iiax have been lost.
"A reception in the women's pavilion
by Mrs. E. d. Gillespie, president of th,
women's centennial executive commission
assisted by her associates of thai body, wa
the only noteworthy feature of woman
cay, Tuesday. The admissions were ,69j
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