Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-01-14
NEWS ITEMS.

The second brother of the Car, The
Grand Duke Nicholas, has been exiled to
the Caucasus for four months for debt and
disorderly life.
"A Georgia man who had acquired the
habit OF laughing immoderatey, broke
blood vessel and died while indulging in a
fit of laughter The other day.
The returns OF eight States, which toek
the census in 1875, indicate population in
the United States OF fifty millions at the
end of the decade.
WIN. NJ. Tweed, Jr., marched boldly
out Of church when his minister said, last
Sunday night, that a man who shared in
plundering city should be dealt with as a
felon.
The proprietor of a rope-wslk says that
what makes IL hard on rope-makers is that
at least fifty men die daily Unnatural caus-
cs who ought to be hanged.
Washington was once asked to dine
with Judge Jones. The chair in which he
would have sat il he had accepted this in-
vitstion will be exhibited at the centennial.
"A Delaware clergyman was the victim
Of donation party the other night, and the
next day he had TO exchange a peck Of
beans for something 10 cat, or go without
food all NorriStown Herald.
The United States revenue agent at
Greensboro, s. c., has captured fifteen IL.
liclt distillers and broken up ten Illicit dis
tilleries within few days. Poor show for
CROOKED whiskey" where lie is.
Since 1880 there have been lost in the
fisheries from Gloucester 1889 men, an av-
erage OF nearly SO per year. The number
of vessels lost is 1923, valued at 81, ,349, 900.
They were insured for 81 ,093, 400.
"A muskrat worked a hole through the
dam of A. b. Farrar's Merrimack fish
ponds at Nashua, n. H., few days since,
and the fish in nine ponds, covering sixteen
acres, were pretty generally lost. He had
spent five years in breeding aud preparing
for market, and the pecunisry loss is con-
siderable.
General Butler has erected three mas
sive granite buildings on the corner Of b
street and New Jersey avenue, Washing
ton. The United States Coast Survey will
occupy one, Senator Jones OF Nevada pays
$4,000 per annum for the second, and the
third General Butler will occupy. The
two residences are furnished in palatial
msgniicence.
Eight months ago Mr.. Pullman sent
one of his luxurious cars to France ION ap-
proval." The government directors ale
Mr.. Pullman's drawing-room repasts, test
ed the car, allowed no private person to
ride in it, and then calmly y rejected it, de-
claring that if The public once realized
its comforts they would insist upon lis
adoplioni
In recent military survey east of the
Caspian Sea, the Russian soldiers discover
ed the ruins Of an ancient city, the exist
ence Of which has been utterly unknown
in modern times. judging from the ruins,
the city must have bad a large population.
Several Arabesquo minsrets are still we'll
preserved, and remains OF extensive aque-
ducts were also found, some of them still
flowing with good drinking water.
The Chinese in the Pacific States have
standing, intense antagonism, are divid-
ed into two hostile parties, the occasion of
which no outside fellow can find out. They
work along harmoniously together, side
by side, for days and months, possibly
years, aud then all of a sudden break out
into bitter war, with guns and clubs and
every sort of deadly weapon.
Thomas Alexander Mitchell, a wealthy
London merchant and member of Parlia-
ment, who married pretty barmaid three
years ago, died recently, and left his young
wife bequest of $4,000, with 100000 or
more in prospect. He also gave 975,OO to
the Metropolitan Board of Works. His
relatives attempted to break the will, but
it has been confirmed. The barmaid, it is
said. made him an excellent wife, and near
ly cured him of habits of intemperance.