Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-03-31
NEWS ITEMS.

The take Of buffalo robes in Monta ma
the present season is The heaviest for sew
eral years. Some of the dealers will ship
from 5000 TO 10000 robes each.
"A Providence lady had canary bird
that died day or two since, aged % years
and months. 1t was blind, bad-headed
and cripple, still it fed itself, and it sang
cheerily until within a year.
1t is stated that Susan B. Anthony, af-
ter several years hard work at lecturing,
has earned money enough TO pay off the
debt of $4,000 dollars which she bravely
assumed on the failure of The Revolution
newspaper, with which she was connected
Thomas Mcguire of Boston, the we'll
known New England reporter of the New
York Herald, gets $50 600 by the will CT a
New York man, whose daughter he once
saved from drowning at Long Branch.
Col. Joseph Seffol of Springfield, o., is
three feet ten inches in height, and is the
shortest business man in the world. lie
has just been married TO Miss Sallie Mead
of the same city, who is Of about his height.
"A loaferish young Californian married
a servant-girl, and after day or two de-
serted her. Three months of dissipation il.
San Francisco killed him; but before his
mother died leaving to him, as her only
heir, about $4,000. Thus The girl gels a
fortune.
Some days ago William Ross, an old
resident of Otter Creek Township, Nigo
County, Ind, stole two bushels of wheat
from neighbor to keep his family from
Al.
had been placed before the Grand Jury
took poison and died, leaving helpless
widow and eight or ten children.
Stephen Hudson of Randolph county,
Ind, was relieved of cataract on the eye
of 25 Yeas growth by fugitive splinter,
the other day, while he was chopping
wood. The operation knocked him down
and caused great agony FOR few minutes,
but was performed as dexterously and eff
fectively as Il whole college Of physicians
could have done it.
AT the anniversary of the Southwestern
Bible Society, held last month in New
Orleans, it was stated that Of the 10000
families living in Louisiana and the part of
Mississippi under uhe Society's iurisdic-
ton, 10000 were without copies of the BIZ
BILE. or tho 1915 families visited in New
Orleans, 35l1 were found destitute OF copies
of the Scriptures.
Daniel Drew, whose large fortune,
amassed by speculation, has been swallow
ed up in the great maelstrom OF Wall
street, was originally drover and at one
time kept the Bulls Head Hotel in New
York, during which time he furnished the
Shipping List of that city with a weekly
report of the cattle market.
The noted scientist, Prof w. d. Gun
ming of Boston, aided by party OF ANA
teuis, has recently opened Two of the an
cient burial mounds at Spoonville, Ottawa
county, Mich, from which were taken five
kulls, large quantities of human bones,
copper, hatchets and needles; also fine
specimens of pottery, and they think that
the race 10 which these relics belong in
ha bited that section of Michigan not less
tn an 1000 years ago.
"A recent gale Fl ON The northeast, which
preva lied for a week, drove back the wafer
in Niagara river TO such a remarkable ex-
tent that rocks below the falls, which are
usually 20 feet under water, stuck out like
mountains; the river between Goat island
and Prospect park could easily be forded,
and the great Horseshoe call lost fully two
thirds of its immense body OF wafer.