Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-01-28
NEWS ITEMS.

"A remarkable feature NJ Mount Shasta,
in California, is a collection OF hot springs
200 feet below the summit.
1t Is expected that Queen Victoria will
open the British Parliament in person, ut
the session which will begin on the sth Of
February.
Andrew Johnson, only surviving son
Of the late sx-president, has bought the
Greenville, Tenn, Inielligencer, with
which he has been for some time connect
ed.
The Viceroy vi Egypt himself sends
the contribution of that ancient country TO
our centennial fair, and 1t has already ar
rived. 1t comprises G,OoO articles, and will
be one of the mJst interesting displays In
the exhibition.
"A railway train, in Southern Russia,
while conveying new soldiers to their reg
iments, recently ran Off the track, and was
thrown down an embankment, whereby
6S men wero killed, and "a wounded, some
of them mortally.
"A young man OF South Thomaston,
Me-, who has boon supposed well advan-
ced in consumption, coughed up half of
cambrc needle, few days ago aud has
begun TO mend.
"A successful experiment OF Gray's har-
monte system OF multiplex telegraphy was
made at Milwaukee, recently, eight mes
sages being sent aud as many received, at
the same time, over a single wire, dis
tance of 200 miles.
From the peppermint raised in New
York State and in Michigan most of the
oil of peppermint Of commerce is distilled,
and large quantity is annually exported
to England and other parts of Europe.
The Michigan law prohibiting the sale
Of liquors on Sunday, has been declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court of
that Stale.
Cairo, ILL.,, has an idea that the Missis-
sippl river is going to work through 10 the
Ohio just above the city, and so cut her off
from the rest of the State of Illinois, and
she wants Congress TO appropriate sl50,OOO
10 check the Father of Waters in his mad
career.
An English funny paper says it is not
generally known that a very appropriate
covering for the bed of a river may bo
made out OF the sheets of water which
abound in the adjacent meadows.
New Orleans has just figured up its
debt of twenty millions and more, con-
cludes that there is no hope of ever paying
it, and will try 10 compromise at 60 cents
on the dollar by issuing new consolidated
bonds at this rate in lieu OF the outstand-
ing obligations.
"A marble firm agent, soliciting orders
| for tombstones in Almeda county, Califor-
mia, was recently badly sold by man who
directed him to a woman who 'had just
| lost her husband" but when he got there
and found that she had lost him by his
ru nnlng off with another woman he thought
hims, If lucky that he got off with as much
OF his hair as he did.
In the case of Carruth, the editor who
was shot by Lands, at Vineland, N. j.,
the evidence is TO the effect that his death
was not caused by the bullet. That was
| resting peacefully where il was deposited,
and doing no harm. The death was from
assesses caused by the probing for the
ball.
| There arc now eight pin factories in
the United States, which make At 900 900
pins daily. Ip addition to these the i'm
| porlations of pins reach 5000, 600 daily.
AS these are all easily sold, il is safe to say
that ", ,OO0, 900 of pins are lost daily, or So
900, every minute. Where they all go
| to is the wonder.
The English national rifle association
have accepted the challenge of the rifle as
ISOLATION Of America to compete in a match
for the championship of the world during
the centennial exhibition. A match for
small bores between the two associations
| will also occur some time during the CEN
tennial exhibition. There are good rea-
sons to believe that teams will also come
over from France, Belgium, Germany and
Italy.
"A number OF Boston seedsmen have
united with their brethren of New York,
Philadelphia and Albany in refusing to
warrant their seeds, though intending to
have all seeds sold by them as pure and
reliable as possible, in consequence OF re-
cent decisions in New York and New Jer-
sey, holding seedsmen responsible for the
failure of crops when they warrant the
seeds.
Nearly five hundred Communicates
and twenty-five Grand Encampments of
the Knights Templar have already noti-
fed the committee of their order in Pills
delphia that they intend being present at
the great centennial conclave on the last of
May, and if but an average of thirty men
from each should parade on the 1st of June,
it would make column of $1,000 men in
full regalia, extending for several miles.
The Indianapolis Sentinel rashly made
the statement that the rebel prisoners at
Camp Morton were as foully treated as the
Union soldiers at Audersonville. The
Journal retorts that the greatest atrocity
practiced upon the rebels was the free dis
tribution among them OF 100 copies Of the
Sentinel per day.
"A young man named Starkey is the
hero OF Seaford, Del. During recent fire
In that place, while the flames were raging
hercely and the fire was gaining, It became
known that there was keg ofgunpowder
in one Of the burning buildings. While
everybody else stood aghast, young Stark
ey rushed in, climbed to the place where
the powder keg was, seized 1t and carried IL
into the street. The fire had fallen ali
about the powder, and when the keg was
dropped in the street, Goals OF fro fell from
the sides OF 1t.
Mr.. Holbrook of the New Orleans Pic
ayune, who has just died at The age OF &C.
was born in Townsend, W., aud has been
the business manager, and very much also
the editorial manager, Of that, the leading
paper of the Southwest, for more than 40
years. He outliYed all his old associates
Lumsden, Kendall, Bullitt and Wilson,
who, with him, made the Picayune so ia
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