Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-12
NO. Al.
IN GENERAL.

population of the country to be 6,33G, lS5.
About 700 buildings are going up in the
burned district of st. John 300 of them being
of brick.
The Paris Exposition Of 1873 is to cost
! SSO00,00 The original calculation was
about S., 0O0 900.
Nearly half the whole population of
Kingston, N. Y, have signed the pledge, the
number so far being Sl22, and daily increas-
/ ing.
The tobacco furnished the prisoners in
| the county Jail at Pottsville. Penn. last year.
cost Si2G; the whisky $i2, and the milk
! $9.G5.
The Montreal Witness says that q physi-
clan in that city is restoring the faculties of an
idiotic child by lifting depressed portions of
its skull.
Gen. Grant received an address at STRAIT
ford-on-Avop enclosed in n box made from
the wood Of Shakespeare's famous mulberry
| tree.
The Turkish government is building n
carriage mandatory on its own soil the ma
chinery fof which is now being made at the
Pacific iron works in Bridgeport CT.
Baron Edmund Rothschild of Paris, son
of the late Baron James, and his cousin Adele
| of the German branch have been married and
begin life with n cool $40, 100000.
A California religious paper reports that
every person on board the ship Friedlander,
| Capt Morrison was converted on its recent
voyage to San Francisco.
A man who recently emigrntcd from this
| country to Australia writes back that Amer
! leans had better stay at home, as there are
plenty of idle people there now.
One of the annoyances of gathering A,-
tumn leaves in Missouri is the fact that all the
| best trees are in daily use to cure men of the
habit of horse stealing.
Boston pays 81, 2l1, 797 annually in sal
aries to teachers of its public schools. 1t has
5o,sl9 pupils, and the average per cent. of
attendance is asserted to be 92.S.
Common Texas item: Dudley Hansford
was hanged by mob of 10 men this morning
near his home. two miles from Perry, in this
county. Too much cattle.
Experiments in n mine in Cornwall Eng.
with the telephone, point to the probability of
its being employed in conveying signals from
deep mines to the surface.
A constable at Washington Conn, was
fatally shot last week by tramp. The con-
stables dog then took an interest in the affair,
and springing upon Mr.. Tramp, he held him
until help arrived.
| Forty California families who went to the
Argentine Republic, South America, eleven
years ago, and formed a colony. have started
back for Texas, with about half the means
they had when they left California
There n cloud-burst of mammoth
| proportions near Los Angeles in Southern
California recently. and the water from it sub
merged seven miles of railway, besides sweep
ing away several culverts and 400 feet of
| track.
The Congo River. at its mouth, is from
two to four English miles wide and 1000 feet
| deep. 1t forms estuary, and not delta. as
| it passes into the sea- and its waters fresh
seven miles from the shore. 1t is one of the
five great rivers of the world.
A dispatch from Victoria, Vancouver's
island, tells of an Indian woman recently
seized while bathing, by an octopus or devil
fish, and drowned. The body was discovered
next day lying at the bottom of the bay in
the creatures grasp.
The tramp nuisance has reached such an
extent in Illinois and Iowa that many of the
| out-ofthe way farmers are selling out for
what they can get and coming East The
fellows travel in marauding bands, and in the
rural districts the people do not feel safe night
| or day.
Cole Younger, the notorious outlaw who
| is now serving life sentence in the Minneso-
Ia Penitentiary has become very devout and
spends much of his time reading his Bible and
religious books. He says he is well satisfied
with his present situation and thinks he is
just where he ought to be.
A Wayne County farmer left his vest
| hanging upon a chair. In one of the pockets
were about a dozen strychnine pills. His two
little children discovered them, thought they
were candy, and ate them. Physicians were
called and antdotes administered, but both
died within an hour.
A letter of Gen r. Z. Lee. dated Feb.
~, 1861 and written to n friend in Texas, is
! published for the first time, in which he re-
marks ON the action of the Texas Convention
in passing a secession ordinance, that Il am
unable to see single good that will result
from the step"
San Francisco has the first and the only
endless wire-rope street railways. The cars
stop and start easily and run more rapidly
than horse-cars In eastern cities the frost
and snow of winter would render them useless
but in San Francisco they promise to entirely
supersede horse-cars.
Russian paper money has become so de-
preciated that % paper roubles are worth only
one silver rouble, and this almost at the be-
ginning of the This is much worse than
our currency was at the time of greatest de-
preston, in 1864, the fourth year of the re-
bellion, when the price of gold touched 2Sj.
Resumption of specie payments has be-
gun in Memphis, Tenn The banks of that
city refused few days ago to pay premium
for gold in small pieces sent from the interior
of the State to the city, and treasury notes
(greenbacks) dollar for dollar were offered
for the gold and accepted.
The war correspondent of the London
| News says that at the battle near Kazelevo,
where the Russians were defeated "a Rus
sian officer, who was observed calamity en-
deGvoring to rally the men, was killed and
the body, when subsequently discovered,
| proved to be that of a woman. She was
buried where she fell.
The first patent in the United States was
issued to Samuel Hopkins, July H. 1890, ''for
making pot and pearl ashes" Up to 1886,
forty years, 1O,301 patents were issued
and up to date over 1875, 900 The annual
number of patents granted is about II, 900
| The annual receipts are about SSOO,000, and
the expenditures $500, 200.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has wearied in
waiting for New Orleans to accept her offer to
compromise her claims, and has brought her
first suit against the city in her efforts TO re-
cover what the courts have declared to be her
legal rights. The property sued for is a part
of what is known as the Blanc plantation,
and was sold by the city to Felix Formento
ON the 29th of September, 1887, for $5250.
Prince Bismark was recently entertained
by military friend, by whom he was treat
ed to an elaborate disquistion on the deeds,
errors, and chances of the Russian and Turk
ish armies. Bismark listened quietly, but ex-
pressed no opinion ON the matter, till his
friend asked him plainly what he thought
about them The Prince replied, laconically,
81 think that each army is just getting the
thrashing it deserves"
Edward Eggleston, one of our on-coming
novelists, is a native of Vevay, Indiana. At
nineteen he became Methodist preacher, and
rode circuit. After editing juvenile and 9th
er papers he came East, worked a year on the
Independent edited Hearth and Home year,
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