Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-12-14
IN GENERAL.

The Harpcrs paid Longf,llow $4,000 for
"Keramos, which is about $40 line
The new iron bridge over the death chasin
of Ashtabula has been opened this week, and
trains are now running over it.
Mrs. Elizabeth SayrcE who was shot in II
Philadelphia Episcopal church by her hus-
band, Oh recent Sunday. died last week.
-Pittsburg has - glass factories with ~
furnaces and 72l pots, and employing, when
in full blast, 4j70 persons. There are now
only 30 furnaces and i7j pots in operation.
A Louisiana man, who apparently is not
intimately acquainted with his own mind
married five times in eleven months, and
swapped his last wife for a shot gun.
The oldest inhnbitant" of Boston died
on Sunday, 2d inst. Her name was Margaret
Mahoney, she lived at 424 Dudley street, and
her age, as returned TO the city registrars of
flee, was 100 years.
A man at Cohoes n. Y. in order to cheat
his creditors, transferred his property to his
wife. The wife died and the property went
to their daughter The man married again.
but the daughter not liking her stepmother
turned them both out of doors, and the man
who cheated his creditors now supports him
self by day labor.
Gale, the Cardiff pedestrian, who recent
ly performed the unprecedented feat of walk
ing 1900 miles in 1000 consecutive hours, has
Just completed successfully an attempt to
walk 1000 quarter miles in 1000 consecutive
quarter hours. This is beyond doubt the
greatest pedestrian feat on record, and it is
not likely to be matched, much less eXcelled.
Mr. Hooker an old nuTseryman of Roch-
ester, n. Y, says: AT present every steam
er from New York in the autumn and winter
months carries five hundred to thousand
barrels of apples to Europe-ninety thousand
Larrels We're landed at Liverpool during last
December-and other fruits, pears peaches,
even grapes, are beginning to be shipped, re-
frigerted, the business promising large and
rapid increase.
Three men were convicted q few months
ago in England of serious crime, and were
sentenced each to ten years of penal servtude.
Three other men were tried for completely in
the same crime a few days ago, when il be-
came evident that the crime had never been
committed, and that the convicted men were
the victims of manufactured evidence, made
up by the police and drunken woman. The
men are TO be 'pardoned.
-AIakart's immense picture of Catherine
Cornaro, which was exhibited at the Phila-
delphia Centennial, has been sold to the Ber-
lin National Gallery for Sl2,5 1t was Of
fered to the Philadelphians for S25, 900 but
llltl COulln Thlht lLt hlllOuul. IL WIS OTlBl-
nally painted for Vienna picture dealer, who
paid the artist for it $50, 900. and who fondly
thought that he could gain untold gold by adj
mission fees during the Exhibition of 1873,
and could afterward sell it for what he gave.
A young man named Campbell froze to
death under peculiarly distressing circumstan-
ces recently, in Victoria county, Ont He
was out hunting with his parents, and chased
n deer across n small lake on the ice. Before
he had reached the opposite side the ice broke
up and he saved himself by climbing on q
rock projecting from the water. His parents
ON the shore were pOwerless to help him, and
the young man sat on the rock until night
came on and he persisted from the increasing
cold.
st. Johns Episcopal church at Ports
mouth, n. H., contains an organ which il
probably the oldest in this country II was
built in London, and presented to Queens
chapel, Boston, by Thomas Brattle in l7l3
1t remained unpacked for seven years, being
| considered wicked instrument, but was final
| ly set up and used until 1886, when it wal
sold to st. Pauls church, Newburyport, Mass,
where it was made to do service until 1886
1t was then purchased by st. Johns church
where it still remains, doing effective service
Not long ago an interesting paper wa,
read before the physiological section of the
British Association, recounting experiments
which have attracted much attention in Eng
land These experiments were founded on
statement made some years ago by Liebig, t.
the effect that persons who were accustomed Il
use wine or alcoholic liquors with a meat diet
neither desired nor required those stimulant
with vegetable diet Mr.. Charles Napier,
well-known scientist, having undertaken to tes
this assertion, mentions twenty-seven cases
showing that alcohol soon becomes repugnan
to the vegetarian. In several instances wher
intemperate habits had seemed fixed, a per
sistent adherence TO farinaoeous diet result
! total abstinence.