Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-11-09
NO. 45.
IN GENERAL.

The San Francisco Bulletin anticipates
that. within twelve months business will be as
brisk in California as at amy former period.
The Chinese authorities are not yet suf-
fciently civilized TO believe in railways. and
have stopped the running of the cars between
Woosung and Shanghae.
There is said TO be anywhere from 400 to
700 American girls in Paris studying music,
of whom there are perhaps -four who give
promise of becoming known hereafter.
A recent steamer from New York took
out some hundreds of barrels Of Western lager
beer for Germany That was sending Goals
to Newcastle with vengeance.
The Russian posting service has Of late
years become so well organized that traveller
can ordinarily accomplish one thousand miles
a week, which is at the rate of seven miles an
hour including stoppages.
Texas is another Of the southern states
which is paying special attention to the edu-
cation of the negro Fourteen hundred acres
have just been purchased at Austin for $12,-
600 as the site of a state university for color
ed youth
All babies born in the Oneida Communi-
ty are Mt once taken from their mothers and
given to some other woman to nurse, and the
babies are changed around so that no mother
ever rears, or even knows, her own child
The objections to the distribution of the
estate of Isaac NJ Singer, the rich sewing
machine man, have finally been withdrawn,
and the bequests which he made to his vari-
GUS widows, mistresses and children will be
paid over.
The name of Senator Morton's family
was originally Throckmorton, and their an
cestry is traced to the earl of Throckmorton
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The sena-
tors father dropped the first syllable of his
surname, and the son adhered to the exam
pie.
An enterprising youth of East Fryeburg,
Me, 20 years old, recently married a woman
of 40. One of the business men of the town,
upon being informed of this fact exclaimed:
How ridiculous! Think of it Why, when
he is forty, just in the prime of life, she will
be an old woman Of eighty"
A Mr.. Rowland of San Francisco claims,
after an expenditure of $4,000 and several
years of labor, to have discovered an infalli-
BILE indicator Of the presence of gold, which
is so sensitive that by it he has been able to
tell, within small amount, how much coin
person carried about him and the proportion
of gold and silver.
The other night party of Piutes at
Bridgeport, Cal, took out and shot a medi-
cine woman with revolvers, the cause being
her failure to cure sick child One such
failure would not have endangered her life,
but this happened to be the third case of the
sort and She was adjudged by a council of the
Indians to be an unsafe practitioner
In France a murderer is never executed
if the jury appends to its verdict the words
with extenuating circumstances" The re-
suit is the infrequent executions in that coun-
try. Some time ago a man killed his father
and mother, and was found guilty with extern
uating circumstances. These circumstances
were that he was an orphan.
The Philadelphians attribute much of the
success of the centennial to the fact that Mr..
Welsh, the new Minister to England, was pres
ident of the board of finance, and they attest
ed their appreciation of his services there by
raising S50,000 for the endowment of the
John Welsh professorship in the University of
Pennsylvania
The wind lifted from the track and over
turned two passenger cars and baggage car
| on the Utah Central road Tuesday. Goals
| from the stove were scattered about, but the
fires were put out before any damage was
done, and no persons were fatally injured,
though several were badly hurt
Not very long ago an Oriental ex-poten-
tate, resident in England went out shooting,
wearing on his finger diamond ring valued
| at 5000 guineas, OF course he lost it, but hav-
ing some idea of the locality where his we'll
deserved calamity befen him. he had the
space inclosed. Every ounce of the earth was
passed through fine sieve and the treasure
turned up after many days.
The Vatican refuses to make Christopher
Columbus a saint on the ground that his
Christian virtues have not been exempified
by any great deed; that, apart from his dis
covery of America, his public and private life
were open to grave reproach that, until
now, nobody ever thought of regarding him
as a saint or invoking him as such and, final
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| good Catholic.
Clara Manning of Brooklyn, N. Y, a
pretty young girl of II, was inveigled into
mock marriage at a summer re sortat the Cats
| kills, the past season, and now her mother is
| endeavoring to get her out of the scrape as
it turns out that the marriage was performed
by a clergyman and the bridegroom claims
his bride. Such practical joking is inexcusa-
bic on the part of young people, but clergy
men who engage in it knowingly ought to be
severely punished.
Two little boys in Chicago, playing in the
street. lost ball in sewer catch basin. With
long and patient fishing for it, looking into
the basin and breathing its gases, they recov-
cred the ball. They went to their home in
one of Chicago's most costly residences, were
stricken down and died of dphtheria Their
playmates and school-fellows came to visit
them while sick and attended their funeral,
and the fatal disease was spread all through
that neighborhood, the finest in the city.
The Boston Advertiser says that the two
important words destroyed slavery were
omitted by some unexplained accident from
the printed copy of the inscription on the
soldiers monument in that city, written by
President Elliott. It reads ITO the men of
Boston who died for their country on land and
sea, in the war which kept the Union whole,
destroyed slavery, and maintained the Con-
stitution, the grateful city has built this mon
ument, that their example may speak to com
ing generations"