Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-15
NO. "a.
DREVITIEs.

| feet long, ard its largest span Is 3I5 feet In
length.
Two carrier pigeons were liberated one
day last week at Magnolia, on the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail-
road, and flew TO Philadelphia, one in two
hours aud the other in one hour and 55
minutes. A strong northwest wind was
blowing against them. The distance is 70
miles.
"A woman in England read notice In
newspaper that her husband, from whom
she had been separated for IL years, was
| lying i'll in San Francisco hospital. She
FASTENED thither, and found that he had
been discharged. She continued the search,
found him, aud they were reconciled.
"A New Orleans woman persuaded the
father OF her ilegitlnate child to take and
care for it, but he got married and his wife
was so fond of the child that she adopted it,
whereupon the mother stole the child and
has been arrested and held for trial for kid
mapping.
Intense excitement prevails over new
lead discovery in Cherok ee county, Kan
People are hocking from all directions,
aud the town of Galena, which is but four
tauts. The country Tor miles around is be-
ing prospected, and new discoveries are
made from day to day.
The report that the arms Of the Venus
Of Milo have been discovered is confirmed
by letter received at the State Depart
ment at Washington from Gen. Meredith
Read, our Charge d'A1aires at Athens. He
writes that they were found on the Island
of Milo, at distance Of less than 80 feet
from the place where The statue itself was
found in 1920.
"A tall, handsome woman, with a frank
smile, pleasant voice, beautiful hand.
She wears a close-ftting black dress OF
some soft stuff 1t is not fashionably made,
and yet there is nothing grotesque about
the plainness. An iron cross hangs on her
breast its purple ribbon aud tue thin
black net veil that drops from her high
comb are her only ornaments. So looks
Madame Loyson, the wife Of Father Hy-
acinthe.
Fletcher Harper, the last of the four
brothers who founded the great publishing
house, died in New York last week. To
him belongs the credit Of starting, in 1851,
Harper's Magazine, concerning which the
older brothers had some doubts, and later
the Bazaar, almost against their opposition.
The Weekly was his especial favorite and
he did much to develop it. The firm now
includes sons of all the founders and will
go on without change.
MIR. Judah Peter Benjamin, who is
now the most successful lawyer in London,
and whose income is over S100, 900 year, is
sixty five was born in San Domingo; is a
Hebrew; went to New Orleans after study
ing al Yale, but not graduating; was a
whg, then democratic United States Sem
ator; aud then Attorney General, Acting
Secretary of War, and Secretary OF State of
the Southern Confederacy. He is the only
person, once an American citizen, who has
arrived at the dignity of Queens Counsel
at the British bar.
"A lawsuit has just developed the fact
that for several years parties in Ulster
county, N. Y, have been prospecting for
gold aud silver in an offshoot of the Shaw
aDgunk mountains, in the town of Esopus,
ard with good success. OF specimens laken
from Hussey hill and examined one assay
ed $3.50 and others various sums from $3.50
to SS5 per ton. One Dlmmick, who has
been engaged five years as an expert,
swears, that in his opinion, the mine is
worth 100000, and it is said that mining
will soon he undertaken in earnest.
Mr.. Naples is sensible Connecticut
man, who keeps Newfoundland dog and
takes weekly newspaper. The latter is
thrown from the train by the baggage-mas-
ter every Thursday, and on that morning,
as soon as the cars come round curve in
sight of the house, the dog is seen waiting
expectanuy, and then running down 10 the
track. When the paper is thrown off he
picks it up and carries it to the house. On
other mornings he Is either not in sight at
all or else lies coled up and paying no at
tenton to the train.
Simeon Moon, Clinton county, (O.)
farmer who had been for more than two
months engaged in an attempt to starve
himself to death, accomplished his object
last week and was buried in the coffin he
had thoughtfully provided several weeks
in advance. Nothing could dissuade him
from his purpose, and it is stated by his
friends that for nine weeks he did not swal-
low particle of food. He was in comfort
able circumstances and his family relations
were pleasant, and his purpose was the re-
suit of insanity.
One of Henry Ward Beecher's broth
ers lives with his wife in wild place in
the town of Hardenburg n. Y, where he
has settled on square mile of land, trav-
els around with horse and saddle-bags and
breaches regularly on Sundays, while his
wife teaches school. The house in which
the couple live was built by Mr.. Beecher
himself, and is in delightful location on
the shore OF pond, in which trout breed
in such great numbers that fifty or sixty
are often taken from it ia an hour. Mr..
Beecher is said TO be a man of fine abilities
and deep learning, but why he chose TO iso-
late himself and his wife in this way no.
body knows.
The last target firing with the celebra-
ted s1-ton gun at Shoeburyness, England,
was a very expensive affair. The load con-
sisted of 425 pounds of powder-the heavi-
est charge ever fired from rified ordnance
and a l7O0-pound shot, and the target
against which the ball was fired cost $780,
900 and consisted of "a inches of iron and
Is inches of teak, backed by heavy struc-
ture of piles. The shot penetrated almost
entirely through the whole structure, aud
as the target can only be used four times In
all, each discharge of the gun, without
counting the cost of the powder and shot,
represents $500.
Two men, cutting wood near San Jose,
CAL, noticed for several days that num-
ber OF birds remained constantly upon
tree near them, and upon cutting down the
tree they discovered in a limb hollow