Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-12-07
IN GENERAL.

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A car load of canned Boston baked beans
reached town in Nevada a few weeks ago,
and since that time the people have laid out IA
common, and may be seen at noon sitting
around ON the fence reading Emerson.
A blacksmith named johnson of Dutot's
Gap, Pa, was recently assaulted in his shop
by desperate named Kelley and was getting
the worst of it, when he seized heavy wood
file and struck Reileyupon the temple, killing
him instantly.
The timber used in the COmstock mines.
Nevada, costs $1,000 a day the frewood,
mostly consG med by the steam engines $4,000:
candles burned in the mines. $40. 600: the
quicksilver lost $1,000; and the ice needed
to cool the water for drinking in the hot low
er levels, $1,000 day.
Professor Cunning has been lecturing in
the West on tht glacial epoch. He says that
in million years the glaciers will be at work
again in New England, but that. after 2jO.-
900 years of possession by the ice, she will
come out again rs good as new.
A colored man, who voted the republican
ticket at Lancaster, Pa, once too many at
the late election. has been sent to Jail for 10
months, and, under the constitution, won't be
allowed to vote at all for four years to come
A San Antonio (Tex.) boy has just died
from the bite of n rabd fox two months ago.
He was attacked by the animal in the woods,
and bitten and scratched in several places.
The wounds healed, but few days ago the
boy went into commissions and died with
every symptom of hydrophobia
An apple tree in Cumberland, Ky, meas
ures l3 feet inches in circumference five
feet above the ground. Its origin was a small
twig stuck into walnut stump about 50 years
ago. 1t is probably the largest apple tree in
the State and last year yielded apples enough
to make % gallons of brandy.
1t having been demonstrated that the
dust taken from the streets of Paris and Lon
don yielded 81 per cent. Of iron given of by
the shoes of the horses. and the dust from the
sidewalks from 30 to 10 per cent. of glue, it
is proposed to form a company in London for
the purpose of utilizing the sweepmgs of the
streets.
George Francis Train has dined sumptu-
ously at New York on bread. oatmeal. baked
beans. pumpkin pie and coffee, all for five
cents. and thinks two meals. at ten cents
day, or $50. 30 a year. would be ample food
for laboring man, and that all would be
healthier on this diet than they are now.
Describing new hearse, the Utica Her
aid says: The body is finished in heavy
black, with massive plate glass sides and ends,
but the running part is neat and light" That
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vantages is intimatcd in the subsequent re-
mark that the vehicle has been in demand
almost constantly since its arrival in Utica
Out at Iowa Falls, Ia, the Quakers are
building meeting house with a steeple,
which is an unprecedented thing in the his
tory of Quakersm. The younger members
of the society refused to contribute toward
building the church unless they could have a
steeple, and rather than not have a place in
which to hold their meetings, the elder breth-
ren yielded and concluded to try a steeple.
Minister Stoughton is a gentleman #
considerable personal vanity, which once re-
ceived a severe blow in court, when the judge
asked, WHO appears for the plaintiff = Il
do, sir" replied young lawyer just admitted.
And who for the defendant :" "One Stuff
ton, sir, believe" was the reply. Slough
ton was in court at the time, and it was said
that was the day his hair began to turn white.
An achievement which carries us back to
the beginnings of Biblical history is announc-
ed in the English papers-the successful as
cent of Mount Ararat by Mr.. Bryce. The
peak is Il, 900 feet high, the last 1000 feet be-
ing above the snow-hne. The top Of Little
Ararat' is the boundary of the dominions of
the Gar. the Sultan. and the Shah of Persia.
Both Mohannnedans and Armenian Christians
hold the belief that the great peak is inaccess-
ible to man.
The Antietam national cemetery at Sharps-
burg, Md, the scene of the great battle, has
been receiving elaborate improvements in the
way of grading, setting out shrubbery and
placing marble head-stones at each of the 1000
or 1000 graves. The colossal granite statue
of n soldier, which stood between the main
building and the art gallery at the centennial
exhibition last year. is to be placed by the
government in the cemetery, provided the
Maryland Legislature will cede the tract to
the United States
The largest steamship ever built except
the Great Eastern is now at New York. She
is named the Hooper and has been used in
the laying of telegraph cables. This is her
first trip to this country. She is $50 feet
over all - feet wide, and 80 deep. She is
built of iron and rugged as a three-masted
schooner. She is registered as 493j tons, but
has u capacity of 5000 tons. exclusive of pas
sengers. She will carry out the largest cargo
that ever left any port in the United States.
The loftest houses in England and prob
ably in the world are some recently erected
in the West End of London, which are II
stories high and are in flats Elevators travel
to each story, and electric bells and speaking
tubes are in every room. There is wine
cellar for each tenant the male servants are
in liveries, the females wear neat and uni
form dress, and one quarterly payment COW
ers servants, taxes, gas, and every ordinary
item of housekeeping even down to insur-
ance of furniture.
The days of the lamp lighter are number
ed, and the time is at hand when lie will ex-
ist only in story. Electricity is certain to
take his place. because it can work more
cheaply. 1t has been tried for the purpose of
lighting and eXtinguishing 22O street lamps
in Providence, r, l., scattered over a district
nine miles long One man attends to the
whole business, and does it in fifteen seconds.
The method has now been on trial for some
months, and a saving of $40 per lamp per
year is reported.
john Leveck, late sergeant of the Eighth
Hussars, and one of the survivors of the
charge of 600 at Balnkava, has been sentenc-
ed to 80 days in the Cleveland, o., work
house on the charge of assault and battery,
the prosecuting attorney accepting this charge
in place of that of assault with intent to kill
as first charged. Much sympathy was arous-
ed in the community ON account of his BRAY
cry and the many hardships through which
he has passed, and this probably saved him
from the penitentiary.
The telegraph and ocean cable will soon
be things of the past, if the theory of Prof.
Loomis of Washington proves true. He be-
lieves in the existence of certain magnetic
currents in the upper air, by which messages
can be dispatched to any distance, a perpen.
dicular wire running up TO meet this current,
and battery being all the apparatus neces-
sary. Messages have already been sent in
this way distance of IL miles, and expert.
ments are soon TO be made between the high
peaks of the Alps and the Rocky mountains
AT their last election the people of Min,
nesota approved the proposed amendment to
the Constitution of their State to provide foI
biennial sessions of the Legislature. The
plan provides for one session of GO days
length every two years. The State is to be
distrcted so that Senators and Assemblymen
shall be elected from the odd districts one
year, and from the even the next. Senators
will hold Office four years, Assemblymen two