Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-12
NEGOTIATIONS.

King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands
loves to talk of his visit to this country and
says that since he has had time for quiet re-
Election he cannot but he impressed with the
immensely and simplicity of the United
States.
The first train of palace cattle cars, in
vented by United States Senator Mcpherson,
of New Jersey. arrived at the Jersey City
abattoir on Friday, having been eighty hours
on the journey from St. Louis The cattle
were fed and watered twice a day ON the
road.
New Rutland is the name of a flourish
ing colony of Vermont emigrants, mostly
from Windham and Rutland counties. who
settled n tract of land forty miles above
Brownsville, on the Rio Grande last year,
and have enjoyed n rare immunity from Mex
lean outrages thanks to their prompt cooper
alton in all cases of individual grievances
The settlement numbers about twenty two
ranches, scattered over an area of seven square
miles. -HcIald and Glo6e.
A section of black ash tree has been
taken from muck bed in Hartland, Vt, which
evidently was used in the construction of n
beaver dam, the teeth marks being plainly
visible. According to reasoning generally nc
cepted by scientists at the present day, the
dam must have been built some three thou
sand years ago. Underlying this muck. four
teen feet in depth, is mari bed twenty feet
deep. from which shells of various species
have been taken.
The West is feeling eXuberant over the I'M
menso grain crop now harvested and on its
way to the consumers all over the world, and
the healthful and encouraging impulse is max
ing its way to the East with rapid progress.
Not only is the crop large, but its quality is
above the average The increase in the Weld
| l. IL a.
of grain at the principal Western markets for
the week ending September - were 6. 10, AS
bushels. while for the corresponding week of
1876 there were only I, 800. 1sG bushels The
railroads are burdened with the transportation
of this produce. and with increased activity in
that department an impetus has been given
trade all along the line. One Of the leading
railroad men of the West remarks that in that
section business is better than il has been for
years all trades are prospecting, and all classes
are hopeful. The wheels of industry, so long
clogged seem to have started at last
between three and five years since. one
hundred and fifteen Chinese lads in all We're
brought by Yung Wing to New England to
receive fifteen years course of training in
our schools and homes, the Chinese govern
ment having appropriated for the purpose
| 81, 50O,0 600. These represent the wealthy
| aristocratc Chinese. The boys on their ar
rival were put by twos into American farm
| ers' families in Connecticut and Massachu-
| sets, for practical advantage in learning the
| language; but in order not to lose their Chi
nese schooling, they spend n small proportion
of their time with their governor in Hartford
in exclusive Chinese studies. Some are now
so far advanced as to have entered Yale col.
lege; where it has already been demonstrated
that native students will have to look sharply
| to their laurels or see them borne away by