Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-08
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year TO assuage the thirst Of New York
city.
-Goid which assays $4,000 ton, is re-
ported TO have been discovered in the Find
ly mine near Dahlonega, Ga.
The failures of the last year In the Uni
ted States have been far fewer and smaller
in amount than in England or Canada.
Subscriptions have been started for
monument to Cornelia Chsolm, the young
Missssippian who lost her life iu defend.
ing her father.
The will of William Palm, prominent
German citizen of 81. Louis who died at
Rome in 1870, bequeatbs the bulk of bis es.
tate, amounting to about 100000, to Wash
ington university there.
United States officers have destroyed
go Illicit stills, captured 1000 gallons Of
whisky and arrested nine men in Wilkes
county, N. c., within the past fortnight.
"A New York firm has wasted 100000
in experiments 10 lind out how to die plush
for silk hats. The best that can be produced
in America turns brown under hot iron,
hence the high price of silk hats.
Harriet Beecher Stowe says that nei-
ther the Rev. Josiah Henson nor any other
man was the original of Uncle Tom. Traits
and incidents Of various people were COM
bined, aud the life of Henson furnished
some of them. The picture is not a por-
trait.
"A Scotch Bohemian fooled all Great
Britain by writing up an account Of the ac-
tual capture Of the mythical ses-serpent,
giving all the dimensions, etc. A scien-
- falauranhO1 on iO rnrahaCa I
but soon got answer that the whole thing
was a hoax.
Hook d Hastings Of Boston have Sc
cured the contract for building the great
organ in The new Springer Music hall at
Cincinnati. The instrument will be among
the three or four largest in the world, and
will have 620O pipes, or 1000 more pipes
than The famous Boston Music hall organ,
which is at present the largest in America.
"A frightful hail storm visited Pendle-
ton, S. c., few days ago, aud so complete
ly ruined the growing grain that the
ground had TO be replowed and planted in
corn or peas. The hail stones varied in
size from buckshot TO hens egg, and in
one locality were so heavy as TO instantly
kill horse while attached to a carriage.
Gen. Grant is the first ex-president to
go 10 foreign parts since the days Of Frank
Pierce. OF the 19 presidents, Washington,
Madison, Jackson, Harrison, Tyler, Polk,
Taylor, Lincoln and johnson never cross
ed the ocean. Those who visited foreign
lands were John Adams, Jefferson, Mon
roe, Quincy Adams, Van Buren,, Fillmore,
Pierce and Buchanan.
A remarkably cool l-headed aud fearless
woman of CovinGton, KY, in order 10 pre-
vent her dog, which had suddenly gone
mad, from running loose and biting any
body, got ii into the house and held it
down by the throat for more than two
hours until her husband came home. The
dog was then taken TO The river and drown
ed.
One of the stipulations of the postal
card contract is that the manufacture shall
be carried on in perfectly tire-proof build
ing, and commission finds that the Tri-
bune building in New York, where the
American Prototype company propose to
print The cards for lour years from July l,
upon the acceptance Of their bid, fills The
bill.
"A pious hen crawled into Methodist
church in Jefferson City, NO., week ago
Sunday, and laid an egg in the contribution
box. While the minister was making an
earnest appeal 10 his congregation for for
eign missions the hen suddenly len her
nest, and, presenting herself in tue chancel,
cackled most energetically. The deacons
discovered the egg when they went for
ward to get the box.
His imperial Majesty, Dom Pedro of
Brazil, is "doing" Europe in the same
manner in which he did this country last
year. He is seeking information PERSONAL
ly from all quarters, visiting factories and
institutions OF learning everywhere, and
seems TO think less of the punctilos of Eu-
ropean royalty than of his ewn comfort.
He is said 10 have shocked aristocratc taste
by wearing black cravat at an imperial
reception in Berlin.
The 104- year-old mother of Judge
Moulton of Kittanning, Pa, is the subject
of as remarkable rejuevenation as If she
had dipped in the fabulous fountain of
youth. Within the last two years, her hair,
which for a long time had been pure white.
has darkened gradually until ii has nearly
recovered its original color, and not only
that, but all her mental faculties have ap-
peared TO receive new impulse, and she
can read without the aid of glasses.
The statistician of the department of
agriculture reports the destruction of 4,OO0,-
900 animals of all ages, and a money loss of
more than $20,000,000 from diseases of
swine during the past year. One-tiflh OF
the reported loss was in Illinois, while Mis-
souri, and Indiana together lose $40, 0OO, 900;
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisl-
ana have nearly as large percentage Of
loss in numbers, aggregating Sl,5OO,OOO:
but in New England the losses have teen
very small.
The 56.ton breech- loader shown by
Herr Krupp at the centennial exhibition
year ago has been purchased By the Rus
sian government and delivered at Cron-
stadt. 1t fires charged steel shell of 1l23
pounds with an initial velocity of 1890 feet
a second. The sultan has ordered COM
panion piece for the defense of Constantin-
ople. When this gun was exhibited in
Philadelphia, 1t was the largest breech-
loader in the world, but Krupp, anxious to
prove that cast-steel guns can be manufac-
tured on a scale TO vie with the heaviest
wrought-iron ordnance, is now finishing at
Essen an SO.ton gun. This is about the
weight of the great Fraser gun with which
the British engineers have been for several
months experimenting at Woolwich and
Shoeburyness. 1t falls short Of the lOO-ton
Armstrong guns which are being manu-
factured for the Italian navy. The Prus-
sian gunmaker is not to be outdone; he is
willing TO max re- l24-ton breech-loader II