Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-01-05
cent: go, and sin no more; your little
faults and folbles count for nothins-you
are the most enchanting weather In the
world -
NEWS ITEMS.

-"Old Probs" has abandoned that old
aud familiar name, and will be known
hereafter as "Weather Indications"
Mrs. A. T. Stewart Of New York has
bought the chime OF bells which hung in
Machinery hall on the centennial grounds.
Frank Moore, in his "Record Of the
Year." says that although Worcester Is
pronounced Wooster, a small boy got
spanked at school the other day for SPELL
ing rooster, rorcester.
"A wolf, which for two years, had been
preyng upon sheep in Coffee and Irwin
counties, Ca, was killed a few days ago.
II bad killed altogether over 600 sheep, and
a reward of $500 had been offered 10 any
one who would kill Il.
In New York city, on one OF the recent
terribly cold nights, an officer found
woman sitting on the curbstone in Frank
fort street, holding her dead baby TO her
breast. She had been driven out OF doors
by drunken husband, and the child had
literally frozen 10 death while she sat there
asking for help in vain flom Christian peo-
pie who passed by.
The statistician of the department OF
agriculture makes the corn crop only per.
cent short OF the great crop Of last year,
and fully so per cent greater than that OF
1874. The aggregate Is ,295, 900, 900 bushels.
The product Oft The South is 10, ,0OO, COO BUSH
els greater than that of last year that of
New England 800, 900 greater; and there is
less in The middle and western states.
There has been an increase in area in all
sections, aGgregating about 1900, 900 acres.
"A quail in Paris has been kept for two
years in cage with other quails destined
for the market. Whenever a customer ap-
pears, the quail we speak Of perches on one
leg aud frizzles himself up into fluffy
ball, which is sign of illness in quals.
The customer looks at him in disgust and
says, "No, not that quail, the bird is SICK"
and so this ingenious volatile lives on in
peace and comfort, while his companions
depart one by one TO their allotted toests.
Capt. Boynton has accomplished tho
feat OF swimming down the river Po, from
Turin TO Ferrara, after all. In November,
he swan from Turin TO Castel Nuovo in his
life-saving dress, 260 miles in SO hours, but
was obliged 10 leave the water, feeling that
a fever, caused by the malarious atmos-
pnefe Oh Tue river auu MS eXefuOuS, was
coming upon him. Starring again from
that place, however, be completed the jour
ney down The Po to FeTrars, $50 miles, in
&c hours, without break. This he states
to be the last, as il has been the longest OF
his feats.
Few persons are probably, aware Of
the extent to which an export trade in flesh
beef has grown up between this country
and Europe. Over 5000 quarters of Amer
lean fresh beef now reach Liverpool every
week, and are at once sent all over Eng
land. Birmingham alone receives 800
quarters. The laboring classes buy 1t
chiefly, ON the ground OF its cheapness, the
price being three or four pence below Eng
lish beef. The rapidity with which it is
sold is astonishing, and there seems no
limit TO the amount that will be taken. The
trade is evidently destined TO indefinite in-
crease. The cattle which furnish this beef
are slaughtered just before the steamers
start, aud the beef is thus only week up
on the water, aud arrives in the best con-
di.iun.