Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-07-13
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When couple go abroad on their
bridal tour, could you call it a marrytime
excursion?
Mrs. Malloy, the temperance lectuerer,
is not dead as announced in the papers re-
Gently, but liveth and is likely TO recover.
There have been S73 deaths from dipthe-
ria at San Francisco during the past twelve
months, and defective sewerage and foul
streets are blamed for IL.
AT Vienna, Mich, few days ago al a
golden wedding, Mr.. Louis Jacobs, who
was LOG years old, the father of the BRIDE
groom, opened the dance, leading out as
his partner a young lady OF II.
In England all crops that are grown for
their seeds are called corn, WI lille in this
country we restrict the use Of the word TO
maize or Indian corn. The Englishman
defines corn as seed which grows in ears,
not pods.
Love is always sweet. An Illinois man
on his way to the penitcntiary, was kissed
by his sweetheart, and with her lips she
passed into his mouth the key with which
be subsequently unlocked his handouts
and gained his liberty.
Memorial Hall on the Centennial
grounds is now occupied 10y the Philadel-
phia School Of Industrial Art, and is to be
opened TO the public on Sundays as well as
week days, that the working people may
profit by the collection.
The game of pallone has at last been
introduced into New York 10y the Italian
az Il Z, l.. a
sport that demands muscle and agility as
well as skill, all Of which produces a spec
tacle that is quite exciting.
"A promising South Eud youth OF five
summers, being about to retire for the eve
ming, was asked by his mother TO kneel 10y
her side and repeat the Lords prayer. The
little chap, whose mind was evidently in
tent on the beauties Of the national game,
having reached the middle Of the prayer
paused, looked into his mothers face and
exclaimed, "Bily Brown is boss short
stop" and proceeded with his deyotions as
ifnothing had TRANSFERRED.
While a man at Little Valley, n. y,
was drawing waller from an open well re-
Gently with a pail attached to rope, he
stumbled and fell head-first into the water.
As his hands passed into the sand in the
bottom they struck hard substance
which he conyulsively clulched. lie was
soon rescued uniuiured, and what he had
! in his hand was found TO be a purse con
tanning over $500, part in gold, which KEEP
| II under the water. The purse was mvs.
teriously lost by member Of the family
| two years ago.
One seldom hears of an assassin who
so much wants To be hanged as to make 9
| legal application in that line. But there is
such case in Ohio. a Mrs. Sarah Victor
! who was sentenced some years ago, to ex
| plate the crime of fratricde upon the scat
! fold. had her sentence commuted to iui-
| prisonment for life. Recently, however
she made application TO have the origina
| sentence carried out, because she had new
er consented TO the change. JUDGE Bing
ham, after celebrating on the matter
year and half, decided that i'm the eve o
the law she was an escaped prisoner, aIC
ordered that she be turned over for trial
| But an injunction has been put upon The
execution Of his directions, and Mrs. Vic
tor remains in the pcuitentiary awaiting
the decision OF the supreme court as tt
whether Sue can have the privilege Of be
ing hanged.
The residence OF Mr.. John uoey, tbs
most spacious and elegant at Long Branch
and probably the fines in New Jersey, i
situated on an estate vi one hundred ant
sixty acres. The grounds are laid out il
excellent taste, and the greenhouses ar,
very extensive; one contains twelve sec
tons of seleutv-fve feet each, and one i
in course Of construction four hundred fee
by thirty. In these houses there is tn,
greatest display, probably, in the country
There is one specimsn OF the Ldtdnicd Dor
bOnicd, a native of China, which is said L
have cost $500. One Of the greenhouse
was brought from the Vienna exhibition il
1873, and cost $1,000. The greenhouses al
together are said TO have cost $780, 600, an,
the plants $4,000. They are lighted will
gas al night, and present most splendi,
appearance. In the summer season Thea
plants are. brought out aud occupy tn
ground in front Of The mansion ia space O
about 1000 yards, and number some 1000,
600 plants. About twenty-five men are em
ployed constantly during the winter AM
about fifty daring the summer.
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