Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15
IN GENERAL.

The Valley Forge centennial viii be cele-
brated at Norristown, Pa, June 10.
England gets along with killing one pas
senger in every ,25G 900 on her railroads.
-Longfellow says it would take a third of
his income to give all the photographs and
autographs be is asked for.
The Murphy temperance movement has
got down to Little Rock, Ark, and 20 con-
verts wert made at the first meeting.
Mr.. Murray's sermons are dictated in adj
vance of delivery to a lady typewriter, and
he breaches from the printed pages
"A 12-year-old girl in Pottsville, Pa, mix
cd quantity of vinegar and soda and drank
it, and died from the effects.
Geo. Cruikshank, the celebrated drauglts-
man and caricaturist, died at his home in
London, on Friday, the 1st inst, aged Sc.
When the Constitution was adopted there
were seventy-five postofices in the United
States now there are over fl 900, and in
crcasing monthly.
1t is estimated that the restoration of
peace will set ahoat about forty million bush
els of wheat, which have accumulated at Rus
sian railway stations.
Mr. Lord is outdone by Mr.. Stapleton of
Flatland, Ohio who at % has married a wild
ow of 30 but as the widow had fortune the
bridegroom's relatives do not complain.
A dispatch dated Shanghai, China, Satur-
day, announces that an asylum for women
and children at the city of Tien-Tsin has been
burned, and that more than 1000 persons per-
ished.
Mrs. James Titus of Edenburg, Pa. was
crossing bridge with her little son Ralph
few nights ago, when he slipped through the
trestle and fell into the stream and was killed,
leaving the mitten which he wore in his moth
ers hand
The Senate Committee on Railroads re-
r Gently heard Frederick Billings of this State,
chairman of the executive committee of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in adyo-
cacy of the proposed ten years extension of
time, and against Senator Mitchells bill on the
subject.
-Richmond, Va, is having the most sweep
ing religious revival ever known there, con-
Quoted by Rev. w. ]. Ransford. young
evangelist of the church of England; the
wealth and fashion of the city are drawn in,
and nothing else is talked of.
Miss Sallie Porter, Is years old. a daugh-
ter of w. II. Porter of Woodburn, one of the
suburban districts Of Cincinnati, while in the
delirium of n fever, escaped from her room
andhouse shortly after midnight Sunday, wan
dered a couple of squares barefooted. clad on
ly in her night dress, and died.
Times are certainly changing in Ken.
lucky The blue ribbon is not an uncommon
badge in either house of the Legislature, and
the Louisville Courer-Journal pronounces the
members, as a class. the most orderly and So
Der set of men gathered at Frankfort in late
years.
Quite romantic event took place at Waxa-
hachie, Tex, the other day in the marriage of
Nicholas Sims, wealthy farmer 20 years old,
to Mrs. Dunlap, GO years of age. They had
been plighted lovers in their Tennessee home
10 years ago, but separated, and Sims has
been married once and his bride twice in the
interval.
A subscription to raise S4OO to build a
church has been circulated in a Minnesota
town, but the local paper recommends that
the sum demanded be diverted to q new cheese
factory, on the ground that no pecuniary ben
etits will accrue from new church edifce,
while cheese factory will pay dividend
A Connecticut lady who had noticed that
in the morning the earth had been unusually
disturbed in a large flower pot which she had
brought into the house for the winter, made
an examination and found snugly coiled up
at the bottom four live adders, each about
foot long. They were cremated without cere-
mony
The miracle" cure of j. H. Shrack of
Philadelphia, who was said to have had a
heavenly vision recently, while apparently
dead, loses much of. its interest when we are
told that Shrack has local reputation which
does not lead to implicit faith in his narrative,
and that he evidently made up his yarn in
order to gain little cheap notoriety."
Harry Genet, of Tammany ring and Har-
lem court house fame, entered the court of
oyer and terminer in New Yo' a Monday morn
ing in company with his counsel, W. A.
Beach, and surrendered himself. He was ad-
niffah m hail in Co. IIn hos haap n g.,
gitive for two or three years, having escaped
from the officers while being allowed some
liberties at his home on the Hudson.
-Four children of Thomas Cassidy were
overcome by the flames of fire on the sec
ond floor of 554 9Th street, New York, that
started in some bed-clothes set ablaze by n
spark from n stove, and two of them, John.
two years old, aud James, IL months were
dead when found, while Joseph, >, and Thom-
as, 4, We're insensible, though it was thought
their lives would be saved.
In the year 1896, what is known as the
Obelisk of Luxor, removed from Egypt, was
erected in the Place G. In ConcOrde, in Paris,
an excellent site, at n cost of over $500, 900,
and is great and novel ornament in the
handsomest of all European cities 1t weighs
800, 600 pounds, and is formed of fine red
Syenite granite Each of its four faces is COW
cred with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
An establishment in St. Louis dries eggs
by the hundred thousand, The eggs are
broken, the yolk and white separated from
the shell, the liquid dried by heating process
and the dried article, which resembles brown
sugar, is put in barrels for transportation.
The dried article has been twice taken across
the equator in ships, and ON being made into
omelets proved to be as nice as fresh eggs.
Probably the most enormous petition ever
presented to Congress was the petition of the
Woman's National Christian Union, with 3O,-
900 signatures attached, praying that the free
sale of liquors may be prohibited in the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territories of the
United States, which was presented in the
House by Mr.. Frye of Maine last week. The
petition was too bulky to be laid upon the
speakers desk, and was deposited upon a
chair in front of the stenOgraphers' seats, tied
up in red, white and blue ribbon.