Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-12
IN GENERAL.

New Gork's new capitol building has
cost so far, -, 600, OGO. and is expected to
cost rs much more before it is finished or
three times as much as the Erie Canal did
The Mobile ala Register says that
new cotton mill i'll that city has entered upon
its work, and that it finds u ready sale on
profitable terms for all the yarns it can make.
Tile st. Paul pioneer-Pr,ss prints list
of 395 flour mills in Minnesota. operating
] rs? run of stone. Their capacity it esti-
mates at about 80, coo, O0O bushels Of wheat a
year.
A party of travellers recently came upon
pack of wolves near a river in Siberia which
were deyouring the frozen and perfectly pre-
served flesh of a mammoth. The carcass had
been exposed by the breaking away of a cliff
and it was doubtless the oldest preserved
meat in the world.
The St. Paul Press says that emigration
is pouring into Minnesota as never before.
along all the lines Of railroad which traverse
the western part of the State from the Iowa
line to the British boundary, and at every sta
tion the trains discharge crowds of land hun
tiers.
A stream Of intensely salt water % to 30
feet deep, pours out Of the side of a hill in
the White mountains of Arizona. and salt
enough to supply the world could easily be
manufactured out Of it by simply digging
bitches and leading the brine to basins in the
nearest deserts, where the heat of the sun
would alone do the work
In Nelson county, Va. a hawk was re-
Gently seen to seize II large moccasin snake,
and soar to Il considerable height with the
serpent writing in its claws, when suddenly
the bird clasped its wings and fell heavily to
the ground. The moccasin had bitten it in
the.ncck, but the talons of the hawk were so
buried in the yitals of the serpent that it also
died.
Never before We're there so many orange
trees being planted in California as this sea
son. The orange has proved productive in
all the interior counties, and III all the foot
hills east and west of the great valleys. There
is scarcely town in the middle counties that
in ten years from now will not grow more or
anges than they now grow apples or peaches,
1t is almost beginning to become on AK
ION in Kentucky politics that no man can be
a candidate for Governor who cannot bring
atfidavits to prove that he helped to construct
the present Executive mansion, two such
workmen, Metcaf a stone mason, and Letch-
er, II hod carrier, having since occupied the
building as chief officer of the State
A tube 100 feet long runs through line
of htching posts in Rockville Ct A farmer
was hitching his horse to the end post the
other day, when boy at the other end shout
ed through the pipe, ordering the farmer to
take his horse away. He unhitched, and
looked around to find whom he had offended,
but seeing no one, he concluded that he
wasn't the man, so he tied the halter again.
The mysterious voice again ordered him of.
and the bewildered man hastily jumped into
his wagon and rode away.
-Connecticuts new state house, incredible
as it may seem, has been built without any
increase of the appropriation. The statutory
limit of 500, 600 year has not been exceed
ed the building has been paid for out of the
proceeds of current taxation, and the State
will not owe a dollar on it when it is COM
pleted. Moreover, the last report of the COM
missioners sets forth that the fall in prices
during the last three years has been such as
TO make it possible to introduce some extras
not originally contemplated.
Virginia City, Nevada, is very quietly and
slowly moving to the eastward down the face
, of the mountain, owing TO the settling of the
ground over the bonanza mines. The fact is
not generally noticed by the people, but the
gas and water companies can distinctly see
the movement in their pipes. One was taken
up the other day which was telescoped for
over foot, while it also had great kink in
it, necessitating the removal of n section two
ed eastward five inches since it was built and
some large cracks in the earth are noticed
outside the town.
Virginia, rs a whole, is by no means the
worn out State which it has sometimes been
represented to be, for more than half of her
aggregate acreage is still covered with ''the
forest primeval." Large tracts of heavily
timbered land can be bought at 81 per acre,
and by turning in cattle as soon as the timber
is cleared off the blackberry bushes will be
kept down, and in two or three years the ma
tive blue grass will take possession and good
grazing farm will. be the result For stock
raising Virginia has some manifest climatic
advantages over the Western plains. and as
the timber will pay for the land, the State
claims to offer extraordinary inducements to
emigrants.
One of the most remarkable flashes of
lightning on record was noticed at Detroit the
other day, where number of buildings in all
parts of the city were struck Mt the same in
stant. Some singular freaks of the electric
current were also noticed A girl was sewing
in a house which was struck, and when she
recovered from the shock she found the nee
die which she still held between her fingers
blackened and softened by the electric heat
and bent into the shape of sickle. A lamp
lighter who was just lighting the gas in the
street had his torch wrenohed from his hand
and was thrown into the mud, while in all
parts of the city other singular experiences
were noted. Strangely enough, however, no
body was hurt.