Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-01
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IN GENERAL.


/ large towns Of France.
/ Maryland has ,05G schools, with 15O-
276 pupils and 2,0O6 teachers, and the total
expense last year was 81, 5l4, ,jl5
MIR. d. Il. Locke-better known as Pc
/ troleum V. Hasby-is now editing and pub
fishing the New York Evening Mail.
The Reformed Episcopal church now
numbers sixty clergymen, fifty parishes and
/ about four thousand commandments
--Puebla, Col, is agog over the discovery
ut the Raula mines near there of lode of ore
which assays S12, 600 in gold and S1lOO in
silver per ton.
A democratic editor in Iowa desponding-
/ ly says that printing papers of that pcrsua-
sion in the State is about as profitable as would
/ be peddling peanuts in q graveyard ut mid
night.
The Ashtabula accident cost the Lake
| Shore and Michigan Southern railway COM
pany S493, $40, and all the claims on account
of the accident have been settled
"A burglar was recently hung in North
! Carolina, State which still makes the ofense
capital one, but Gov. Vance has commuted
the sentence Of another one to Imprisonment
for life.
According to the Railroad Gazette's rec
ord there were ., 100 miles of railroad built in
the United States last year. against =, AGO in
1876 and !, 561 in 1870
Mayor Turner of Des Moines Ia wrote
his resignation last November and placed it in
the hands of one of the aldermen to be pre-
sented the next time he got drunk. The
casion for presenting the letter came last
week.
-"On a farm in Lyons, Rice county. the
ants, in their excavations, bring to the sur
face quantities of small beads, supposed to
| have been formerly in the possession of In
diang." This story comes from Kansas, and
no one is under any obligation to believe it,
A singular and fatal accident recently
happened in Aiddletown. N. j. A man nam
ed Kelley, while climbing over fence lost
his balance and fell, and his feet being caught
between the pickets his head was buried in
the sand, in which position he was sufocated.
The estimated weight of California min
erals to be sent to the Paris Exposition is 500
tons. There is to be a pyramid 20 feet square
and nearly 10 feet high to represent the 70,-
600, 600 cubic inches of gold which has been
produced on the Pacific coast Its equivalent
would be a solid gold cube 1G feet thick
Mr. Marshall, the first discover,r Of gold
in California, still lives at Coloma, in that
State. In this place he made his great dis
covery thirty years ago, and has remained
there ever since. He made fortune in min
ing, but has spent nearly all of it, and is now
a comfortable cultivator of grapes
The following message recently passed
through the Chicago Office Il lent you one
year ago tonight S4.S7. If you have not had
it long enough, please keep it year long
er." To this delicate hint this answer was
returned: Had forgotten it, and hoped you
had Let her run another year"
Another illustration of the fact that in
ventors seldom realize the benefit of thel
own inventions is the recent death of John
Young, the inventor of the clothes-w -wringer
at Amsterdam, n. y, in comparative poverty
He once sold conditional right to Boston
firm for $4,000, when he might have realized
| S1OO,OO
Few movements are making more rapid
progress in England than the higher educa-
tion of women. A new high school for girls
is about to be established at Mazda Hill
Newnhman Hall, Cambridge. has been en-
larged to accommodate ~ students and Cir
ton college has recently had so many appli-
cunts that it must at once be extended.
A family at Atlanta, Ga, thought il fine
thing TO train a pet monkey TO rock the ba-
by's cradle TO quiet it when it cried. One
day, when alone with the infant finding the
rocking process inefficacious. the animal jump
ed into the cradle bit and scratched the child's
nose and face, aud when discovered was tear
ing its clothing into bits and stuffng them in
to the child's mouth.
The latest innovation in deep-sea dredg-
ing is submarine ploughing, which has been
successfully carried on lately in Belfast har-
bor The bottom of the bay is covered with
tenacious clayey deposit, into which the
steam shovel penetrates with difficulty, and
to loosen it large Michigan plough was set
to work, drawn by steam power on shore ard
guided by II man in divers armor.
The changes of commerce have nearly
ruined the island of ST. Helena. The GUS
toms revenue has sunk to $50. 900, the Eng
lish troops of the line have been withdrawn,
and one-fourth of the whole population has
emigrated, chiefly TO the Cape of Good Hope,
while the remainder have been reduced to the
greatest straits. There are now only 2G8l
males left in the island, of whom 1854 are
children, and the prospect is that the decline
will continue.
During last year 2G centenarians died in
the United States, their aggregate age being
2692 years. The oldest was Capt. Lahrbush.
who died last April in New York at the al
legged age of Ill. One of the most interest
ing cases was that of Augustine Picard, who
died in Rochester. n. Y, at the age of 100.
His father is said to have lived to the age of
los and his mother to 1O4. His sister, 100
years old, is still alive iH Quebec. The de-
ceased was an inveterate smoker, and scarce
ly i'll for day in his life. OF the whole 2G,
no less than 15 were women, and of the II
males one was colored
The red ribbon" is fluttering all over
the country, and is even gaining ground in
Kentucky, the capitol of King Whisky's king
dom AtMetropolis near Paducah, a town of
$500 inhabitants, 100 have already signed
the Murphy pledge, two saloons have shut up
for lack of custom and others are doing los
ing business. In other towns equally impor-
tant work is going on. In Michigan, also, the
work is spreading, being much strengthened
by the efforts of the young women, who are
forming societies pledged to have nothing to
do with young men who do not belong to red
ribbon clubs.
The recent death of Alexander Grailha of
New Orleans, recalls singular experience of
his life In his younger days he was drawn
into a duel in which he received a serious
wound by being run completely through the
body. After his wound healed up he was new
er able to stand erect, but exhibited curious
inclination of his body to one side, owing to
an abcess which had formed in the course of
the sword thrust. Some time after he en-
gagged in a second duel with pistols and re-
ceived ball through exactly the same place,
which broke the abscess that had formed and
made him well man again.
The son of the late ex-Gov. N. b. Baker,
of New Hampshire, is accused of n murder in
, Cheyenne His father was Adjutant-G General
of Iowa for several years during and subse-
quent to the war One Of the Iowa papers
says: Those who remember gentle Willie
Baker Us a ready page boy in the Iowa legis-
lature of a a few years ago, will find it sorry
! task to identify him with the fierce Cheyenne
murderer who drove a knife through COM
rade's body Hard, indeed, must have been
the trials which transformed him into such a
p bloody savage. He descended, on his moth
er's side, from the New York Ten Broecks,
and is third cousin of Hon. Hamilton Fish. "
+, "A most interesting experiment is to be
made in Paris during the Exposition for the
benefit of those mature "Toddies" who want
to see the earth go wound" II is well-known
that if pendulum could be set up at the
: North Pole il would swing around the circle
I, once in "a hours, and at any place not direct
| ly over the eartL's axis q correction for the