Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-10-25
HN ERAL.

"A terrible rumor comes from abroad that
the days of crinoline are to return.
1t is alleged that over - whites have
been murdered by the Cheyennes during their
recent raid.
The rapid growth of Chicago is indi-
Gated by the statement of the Tribune that
nearly five miles of new houses and stores
have been built during the first nine months
of this year. The number of buildings is
sol, and they cost S4,3iG. 200.
At Greenback caucus in Ithaca, N. Y,
the other night the chairman made the re
mark that "-ome black sheep were TO be
sooner uttered than up jumped a colorod
man, the only one present, who wanted to
know what de chair was 'luding at.
Two physicians in Ohio are quarrelling
in print as to their skill They accuse each
other of killing patients, and give the names
of the alleged victims with criticisms of the
treatment and other information Of charac-
ter highly interesting to relatives of the de-
ceased persons.
Out of thirty eight men employed on the
Memphis Appeal only two escaped the yellow
fever and out Of forty -four employed on the
Avalanche only two are left; twelve have
died, twenty -four are sick and eight have left.
Each paper was at one time reduced to one
editor and single compoSltor.
A remarkable specimen of meteoric iron
has been received at Yuma, Cal, from Mo
have desert. 1t weighs about pound, con-
tains gold, is not magnetic, and has success
fully resisted simple and compound baths of
acid, and has defed the best cold chisels in
the blacksmith shop, and has not broken or
Clipped under heavy blows.
Only one of the big trees of California
has ever been folled by the hand Of man. To
accomplish this it required the work Of five
men for twenty-five days, not chopping, but
with long augers boring it down. After the
tree was completely severed, the veteran still
stood unmoved, refusing to fall, until by
ropes, pulleys and wedges the enormous
trunk was brought to the earth This tree
was found to be over 300 feet long, 90 feet in
circumference at the base and sound to the
very heart.
John B. Cough is achieving a great sue
cess in England. In speaking of lecture in
London, the correspondent of the Liverpool
Mercury says: "Mr Coughs oratory is
more like n raging fire than a tiny spark. He
rushed along through pathos and fun, exhor-
tation and defamation, now shouting, now
whispering, but always suiting his action to
his theme dramatically until he almost took
away ones breath. The audience was COM
pletely at his mercy. He might before he had
fnishsd have said what he pleased to it, so
ready was it to respond to him"
The tanning of wild animals seems to be
progressing, and something may be accom-
plished in the end not at present foreseen.
The elephant, camel and the dromedary are
now used in agriculture and transportation
pair of elk have been subjected to harness
in one of the Western States; the ass or mule
is nearly as domestic as the horse reindeer
have been used in the harness. and now we
hear from Paris that the zebra has been par
TALLY civilized us a beast of burden. and it is
proposed TO use the animal in the project of
crossing Africa from the mouth of the Niger
TO the east coast.
1t took two men six hours to remove the
tar from the person of w. G.. Jones, who was
recently tarred and feathered at Reno, Neva-
da and sent out of town. He was in most
pitiabe condition and suffered excrutiating
pain. The tar blisters like plaster. and the
cuticle 'peels off as if il had been scalded The
mans head, neck and entire body had a thick
coating. Even his face and eyes were plas-
tered with it. Everybody who saw the poor
wretch pitied him, his suffering was so ex-
treme causing his hand to clutch nervously
and his body to twitch spasmodically. His
eyes were fairly burning up, and the next day
were terribly inflamed. 1t is doubtful if he
ever RECEIVERS his sight, so fearfully were the
balls burned and blistered.
A monkey at the Alexandra Palace, Lon
don, was recently suffering from toothache,
so they put him into bag whence only his
head protruded and handed him over TO the
dentist. Pug screamed and snapped and
threatened 10 be very troublesome, but when
the dentist managed to get his hand on the
abscess and gave relief, the monkeys de-
meanor changed entirely. He laid his head
down quietly for examination, and without
the use of the gas submitted to the removal
of q stump and tooth as quietly as possible
A large bear at the Berlin Zoo had become
blind through a cataract on both eyes. They
strapped him up, chloroformed him, had him
treated by an oculist, and when next he was
allowed to come into the light and noticed
that he could see clearly, the great brute
winked and capered in ecstasy.
The supreme court of Virginia has decid.
ed that white and colored persons cannot in
termarry in that State. The facts are these
In 1874 Andrew Kinney, colored, was mar
, ried to Miss Miller, white, in the District OF
Columbia. They removed to Virginia and
were tried for unlawfully living together.
Their plea was that they were lawfully mar
ried. The case has Just been decided on ap-
peal that they cannot be lawfully married,
and they were declared guilty and fined $500.
The Judge, in delivering his decision said
that such marriage was an evasion of the
State law of Virginia, which declares all such
marriages absolutely void, and that ii has
been the pronounced public policy of Virgin
ia for century to prohibit intermingling OF
the races.