Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-20
IN GEN ERAL.

~ WIN AAAAfA A4s
"A western Connecticut man, the 18th
child of his parents, married the 18th child
of n neighbor, and people wonder if they will
have % children.
Pope Leo Mi is tall and spare, with n
patrician air. He has fine head crowned
with white hair, strongly marked features the
aspect of an ascetic, with something marble
like in the general appearance of the figure.
"A deep well at Stockton, Kan, has run
dry and turned to emitting sulphurous fumes,
to the mental decentralization of the owner.
who is credited with firmly believing that the
bottom has fallen into hell, and so spends
his time at the opening, axe in hand, ready
to split the devils skull when he comes out.
The hitherto despised and apparently
worthless pine straw has developed into new
industry and become an article of export at
Wilmington, N. G. Over eight tons were
shipped on one steamer to New York recent
ly, and the mandatory requires fifty tons
week. The straw first undergoes a sweating
process, by which an article of spirits is OBJ
tanned, used for medical purposes, and it is
then manufactured into paper, and also used
for stuffing mattresses.
A romantic young man of Darmstadt and
his betrothed tied themselves together and
jumped into pond last winter because the
girls parents opposed their marriage The
GOODNESS of the water chilled the young mans
ardor and he disentangled himself and made
for the shore, leaving the damscl to her fate.
He was lately sentenced to three years and
nine months in prison for the performance.
A dumb man has been fined and impris-
oned for swearing at Aberdeen, Scotland. 1t
was shown that the prisoner was greatly ex-
cited, gesticulated wildly, uttered incoherent
sounds, and acted just as profane men do
when they are angry. On the strength Of
this and the proverb 'the devil helps a dumb
man to swear the verdict of guilty was
found.
Michigan's credit is so very good that her
state treasurer has failed in his recent effort
to purchase and retire per cent bonds COM
ing due in 1888. The Dutch banking house
Of Hope Il Co., of Amsterdam held 800, 600
of these securities and refused to exchange
them on even terms for United States as
running till 1891, or to surrender them for
less than 10 per cent. premium, with accrued
interest.
Mr.. Heap, in charge of the United States
Legation at COnstantinople, in dispatch to
the Department of State announces the ARR.
val there of Joseph L. Clark and Francis H.
Bacon in the Dorian boat of only two
tons, from Boston. A voyage across the At
lantic in so small vessel excited great won
der in Constantinople. They encountered "A
severe Storm in which Clarke nearly lost his
life, their skif and some other articles being
washed overheard in the gale.
In the family of Joseph Phares in Gin
cinnati, there are five generations of the fam
lily represented, all under one roof. First is
the great great grandmother ninety years of
age; then the great grandmother aged about
10: then the grandmother forty years old
ti.a e
and last of all the child, which was born ten
days ago.
A terrific hailstorm, six miles wide. passed
from west to east, near Germantown, Colum-
bia county, n Y, between II and - O'Clock
Sunday night. The hailstones were rs large
as hickory nuts, and paues of glass in every
farmhouse were demolished Fruit of every
kind was destroyed, trees uprooted, fences
broken down, and near Claremont one or two
houses We're unroofed. The storm lasted on
ly ten minutes.
The case of the murderer, Edward Parr
of Philadelphia, who anticipated the labor of
the hangman by taking his own life in the
court room, is interesting, in that the post
norton examination of the body furnishes
evidence confirmatory of the theory that vio-
lent crimes may result from pressure upon
the brain occasioned by physical defects of
and it was found that, in reuniting, the walls
of the Uranium had thrown out an osseous
formation, which pressed upon the brain. 1t
is not unreasonable to suppose that this pres.
sure aggravated the mans naturally bad pas
sions, and induced the commission Of the
deed which has cost two lives.
delaware furnishes a parallel to the re-
cent Pocasset, Mass, tragedy in Giles Hitch
ens's murder of his ls-months boy near Con-
cord, Sussex county in 1851. "Gillie" was II
farmer who read his Bible good deal. and
the night before the killing he attended a
Methodist protracted meeting That night
he thought he heard the voice of God com
handing him to sacrifice his boy, and the
next morning he took the baby out into the
woods. dog ran to the fathers feet, and
surprising that like Abraham's ram il was to
take the place of the child, he waited for
such a command, but none came. Gillie was
| put on trial, but United States Senator Sails
bury's tears secured an acquttal. The man
| has since lived an upright life and is kind to
| his children.
At North Adams, Mass, and vicinity n
heavy rain, accompanied at intervals by ter
rifle thunder storms, prevailed during last
| Sunday and Sunday night. Brooklyn street
was torn up and quilted for n distance of 500
feet by Roaring brook a small stream which
passes through it and becomes entirely dry in
summer. On North Eagle street, above and
below Brigham's store, the highway was
washed ont from four to ten feet deep, and
the entire street, for a distance Of 2OOO feet,
was covered with debris, and large boulders
torn from the roadbed were hurled with ter
rifle force into the basement kitchens of the
Hall block, situated some 800 feet below the
store, running furniture and crockery and
smashing the windows in nearly every apart
ment. The basement and cellars of many
houses in Eagle street and Brooklyn street
were filed with water to the depth of several
feet The entire damage in No. Adams is es-
| tmntel Mt not less thnn $40 600