Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-21
NO. u.
IN GEN ERAL.

yearly yield equal to that in Great Britain for
1000 years
Malicious persons cut off the name and
tail Of horse owned by u clergyman in I'm
ion City, Penn. who had taken part in the
prosecution of some liquor sellers. II was a
noble revenge.
The Madrid Historical Academy announc-
es after investigation that there is no truth in
the report that the remains Of Christopher
Columbus had been discovered in the Cathe-
dral of San Domingo.
"A man in Petersburg Va, dreamed on
Thursday night last that he was to witness a
shooting affray, and the very next day two
respectable citizens began popping away at
each other few yards from him.
Minnesota thinks Of going into the salt
business. In boring for water at st. Vincent,
the st. Paul and Pacific railroad tapped a
fountain of brine at the depth Of 1866 feet
which spouts out a six inch stream of as strong
pickle" as pork was ever packed in
The farmers of Southern Georgia are
complaining that it is becoming difficult TO
find colored laborers, because they are con
stantly settling down upon cheap lands and
working a little farm of their own.
The Frederick md. Times tells of hog
dug out alive from under a straw-rick, where
it had been buried for seven months and a
half The porker had lost 300 pounds in that
time, and, being too weak to digest the food
given it, died soon after it was found.
-Brantford, Ont. thought it had an earth
quake shock the other night, but found in the
morning that an acre or more of ground near
by had dropped down 40 feet, so that the tops
of the trees were just visible above the per-
pendicular sides of the chasm.
A Council Bluffs, Ia, girl, on suicide in
tent asked for morphine in drug store. The
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powerful emetic. She returned an hour af-
terward, expressed her opinion Of a man who
would deceive a distracted girl in that way,
and demanded her money back.
The pen-holder cut in the centennial year
in Bechertown, Mass. on Dr. j. G. Hollands
birthplace, and used by the original members
of the Holland club in subscribing their
names in 1877, has been elegantly mounted
in gold and silver, and is to be presented TO
DR.. Holland.
As shocking q holocaust as often startles
a community was the burning to death of j.
NJ Lunsford and six of his children at Car
bonville, o. The father awoke at night to
find his house on fire, and, after saving his
wife and baby, went back to save his other
children, but was suffocated by the smoke and
burned to death with them.
Michigan University reports faculty of
"a members and 1872 students OF the latter
Al are in the literary academic depart
ment, 329 in the medical and 400 in the law
schools. The attendance now is larger than
that of any former period in the history of the
University, and, it is claimed, larger than of
any similar institution in the country.
A shocking case of babes in the woods"
is reported from Sand Hill, S. c. Mrs
Amanda Pope started to visit her brother five
miles away, and, taking a path through the
woods, lost her way and wandered through
the forest. At the end of 10 days she was
found just alive, lying on the ground with a
dead baby on either arm.
A remarkable family has been raised in
Castleton, as regards longevity. Their names
are Jacob, 80, Edward, 81, Samuel SO, Alex
ander, 10, and William Wheeler, ~ total,
Alb years. The two oldest reside there and
the others live elsewhere. The father lived
to be % and their grandfather Wheeler died
at the age of 1902 Within the last year six
grandchildren have been added to Jacobs
family, increasing the number of his grand
children to 80.
Rev. Sidney NJ Strong of East Lake
George, n. Y. realizes that revolver is lia-
bic to be as dangerous as the scamps it is car
ried to guard against. He had to be away
from home quite often and got revolver for
his wife to use on any presumptuous tramp.
But while Rev. Strong was explaining the use
of the weapon to his wife, he shot her in the
head, and thinking she was dead, tried to
shoot himself. Luckily both were glancing
shots. and husband and wife will both recov-
er.
A judge of the United States circuit court
at San Francisco, when witness was claimed
as incompetent on the ground of his disbe-
lief in a Diety, decided in effect, the other
day, that the common law doctrine on that
question is obsolete, inasmuch as the COM
mon rule would exclude men like Huxley and
Tyndall from the witness box, and that if the
rule was not obsolete it ought to be. Its en-
forcement," said the Judge, would be an out
rage, and would cut off by circumstance
very important testimony"
-Bismark's big dog, which attacked Gort-
schakof, while the latter was at Berlin attend
ing the congress, has been in mischief again,
this time killing the pet dog of a railway EN-
ployG at Friedrichsruh. Bismarck expressed
his regrets, and told the man to go to Ham
burg, and, at his expense, select any dog
there that might please him. The man re-
piled that it was not worth while he had on
ly been keeping the animal for his children to
play with. Bismarck thereupon sent the
children a hand organ to replace their pet.
A funny scene was witnessed a few days
ago in the federal court at Danville, Va, the
Judge of which (Rives), it will be recollected,
recently instructed his grand jury to indct a
ored men on the juries colored man nam
ed Gravely was indicted for selling liquor
without license. When he saw the jury be-
fore which he was to be tried, about equally
divided between white and black, he exclaim-
ed, For Gods sake don't let them niggers
try me !" Efforts were made TO pacify him,
but he insisted that ''niggers would hang a
man just to see him kick"
1t is related of the late Elihu Burritt that
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from the West Indies written in Danish. The
manuscript was very difficult to decipher, and
after going the rounds of several colleges was
finally referred to Mr.. Burritt for interpreta-
ton. He was then working at the forge, but
made up his mind that he would master it.
He was acquainted with the Danish tongue,
but that was only half the task. The badly
written manuscript must be deciphered. He
worked at it two weeks in his spare time, and
succeeded When he sent the will back, trans
lated with absolute correctness he said he.
would only charge what he would have earned
at the forge.
The Rev. Mr.. Jasper, of Richmond, Va,
who pins his faith ON the notion that 'the
sun do move" called ON Brother Scogin to
open last Sunday evenings service with pray
er, and he did so as follows; 80 Lord, we's
a mighty abused people ives had hard
time in slavery wes been all broken to
plVSthS VIC bon-lSbbuhi AhoSA-hASNHi
shanked, cross-eyed, and great many of us
is hunchbacked. Now, Lord, we wants TO be
mended up, and we wants you to come and
do it. Don't send an angel, for dis is too big
a job for an angel. You made us, o Lord, an
you know our wants, an you can fix us as no.
body else can. Come right down yourself,
and come quickly"
Archbishop Purcell of the Roman Cstho-
lie Church at Cincinnati has for long time
been receiving the funds of his people TO keep
in trust, as a sort of savings bank. He was
given with it the most implicit trust, and mil
lions were in his hands. He took the money
without keeping any systematic account, lent
it out without adequate security, put it with
church funds, spent portion of it for chari-
ty, and now when the people want their dues
he cannot meet their demands. He cannot