Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03
IN GEN ERAL.

empt from taxation to the extent Of $1,000.
A digger in South Africa recently found
a 9l3 carat diamond and sold it on the spot
for $35, 900.
BENEFITS steam yacht, the Jeanette ar
rived at St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, August
u; all were we'll
The society of the army of Tennessee Mt
Chicago was to have held its reunion Novem-
Der > and e, but, as Gen. Grant cannot ar
rive till November 10, it will be postponed
till then. Gen. Grant requests that the meet
ing be without display.
A party of % prospectors have been
massacred by the Indians near the eastern
boundary of Utah.
Prof. Peters of Hamilton college hunts
for planet when he has nothing else to do.
and is pretty sure to run one down. His
last was discovered on the night of the 18th,
and as that was the lSOOth anniversary of the
destruction of Pompei he names the planet
Pompeia.
A large number of counterfeit 81 green
backs have just been put in circulation at
Dayton, o. They are so nicely executed
that they were received and paid out by the
banks without suspicion. The colored silk
woven into genuine bills is nicely initiated
with ink, and only very close inspection de-
tects the difference. 1t is the most dangerous
counterfeit ever circulated.
During Gen. Grants visit to Toxic, ia
pan, he and Mrs Grant each planted a sap
ling near the Toshoga Temple. craven
stone to commemorate the event has been
placed in front of each tree, one bearing the
inscription, Grants Hinoki' and the other
Mrs Grants Giyokuran."
The Texas bell-punch law has closed Il
great many liquor shops in that State.
M. DanilofT, the eminent Russian ongin-
Ger, has begun on the work of cutting the
Black and Caspian seas by connecting various
| rivers.
Each of Queen Victoria's journeys from
England to Scotland costs $4,000 on ac-
count of the excessive precautions that no
accidents may befall her.
The marriage of King Alfonso of Spain
with the Archduchess Maria Christiana of
| Austria is to take place on his twenty -second
| birthday the 22d of November.
Willie Chisom, the youngest son of the
victim of the Mississippi murderers, has been
adopted by Il wealthy citizen OF Tennessee,
| Mr. William Harris of cambridge.
A poor but high-spirited woman in Chi
cago pounds an old rag on the kitchen table
every morning to make the neighbors believe
she has beefsteak for breakfast
Several of the best known of Mr.. San
keys and Mr. Bliss hymns are being trans
lated at Lucknow, India, into the veruacular
| of that country, for use in Christian church
of which native is pastor.
The destruction of Pompeii : centuries
ago was celebrated over the ruins last Friday,
with addresses by Prof. Ruggieri and others,
| and excavations We're made which un,arthed
many curious and valuable relies.
The spot where Stoncwall Jackson fell
has been marked with large bowlder of ma
tive white quartz, taken from the mining
region near Wilderness, W. Va, and the
stone will be suitably inscribed.
Francis d. Moulton of mutual friend
notoriety, and W. II. Hazard, composing the
firm of f. ID. Moulton a Co., have been sus
pended from the New York Produce EX
change for conduct inconsistent with just anC
equitable principles of trade.
The case of the estate of James b. Tay
lor, who died in New York in $50, supposed
to be worth 81, OOO. 600. is another example o
'Jarndyce VS.. Jandyce." Eight years of lit
gation has eaten up the whole estate, ant
the litigants get nothing.
The civil damage law is to be tried in Al
interesting case in Illinois The widow of
murdered man has sued the saloon-keeper o
whom the drunken murderers bought thei
liquor. the owner of the building and tn
agent through whom it was leased.
Lionel Tennyson, the poets younges
son, has done what his father refused to d
changed his name to Lionel Tennyson TuI
ner and secured an income of -, 600 annua
". which was left by his uncle under cond
ton that the recipient should be known b
the surname of Turner.
A well dressed woman drew II crowd Il
gether in n Cincinnati street by striking
man across the face several times with whiI
and then finishing the punishment with h'
1 fists. She coolly explained that he was he
runaway husband, whom she had laboriousl
, traced for the sole purpose of whipping hin
The poor people in England who wal
to emigrate to America, and cant raise IL
means, have invented sort Of lottery for IL
3 purpose. They make up Il common purs'
. and rattle for the chance to emigrate. III
l plan is popular, aud many who don't wal
5 | to leave the country contribute, as 1t Is
their advantage to diminish the number
laborers.
i A terrible explosion Of 400 kegs of gu
l powder occurred on railroad train 10 mil'
4 from Port Cortez, Honduras, September
v The conductor and all the passengers, 10
. number. were literally blown to pieces, an
, most of the cars were demolished. Amor
the victims is Capt. Hicken OF the schoon
: John Atwood of New Orleans.
i People are sometimes apt to say tn
| they don't call any one relation VINO Is mo
. remote than second cousin at turthest, b.
!. when the present Earl of Breadalbane su
-, ceeded his twelfth cousin in the possession
'' Yarmouth Castle the finest seat in Scotlan
l. with $500 600 year, he felt that the rel
e tionship might be recognized even at tn
lie distance.
d Mrs James Bryant of Lowndes count
Ala, gave her wealth of back hair to he
+ the Memphis fever sufferers last year, and
= sale realized several hundred dollars. II
hair finally came into the hands of Bostt
y merchant who returned it TO its original ow
1t err, and it has started on another mission
e. help the orphans of the late Gen. Hood, W
"a recently died at New Orleans.
Il Crude rubber has risen fifty per cent.
price since last spring, owing to the lie
Z supply. The caoutchouc trees of Brazil {
r diving out owing to frequent tapping, and I
i'll Indians who collect the gum are compel
to go further into the dangerous and alm'
impenetrable forests. As the Indians
lazy and the work arduous and poorly pa
they will not undertake it if other emplC
ment can be found. The % per cent.
b levied by Brazil makes the matter worse.
Louis Kossuth, now Il years old, is
err ing in voluntary exile near Turin, TIA
at where he has mainly occupied himself W
, his flowers, his pet dogs and his books.
has resolved to die without permitting III
self another glimpse of his beloved Hunga
III as there would be such demonstration
an case of his return that it might be looked
ON with suspicion and injure his friends "
m are many of them, in government offices.
90 New York people are complaining bitt
ly of the condition of Central Park since
n' fell into the hands of the Tammany Hall |
* iticians 1t is declared that the park, VIII
he was once a thing of beauty, and recogni
ls. by all connoisseurs as the best example
m. landscape gardening in the world, is now
o ing its beauty and fast going to decay.
81 A black bass was discovered frozen
the centre of block of ice at Roundout,
Y, the other day. 1t had been locked
I a there for eight months, and when cut on
'ch was stiff as a board. Ii was at once pla
G. in a tin vessel containing cistern water,
In in half an hour it showed signs of life. \
tly it occupies place in a globe on the couI