Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-12-12
NO. so.
IN GEN ERAL.


The electric light is in use on some of the
Prussian railways rs a headlight for the loco
motives
The Grand Opera House at Toronto was
burned Saturday morning, Goth ult. loss
5000 600. Three persons who slept in the
building were burned to death.
The greatest tax payer in the United
States is Mr.. Blackwell, the North Carolina
tobacco manufacturer, who pays 4 tax of
$500, 600 a year. $4,000 week, or over
S1420 per day.
"A man at Dutch Flat Cal, picked up
stone the other day to throw at COW. The
weight of it attracted his attention. and on ex-
animation it was found to contain more than
500 worth of gold
A French statistician has computed that
| if person were to live continually in a rail
way carriage and spend all his time in travel
ing, the chances in favor of his dying from
railway accident would not occur until he was
9G0 years old.
The smallest tea set in the world belongs
to Mr.. W. II. Riland Of Reading, Pa. While
| he was prisoner during the war he Whitfield
out a complete set of tea things from peach
kernels He has refused $40 for the set
"A white marble monument has Just been
erected over the grave of the mother of Pres
ident Lincoln in Spencer county, Indiana. A
South Bend, Ind, gentleman, bore most of
the expense.
The revenue has lost $1,000, 600 by the
Democratic tobacco legislation, yet no man
has purchased his narcotic any cheaper than
before. But for the revival of business the
loss would have been greater
The American colonization society is lit
orally overwhelmed with applications for pas
sage to Liberia by the freedmen of the South.
The applicants are counted by hundreds of
thousands. Each emigrant costs the society
800 for his passage and six months sup
port.
Gen. James Harding Railroad Commits
| sioner of Missouri is doing his work in a nov
el manner He is now on a 2OO-mile walk
over the railroads of Northwest Missouri in
| specting the condition of the road-beds, rails,
ties and bridges. The work, he clnims, can't
be properly done in palace car or from car
platform.
Springfield, ILL.,, has 800 cases of scarlet
fever, in population of %, 200. The public
schools have been closed till January /, and
public funerals of those dying of the disease
have been prohibited. The death rate how
ever has fortunately been small.
Mrs. Lincoln has written that she expects
to be ut Washington the coming winter, but
it is stated that her son Robert, now in Chica-
60 will not permit it on account of the shock
still none of the strongest.
Thanksgiving day was more generally OBJ
served abroad this year than ever before.
Services were held that day in English
French and German cities by the American
residents and their friends. At Berlin, pro-
fessors in the university, and in that of Got
| tingen, took part in these services.
Steps were taken at the recent annual
banquet of the Gen. Meade veteran associa-
tion of Carlisle, Pa, to erect an equestrian
statute to Gen. Meade on one of the govern
ment reservations in Washington, and the
| army Of the Potomac was requested to take
charge of the movement.
William H. Vanderbilt has sent S., ,OOO,-
| 600 in 4 per cent bonds (the first installment
from his sale of New York Central stock) to
| the treasury department to be registered, and,
as he had 81, ,OOO 900 in per cents already
| registered, he is undoubtedly the largest in
| individual holder of United States bonds in
| the world
A young man at Hanley, England, was
recently fined f3 5s. and costs for kissing
girl against her will. The offence is still
| more severely dealt with in Dublin, where
| two young men were lately sent to prison for
three months with hard labor, for forcibly
kissing two young dressmakers in the public
streets.
A negro at Eminence, KY, fell dead Of
heart disease a few days ago, and the colored
preacher who oiiiciated at the funeral stated
that he had talked with the man, endeavor-
ing TO have him reform, but that he refused,
and was now sojourning in hell. He there
fore took as his text the passage, And he
lifted up his eyes in hell"
--Cetewayo, the captive Zulu King, has as
tonished his captors by his courteous man-
ners and cleanliness. 1t was his distinct or
der that no officer should be killed. He takes
an interest in illustrated papers, and when
shown one of them with picture of himself
sharpening knife to kill Grandier he burst
out laughing and said he never knew what
real lie was until he saw that.
The longest case of litigation on record
has just closed in Hungary, where the su-
preme court has given decision on suit
begun in 1868, which has since passed through
every possible phase of litigation. The orig
inal action was to eject the wrongful possess
or of a large family estate and after Ill
years of trial the rightful owners have gained
their rights. large part of the estate, how
ever, has gone to the lawyers.
An almost inexhaustible supply of corun-
DUN has been found near Peekskill- on the
Hudson, where the tract containing the beds
covers about $500 acres. A number of per
sons in New York have secured possession OF
| the property and will proceed to develop it.
The discovery is of great Importance, as there
is only one other place in the country, Ches-
ter, Mass, where the mineral is found in suf-
fcient purity to be marketable as emery.
1t has been discovered that the identical
sermon of Dr. Parker, which Dr. Lorimer Of
Chicago has been accused of plAgiarizing
from, was preached verbatim by another Bap-
tist minister in Canandaigua, N. Y, in June
last. His hearers were SO delighted with the
discourse that they requested it for publica-
tion, and the pilferer had the audacity TO con-
sent, modestly saying in his letter 81 wish
that it was more deserving Of the honor you
confer upon it"
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, the famous English
preacher, has Just delivered his l500th ser
mon, preached consecutively from his pulpit
and published every week. There is prob
ably no other instance in ehnreh history
where 1900 sermons, together with great
number of others preached on divers occa-
sions, have been printed and scattered abroad.
Many of these sermons have been translated
into foreign languages, and have made their
influence felt all over the world,
Col. John Donovan of Memphis, Tenn,
is positively the meanest man at large He
left his wife and children to die of yellow fe-
yer at Memphis last year, and this season
inveighed Mrs Margaret Myers, a widow with
Sl3, 900 in cash. into marrying him. DonO-
van got hold of the money and deserted the
woman, who became so depressed in spirits
over her troubles that she recently poured
kerosene on her clothes and burned herself to
death.
Calvin township, Mich, has population
of 2000 or more, two-thirds of whom were
colored refugees during slavery days or were
freed by their masters, and they show
thrift aud contentment which does not
support the arguments of cold and diff
ferent climate used by southerneTs 10 keep
the negroes from going to Kansas. They are
as good farmers as their white neighboTs,
have the best school-houses in the county,
have no saloon in town, and in general are
sober, industrious citizens and an honor to
the community.
That eccentric old bachelor, Stephen
Girard. Was very aifahle md one morning ON