Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-01-03
IN GENERAL.

week and was fatally burned.
In giving q concert programme n New
Orleans paper announced that Farewell to
the Forest" would be sung by "mule quar-
tet"
A railway accident occurred in RUSSIA re-
Gently which killed twenty persons, including
several officers of the army, and wounded
thirty eight.
A rural Kentucky paper is afraid if the
Legislature passes q law making the carrying
of concealed weapons public offence, that
there won't be citizens enough left to swap
horses on court day.
A japanese steam vessel, the Tokishima-
Maru, left Osaka for Ava recently, and while
at sea, few hours later, some gunpowder on
board exploded and every person on board,
% in number, persisted.
The "sold South" again asserts its su-
premacy. Three sisters in Dyer county. Tenn,
have given birth to GO children, and three
other sisters at Somerset, Ky, have each Civ
en- birth to twins thrice.
A Cuttingsville man jumped from his bed
the other night to throttle burglar whom he
saw by the din moonlight in the dark corner
Of the room, and upon getting a good grip
| found he had captured the old family bass.
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The Governor of Kansas asks that strong
military force be stationed on the southern
| lnroads by the Indians The Governor thinks
the immigration to Kansas this yeur will
amount to 300, 600
At the recent wedding of Major Atwood
of the United States army, now stationed at
| San Antonio, Texas. to the daughter of Rich
| ard King of st. Louis, ''the cattle King of the
West" the brides father presented the bride
| groom with the characteristic but rather awk-
ward gift Of 50, 600 head of cattle.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett, the fa-
nous novelist, is a native of Manchester.
| England, where she was born in 1919. She
resolved to become noveii.' when she was
only seven years old, and completed and pub
lished in her 18th year a tale planned ana part
ly written at the age of ID, aud which met
! with success.
People have fallen into the habit of con-
! sidering Spain mo account" country, but
She stood well in comparison with England at
the French exhibition. Spain and her colon
les received $500 distinctions of all kinds
from the judges of award, and England and
! her colonies received 245j.
A widow resides in Buena Vista with sew
en- children-all girls-two of whom attend to
the plowing on the farm, raising this year a
| good crop of wheat, between 300 and 400
bushels of corn 100 bushels of potatoes, 100
bushels of peas and meat for the family, and
two bales Of cotton.
The Lilly family of six persons constitute
the side show of Western circus The faith
er is a sword swallower, the mother is fat
woman, II daughter is a Circassian girl, one
son is a cOntortionist, another-hideously de-
formed-is a wild man from Bornco, and O
third lectures on the curiosities
The suit against Gen Sheridan. which
had been on trial in New York for several
days, terminated last Friday in a verdict for
Little Phil" The suit was to recover over
500, 900 for the seizure of the Killona plan
ton in Louisiana i'll August, 1867, and the
ejectment of James F. Whalen by military
order of Sheridan.
A nice appearing young man called at n
house in Providence recently, and told the la
dy that her husband had authorized him to
get his oyercoat to wear to funeral The un-
suspecting woman gave the stranger the coat
and now the husband is extremely anxious
there shall be a funeral, if only he can furnish
the corpse.
The gold discoveries recently made in the
Madras Presidency, India are now regarded
as most important. An Australian mining ex-
pert reports that, in an area of % by 13 miles
he has discovered 30 outcrops of ore, with n
reef thickness of from two to four feet, and
yielding from a few pennywcights to 200
ounces of gold per ton.
The sun shines every day in the year at
of that city, which states that an old resident,
who has kept account of the days when the
sun was visible or invisible for number Of
years finds one period in his accounts where
there had been unobscured sunshine for 3G5
consecutive days
Prince Bismarck, in addition to his other
peculiarites, is quite superstitious. He will
not sit down at dinner in party of thirteen
he will not allow his hair to be cut when the
moon is on the wane he will not negotiate
on the anniversary of such disasters as the bat
tie of Jena; he will conclude no treaty on
Friday and his whole life is solemnized by
the fact that he knows the year of his own
death.
The following model prayer was offered
at the opening of a recent session of the New
Hampshire supreme court when the docket
was known to be crowded: ''Oh Lord bless
this court bless these lawyers, and make
them know that life is short and time is
precious, and not to be wasted in empty dec
lamations; for Christ's sake, amen"
A high officer of Massachusetts, CONVEX
SAINT with affairs ut the Concord Prison, says
that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy y-murderer, is los
ing his mind and failing in health He says
also that remarkable tales have been told of
Pomeroys mental acuteness and thirst for
knowledge but the truth is that the boy muir
derer is shallow Drained though cunning.
The Lyndon Union says that Frank
Tillotson, of st. Johnsbury, had an offer,
while in Salt Lake City, recently, of five
wives and a good situation on the railroad,
provided he would give tenth of his receipts
to the church He was not afraid of the rail-
road, but the offer, as a whole, frightened
him and he started for the East as soon as
possible after it was made.
Twenty-Five express companies of Great
Britain have agreed to system, to go into ef-
feet on New Years Day, under which they
will issue stamps, for four pence and eight
pence, which shall carry parcels under two
pounds and four pounds respectively over any
part of their lines. This is ahead of anything
in the way of express accommodation in this
country, and worthy of imitation.
1t has been the long time practice to re-
gard a broken-lmbed horse as ruined and to
kill it, But a merchant of Utica, who il
something of a horse -fancier, has saved a val
liable horse that had broken leg, The ami
NAL was slung up in blanket, and received
precisely the same treatment that would be
given a man with broken leg. The break
was n bad one, but the horse is pronounced
entirely cured.
Chicago boasts a decreasing death-rate,
while at the same time adding to its popula-
ton. In 1872 the deaths were over 10000,
but they have been less every year since, and
for the past IL months have only been 6S0O
the Times attributes the improvement to the
higher civilization of better doctors, better
water, better sanitary arrangements, less
whisky and more beer, and a serener view of
life generally.
- Gov. Rice of Massachusetts has request
ed the several town authorities 10 inform him
as to the working of the License law as
against the Prohibitory law, as far as regards
the commitments for drunkenness, and the
amount of liquor sold and the places open for
its sale, and also to send him facts TO prove
the increase or decrease of drunkenness dur
ing the periods when the Prohibitory law and
the License law have been in force.
Mrs Catharine Fulton of Hillsboro, N. H.,
was smothered TO death Monday morning.
Smoke was seen issuing from her house at an
early hour, and two men forcing an entrance,
found her unconscious in bed. From the ap-
pearance of the room it was evident that the
he'd Ind accidentally taken fire. and il is