Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-24
NO. 43.

Paris has Il 900 tobacco shops.

Bun llb hutuuln IeTul Win EOO bluuenlh.
The only wooden mill in Texas is at New
Braunfels. Last year the profits were $751;
600.
"A valuable tin mine has been found near
Dalton, Ga. One bushel Of ore yields four
pounds of tin
-Woolwich, Me-, was purchased of the In
dians nearly two centuries ago for one load Of
pumpkins and quantity of rum.
Governor Wallace estimates the present
population OF New Mexico at 1875, 900 A
large immigration is following the construc-
tion of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad.
-Four of the largest trades-unions in
Great Britain have, during their comparative
iy brief terms of existence. spent over ST.
800, 900 in relieving the wants Of members on
strikes.
VIM. Allen Mcclure, who died in Green
brier township Ark, few days ago, claimed
to be 108 years old. In 1903 he accompanied
Lewis and Clarke across the Rocky Noun
tains to the Pacific coast. He served in the
war Of 1912 and also in the Florida Indian
war.
A man in digging well on his place in
Prentiss county, Miss, exhumed the skeleton
of a man at the depth of 43 feet below the
surface Of the earth. He also obtained sew
eral gold coins of the fifteenth century, bear
ing the superscripton and coat of arms of
Ferdinand and Isabella.
The Indian Princess Monica, daughter of
Spotted Tail, the Sioux chief, fell in love
with an army officer at Fort Laramie and
plainly told him so. He informed her that
he was engaged to marry girl in Ohio, but
she persistently followed him until her father
removed her to a distant camp. There she
died of grief.
-Deadwood, with the characteristic ener-
gy of Westlrn towns, has gone into the
phenix business with vim. In less than a
week after the great fire nearly the entire
burned district was covered with buildings,
some of them substantial two-story frames,
and large blocks of brick are now well under
way.
Some British tourists recently visited
Longfellow, saying that as there are no ruins
in this country they thought they would call
on him. They asked him to write his auto
graph in their books, and as he was doing so
they looked over his shoulder, and one of
them said, why, how plainly he writes
hand doesn't shake at all, you know"
The magnificent diamonds which were
presented as a bridal gift to the daughter of
General Sherman by the Kh6dive of Egypt
are kept in the vault of the United States
Treasurer, and their casket is sealed, so that
the Troasurer's clerks may not be put to the
trouble of displaying them to visitors. The
daughter, Mrs. Fitch, lives in st. Louis She
has three children, the oldest being boy of
four years.
The farm on which CORVALLIS surrender
ed at Yorktown, Va, is now owned by Mr..
Lob Wolf. The ground where CORVALLIS
actually handed over his sword to Washing
ton was for many years marked by four tall
poplar trees, but these were cut down for fire.
wood in the late war, not however without
tIa 10, tab 20 ,,1a
sapling in their place, and this has now grown
up and stands all alone in wide meadow
Peru is likely to become competitor
with Pennsylvania in supplying the world
with oil. Prentice, a Pennsylvania oil oper-
ator, is digging wells in Peru, near Zorrito,
and has one which has been flowing 600 bar
rels a day for three years. Another, which,
caved in just as the tubing was being put in,
he gives a capacity of 1000 barrels day, and
says that back in the mountains merely dig
ging pit 2S feet deep collects oil in paying
quantities
Race prejudice has just broken up Mark
Horizons happy home at Birmingham, Ala.
Horton was educated at Princeton college,
and, after graduation he married Jessie
Reynolds his boyhood's playmate. But soon
after their first child was born, quadroon in
the Reynolds household confessed on her
death-bed that Jessie was her daughter.
the house, got divorce and left for Califor-
mia. The young mother is wild with grief
and the shock is likely to kill her.
The icOnoclasts are bound to leave us no
antiquities in America if they can help it,
The old mill at Newport has been fondly
claimed Gs a relic of the eleventh century, in
fact its construction by the Norsemen has
been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the
credulous. But now comes George @. Ma
son, DR., in the Magazine of American History
for September, and shows that the old mill
was probably built in the last quarter of the
seventeenth century by Gov Benedict Ar
mold, after the model of a mill at Leaning
ton, Eng, near the site of which he lived be-
fore he came to this country.
General Tom Thumb is running q meat
market at Middleboro, Mass. His real name
appears over the door, although he takes no
active part in the business, which his brother
or brother-in-law attends to. Mrs. Tom
Thumbs father, also of Middleboro, possess
ed quite a large and valuable farm some years
| ago, but adversely deprived him of a large
part of his estate With the acquisition of
wealth to the general and his wife came to
them the idea to do a good turn to the old
folks. So Mrs. Thumb has bought back the
old farm, and it is understood, given her
father the right to use it for life. The gen.
eral is growing quite stout-fat, in fact. He
is an inveterate smoker, using very large ci-
gars.
A writer in Chambers journal relates the
singular story of a man killed by a dead
snake. cobra crawled into church, caus-
ing great alarm, but a native managed to cut
of the reptiles head before it attacked any
one. After the service many of the congre-
CATION took look at the dead snake. One
man put his foot on the head when he utter
ed loud cry and drew his foot away. By
some means or other he had contriyed TO set
in action the muscular apparatus attached to
the poison. .fangs, which had darted violently
forward and struck him on the foot, All
remedies were useless in half an hour the
poor fellow was corpse, proving with
vengeance, the awful yirulence of the poison
of the cobra da capello.
Sweden, owing to its geographical posi-
tion and physical conformation, is a poor
country. Four-sevenths of its area is covered
with forests, another seventh is occupied by
lakes and rivers. Even in the open sections
the granite constantly crops up and defies all
tillage There are mines of iron and "copper"
and Swedish iron is the best the world pro-
duces There are coal mines which are now
worked at a profit. But no country, even
with resources a hundredfold greater, could
be rich which is frost and mostly COW
cred with snow from October to April every
year Still the people are industrious and
thrifty, and their homes are models of neat
ness, while beggars are scarce, and over 80
per cent. of the population can read and
write.
The apparatus for taking down, remoy-
ing and placing in perpendicular position in
Central Park, Now York, Cleopatra's Needle,
which has been presented by Egypt has just
been completed at the Phoenix Iron Works.
at Trenton, N. j., and has been shipped for
its destination 1t consists of two frames
composed of roll-iron beams, plates, channels,
etc. to support two bearings upon which are
a pair of trunnions which will be fastened to
the obelisk at the centre of gravity. When
placed in position the foundation will be re-
moved from under the obelisk, and the inn
mense monolith, weighing POS tons, will then