Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02
IN GENERAL.

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DR.. George Little the State geologist,
says that yield of $4,000, 900 worth Of
bullion might be produced in Georgia every
year without exhausting the ore within this
or the next generation.
Oregon wants quarter of a million col
ored people, and offers TO make it an object
for the negro exodus to turn that way. Ne
groes are preferred TO Cinnamon by Oregon
employers Of labor.
"A scythe which Prince Bismarck once
took from the hands of peasant in mead
ow and swung with vigor half an hour was
purchased by the Historical Museum Of Ber-
lin for $500.
Minnesota built 39G miles of railroad in
1879, greater mileage than in any year
since 1871, when the Northern Pacific sud
denly spanned the State from Duluth to the
Red river.
Mrs Legge is an old lady now living at
AIarthas Vineyard, who, as a native of st.
Helena, remembers going to the school room
door to see Napoleon as he went on his way
TO Longwood
An English Judge recently decided that a
set of false teeth we're not "necessaries" for
farmers wife, and non-suited q dentist who
had supplied them without any express au-
thority from her husband.
A Broadway, N. Y, engraver recently
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one Of his cards. thus "Mr and Mrs. -
respectfully request your presents at the mar
riage Of their daughter"
The receipts of the Suez canal fell of
over $500, 600 during 1873 and have still fur
ther diminished the past year. About three
fourths of the shipping passing through the
canal carries the British flag.
The Catholic priest in Morris, Ind. who
severely whipped three boys of his parish for
acting as pall-bearers at the funeral of a
Protestant boy friend, has been fined to the
amount of $500.
The % Aroostook, Me-, starch factories
have closed up their fall business, having
made nearly 10, 900 tons of starch, or more
than ever before in one year. Fully $780,
600 has been paid to the farmers for potatoes.
The sword worn by General Washington
when he resigned his commission at Annapo-
lis, is offered for sale to the government by
Mr.. H. II. Lewis Of Maryland who has come
into possession Of it by inheritance
Mrs. Webster, widow of the late Col
Fletcher Webster and owner Of the Daniel
Webster homestead at Marshfeld, will erect
next spring, new residence on the site OF
the old farm house that was burned, and as
nearly like it as possible
| An immense typographical map Of the
kingdom of Italy, which has been eighteen
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the royal engineer department. 1t consists
of 277 sheets, and is the most accurate and
detailed map of the peninsula ever published.
Very good progress has been made in the
South Carolina schools during the past year.
| The average attendance of white pupils was
| 90, ,36S-au increase of 4, $50 over the preVi-
GUS year The attendance of colored pupils
was "a, 095, against G2, 121 the previous year.
Seventeen lawyers are engaged in a suit
over the will of an Indianian, who boosted,
shortly before his death, that he had got his
affairs into such shape that when he died
the lawyers couldn't make penny out of his
estate.
Gen. Daniel Ruggles of Fredericksburg,
! Va, petitions TO Congress to appoint spec
ial committee to consider his plan for pro-
| ducing rain by sending up balloons charged
with dynamite and exploding them in mid
air.
-Kossuth, who is now n years old, has
written his II Memoirs, and they are soon to bo
| published in Pesth. He apologies for not
leaving the work to his sons, with the state
ment that his material circumstances have
compelled him TO undertake the task.
The newsdealers and newsboys of Allan
ia, Ca, have given up selling such question
BILE papers as the Police News and Police Ga
zette, the last session of the legislature hay
ing made it misdemeanor to sell or distrib-
ute any publication tending to destroy the
morals of the reader.
Mrs. Hilton of Renich, Mo-, has become
the mother of twins rivalling the celebrated
Siamese pair, each of the healthy little girls
having a head and feet of her own, but pos
sessing a common heart and lungs and being
Joined by fieshy band extending from the
collar bone to the knees.
Plans were recently laid to steal the two
Arabian horses presented to Gen. Grant by
the Sultan of Turkey, from Gen. Beales farm,
near Washington. They were to have been
clipped aud colored and taken to the interior
of New York, TO be held till a large reward
was offered. Two men have been arrested
for the conspiracy.
The tunnel for Baltimore's gunpovdeT
water-works, which is seven miles long, has
been under construction since the spring of
1876, and is one Of the great engineering
works of the day, is now cut clear through,
although it will be nine months more before
the necessary mason-work is finished. Five
miles of the tunnel have been cut through
solid rock, but the other two miles will be
bricked up, and the whole thing will cost
about 81, 100000.
The two towers of the Cologne Cathe-
dral which is now nearly completed after
centuries of work, are the highest in the
world. They are 524 feet IL inches and 415
feet l inch high, respectively, while st. Pc
ters at Rome is but 469 feet inches. The
ridge tiles of the Cologne Cathedral are 500
feet 3 inches from the ground while the top
of the dome of St. Paul's in London is only Z
feet 10 inches higher.
1t is not often that man is killed by .
meteor, but David MeisenthAler, stockman, Of
Whitestone, Kansas, lately, while driving his
cows to the barn early in the morning, was
struck by an aerolite and instantly killed.
The stone is described as about the size of o
common water bucket, and was formed Of
iron pyrites. The man was fearfully multi
ated.
Charles H. Oakes, q native of Vermont
and one of the oldest pioneers Of the West,
has just died at st, Paul, Mimi, aged H. He
left his home in 1921, and from that time till
his later years his life was one Of adventure
among the Indians in the States bordering on
the great lakes and in the CanAdRs From
1858 to 1866 he was in the banking business,
gaining competency.
A boy from Honey Lake Valley, New,
who for the first time in his life saw militia
ry company out for drill in Virginia City,
with fife and drum, gave his mother the fol
lowing account of the business "a little
man blowed on his squealin' stick, and big
man that stood beside him hammered on his
thunder box, then the boss man pulled out
big long knife and shook il at the fellers
what was stAndin' up in long row, and they
all walked on on two legs"
Mrs. Maria Hopkins of San Francisco
has Japanese exotic wonder called the baby
plant. It is of the genus lily, four feet in
height, and blossoms semi-annually. Tho
flower is star shaped, having Ave petals of u
handsome brown and yellow color. The ca
lyx enoircles and protects tiny figure, which
bears an exact resemblance TO a nude baby,
its little arms and legs outstretched and the
eyes distinctly marked. The owner paid
$500 for this rare and elegant plant of which
there is no duplicate in this country. The
nlant belongs 10 a Rpecies which PRODUCES