Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-06
NO.6.
IN GENERAL.

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The exports from Switzerland TO the
United States last year were SO, 600, 900 more
than in 1873.
1t is said that Minneapolis, Mimi, after
its mills now in construction are completed
will make 16, 600 barrels of flour per day.
German capitalists, boring for oil in the
Hanover petroleum regions, think they have
struck a deposit as large and rich az that in
Pennsylvania
North Carolina has six newspapers edit
ed by negroes, Louisiana three, Tennessee
and Texas two each, and Virginia. Alabama
and Mississippi one each.
Jennie Flood, whom U. s. Grant is to
marry has Just had 81, 800, 600 in registered
| per cents given her as a wedding dOwry by
her father, the San Francisco nabob.
Lyons, France, which burned Jacquard's
| first loom, is to raise marble statue to the
| great inventor, representing him, with folded
arms, looking at the destruction of his ma
chine.
An English servant girl was recently held
for trial for holding her employers child, 10
months old, before a FIRE and roasting it
| alive, because she was dissatisfied with her
situation and wanted to leave
Mrs John j. Astor has Just sent 100
more of New York's homeless children to
homes in the West and South During the
| last seven years she has found homes for G77
poor lads and has spent 1880 on them.
Brazil. is already shipping new wheat TO
| Europe, the introduction of improved agri-
cultural machinery having greatly aided the
farmer, so that nearly all the wheat will be
| threshed by machinery this year, instead of
| trampled under horses hoofs as formerly.
Japan is preparing a polar expedition
for next summer, tolook for practical route
| from Asia to the Atlantic, in the direction op-
posite to the route of the Nordenskjold expe-
dition. 1t hopes TO find the Jeanette, and
| probably render some assistance.
"A COW in Orange county, n. Y, recently
broke through a fence, threw train from
the track killed the engineer, and destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of property, yet
the owner of the animal sued for its value,
and jury gave him the sum he demanded.
Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple, the great Mime
sofa farmer intends to cultivate 80, 600 acres
of wheat this year. He will have 90 steam
threshers in operation, with 135 resping ma
chimes. Last year he employed 600 laborers,
and this year will increase the number to 700.
The Tichborne claimant is before the
English public again, Judah P. Benjamin,
| LouisianA's ex-rebel who has attained such
success as a British barrister, having under
| taken to quash Ortons sentence and estRb-
lish his identity with Roger Tichborne by
new witnesses and facts dug up since the pre-
| vious trial.
A lady in York, Me-, 20 years old, was
lately married for the first time. Many years
ago. she was ordered out of the house of her
bachelor brother, because she insisted upon
adopting an ilegitimate infant of friend.
| She has since bought and paid for farm by
her own work, and, until recently, supported
the waif she adopted.
AT last accounts, as received by mail, the
| bodies of twenty-five victims of tic Tay
| bridge disaster had been recovered. All but
one of these had been brought to the surface
| by graphing. Very few of the corpses
showed signs of mutilation, and in many
cases the features wore natural expression.
The alleged remains of Ste Eugenia, who
| suffered martyrdom under the Roman empe-
rors, which were recently sent to this coun-
try from the Roman catacombs, were buried
in st. AIary's church, Endicott street, Boston,
with great pomp, on Sunday, 18th ult. A
vial said to contain some of the martyrs
blood came over with the remains.
Mrs. Eureka G. Bovine, wife of New
York merchant, was so angry that street
| sweeping machine coveredher silk dress with
mud as she was walking down Broadway two
| years ago, that she went straight home and
proceeded to make better machine. 1t has
Just been patented, cleans the streets with
out throwing mud or dust, and is pronounced
a wonderful invention.
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Gen. Grant says he was delighted with the
dlimate of Florida, and regrets that he had
not pnade his arrangements to spend the win
| ter there. After visiting the West Indies and
Mexico, he expects to go to Colorado, make
an inspection of some silver mines and reach
| his home in Galena, ILL.,, about the middle of
April.
The roaming correspondent of the BurL-
| ington [Iowa) Hawk-Eye tells pleasing sto-
| -OFo aIf 6nip hp iad
his energies to the work of devouring every
thing upon certain railway station dining
counter, and having at length accomplished
the feat, walked away saying; There the
next fellow that comes along here will get
| something fresh ~
This story comes from Chicago: man
had tooth extracted and expressed regret
for the loss. A girl whose jaws were over
crowded with teeth entered the Office to have
| two of them taken out. The dentist suggest
ed the experiment Of transferring one Of
| these sound teeth to the vacancy in the mans
| mouth, and the operation was performed
with success, the tooth growing fast and firm
in ten days.
Frederick B. Webster was found guilty Of
participating in the Chester Goodale assault
of last September in the Superior Court
at Pittsfeld Mass, last week, after a trial
which continued only about an hour, and af-
terward sentenced to 81 years in state pris-
on for that and other crimes, to most of
which he had previously pleaded guilty.
Webster is 81 years old, and has received the
longest sentence, aside from life term, ever
given to one person in Berkshire county.
"A farmer in Lancaster county, Pa, who
was rich, died within a few years. Once
when his house took fire, the men engaged in
the harvest-feld quit their work long enough
to go aud put the fire out, and thus saved the
house from burning down. When he came
to settle with his men, when the harvest was
over, he deducted the time they were at the
fire, and refused to pay for it, One of them
having refused to settle that way, brought
suit before a Justice, and recovered for full
time, at the expense of several dollars to the
farmer for costs.
-Nihilism seems to be spreading in the
Russian army. -Four officers in one regiment
were arrested three weeks ago on a charge
| of disseminating revolutionary intelligence
| among their subordinates, and distributing
pamphlets prohibited by the authorities at
| st. Petersburg. Seditious prints and docu-
ments were also found at the officers lodR-
ings Two officers who had assisted eight pO-
| litical prisoners to escape have been arrested,
and in two districts where Nihilism was dis
covered in the regiments special courts mar
| tial have been established
The old saying that of all intoxicating
| beverages hard cider makes the ugliest drunk
ards receives some support from the recent
brutal murder of Paul ShRppy of Willsbo-
rough Point, N, Y, by his neighbor, Rich
ard McEnigott. The murderer, who had
been drinking cider all the afternoon, worked
himself up to the point of frenzy by kicking
his wife. He then seized a shotgun, intend
ing to shoot her. She ran, and he pursued
her, but seeing the form of his neighboT in
the window of his home he discharged the
contents of the weapon into Shappy's breast.
-Tha nistnl with which / Xilkes Rnnih