Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-01
IN GEN ERAL.

"A geologist has found boulder on Mount
Washington which shows that the mountain
was completely submerged during the glacial
| period.
Cranberry picking is in full blast on Cape
| Cod, and in many places the schools are let
out to furnish pickers.
-Bushrod johnson, the noted confederate
general, died last week, aged 63 years. He
was farming at Brighton Ill.
Mt. Baker, Washington Territory, is re-
ported in state of violent eruption, with as
cending streams of smoke and flame.
A man named Tassell drowned himself
in Pittsburg the other day. Too much corn
in the Tassell was what allied him.
A citizen of Leadville took his shotgun
and pursued to the mountains the coroner's
| jury which censured him for stabbng a man.
1t doesn't do to tri1e with the feelings of a
citizen of Leadville.
AT Americas, Ca, young man went TO
his wedding considerably under the influence
of liquor, when the about-to-be bride refused
to proceed farther and announced the en-
| gagement cancelled.
Several capitalists from Chicago and else-
where have combined and propose to build a
railway running from Chicago to the City Of
| Mexico, to be known as the Chicago Texas
and Mexican Central railway.
1t is said to have required II large dry
| goods boxes to hold the presents sent TO a
newly married couple at Newport, Il. l., and
which were shipped to New York. They
were appraised by the express company at
| Sl5, 900.
The locomotive which went down with
| the lay bridge is now running regularly be-
tween Glasgow and Edinburg. For three
months it lay in the bottom of the Tay, but
when it was brought up it was found unin-
| jured, except the funnel, dome and weather.
board which had to be renewed. The ma
| chine ran on its own wheels to Glasgow Just
as it came out of its long bath.
Ono of the most remarkable operations
in dentistry ever recorded was performed at
Portsmouth, N. H., recently. boy who had
been out for a drive was descending from the
carriage when the house gave vigorous
whisk of his tail, twisted the end of hair
around one of the boys front teeth, and pull
ed it out so quickly that the lad mad hardly
time to feel the loss.
An Ohio court has decided that women
do not own the clothes they wear. In q re-
| cent case the Judge held that necessary and
suitable clothing furnished by a husband 10
| his wife, or purchased by her with money or
means given to her by her husband for that
| purpose, does not become her property with
in the meaning of the statute concerning the
rights and liabilities of married women.
The papyrus manuscript recently discov-
cred in the cave of hermit near Jerusalem,
and said to be the work of st. Peter, has
been submitted to committee sent out by
the Biblical society of London, and they have
come to the conclusion that the papyrus is in
reality the work of the great apostle. They
have offered 100000 for the document in
| vain.
"A parent in Ithaca, N Y, is said TO have
| played his part in q new way day or two
ago. He forbade his daughter to meet her
lover, and nfterward obtained q note which
she had written to the young man, making
an appointment to meet him in the cemetery.
| He forwarded the note, and at the appointed
time concealed himself behind a gravsstone
and heard the two plan to go West and be
married. He then disclosed himself, and or
dering a carriage took them to a minister's
where they were made husband and wife.
| "A relic of the Spanish Armada was drawn
from the bottom of the sea at Slams, Scotland,
the other day, by some salmon fishers. II
was q large gun from the spot where ship
belonging to the Armada is known to have
been wrecked, and, strange TO say, although
| it had been in the sea for over 200 years, It
seems as good as ever. The gun is eight feet
long, l3 inches in diameter at the breech,
with a boro of four inches 1t is loaded,
partly with nails of hammered iron. Several
| guns from the same place have been hereto
fore raised and presented 10 the queen
The latest discoverer of the lost tribes is
Russian traveller and journalist, W. ]. Rem
| irowitch- -Dantschenko, who has found them
in the Caucasus, and Of course has written q
book about them. They were found in the
mountains of Daghestan, where travellers new
er went before. They are warlike and re-
semble the Cossacks in appearance, but they
follow the old Mosaic law as it existed before
the time of Ezra and the second building of
the temple, without any knowledge of Talmu-
die traditions and forms, and they claim TO
| have lived where they now are ever since the
time of Psalmonassar They keep the Mosaic
law in regard to a mans marrying q dead
brothers wife, and make first rate red wine,
which they drink regardless of Solomon's ad-
monitions
The recent forest fires in Canada were
attended with some thrilling adventures, Of
which that happening to Edward Roi and two
women was one of the most remarkable.
They we're fleeing from the flames in wagon,
when the horse gave sudden start and
threw them out upon bridge. Under the
bridge was a tunnel leading into bank some
three feet square, and into this the three were
compelled 10 flee and await the passing of the
flames. They stuffed up the end of the pas
sage with feather bed that had been thrown
out with them, and in this plight remained
for FIVE hours, until the danger was passed.
The fire singed the feathers, but could not eat
through the mass, and when the fire crept
over or under the barricade the man extin-
guished it with mud. All escaped unharmed,
! although suffering much from the heat.