Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-04-23
IN GENERAL.

A vessel is loading at San Francisco with
100000 gallons Of wine for the German mar
ket. It is the first large shipment Of the
kind ever made thither
President Hayes and his family have sew.
eral relics of Lincoln, and the former espe-
cially values a pair Of black kid gloves which
were found in the pockets Of the overcoat
which Lincoln wore 10 the theatre on the
night when he was assassnated.
1t was stated, before the Board of Health
Of Montreal, recently, that q milkman in that
city had a case of typhoid fever in his family
last fall, and that examination had shown
that nine deaths from this disease had since
occurred among his customers, 20 in num-
Der.
Three farmer brothers of the late Will
liam Cullen Bryant live in Princeton, Ill.
They are described as good, honest and sub
6tantial men, only one, Mr.. j. H. Bryant hay-
ing literary capacity. He has written many
poems, and published them, too. He dwells
in a handsome house, which was the gi:. NJ
his distinguished brother.
In Binghamton, last summer, pair Of
Baltimore orioles built their hanging nest in
a tree opposite a tinsmith's. The limb to
which the nest was suspended recently blew
down, and the nest is now preserved in evil
dence Of the remarkable skill and instinct Of
these birds for the nest was found securely
wired to the branch with pieces of WIRE
which had been picked out of the sweepings
of the shop.
A new steam street car, which has met
with success in New York, has been tested on
grades of 345 feet to the mile and on curves
of 80 feet radius. 1t has readily drawn up
all grades and around all curves one, two
and even three cars, itself being full Of pas
sengers, and under ordinary conditions il
4. Il 4 4
even four teams Of horses. 1t makes twenty
miles an hour.
Prince Bismarck is more than six feet
three inches high, and is by no means thin.
He wears a uniform and the lapels of his
coat, of a bright yellow, overspread his i'm
mense chest He writes at his desk nearly
all night long, and then he sleeps until about
noon. He likes to sleep with street noises
about him. He has in his study portraits Of
Moltke, Beaconsfeld and King Humbert
The Mexican cable company has been
formed, under New York laws, to lay 800
miles of submarine cable in the Gulf Of Mex
leo, from the southern coast of Texas to the
principal cities of Mexico and Central Amer
lea, with ultimate extensions to South Amer
lea, New Zealand, Australia, China and Japan.
English makers offer to lay the cable TO Vera
Cruz via Tampico for 5000, 600, and have it
in running order in six months.
The giant powder works in the district of
Berkely, across the bay from San Francisco,
exploded Saturday, killing ~ white men and
~ or ! : Cinnamon. The explosion occurred
in the picking-room, where 6OOO pounds were
stored, and all the workmen there were blown
to atoms. The six houses inside the works
were destroyed and the six outside, includ-
ing the workmen's boarding-hous were bad
ly damaged. Carelessness probably caused
the disaster.
Thomas Boyd, in the presence of about
1000 people at Mumfordsville, Ky, Sunday,
1lth inst, jumped from the railroad bridge
over Green river, a distance of 100 feet, to
the water below He sprang off the bridge
headforemost and struck the water in that
position. In moment Afterwsrd he appear
ed swimming. He was picked up by boats
crew. and when brought ashore passed
through the crowd, receiving what money
was offered. He was not injured in the
least.
The Nevada steam transportation COM
pany has imported a number of the steam
road wagons made at Rochester, England,
and extensively used in heavy freighting in
different parts of Europe, to connect Neva-
das outlying mining districts with the rail-
roads. These steam wagons weigh about
seven tons each, are rated at from II to II
horse power, are fitted to use any kind of
fuel, and in case of need the road wheels can
be replaced with flange wheels for running
on rails. They also have winding drums at
tached to the driving axle capable of holding
100 yards of coiled rope for hauling heavy
loads up steep hills, and with an engineer
and two laborers can haul from 10 to - tons
of paying load on any good road not sleeper
than grade of / to II, and make an average
speed of 81 miles.