Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03
IN GENE ERAL.

Ohio, now the second coal state in the
country. will mine over 1000, 900 tons this
year.
From the annual report of the Indian
Bureau it appears that the number of Indians
in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, is
225,943.
The Princess Louise, it is again declared,
will not return to Canada and it is said she
makes no secret of the disappointment to
which she has been subjected in her endeavor
to throw little refinement into the tone and
manners of the Canadian viceregal court.
AT the gambling establishment of Monte
Carlo the police have strict orders to search
the grounds every night for the bodies of sui
cides, and to remove them as quickly as pos
sible, that visitors may not be shocked by dis
covering the remains.
"A small elephant-fish, rarity in northern
waters, was recently scooped up on the jam
bro banks off the Nova Scotia coast The
fish has head and trunk like an elephant
and is finely spotted.
One county in Mississippi is without a
sheriff and chancery clerk The two officials
met a few days since, one a Democrat and
the other Greenbacker, and, after telling
each other their respective opinions, proceed
ed to shoot with such good effect that both
are now dead.
The American Register says that young
American lady, who is to make her debut on
the stage as soon as Worth gets her dresses
done, recently recited MARY had a Little
Lamb" before the American colony in Paris
SO pathetically as TO drown the drawing-room
in tears. In fact, they had to take up the
carpets next day and send them to the steam
drying machine
A case of death caused by q bet occurred
at Wimotville, Ala, recently. The winner
was to have the privilege of striking the loser
a single blow on his unprotected breast with
the naked fist. Both men were robust ath-
letes, and they did not regard the penalty as
a very serious matter. But the blow was so
powerful that it killed the one who received
The Achard electric brake for railroad
cars is new French invention which operates
on the wheel brakes by means of electricity
generated during the motion of the train and
applied at pleasure. The experiments so far
have been successful, loaded train having
been stopped in 6G0 feet. Friction is applied
to a cylinder under the car in about the same
way that air pressure is used in the Westing.
house system.
Pixies Peak is acquiring new notoriety
by its volcanic activity. Sergeant OKeefe,
the signal service observer there, heard a
loud explosion on the night of October 20
and going to the summit next day found vol
canic ashes and lava scattered about. There
was another eruption on the 7th which the
sergeant saw from the roof of his station, and
for an hour the scene was finer than Vesuvius
in 1922.
A Wabash train dashed through flock
of fine merinos at Marysvile, No, the other
day, which Jacob Everhart had Just brought
from Ohio The engine looked as though it
was blowing through a snow-drift as the
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when it had finished its work Eyerhart was
$500 out of pocket, los sheep having been
killed and SO more badly crippled.
That Indians are capable of adopting
civilized modes of life is demonstrated by the
fact that during the past year Indians in this
country exclusive of the five civilized tribes
in the Indian territory have raised AIS, III
bushels of wheat, ego, 43O bushels of corn,
222, 430 bushels of oats and barley, 376, 145
bushels Of vegetables, and cut sc, ,527 tons of
hay. They also own 1882 cattle and SG4,-
1877 sheep.
Fortunate among States is Illinois. 1t is
out of debt, and its Indebtedness has been
paid without taxation. The Illinois Central
railroad which connects Chicago and st. Lou
is, pays into the State treasury seven per cent
of its gross earnings, in consideration of ex-
emptiop from local and State taxation, and
these payments in 25 years have amounted to
$S, 800, 600, and in the future will furnish all
the money required in the maintenance of the
State government.
-Savannah's export trade is expanding to
a wonderful degree under the impetus of her
new railroad communications, and one day
recently there were 13 steamships, ships, 80
barks brigs and 10 schooners in port, be-
sides the steamers plying between Savannah
and Charleston, Florida, Darien, Augusta and
other places, and the feet of coasters and riv-
er craft. More than one-half the cotton re-
ceived at Savannah is bought and sold by the
factors of that city, and the receipts so far
this season, including stock ON hand Septem-
Der l, already aggregate 800, G54 bales.
The city of Cambridge, Mass, has recent
ly set three memorial stones, weighing over a
ton each, at as many points within its borders,
to mark certain events in its history. One on
Ninth avenue, corner of Spruce street, is in-
soribed "The site where four citizens were
killed by British soldiers retreating from Lex
ington, April 16, 1775.' One on Inman street
contains the following 'Site of the house
which was the headquarters of Gen. Putnam
| in 1775." The other monument, located on
Dunster street, has the following inscription
''Ste of the residence of Thomas Dudley, A.
| d. 1880, founder of Cambridge and governor
of Massachusetts," Each stone also bears the
words Erected by the city, 1880"
The writing-de presented to the presi-
dent by Queen Victoria has reached the White
House. 1t is massive table of live oak,
elaborately carved, and weighs 1900 pounds.
An inscription gives a brief sketch of the
British ship Resolute, which was abandoned
in the Arctic regions, extrcated by an Amer
lean whaler, refitted by the United States, and
presented again TO Queen Victoria as a token
of good will from the United States. The
table is made of some Of the wood of the Res
olute, which has been broken up, and is pre-
sented by the Queen as a memorial of the
Courtesy and loving kindness" of the United