Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-22
IN GENE RRAL.

The Balnry and allowances OF President
GrGvy of France amount to about $3.50, 900
year
The widow of Commodore Vanderbilt,
still comparatively young woman, has an
income of 81, 900 week.
The American Bible Society has Just pro-
cured for its use a new stop-cylinder printing
press, upon which an entire copy of the Bi-
BILE can be printed every minute.
A Republican lad of Mishawaka, Ind,
named Vanaukin was fatally shot Friday by
another boy named Vinson because he wore
329 badge and hurrahed for Garfield
Prominent newspapers in New York have
been indicted by the grand jury for publish
ing lottery advertisements among them are
the News, World Star, Stats Zetung, Com
mercial Advertiser, and otherS.
Ice is being imported at New York from
Norway again. Three cargoes arrived last
week and were marketed at from Sc to $7.50
a ton. The ice measured Is inches in thick
ness and was as clear as crystal. The voyage
lasted 45 days. aud the loss of weight in the
ice was from 10 to 90 per cent
1t is estimated that GO,000 Americans
have been to Europe this year and that they
have spent on an average $1,000 each, max
| ing grand total of $50, 600, 900. 1t doesn't
require $4,000 to go to Europe, but the
wealthier American travellers abroad spend
many times that and so help to raise the av-
| erage expenditure.
The Colorado coal fields at Canon City
| are more than 80 square miles in extent, with
working veins extending through 800 feet as
tested by diamond drills. The workings at
present actively employed range from one
| and half to 10 miles, aud are now produo-
| ing 500 tons daily, which may be increased
| without extra expense to 2000 tons. The coal
| is bituminous.
Fifty years ago when u man could make
but fourteen pins minute people used to
take care of them, and when they got bent
they Strengthened them out and made them
serve agsin. Now II 900 can be made in a
minute and people are perfectly reckless in
their use. Europe makes 100000 daily
and the United States 81, 900, 900, SO the daily
loss may be figured at 131 900, 900.
Carefully comped statistics by DR.. Red
field, competent authority, show that the
number of homicides in the Southern States
has reached the enormous aggregate of forty
| thousand since the war, and that continued
through generation the destruction of life
would be equal TO that of great war. Since
| the war more people have been killed in the
South by the pistol and the knife than have
died of yellow fever, the rate of murder to
population being far in excess of that in the
| Northern States or in England for the past
four hundred and fifty years.
"A New York boy of twelve years of age
was intrusted with $S5 by his father to pay a
rent bill the other day, and while on the err
rand he was assaulted and robbed of that sum
on the highway by two of his schoolmates,
each aged 13 years The two precocious
footpads bought rifle, two revolvers, two
bowie knives, etc., and would ere now have
| followed the star of empire a long way west
ward if they had not been laid by the heels in
| Jail. Such crimes by youths are increasing
| in New York and the authorities are puzzled
to know how to stop them.
Tents have been wholly thrown aside by
the German infantry. At the last Berlin re-
view the regiments filed by in heavy march
| ing order without tents or camp kettles, each
] soldier carrying part of the companys kitchen
| appliances. Quarters in villages when the
enemy is at a distance and a bivouac in the
| open air when he is near is to be hereafter
| the rule in the German army. The tented
field, like cold steel and lot of other military
myths, is to be a thing of the past. The
change reduces greatly the length of the
army train and the weight carried by each
| soldier.
A few days ago the engineer of q train
near Montreal saw large dog on the track
barking furiously. The engineer whistled,
but the dog refused to stir and was run over
and killed. The engineer observed that the
animal crouohed close to the ground as he
| was struck by the cowcatcher. A minute
later the fireman saw a bit of white muslin
| huttering on the locomotive and he stopped
the engine. On going back to where the dog
wns killed it was discovered that not only the
| dog, but little child, had been killed. 1t
was then seen that the dog had been standing
| guard over the child, and had sacrificed his
| life rather than desert his charge. The child
had wandered away from a neighboring
house.
| Three of the elephants in circus which
was recently en- route from Nevada TO ColfaI,
| Cal, broke loose andw on irregular bend
| er." Three days elapsed before they were re-
captured, though their tracks were closely
| followed by men on horseback. During their
| journey they went through an Indian camp
| at night but woke not one soul tore up
fences, went through orchards, consumed
| quantities of fruit, took a run of three miles
down the railroad track and as far as known
were not seen by any one in the district,
which is well settled Uprooted fruit trees
testified to their love of fun, and the number
of fences which had TO be rebuilt after their
passage is incslculable. They appear to have
been good d-natured all the time, but to have
travelled mostly at night, and rested during
the day in the woods
Some curious animals, never before seen
in this country, were landed at New York re-
Gently. They are ''woolly elephants and ma
tives of the Malay peninsula, inhabiting the
| cold, rugged mountains in the northern part
l of the country, from whose rigors they are
protected by thick coat of long woolly hair.
They are also very small, as elephants go,
the older, six years of age, being only three
feet high and weighing $50 pounds, while the
younger four and one-half years old, weighs
200 pounds less They are very affeetionAnte
animals and fond of attention. Although
other elephants of this species have been
caught, they have invariably succumbed
when taken from the bleak mountain ranges
to the warmer plains Hence the fact that
this species is generally unknown and men
| toned by but few nAturalists.