Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-28
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IN GENERAL.

turns out JOO,OOO week.
There are GOOO miles of telegraph and
telephone wires in New York city.
The war in South Africa has cost the
British exchequer S24, 22G, 600.
Mexico, with its vast and productive ter
ritory, has only 49, miles of railway in op-
Grafton.
Mrs. Bloomer, the once famous dress re-
former, has just celebrated her 10th wedding
anniversary at Council Bluffs, Ia.
1t is asserted that the losses by fire in
the United States during the past five years
have amounted to the sum of $3.50, ,O1S, ,255.
1t is stated that the increase of the Ro-
man Catholic population of this country in
the last twenty years has been about 3, SOO,-
600.
About fifteen miles of new sewers have
been laid i'll Memphis for the purpose of pre-
venting recurrence of yellow fever.
Mr.. Seward, American Minister to China,
informs the Department of State that 100
Chinese youths are receiving education in the
United States.
king Alfonso of Spain has signed de-
cree authorizing the laying of telegraphie
cable between Cuba and Jamaica.
Charles Hamiton's house at Brookfeld
Mass, was set fire to the other day by the
suns rays reflected from new tin-pan which
was drying close to the wall space sever
al inches across was burned.
A pilgrim band of nine devout Catholics,
blind, deaf, lame and otherwise infirm, took
passage from Boston last Saturday for Ire
land, where they will visit the miracle-w
ing shrine of Knock in County Mayo.
Six of Brigham Young's daughters have
been communicated by the Mormon Church
for charging the Church with having defraud-
ed the heirs of their father of 81 ,OOO,O 900.
The jail at Crockett, Texas, was set on
fire from within last Friday night. John
Walker prisoner, is thought to have per
ished in the flames
Every circus this season will have its
wild Zulu along, thus giving employment to
many respectable cOlored men.
Lieut. Doane has arrived in Washington
with II men of the Second cavalry, who have
volunteered to remain at the post to be estab-
lshed in the Arctic regions by the Howgate
expedition.
The permanent exhibition at Philadelphia
was rcopened Monday with appropriate cere-
monies. The day was the anniversary of the
opening of the centennial.
MIR James L. Forbes an American tea
grower in the East Indies, says all that is
needed to make tea culture successful in Flor
ida is enterprise and capital
The ascent of Yesuvius is now accom-
plished SO easily that great numbers of
tourists are attracted to the historic noun
tain. The trip from Naples is now made in
an hour.
Recent reports from Peru represent that
the two great sources of wealth in that land
of fabulous riches are rapidly failing-guano,
by exhaustion of the deposits and nitrate of
soda or saltpetre, by Governmental misman-
agement
The New York Supreme Court decides
that if a man who has found sidewalk dan
gerous goes upon it again and is hurt, when
he might have saved trouble by crossing the
street, he is not entitled to damages.
An indianapolis surgeon has recently
amputated both legs of young girl on ac-
count of decay of the bones, produced by ex-
cessive ope-jumping and he advises parents
and teachers to prohibit the plAy under all
circumstances.
One hundred and forty eight million copies
of the Bible translated into 226 different Ian
guages and dialects, aud distributed in differ
ent parts of the world, constitute one of the
achievements of foreign missions in the last
hundred years.
A writer in the Syracuse Courier declares
with great positiveness that under the mask
of monogamic marriages the Oneida commu-
nifty still practice complex marriage as before.
To their original sin they have added hypoc-
risy.
No less than six nations are now engaged
in Arctic explorations. Denmark, Russia,
Austria, the United States, Germany and
Holland all propose to establish stations in
the Arctic regions as a basis for future re-
search.
In the Hickman county, KY, court the
pfb luN. 1ivalv old uapflaYnaV Mic
souri,, when fined for contempt of court de-
clared that he had had too much fun for the
amount charged and accordingly insisted up
on giving the judge and prosecuting attor-
ney each An additional dime.
Selling cigars at hotel on Sunday has
been decided by the supreme court of Indiana
to be work of necessity" If hotels are to
be kept open at all, the court rules, there is
no difference between selling cigars and a cup
of coffee or tea, tea and coffee being no more
necessities than cigars.
-Whopper from middle Tennessee A
drunkard fled to the woods while wild with de-
lirum tremens, dug grave and was foundin it
dead. His wife was rendered frantic by the sight
and prayed that she might die too, when she
was struck by lightning and killed.
The engine of the train which went down
with the Tay bridge has been raised, and the
no time to reverse his engine before he went
over. The recent evidence shows that the
train and bridge fell together, and before the
former left the track.
For some time past the money changers
at Castle Garden, New York, have exchanged
an average of $50, 900 day for newly arrived
immigrants besides which very many of
them are provided, before leaving Europe,
with drafts upon commercial firms in this
country. On some days the average
amount of money brought by each immigrant
has been as much as $500.
There is pretty little story from ShreWs-
bury, England. As a farmers daughter was
fetching a loaf of bread from the pantry the
other day she was startled by first one mouse
and then another leaping out of it, and max
ing off frightened On cutting up the loaf
a cosy nest was found in the centre contain
ing fourteen little mice. The bread had been
baked eight days
Over 800 families who have sustained
themselves by the picking and sale of tea ber-
ries and whortleberries, are placed in desti-
tute circumstances by the destruction Of that
industry by the late great forest fires in New
Jersey. Besides being deprived of means of
making living, hundreds of them lost their
homes by the fires. These fires also swept
over and destroyed several hundred acres of
cranberry bogs.
One of those characteristic Nevada stO-
ries is thus briefly told by the Virginia Enter
prise of the l1th inst Yesterday, during
the gale, while boulders as big as pumpkins
were flying through the air and water pipes
were being ripped out of the ground, an old
Chinaman, with spectaoles on his nose, was
observed in the eastern part of the town,
seated on knoll, calmly flying his kte-an
iron shutter, with log-chain for tail"
"A peculiarity of the climate of South
America is that the same wind from the
South Pole blows throughout the year, fresh
and keen, all along the coasts so fresh and
keen that on the sea or close to it the vertical
sun of the tropics loses all its power even at
noon, and the long equatorial night has a
chill which renders it unsafe as well as un-
comfortable to sleep in the Open air, and un-
wise and almost impossible to dispense with