Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-08-27
IN GENRR

Ono of the mammoth trees in the Cal
averas grove, California, has been named Gen.
Garfield.
ALI the gold in circulation in the world
could be stacked in room % feet square
and % feet high.
Manchester, Eng, has found that the
draining and paving of 20 streets diminished
her mortality more than sixth.
james Redpath estimates that no less
$1,000 900 has been contributed in the Unit
ed States for the relief of Irish distress dur
ing the last tN elve months
Lewis Hltz, o: Independence, Mo, was
acquitted of a murder there on the ground of
insanity. He was recently struck dead by sun
stroke on the same day of the month, at the
same hour of the day and on the very spot
where he committed the deed.
Robert, President Lincolns son, was re-
Gently badly cut up by railroad accident at
Freehold, Pa, but though it was half an
hour before he was brought to his senses, it
is not thought that he was seriously injured.
A shrewd farm hand bought for $l6O the
big meteor which fell in Emmet county,
Iowa, last year. aud was laughed at by his
comrades for what the conceived to be his
idiocy. He has now sold it to the British
museum for $1,000.
1t is reported from San Francisco that
II. C, Jarrett is arranging to produce the
Ober-Ammergau Passion Play" in this coun-
try. Bethany, Pa, which is the central point
of the large German-speaking population, is
said to be the place fixed upon for the pro-
duction.
The 10" puzzle has been brought to the
attention of SO learned a body as the royal
society, Edinburg. At the meeting on June
s, Prof, TAFT, the distinguished mathemati-
clan, sent in note on the theory of the puz-
zle, and gave a rule for determining whether
a particular arrangement was solvable or not.
An eccentric Englshman lately went up
TO the top of Mt Blanc for the purpose of
building fire where none had ever been kim
died. He succeeded in doing SO, and, on get
ting back to the inn at the foot of the noun
tain, recorded his triumph in English upon
the hotel register.
-Tillie Matter of Mount Joy, Pa, an in
terestng young woman of 10 years, was
walking with her sweetheart the other day
when spark from his cigar set her clothes
ablaze Tillie started to run, which famed
the flames into fercer heat, and though two
young fellows alighted from a carriage as
they passed and smothered the fire with
blanket the young woman was an agonized
mass of burning flesh and only found relief
in death.
Harrison Bradley, a Southern negro who
cry, came North to Yellow Springs, o., after
the war and married another woman. Mrs.
Bradley No. 2 recently died, and Just then
the first wife, sold from Bradley in 1859, hap
pened to come to town and there was a hap
py ro-marriage in the presence of black and
white neighbors, Bradley being now an old
man in easy circumstances and respected by
all.
A ball of fire which seemed 20 feet in
Z. T.I ~
er night. 1t made kissing sound, and it's
heat could be plainly felt. The meteor
struck the earth near the village, and it is es-
timated that it will weigh as much as three
tons The heat was so great after it first fell
that it was uncomfortable going within 30
feet of it, and the owner of the land where it
fell has already refused $500 for his prize.
Napoleon b. Arthur deserted his wife
aud family at Marysvile, O., 20 years ago to
elope with neighbor's daughter His wife
remained on the farm and reared their chill
dren, while he wandered about the country.
poor, broken, old tramp recently presented
himself at the homestead, the wreck of the
husband and father. He begged for food
and lodging, expressing the utmost contrition
for his bad behavior, but the wife set the dog
on him and he barely escaped with his life.
Another story of suddenly acquired wealth
comes this time from tho village of Port
Chester, N. Y, where a young man of 1s,
who has been earning his living by driving
grocery team, is proved to be the heir to a
Cuban estate of 50, 100000. He was placed
in the care of a widow in the village fourteen
years ago, and for some time remittances for
his support were received, but they finally
stopped coming Two relatives from Cuba
have just hunted him up and informed him
of his good fortune.
A Young man from Texas married a girl
in North Carolina, and then proposed to
leave her while he worked his way back 10
his Texas home, in the hope of there earning
money enough 10 send for her. She said,
however, that she would rather accompany
him afoot. They therefore made the jour
ney of 1000 miles as tramps; but their good
appearance gained for them considerable help
along the way, and for the last fifty miles
they rode triumphantly in a carriage, provid-
ed by an enthusiastic admirer Of their pluck.