Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-23
NO. 30.
IN GENERAL.

that the state has OOOO criminals at large,
1000 Of them murderers
The firm of Nice Il Good at Philadelphia
was burnt out few days ago They feel
"horrid and bad" now.
The total valuation of the city Of New
York is now placed at 81, 143, 7G5, 727, these
figures showing an increase of nearly $780,
900, 900 over those of last year
-Ninety-one cities in this country have a
population of over 5000, 900, or about one
sixth of the whole population, and this does
not include cities with less than 30, 900 popu-
lation.
"A London firm advertises that It has for
sale one of the identical stamps by which
George III attempted to impose the obnox-
ious tax on teas imported into British Amer
lea.
"A school boy at Allanburg, Ont. had en-
tered the school house through a window to
get his books, and when returning the win
dow sash fell down upon him. He was found
three hours after suspended from the window
by the neck, dead.
One Government check for interest on
the bonds, which goes to William II, Wander
bilt, represents the interest on one-thirtieth
part of the entire funded debt of the United
! States and one-eleventh of the registered
! loan.
Both Gen. Hancock and Gen. Garfield
are overwhelmed with telegraph messages.
The former has been obliged TO secure an ad-
ditonal operator for Governors Island, and
the Western Union has put an instrument and
operator into Gen. Garheld's house.
The colored people of Wilmington, N.
| c., own 500, 900 in personal property and
$500, 900 in real estate, and besides outnumber-
ing the whites nearly two to one, enjoy such
political toleration that they run their share
\ of the local government
The moonshiner strongholds in the
mountains of East Tennessee, where former
| ly thousands of gallons of illicit whisky were
made, have finally been crushed and tax-pay-
ing distilleries substituted, which last year
paid $l77, 900 of revenue.
by a unanimous vote the Trustees of
Hanover College, the oldest in the state of In
diana, have just decided to admit young wo-
men on the same terms as young men. The
institution is under Presbyterian control, and
it is nearly the last of the fifteen Protestant
colleges of the state to accept co-education.
DIR. w. ]. H. Brush, who recently died
at Phillipsburg, N. j.. was 30 fond of band
music that he left $4,000 in trust with the
town, which is to use the interest in support
ing brass band that is to play funeral
march over his grave at every anniversary of
his death and on all legal holidays.
Work is actually progressing on the tun-
mel which is to connect France and England.
One shaft has been sunk to the stratum in
| which the tunnel is to be cut, while another
is to be sunk and the machinery for boring
under the channel set in operation. The
work is expected to be finished in two or
three years.
Edison is at work trying to run engines
with electricity. He has built q short piece
| of track and run his machine over it, driven
| by electricity generated at q central station.
He makes the track itself the conductor, send
ing the current up one rail and down the 9TH
er, the engine being operated by the current
forming circuit through it when proper con-
nections are made.
-Covington, Ia, is being fast eaten up by
the swift current of the Missouri river. There
are many feet of water flowing over the spot
where its courthouse stood year ago, and
the principal hotel, which was GOO feet from
the river bank two years ago, has been put
| upon rollers for removal from the encroach-
| ing current
George William Curtis has supplied the
| pulpit of the Church of the Redeemer, Staten
Island, during several years past, conducting
the services each Sunday and reading a SER
mon selected from the published discourses
of eminent clergymen. On the last Sunday
in June he terminated his semi ministerial
labors, and the church is now seeking pas
| tor.
The Norwegians have recently unearthed
an old Viking ship at Sandeherred which was
propelled by 36 oars. large copper kettle,
measuring about half ton, was found near
the mast and also a sepulcher containing hu-
man bones, iron implements and well wrought
ornaments in gilt silver or bronze, represent
ing several portraits, besides arabesques and
animals.
Japan is now suffering from an over-is-
sue of paper money, which passes at about
SO per cent discount, and specie dollars are
| quoted at So per cent premium. The Jap
anese think the trouble lies with their foreign
trade, but will have to learn the same lesson
we have learned, that irredeemable currency
is sure to get into disgrace.
A firm of Scotch ship-builders have es-
tablished themselves at Shanghai, and are
! turning out iron steamers of the largest size
All of their 100 workmen are Chinese who
labor for few cents per day. Eotwithstand-
| ing nearly all the raw material used in those
| yards has to cross oceans, nowhere in the
world can q ship be built more cheaply. The
London Times sees in this fact something Sc
riously ominous to the shipwrights on the
Clyde and the Tyne.
"A penitentiary is a queer place to look
to for the issue of counterfeit money, but the
Kentucky institution at Frankfort, about
whose sanitary condition there have been
such disgraceful scandals, has been flooding
the city with spurious silver. The work was so
well done that only an expert could detect the
fraud, but the molds were finally found in the
cell of Elijah Hayden, horse thief. He
used composition of lead and other base
metals, mixing in melted glass to give 1t q
metallic ring. The penitentiary attaches
winked at the work, sharing in the profits
and helping to scatter the ''queer."
Mrs. Maria L. Judson, an intelligent and
lady-like young woman about 80 years old,
has been sent to Blackwell's island for six
months for being drunk and disorderly on a
streot-car Sunday night. She was the dAugh-
ter of wealthy parents and married Con-
necticut Wholesale hquor-dealer worth several
hundred thousand dollars, but acquired a
taste for liquor, and after eight years of mar
ried life, her husband got divorce. The
wife reformed and was married to JudsOn
again, but again got to drinking and her hus-
band is seeking another divorce.
The Empress Eugene, during her late
visit TO Zulu-land, proceeded on foot into the
South African valley where her sons body
was found following precisely the track tax
en- by the officers who went in search of the
corpse. The road was stony and rough, but
she persisted in walking. In the distance
cleaned the white monument, thrown into
sharp relief by the dark background, but 1t
only seemed to catch the eye Of the Empress
when she got to the bank of the donga.
Then she lifted her hands as in supplication
toward heaven, the tears poured over her
cheeks worn with sorrow and vigils, she
spoke no word and uttered no cry, but sank
slowly ON her knees A French priest repeated
the prayers for the dead, and the servant,
Lomas, who had been an eyewitness, went
through the sad story of what had happened
last year. The tents were pitched in the val
ley, and the Empress staid there for two
days. On the following day she went TO Fort
Napoleon, and thence to RoTke's Drift, and
on the fifth day visited the field of Isandula,
and prayed there with the English women
who had come there TO mourn their husbands