Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04
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IN GENERAL.

Cal, last week.
"A lawyer named Youmans, living in Del
hi, N. Y. will erect monuments to two Of his
horses which have lately died. aged SO and
81 years respectively.
The first new wheat OF the season was
received at St. Louis last Saturday from Fort
Worth, Texas, and was sold at auction on
Change for Sl.G2t per bushel.
Harriet Beecher Stoves orange planta-
ton at Mandarin. Fla, is said TO have yield
ed her profit of $4,000 per acre the past
year. She has Just returned to Hartford from
her Florida home.
DR. l. N. Brown, of Ihurel Ohio, claims
that the distinct likeness of little girls face
has been photographed by lightning upon
window pane in that town.
The lumber dealers of England are max
ing grand raid on Iowa and ali the black
walnut States, and are fast taking from us all
that we have left of that timber.
New York pays more for tobacco than
for bread. Dealers say there are smokers in
New York city who average 100 cigars a week,
aud men whose cigar bills run up to thou
sands of dollars per annum.
A new repeating gun, the Gardner"
was tested at Washington, last week, by the
board Of naval officers, and over 5000 shots
were fired in 13 minutes, three men reliev-
ing each other at the crank.
"A sea captain Just arrived at New York,
reports that during his voyage from Antwerp
he passed an iceberg as big Ms Staten Island
and POO feet high.
A drunken New York custom house brok-
er gave a 11-years-old boy named Radcliffe
whisky the other evening, and the intoxicated
youth walked of the roof Of his fathers
house and was killed.
The Sibley cotton mills were organized
at Augusta, Ga, Wednesday, with an author
lied capital of ! ,O0O,0OO, 5000, 900 being
subscribed. One of the largest factories in
the South will be erected Immediately.
The steamship Buenos Ayres, the newest
ship of the Allen line has arrived at Mon
treal It is said that she is the largest steel
steamship aAoat, being 400 feet long AZ feet
6 inches in breadth and 81 feet deep.
The receipts of grain at Chicago last
week reached the enormous total of 1855, $50
bushels, including 4,03l $50 bushels Of corn,
the largest receipts on record.
Iron Mountain, Missouri, is all that its
name implies, being seven-tenths pure iron.
1t is nearly mile long, half as broad, and
several hundred feet high. 1t is being car
red away at the rate of $50 tons day.
-Kearney was given an ovation on the
sand-lots at San Francisco by the working
men the other evening, after his release from
the peuitentiary. He proposes to keep up
his Did style of agitation, making it bitterer
than ever.
A cyclone passed six or seven miles north
west of Evansville, Ind. last Saturday, blow
ing down several barns, hay press and 9th
er buildings. Frank WassOn was killed, and
Joe Deigard and Mrs. Walter were seriously
injured.
A barrel of kerosene exploded on the
English ship Sophia in the river at Philadel-
phia last Saturday, setting the ship on fire
and setting FIRE to the clothing of five men.
Two jumped overheard and were drowned
and the three others were fatally burned.
The vessel was not badly damaged.
The city marshal of Lafayette, Ind, and
other citizens have been indicted for compile
ty with gang of horse thieves. The roguery
has been going on long while, and farmers
have had TO pay very heavy rewards for the
recovery of their horses.
The floors of building on Front street,
New York, holding 5000 barrels of -four be-
longing to Bedells 4 Parsell, and some sO,-
600 cans of preserved meat belonging to the
Boston beef packing company, have fallen
through; damage $4,000.
Mrs Tyler, the widow of the ex-Presi-
dent, lives at Sherwood Forest, the Tyler es-
tate on the James river, not having retired,
was reported, to a convent, nor to the
Louise Home. Her daughter, her little grand
daughter and herself have all been received
into the Catholic church
A terrible cyclone visited Savoy, on the
Texas Pacific railroad, last Friday night, to-
tally destroying the town, killing nine persons
and wounding 60 more, some of whom will
die. Nineteen business houses, the depot
and 90 dwellings were destroyed, only hve
houses in the place escaping damage.
A firm which employed gang of chop
pers at Bethlehem, N. H., last winter has
shipped 20 teams, with men, to Minnesota,
| where they own 1000 acres of railroad land,
| which they will SOW with wheat in the fall.
| They will return to New Hampshire when
| snow flies, and will alternate western farming
and eastern numbering.
The Pennsylvania railroad company has
| determined to run almost as many trains on
| Sunday as on any other day. At a recent
meeting of the directors the question was put
to a vote, and the Sabbataran directors were
in the minority. Hitherto only about eight
passenger trains have been run on the Sab
bath, but the traffic is so large that more ac-
commodations are needed.
Mr.. Brown, the new Georgia Senator, is
said to have clerical look, and wears long
white whskers tapering to point He is a
DhIlllhl, anu lhlcl1 BEthtuttu SObtbbb "
| denomination. General Gordon is an active
church member, often praying and preaching
| in camp and church. Governor Colquitt is a
member of the Methodist General Confer
ence president of the International Sunday
school Association, and good lay preacher.
The extent and fury of the recent fire at
| Milton, Pa, can be partially realized by the
fact that pieces of charred clothing, notes,
papers, etc, were carried distance of twen-
| ty-fve miles In the neighborhood of Free
burg, Snyder county, Pa, a leaf from BIZ
BILE was picked up by Mr.. Geo. Glass, the
printing thereon being legible. Near the
same place a ten dollar note was found, also
some promissory notes and further on
part of a deed was found. Freeburg is about
| eighteen miles in direct line from Milton.
Twenty years ago the steamer Arabian
sank in the Missouri river, with GOO barrels
of whiskey on board. The current of the riv-
er went on changing, and now the place
| where the steamer sank is dry land, and the
forgotten wreck is buried forty feet deep in
the sand. The other day the man who owns
the place put down pump, and the first liq-
uid he found was whisky in one of the 600
buried barrels. For while after he had
tasted the vein his pipe had struck, land in
the vicinity was held at $4,000 an acre !;
| but by.and-by some one remembered about
the old wreck and the price fell.
The dental authorities estimate that the
12, 900 dentists in this country are every year
packing into the teeth of the people not less
| than half a ton of pure gold, costing half
million of dollars. besides about four times as
much cheaper material, as silver and platina,
worth 800, 900 more. Then there are made
every year about 100000 artificial teeth
mounted on gold, platina or rubber. This
indicates that as people we take pretty good
care of the teeth, yet the dentists say that
not half the people who need it avail them
selves of their services, and that indeed only
one person in eight has perfect teeth.
A curious spectacle was witnessed at
Lansingburgh, N, Y, last week. An English