Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-11-05
NO. 45.
IN GENERAL.

happy by $G5i3, his accumulated peusion for
service in the Union army.
The Metbodists have recently dedicated
Chrisman hall at Atlanta, Ga, a $50, 600 brick
building situated in grounds comprising 4j0
acres, and devoted to the higher education Of
the colored people.
DR.. Tanner is making arrangements to
fast for 10 days in London. He says the ad-
vocates of alcohol may select six men as near
his age aud physical condition as possible,
who can take wine, beer or any spurious liq-
uor during the fast and he will take water
only.
1t viii cost the cotton planters about S40,-
OOO,0O0 to market their crop this year, Of
which S2j, 600 600 will go into the pockets Of
colored aborers, many of whom are women
and children.
-Furs are gradually advancing in value in
the European markets, in part because of the
general advance in nearly all articles and in
part also because of the increased use of furs
for trimmings, etc.
Prince William of Prussia and Princess
Victoria of Schleswig- Holstein are to be mar
ried next winter, and it is hoped in Berlin
that Queen Victoria will attend this wedding
of her eldest grandson. The Queen, however,
shriuks from all public rejoicings abroad, and
will probably stay at home.
The total number of immigrants who ar
rived in this country during the year ending
June 30, 1850, was ij7 2j7, divided among
the principal ports as follows At New York,
2G3, 72G; Port Huron, Mich, "a, ,37j Boston,
3i,OG2 Philadelphia, q, 727 Baltimore, H.
39l San Francisco, 7153; all other ports,
Is, 500
Mark, the 13-years-od boy of Henry
Hyman of Riyerhead, l.. l., recently took
fatal dose Of corrosive sublimate, so great
his drea1 Of a ybipuinO ha aI
from his father.
AT the great rally at Utica, n. Y, Gen
Grant accidentally got into another mans
overcoat, whereupon the crowd laughed
heartily Senator Conklng, who chanced to
be speaking, quickly remarked 'No harm
in your laughing at that, gentlemen. He
may sometimes get the wrong coat on, but
you may be perfectly sure he will never turn
his coat. There was great applause.
A scheme is being agitated in Western
Pennsylvania of making q new state out of
about 90 of the western counties of the State.
Superintendent Walker of the Census
Bureau, will make a complete report of the
enumeration of population to Congress at its
next session. report to Congress in the
session next following the enumeration has
never before been made.
-Leadville, Col, which is two miles above
the sea, is bad place for dogs and cats.
Only few dogs can endure the lightness Of
the atmosphere, and cats cannot live there at
ALL
France sends here only about 500 emf
grants each month-less than any European
country, with the exception of Spain. Swe-
den, Norway and Denmark, countries of
much less size, send many times more of their
number to swell the population of the great
Republic.
The field of American trade is constantly
extending. Sending silk to France would
seem like sending Goals to Newcastle, but that
enterprise is likely to become successful.
French silk has of late become so inferior in
| quality, and American silk SO superior that
several Partisan ladies have resolved to send
TO America this season for black silks, de-
spgiring of ever finding again a really good
and durable article in the Paris market.
Professor Watson of the Washburn OBJ
seryatory, in the grounds of the Wisconsin
State University Mt Madison, Wis, is building
an observatory of novel kind. 1t is general
| ly known that from the bottom of deep
well the stars can be very plainly seen at
bright MONDAY. Upon this principle Pro-
fessor Watson is conducting his experiment.
A cellar twenty feet in depth has been sunk
| below the surface of the ground at the slope;
over this a fine stone building is erected. At
the top of the hill which is sixty feet above
the bottom of the cellar, powerful reflectors
are to be placed to throw rays of light down
a large tube which ends in the cellar, where
the observer will be stationed.
At the meeting of the Woman's National
Christian Temperance Union in Boston last
week, Miss Frances E. Willard announced
that the movement to provide a suitable tes-
timonial to Mrs. President Hayes, for the no.
table example she has set in banishing intoX-
| icating liquors from the White House, has
met with a hearty and generous response.
The testimonial will take the form of a life
size portrait of Mrs. Hayes by one of the best
artists. 1t will be framed with suitable in
sariptions and left hanging in the White
| House as perpetual reminder of her social
bravery in hard place.
Maud S. is to winter in Cincinnati in the
care of Capt. Stone and be kept in trim for
next years work, when it is expected that
both she and st. Julien will clip second or
| two off of their record. Turfmen expect to
see some wonderful trotting next year. not
only by Maud S. and St. Julien, but by 9TH
ers who will compete with them for the hon
ors they now hold,
Many clergymen in this country have
| lately received a circular from London deal
| er in secondhand sermons. He offers
mons autographed in a bold round hand"
SO that those who happen to see them would
suppose that they were manuscript for TWEEN
| ty-fve cents each or twenty dollars q hun
dred. He has line of cheaper sermons in
| print, at ten cents apiece, warranted Ortho-
| dox and others-a little more expensive
| which have a 'pleasantness, yet an awful
solemnity about them"
During the great storm of October 1G on
the great lakes, upward of $500, 900 damage
was done to vessels and cargoes, and 93 per-
sons perished. There were II total wrecks, in
- L., II - D all 20
vessels were damaged to a greater or less ex-
tent.
"A French expedition is to be sent into
Central Africa, by way of Senegambia, con-
sisting of $50 troops, engineers, and a care
fully selected medical and Typographical staff
1t is proposed to steam up the Senegal river
as far US Medina, and thence cross the coun-
try toward the head waters of the Niger. The
trade of that populous section is comparative
ly heavy and the French seek to divert it in
to the Senegal river and to St. Louis by way
of Medina.
Rev George Newbold ran a bakery
while pastor of the Methodist church at Bar
tonville, Canada, and further diversified his
pursuits by forging checks. While in prison
for his crimes at Belleville, he made love to
the warden's wife, and on his release eloped
with her. On his wedding tour he visited
Mansfield, o., and accidentally meeting Rev.
Mr.. Gilroy, who had once denounced him,
gave him a sound whipping. He is now to
be prosecuted for having three wives.
Queen Victoria danced a reel a month
ago at a ball given by the prince of Wales in
his Highland seat Abergelde, the first the
queen had danced for years, although in her
girlhood the queen was a brilliant and easy
dancer, and took as much pleasure in waltz
ing with her lover Prince Albert as any
young woman. The set in which the queen
danced at Abergedde was made up of the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Irene of Hesse
and Lord Fife.
Gen. Garfield has sent his portrait and au-
tograph to little George Vanankin, the nine
year-old boy at Mishawaka, Ind. who was
shot for hnrrahi for Gar6ald Gaoroa uag