Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-08-13
IN ZEN RRAL.

Prof. Greene Smith, only son of Gerrit
Smith, the great philanthropist, is dead from
consumption.
Bets have been made in Russia that the
Gar would not live a year, and the chaps
who made the bets are now living in Siberia.
MIR. Web Hayes, son of the President, is
soon TO become q member of the law firm of
Swayne & Swayne in Toledo. These gen
tlemen are sons Of Associate Justice Swayne,
The Western paper barrel manufactures
are turning out 30, 900 barrels a day. Every
process is done by machinery, even the paint
ing.
-"Pinafore," has reached the diamond
diggings in South Africa, and the kaffr wo-
men, with no more costume than the law al
lows, 60 about singing Pm sweet little But
tercup"
According to estimates, the gold will all
get back into the ground again in the teeth of
decedent mortality, SO that the future miner
for the auriferous metal will have to operate
in ancient graveyards.
The rails of the only railroad ever built
in China arrived at New York recently. They
were laid from Shanghai to Woo Lung on a
permit given to Charles L. Hill of Bridge
port, Conn, but strong opposition forced
their removal.
Mr.. Bell, the inventor of the elephone,
is described by Gath" as thirty-two years
old 1t is added that Mr. Bell received
large round sum for his invention, besides
shares in the company as consolidated, and
he has salary of $25, 900 year as an cleo
trcian
New Orleans has neither cellars nor sew
ers because the city rests on substratum of
marsh. The cutters have carried of the
drainage, or failed to do so according to the
frequency of rains. The Sanitarians, loc al
society for the preservation of health, have
now brought a steady flow of water from the
river through most Of the streets.
-Pietro Balbo, the Italian wife-murderer,
was hanged in the Toombs at New York last
Friday morning. The condemned man spent
the last half of his last night miserably. On
the way to the galows he was perfectly cool
in manner, although his face was very pale.
The great meteoric stone, said to be the
largest ever hurled at the United States,
which fell in Emmet county, Iowa, in May,
1879, has been sold TO the British Museum
for $1,000. 1t weighs 43l pounds.
A special from Fremont, Heb., says that
old John Bender, the head devil of the gang
of murderers in southeastern Kansas, whose
butchery Of DR.. York and a dozen others Gre
ated SO much excitement seven years ago,
was arrested by Sheriff Gregg at Richland,
35 miles west of Fremont some days ago,
and is now lodged in Jail. He was with
woman travelling eastward on foot
The second wife of well-to-do New
York man recently asceTtained that the funeral
expenses of her husbands first wife had not
been paid. She called on the undertaken
and paid the bill of $50 from her own earn
ings with evident satisfaction.
The statue Of Robert Burns, to be erect
ed in Central Park, New York, will be ready
for unveiling in September, and the park
commissioners have been invited by the COM
mittee representing the donors of the statue
to unite with them in arranging proper pro-
gramme for the ceremony.
DIR. l. l. Hayes writes the New York
Herald from Boston that there is no Just
cause of apprehension for the safety of the
Jeannette and that he believes her voyage to
the North Pole will be successful and furnish
one of the brightest pages In the history of
American discovery and enterprise.
The increase of deposits in the savings
banks of New York city during the last six
months is reckoned at 50, OOO 900 and in the
whole State at $1,000 600. Not much hard
times about that.
james Gordon Bennett of the New York
Herald is said to look old and gray. He wan
ders over Europe, spending his money lavish
ly, but with little satisfaction. He hunts with
tne sporting men, ana D6tS with the Dettlng
men. He tries his hand at other exciting
smusements, and finding them equally unsat-
isfactory, returns to America. He exhausts
yachting, polo and other sports, but the re-
suit is the same. He has pursued pleasure
for twenty years but finds it not
The Russian Prince Demidoff lately lost
three million dollars during single sitting
at baccarat, Count Schouvaloff being the win
ner. Tho Gar heard of the affair, and at
once decreed that Schouvaloff should return
seven-eighths of his winnings to the luckless
prince, reducing his loss to something like
S4oA, 600. This is probably the biggest gam
bling transaction on record.
Two thousand people witnesseda "Span-
ish bull fight" in New York on Saturday
Mr.. Bergh was present with eighty officers
prepared, if called upon, to aid him in the
prevention of any cruelty to the Texan steers.
Eight bulls in all were introduced, but moth
ing approaching fight was witnessed. The
most exciting event of the exhibition was
caused by a bull which cleared the fence sur
rounding the arena five times. The men were
not armed, and the steers were made compar-
atively harmless by having the tips of their
horns padded Neither men nor steers were
harmed.