Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-06-03
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by deposits OF coal.
Nearly 500 Catholic bishops have peti-
toned for the canonization Of Christopher
Columbus.
In many box factories the nails are now
driven by machinery, one machine doing the
work Of ten or fifteen men.
The experimental tunnel under the
Straits Of Dover is being pushed forward at
the rate Of twenty FIVE feet q day. The cut
ting is done by a disk which makes two revo-
lutions a minute and cuts quarter Of an inch
at each revolution.
The new road to San Francisco through
Arizona runs for sixty miles along basin that
is $50 feet below the level of the ocean. This
region has two TO four feet of salt and alkali
covering It's surface. The ground is perfect
ly white.
jay Cooke has so far retrieved his finan-
cial disasters that he has paid all his creditors
in full and has repurchased his magnificent
country seat of "Ogontz, "'near Philadelphia.
The newspapers of Oregon amuse their
readers by the publication Of the names of
citizens who take out license to drink at a
public bar under the new law.
The anti-Masons are going to put up a
S2S00 monument at Batavia N. Y, 10 William
Morgan, whose mysterious ending in 1926
caused such widespread excitement.
-Sojourner Truth has completely recover
ed from her late severe sickness, which IL was
thought she could not live through, and has
again started out on a new lecturing tour.
She now claims to be log years old-the old
est lecturer on the American stage and in the
world
"A farmer living in Markham township, 20
miles from Toronto, Ont, has discovered
pit on his farm containing 800 skulls and five
times as many leg and arm bones. DIR. Viii
eon of the Toronto university believes il an
Indian ossuary, and that the remains have
been underground 200 years.
Delaware puts boys of 10 and 13 in the
pillory, and whips them in public. A case
occurred last week in Newcastle. The sheriff
had to put stools in the pillory to get the boys
hands up to the stocks.
The mother of Thomas Hughes is per-
haps the most notable immigrant Of the year.
She has arrived at Philadelphia, with her
pictures, books and furniture, on the way to
her sons famous colony of Rugby, Tenn.
1t is said that a cipher dispatch discover
ed among the papers of the war department,
shows that Gen. Burnside suggested the plan
of a march from Atlanta to the sea year be-
fore Gen. Sherman carried such a project to
success.
Secretary Allen, of the Omaha board of
trade, estimates Nebraska's grain crop for 1881
at 105, 900, 900 bushels, an increase over 1880
of fully 80 per cent. The wheat crop is es-
timatsd at 16, 900, 900 bushels, a gain Of about
80 per cent
Boston is working up to quite pitch of
enthusiasm over the proposed worlds fair to
be held there in 1885. A meeting held on
Wednesday evening 10 consider the project
was attended by leading representatives of
the city's business interests, and a general ap-
proval of the plan was expressed,
The annual reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac will take place this
year at Hartford, Conn, on Wednesday,
June 8. An oration will be delivered by the
Hon. Daniel Dougherty of Philadelphia,
Penn, and a poem by Col. s. B. Sumner of
Bridgeport, Conn. The use of the new Cap
itol has been granted by the legislature, and
the several corps will meet there at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, and proceed at noon to the Opera
House, where the exercises will be conducted.
Whatever may be said of Jay Gould, he
is good man to work for. Some time ago
he sent to Omaha for a clerk to do some
special work which occupied about six weeks.
When the work was done, Gould bade the
clerk good bye and sent him to the cashier,
who handed him a check for $2500. The
clerk demonstrated that there was some mis-
take, but tho cashier said ''The old man has
given the order and you must take it."
"A very silent funeral took place recently
in Sheffield, Eng. The remains were those
of an old lady who had been deaf and dumb
for years. The mourners were all deaf and
dumb, and the service was entirely conducted
with deaf and dumb signs by Mr.. Stephenson,
the Superintendent of the Sheffield Deaf and
Dumb Association.
We have hOasted great deal about Edi-
son in this country, but he does not begin TO
compare with Siemons, the great European
electrician at least, as far as pecuniary profit
is concerned. Siemons has already laid aside
a neat fortune of 500, 900, 900 from his cleo
trical inventions, and expects TO make as
much more from the electrical railroad which
he has just put in operation in Berlin. The
inventor used to be poor man not many
years ago.
"A New London whaling vessel, the Pilots
Bride, Capt. Fuller, last year made an inter-
esting cruise in the vast solitudes of the
Southern Ocean, penetrating as far south as
68o, which is said to be farther than any
whaler has hitherto penetrated. Leaving the
South Shetland Isles in September last, Capt.
Fuller took his vessel down to the ice-packs,
and there saw high mountainous land extend
ing like a coast line for miles. One of these
mountains was an active volcano, which pre-
sented a magnificent spectacle at night.
Many attempts were made to reach the shore,
but in vain, the ice barrier proving impen-
etrable.
Seventeen years ago Gen. W. ]. Bolton
of Noristown, Pa, while serving as Colonel
of Pennsylvania regiment, received bullet
in his lower right jaw which the surgeons
were unable to extract Since then he has
felt pain in the neck, especially during damp
weather. OF late the pain has been more in
tense, and he has felt some sharp object cut
ting its way toward his throat-pieces Of his
shattered jaw bone, he thought. On Satur-
day he had occasion TO stoop, and was imme-
diately taken with a violent fit of coughing.
Placing his hand instinctively over his mouth
something dropped into it. 1t was the pain
full little rebel ball of cast-iron.