Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-14
IN GENERAL.

IN GENERAL.
General Garfield Is fond of swimming
and Of exercise in the saddle. He rides reg
ularly every day at Mentor from FIVE to ten
miles.
During the year 1880 there were 1888
fires in the city of New York, causing loss
Of 50, 1873, 40. The insurance amounted to
SIC, ,27S. The losses in 1879 reached So
G7i, $50.
General J. II. Hawley has Just received
from a number of members Of the Centennial
Commission handsome silver vase as rec.
ogniton Of his services while president of
that body. The vase is made Of absolutely
pure silver from the Virginia mine and is a
foot and half high.
The State of Illinois must feel comforta-
BILE. The State Indebtedness is wiped out,
and the treasury has over a million dollars on
hand and has a regular stipend from the Hi.
nois Central railroad. Some OF the State
bonds now being paid were originally nego-
tiated at IL cents on dollar.
Mr.. Moody was followed TO his San Fran
cisco lodgings a fortnight ago by convert
who wished to ask him whether it would be
right, now that he had professcd to DO a
Christian, to pay his whisky,bills The evan.
gelist told him to pay all his debts no matter
how bad they might be, aud then to make a
new start.
The record of marine disasters for 1850
shows that no less than l47 steamships Of a
total tonnage of III, 1862 tons, were wrecked.
A very small percentage of them was raised
again, repaired and put back into service
OF the whole number lO7 were British, 10
French, . American and German; ~ are
missing, with no clue to the Gauss Of their
destruction.
General Grant is said to smoke a hun
dred cigars in two weeks. He gives away as
many as he smokes. He has used the same
brand Of imported cigars for ten years They
cost $22. 80 hundred. Colonel Bob Inger-
soil pays $50 box and uses from i've to ten
cigars day. General Butler pays $40 and
sometimes $50 for box. Senator Matt Car
penter, who nearly killed himself by smoking
has been reduced to three cigars day.
A boiler in the refining and smelling
works Of Edward Balbach & Sons, at New
ark, N. j., exploded at midnight last Thurs
day, killing four men and wounding four 9TH
er persons. The shock of the explosion was
felt a mile away. Several houses in the
neighborhood were considerably damaged
young woman was severely hurt by a brick
which struck the pillow on which she was
sleeping probably causing conclusion Of the
brain.
The Elmira IN. Y..) Gazette tells the
story of an unused Erie Railroad ticket. 1t
was bought July 3, 1866, by man who had
some years previously left his fathers home
at the age OF IL He missed the Erie train,
took one on the Central, fell into conversa-
ton with fellow passenger who turned out
to be his father, who had supposed him dead
and had made will giving all his property
to a nephew a reconciliation was effected. a
new will made, and now the purchaser of the
unused ticket is one of the leading citizens Of
Buffalo.
Chinese quack doctors do large business
in San Francisco. The large class OF ignorant
people who elsewhere resort in sickness to
clairvoyants, there go to Cinnamon, whose
horrible mixtures of reptiles and other things
have frequently been described. 1t was late
ly discovered that the most noted of these
practitioners was in the employ of white spec
ulators, who advertised him extensively, and
took the profits after paying him small sal
ary. He had been a fisherman, and knew
nothing at all of medicine. 1t is said that
Cinnamon, with their fearlessness of death,
and their belief that every man will live as
long as his Maker intended, have really little
faith in medical science.
The fayorite wife Of the Sultan of Morocco
died at Fez in November She was thirty
four years of age, and had been the queen of
the Harem for twenty years. She was re-
moved from her apartments to a kiosk in the
Palace Gardens, but the change did not ben
eft her, and the Sultan ordered that she be
buried in the kiosk where she died. Eight
court officers dug her grave. The Sultana
was wrapped in costly shawl, and all her
clothing was laid in her grave, so that no
living person might wear any Of it. Her
A,,l - H. ~ Nt,f
ments given to the poor. And after the in
terment the furniture in her apartments was
demolished and the rooms were all locked
The costly residence of James X. Keene,
the wealthy Wall street operator, at Newport,
Il. l., was entirely destroyed by fire early
last Friday morning, caused by defective
fue. The house was built eight years ago,
at a cost of $l25, 900, and was bought by Mr.
Keeue two years ago under a mortgage fore
closure for $67, 500 He has expended many
thousands of dollars in improving and en-
bellishing the property. The interior fur
nishing and decorations were of the most
costly character, and the house was full of
works of art of great value, including paint
ings bric-a-brac, rare porcelains, bronzes
and china. The library contained about
thousand volumes of fine and rare books all
of which were burned. Loss $3.50, 600; full
ly insured.
A colored church in Lee county, Georgia,
is singularly adorned. For some time it has
enjoyed the ministrstions of a certain preach
er Of the Baptist persuasion, who gained
great reputation among the dusky worshipers.
He recently died, and was buried with most
imposing ceremonies. The memory of him
and his deeds were not sufficient to sustain
the faith of the church, and accordingly the
members set themselves to the task of pre-
pairing more material memorial. An image
was made of black and white cotton cloth,
stuffed with straw, adorned with charcoal and
dressed in a suit of clothes once worn by the
defunct. 1t was then placed above the pulpit.
To an unbiased critic the efigy looks more
like a scarecrow than anything else, but the
members of the church declare that it is a
very striking likeness of the departed saint.
A number of magnificent ocean steam
ships are soon to be added to the great lines
between this country and Europe. The City
of Rome, in process of construction for the
Inman line at Barrow, will be of steel, six
hundred feet long, and have a carrying ca
pacity of FIVE thousand 1--WE hundred tons.
Her rival in the Ounard line will be the
Servia, now in course of construction ON the
Clyde, which will have a carrying capacity of
eight thousand five hundred tons. 1t is in
tended that each of these vessels shall be able
to run eighteen knots an hour. The Ounard
company is also having three other steam
ships built, with length respectively of four
hundred, four hundred and fifty, and five
hundred feet. The Allan line is to have
new steamship four hundred and fifty feet
long, the Guion line one Ave hundred feet
long, and the other lines are making arrange
ments for the increasing travel and freight.
An exchange thus notes some of the ouali-