Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-16
NO. 81.
IN GENERAL.

San Francisco public schools.
The census Of India, Just completed,
shows a population of 252, SOC, 600.
The Princess OF Wales having recently
worn grapes or cherries in her bonnet on pub
lie occasions has revived pretty fashion.
There has been large decline in the
price Of quinine, in consequence of the dis
covery Of new source Of supply at Santan-
der in Columbia.
An inventive genius at Paris, p O., hav-
ing been pestered with visits from his neigh
bors' hogs, fastened very sharp scythe blade
to the bottom of the front gate. Next morn
ing there were several snouts underneath the
gate.
The destroyed town of New-Ulm, Mimi,
is being rapidly rebuilt, and in a few weeks
few traces of the tornado's path will be left
The cash contributions have amounted to
S37, 1888, and the new houses, built by drec-
ton of the Relief Committee, are now nearly
all completed.
Military organizations aggregating 13, 900
men have given notice of their intention of
being present at the Yorktown celebration,
and it is expected that fully $4,000 soldiers
will be in line. Gen. Hancock has sent a de-
tail to Yorktown to aid in preparing camp
grounds for the troops.
The high art craze has struck the stove
trade, and the new heaters are going to be
low, square, with artistic castings ard porce.
lain tiles, in the prevailing Queen Anne or
Eastlake style. The tall, gaudily -nickled
monstrosties that have been in vogue can
well be spared.
The new capitol of Minnesota, to be
built at st. Paul, in place of the one burned
last winter, will be monument to the nat
ural resources of the state. The stone used
in its construction will be all quarried within
the state limits, and the interior of the build
ing will be finished throughout in natural
woods native to Minnesota.
Rev. Richard Davis, colored preacher
at Covington, KY, has just discovered in Fan
ME Lewis, a former and favorite parishoner
in Louisville, the daughter from whom he
was separated by slavery 20 years ago. Just
before the rebellion he was sold by his mas
ter near Lexington, and sent to Alabama.
After the war he became a preacher and mar
ried. Through Fannie Lewis, he has also
discovered his slave wife.
A most hopeful industrial sign is the
enormous increase in the shipment of railway
cars and locomotives to foreign countries an
increase that bids fair TO continue. 1t was
not long ago that England sneeringly inform
ed the United States that she could not even
furnish her own railroads with rolling stock,
but now England can buy cheaper and better
engines of the Yankees than she can make
herself.
The Chinese Government, for some rea-
son not stated, recently issued decree COM
manding its subjects to abstain from shaving
the head for period of 100 days. Detected
In the act of dsobeying this arbitrary regula-
ton, between fifty and sixty persons in the
city of Foochow alone were on the 18th of
June sentenced to receive castigation with
bamboo rods and to pay each a fine of 5000
cash-about Sc.
Familiar as its people are to heat it is
seldom that Morocco has witnessed heat so
| intense as that which prevailed in August last
Arabs refused to hire their camels for the
transport of produce to market, and during
move of the Sultan's camp many of the poor
beasts of burden perished outright, the num-
| ber being placed at more than 200. One of
the feast days was allowed to pass without the
| usual observance owing TO the severity of the
weather.
The Cuban rebellion is still giving seri-
| our trouble to the Spanish authorities A let
ter from Havana says News from the front
is meagre and contradictory. One thing is
certain, that the revolutionary movement is
still active in spite of the large force brought
| to operate against it, Communication with
the country is closed, and report has it that
large destruction of sugar estates and large
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