Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-01-07
IN GEN ERAL.

-Great damage has resulted by the inun-
dation of eighteen villages in Holland, owing
to the breaking of the dykes.
During the past year 800 900 emigrants
arrived at Castle Garden, the largest number
in any year since 1850.
-Glouscester, Mass, has lost 80 lives this
year in her fishing enterprises, besides four
schooners and three boats valued at $2l 900.
DR.. Albert w Murphy, a live Yankee
from New Hampshire, has been appointed
dentist to the royal court of Spain, with resi-
dence at Madrid.
In petition to Santa Claus a small boy
in Troy, N Y, wrote Wont you pleas bring
me for crismas q nice torch-lite possession ON
horseback SO can ride myself
The Northern Pacifc's immense land
grant after all sales up to this time, is
still estimated at $1,000, 900 acres, or tract
larger than all New England.
William II. English pays taxes this year
on property in indianapolis alone valued at
SG2j, ,345, which does not include his posses
sions in other parts of the state, nor his bonds
and stocks.
"A narrow-g gauge railroad is to be built
from Chattanooga Tenn, to the top of
Lookout mountain, and hotel to accOmmo-
drte 1000 guests will be built on the noun
tain.
Mr. Charles H. Worthern, who lost a leg
on the Grand Trunk railroad several years
ago has just been paid $40 damages.
This is said to be the largest sum ever recov-
cred from a railroad corporation in a suit for
personal damages
Explorations will soon be commenced on
the site of an ancient Grecian city in South
ern Turkey, under the leadership of Prof.
Norton of Harvard College, permission hav-
ing been obtained from the Turkish govern
ment.
A blind boy at Montreal has built min
iature house inside an ordinary four-ounce
bottle, out of 80 pieces of wood neatly glued
together, 1t would puzzle person with
good eye-sght to get the parts into bottle,
to say nothing of putting them together.
A young woman, who left Dubuque,
Iowa, for New Zealand, a year ago, on the
summons of her betrothed, has returned
home unmarried Finding her former lover
disappointed because she was not as hand
some as when he had last seen her, she re-
leased him, and will undoubtedly most profit
by the result.
-Chicagos prosperity is very remarkable.
The past year has been marked by an enOr-
nous increase in its business The bank
clearngs were greater than for the previous
year by 1896, 900, 600, the total sum being
81 ,G93, 900, 600. The increase in grain ship
ments was very great twenty-three millions
of bushels more of cereals were handled than
in '7S.
Christian X. Ross, the father of Charlie
Ross, is quoted as saying THE only tidings
have ever received of Charley since he was
stolen was the demand for a ransom of $20,-
600. If l had paid that l would have had
him long before this. As it is, have spent
$50, 600 and have not found him. l still have
detectives employed and hope in time to find
him. have examined over three hundred
lost children in the search, some of whom
had been stolen, but none of them was Char
ley"
The recent solar eclipse is interesting
from the fact that no other solar eclipse Of
much greater dimensions will be visible here
until the year 1900. In 1885 an eclipse will
be seen in which little more than half the
suns disc will be obscured. In 1892 one
will occur, hiding about three-ffths of the
suns face. In 1900 observers will behold
grand sight, for more than nine-tenths of the
solar disc will be eclipsed Those who then
wish to see the most glorious sight that is eV-
er beheld on this planet will only have to
travel as far south as Virginia, where the
eclipse is total