Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-29
IN GENERAL.

Inns country consumes IL, $50 barrels OF
kerosene oil every night.
A turtle weighing about 500 pounds was
captured of Fire Island, Long Island Sound,
last week.
Miss Ida Iyeson of Chillcothe, Mimi,
public school teacher, has fallen heir to So
500, 600 in Scotland, and has left to take pos
session of her property.
The crematory at Washington, Pa, is to
be given up. The business doesn't pay, and
the notion that it is better to be burned to
ashes than to be eaten by worms, finds slow
growth in this country
The jews were brutally expelled from
Spain the same year that America was dscov-
cred, and now, after 400 years, the Spanish
government, moved by their suferings in
Russia and Germany, invites them to return.
The youngest daughter of William Nor
gan, who, it is claimed, was murdered by Ma
sons, is living in Marion county, Or, and says
that her father was drowned by FIVE men who
took him into Lake Erie in a boat.
Mime. Jennie Lind Goldschmidt is the
first woman to receive the Swedish order of
the Seraphim. The trophy is medal sur
rounded by royal crown in diamonds, aud
the king presented it with his own hand, a
double honor.
"A Bloomington Md } girl, quarreled with
her lover, a Baltimore and Ohio freight en-.
gineer, recently and revenged herself by oil
ing the rails on a steep grade up which her
lovers engine had to climb, causing him much
trouble and delay.
"A saloon-keeper in New London, Conn,
whose lost pocket-book contained nearly S4OO.
was returned to him by the finder, impulsive-
ly exclaimed "You pees Won honest poy l
will shake NIT you for de drinks" And they
''shook, " and the honest boy lost and paid
The old aqueduct, built by the Emperor
Augustus and repaired and perfected by
Claudius, which once supplied the city of
Bologna, but had been out of use for over
1000 years. almost forgotten, has recently
been repaired, and was reopened June g.
The people of Bologna, who had been suffer-
ing water famine held high jubilee on the
the day that the waters of the river Setta
came willingly out of the city fountains.
1t is stated that 100 900 buffalo hides
have been sent out of the Yellowstone coun-
try alone this season-an amount nearly thrice
as large as that of last year, which was So
600, or about the usual average. Many Of
the skins were doubtless taken from the car
cases of the dead animals frozen in the last
terrible winter, but the slaughter of the herds
has increased each year with the irruption of
settlers into the valleys, who shoot them
down in mere wantonness.
"A woman in Burlington, Iowa, was
awakened one night recently by a strange
sensation about her ankles, as il something
was twisting around and binding them. Max
ing sudden spring from bed and crying for
help, she discovered that she had thrown
large rattlesnake on the floor. II was killed
with much difficulty, and measured when
stretched out at full length, three and one
half feet.
"A relic of the late war was recently dis
covered near Richmond in a singular way. A
tall pine tree on farm was struck by light
ming and set on fire, and in about half an
hour the tree was shattered to pieces by a ter
rible explosion, which also tore in pieces the
bushes near by. Investigation showed that
the explosion was caused by the bursting of a
Union shell, which had been fired into the
tree during the battles about the city, and
had remained unnoticed for many years until
the lightning sought it out.
Astonishing accounts of the eruption of
Mauna Loa come from Hawaii. The latest
tidings expressed the fear that the island of
Hilo was on the brink of a great calamity, as
the lava stream had then (June 30) broken
out of the woods, and streams of lava thirty
feet wide and almost as liquid as water were
rushing down the beds of streams, pouring
over fertile land and carrying destruction with
it everywhere. The roar of burning grass
and FERNS the explosions and conclusions
were fearful. The scene at night is described
as terribly grand beyond description.
The freaks of the recent Minnesota cy-
clone we're numerous and remarkable. AT
New Ulm horse was lifted alive into a tree
top cattle were blown into the river heavy
iron bars, stones and agricultural implements |
were carried over high bluffs, and boards and |
timbers were hurled through buildings and in
to the ground like spears. A pump standing |
in well 80 feet deep at Appleton was jerked |
out and carried away bodily while nine feet
of water in the well was scooped out clean. |
A plow and pieces of wagon were carried |
mile. A large oak TO which COW was tied |
was torn up by the roots, and the COW COM
pletely buried in the pit.