Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-08-12
IN EN ERAL.

The cultivation OF cork trees IS being
successfully prosecuted in Georgia.
An inebriate asylum for women has been
established in Chicago. Sad necessity.
The richest negro in Georgia is Henry
Todd Of Darien, who is 60 years old well ed
ucated, and worth $4,000
The widow OF ex-United States Senator
Solomon Foote Of Vermont died at Staten
Island, n. Y, last Friday.
-"Bull-dog revolvers-such as the presi-
dent was shot with"-are advertised by
merchant in South Bend, Ind
A man in Accomac county, Va, is the
father Of 10 children-''eight pairs and three
aces, as the local paper expresses it.
After fifty years of welded life, Mrs.
Elizabeth Reynolds Of Louisville, KY, in
stead of getting up golden wedding, has ap-
piled for divorce from her husband, on the
ground of cruel treatment and insufficient
support
Francis Murphy. the temperance apostle,
sailed from New York for Europe last Satur-
day, with the intention of prosecuting his
special work there.
"A salmon, supposed to be the largest ever
caught in the Columbia River had weight,
when dressed, of eighty-four pounds and till-
ed sixty-nine cans.
BY the recent death of the widow of Rev
DR.. f. II. Chaplin of New York, her two sons
inherited an estate of 500, ,00O One of the
sons is dry goods clerk and the other ply
sician.
The United States smoked 160, 600, 900
more cigarettes last year than the year be-
fore. Beer drinking and cigarette smoking
are Increasing more rapidly than any other
ways of using alcohol and tobacco.
AT granite quarry in Westerly, II. l.,
there was recently detached a monolith $50
feet long, 10 feet wide, and s feet thick,
weighing over l, 200 tons. These dimensions
greatly exceed those of the Obelisk of Semi
ramis, the largest of the Egyptian monoliths.
The Messina quail imported into Maine
last year, returned this year and have Matched
good.sized broods, and it is now deemed a
settled fact that they will live there and in
crease rapidly. Some of the birds did not
return to the exact localities in which they
were liberated, but made new homes.
A little incident of North Carolina life is
thus described by the Newbern Nutshell !:
"a very large colored boy called very small
white boy very ugly name yesterday after
noon, and the white boy, who had a shotgun
in his hand, discharged one barrel at the col
ored boy, some of the shot taking effect, but
not infieting serious wound"
1t is asserted by liquor dealers in Edge
field county, S. O., that they are not selling
one third the quantity they did three or four
years ago, and their profits are reported to be
so small that few of them contemplate with
drawing from the business without the inter
vention of prohibition.
Capt. @. A. Cook, an old Union soldier
living at Brownville, o., slapped mans
mouth for saying that he was glad Garfield
was shot and was fined for the assault in all
$32. The Cincinnati Commercial called for
1-cent subscriptions to pay the fine and costs,
received 5000 subscriptions Of cent each be-
fore noon and has taken in all $50 for the
same purpose.
The Edenton IN. o. Clarion has this
brief story of a deplorable affair "On Thurs
day morning, July 2S, near Edenton, one of
Harvey Burke's boys shot his brother with
pistol, mortally wounding him. Immediate
ly thereafter he reloaded the pistol and shot
himself, causing instant death. The boy
first shot lived only few hours. What was
the cause of the shocking affair is unknown.
The boys were about 10 and ~ years old"
"A curious case of poisoning has occurred
at Macon, Ga. j. b. Howard, q young far
mer while working in the field used colored
handkerehiefs to wipe the perspiration from
his face, and the poisonous dyes entered his
eyes, causing him to lose his sight. He went
to Atlanta for treatment, and at last accounts
the sight of one eye was completely gone,
while there was no hope of restoring the
sight of the other.
Two children born few weeks ago in
the Canton Vaud, Switzerland were joined
together in the same manner as the famous
Siamese twins. 1t was believed that, as in
fants, the ligament which joined them might,
with success, be severed, and the operation
was accordingly performed. No apparent
permanent injury was caused by it, and sew
eral days afterward the twins were reported
to be doing well.