Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-05-13
IN GENERAL.

Valparaiso, Ind, has a greyhound that
| jumped a. feet last week by actual measure
ment
London, with population of 81, 900, 900,
has church accommodations for 81 900, 900,
but not more than 10000 are at church on
any one Sabbath.
Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of the Presi-
dent, is too i'll 10 leave her bed at the home
Of her sister in Springfield, ILL.,, and her re-
covery is said to be doubtful.
Texas has recently enacted law which
| confers upon every man who went into the
Confederate service for that state pension
in the shape of piece of the public lands
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinsted
| Queen Victoria wrote a four-page letter to
Mrs. Lincoln. 1t was the unrestrained out
pouring OF sympathy from full heart. 1t
has never been published, as the Lincoln
family regarded it violation of propriety to
do so.
"A man in Louisville, Ky.,-and Judge
of local court-recently sold to an under
taker a coffin which he bought during the
war in order TO be prepared for sudden tax
ing-of by the guerrillas. The judge has out
grown his coffin and has no fear of violent
death.
"A Michigan girl went to the parsons
with her young man TO get married, but just
before the knot was tied she was called to
the door. She did not come back, and then
it was found that she had gone straight TO
another parsons and married a rich widower
who sent word be was waiting for her there.
We sometimes grumble ABOUT our navy,
but England has recently had an example Of
extravagance which has never been approach
ed in the United States. The Neptune, pur-
chased by the English government, has cost
SO, 500, 600, and after three years is declared
ready for sea. She was bought because she
could be sent to sea at once.
Thomas Sims, who, when a slave, es-
capped from Savannah TO Boston, and whose
case as fugitive slave created great excite
ment in the latter city thirty years ago, was
afterwards sold in Mississippi. Ten years af-
terward he escaped with his wife in a dug
out canoe, and sought Grants army at Vicks-
burg. He was given place in the Attorney
Generals Office in Washington by Judge Dev-
ems, and is still there.
"A novel plan of temperance reform is be-
ing tried at the little town of Berwick, in
Columbia county, Pa. The chief industry
of the town is the large ear-building shop,
which has suffered good deal from intoxica-
tion among the mechanics. The president
has therefore paid the three licensed hotels
$4,000, the estimated years profits of their
bars, ON condition that they sell no liquor.
creased efficiency of the 1000 workmen.
The Yankee boy with his jackknife finds
an enterprising rival in the Western boy with
his scroll-saw. One of the latter was on hand
with an oye TO business when Abraham Lin
coins old home at Springfield, ILL.,, was torn
down, and bought all the shingles of the roof
for 81. With his scroll-saw he is now trans
forming them into mantel and other orna-
ments, and finds a ready sale for them at from
80 cents to 81 each.
"A most singular death by stabbing is re-
ported from New York. A boy was mysteri-
ously stabbed In the street the other day aud
died after going 10 his friends and saying that
he had been wounded by youth about his
own size. A young man has now given him.
self up to the police, who says that he was
standing in the street talking with a friend,
with an open pen-knife in his land The
friend tried TO take it from him, and as he
swung back his hand TO prevent II the boy
Donahue ran against the blade. As there
seems TO have been no motive for the stab
bing, the police are inclined to believe the
story.