Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-06-24
IN GENERAL.

-Talmage rants against the revision of the
New Testament.
Maud S., the famous trotter, is said to
have been retired from the turf by Wander
bilt, her owner.
Terrible hail-storms have destroyed the
entire harvest in the district of Temasvar in
the south of Hungary.
A woman committed suicide in Paris the
other day by cutting her throat with a razor.
She wished to see herself die, and had placed
a mirror at a certain angle for this purpose.
-Diphtheria is epidemic at Ludington,
Mich, l20 children having died recently in a
population of 1000. The schools are closed
and special policemen quarantine houses
where there is sickness.
The decrease of black walnut at the West
and its increasing price are leading some of
of the Eastern furniture manufacturers to
think about substituting for it mahogany
from Mexico and the West Indies.
AT this time of the year the sun never
sets on the possessions of the United States.
When he goes down at the tip end OF north
ern Alaska he is an hour high in eastern
Maine.
1t is said that Prudence Crandall, the
Quakeress, who, in her girlhood, entered the
'irrepressible conflict" by teaching colored
children at Canterbury, Ct, not only stirred
the town to riot, but the whole state in COM
motion, is still living in Kansas.
The Pope has lately been studying Eng
lish and not only reads it comfortably, but re-
Gently made little speech in that language
to some English ladies who visited the Vati-
can.
The engineer of an English train running
from Southampton to London recently saw the
danger signal hung out close to his destina-
ton, and stopped the train. He waited for
developments and information, but none
came. At last he left the engine and went to
the signal mans box, and found him-dead.
New York was never so rife with build
ing as at present. Downtown they are erect
ing grand business structures, while far up
town frst-class dwellings are in progress,
Twelve hundred buildings have been begun
since the 1st of January, the aggregate ex-
pense being $50, 900, 600. The amount of
land covered by this new construction is 20
acres, which is much larger than the extent
of the city at the opening of the present Gen.
tury.
: "A prodigy among the clerks in the PEN
sion office at Washington is DeWinter Dumas,
a cOal-black negro, born in London and edu-
Gated at Trinity college, Dublin. He speaks
French, German, Italian and Portuguese,
knows Latin and Greek, writes 200 words a
minute in short hand, is fine penman, says
ne was once an Official reporter IN the Dtltlhn
House of Commons, and is 35 years old. His
wife is an intelligent and refined white wo.
man.
"A bombshell supposed to have been fired
by Union troops during the war was encoun-
tered in large white oak log at sawmill
near Augusta, Ga, the other day. A circular
saw was going through the piece of timber
when 1t struck hard substance which broke
its teeth and stopped progress. Examination
revealed buried in the wood to the depth OF
eight inches large percussion bombshel,
which, according to the calculations of those
familiar with the growth of timber had been
there sixteen or seventeen years. and the tree
had grown over it until there was but slight
scar left. 1t was found to be loaded.
1t seems that the attempt to naturalize
camels in Texas and New Mexico was not, af-
ter all, an utter failure. The oamels used for
carrying freight across the California desert
did not, for some reason, prove profitable,
and they were turned loose on the Gila and
Salt River bottoms. There they lived and
bred, until now, 1t is said, they roam the
lower Gila plains In large numbers, giving
The Louisiana Citizen ground for the belief
that they ''will continue to increase in num-
bers, until drove of wild cAmels will become
as common on the western plains of Arizona
as buffalo now are on the plains east of the
Rocky Mountains"