Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-01
NO. 13.
IN GEN ERAL.

10000 pounds weekly to 74OO, 600 pounds.
Seven masked robbers bound and gagged
an old couple living at Catfish, Pa, one night
last week, and robbed the safe Of over SO,
600 in Government bonds.
The public debt of the United Sla,es is
S6S per head; of Spain, S154 of France,
$13G OF England, SLY Of Holland, STA
of Canada, $2Si of Mexico, $50 of Switzer-
land, 81.
"A desperate burglar named Pat Ebert at
tempted to rob the National Bank at Rolla,
Mo-, and was shot dead by an officers posse
whowere watching for him.
-Sothern, the actor, requested that his
friends should not attend his burial, as 'peo-
pie catch such colds standing about in grave
yards with their hats off,"
Cypress trees have been planted around
the spot where the czar fell and sacred pict-
ures with lamps burning before them have
been placed there.
At one of the Moody meetings in San
Francisco, Mr.. Miller, the new senator from
California, rose and asked prayers that he
might be enabled 10 lead a Christian life in
Washington.
President Grevy of France has accepted
the invitation of the United States to send
representatives to the Yorktown centennial
celebration.
"A German physician Dr. Herr, has in
vented a telephone by which conversation
was carried on through distance of more
than 600 miles, over a circuit having no
special adaptation to the purpose.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins, of San Francisco, is
fitting up handsome home in Great Barring
ton, Mas, intending, it is reported, to make
that town her legal residence thus saving
large amount of taxes in California.
Z. .,,
near Turin Although nearly seventy mine
years old, he is in good health, and his intel
lect is uoimpaired. He spends great deal
of time in studying natural science.
The importation of opium for smoking
into the United States in 1880 reached a, 1876
pounds, an increase of 16, 548 pounds over
the previous year. 1t is chiefly consumed by
Chinese smokers. Its total value in gold is
S773, 79G.
For the year ending March /, there were
packed in Chicago 3, 752, 49I hogs, an in
crease over the previous year of 1,071, ,554.
This is said to be the largest number ever
packed in one year in any city in the world.
Texas prohibits by law the opening
of telegraph offices on Sundays The Detroit
Free Press expresses the hope that the good
state will go little further and make it a mis-
demeanor to murder a man on Sunday.
"A recent compilation Of the criminal sta
tistics of the country gives one convict TO
every 5000 of population. Although this ap-
pears large percentage, it is less than shown
by any other nation.
Nearly one-fifth of all the cotton raised
in this country in 1880 was raised in Texas.
That year Texas produced about 1000, 900
bales, or eighty times as much as she produced
in 1910.
Iron sleepers for railroads are coming in-
to quite general use in Germany, and have
been tried in this country. They are not
made solid, but shaped nearly like the wood
ties, with the bottom and inside left out.
The Mas sachusetts supreme court has de-
cided that If a passenger on a railway train
leaves the train while it is in motion he is no
longer passenger, and has no rights against
the company for damages in case of accident
resulting from his own act.
The Congregationalist warns people
against subscribing in advance for copies of
the revised New Testament, which agents are
Offering at 81. 80, since it will be scarcely
week after the appearance of the new book in
this country before it will be sold everywhere
at from 10 cents upwards.
An Englishman named Rowe, proftiug
by Mr.. John Burroughs's suggestion that the
English skylark might be nRturalized in this
country, is about to ship twenty-five pairs of
these birds to the United States and liberate
them here.
The great desire of the negro visitors to
Washington is to see Secretary Lincoln, and
they flock to him in crowds, saying they want
to shake hands with the son of the man who
issued the emancipation proclamation.
The way of trangressors is hard. man
in Missouri worked three months and spent
Sl5G in cash, getting ready to make his for
fune bv Counfarfaitiua coip Ha rnada
sixteen bronze cents and took a vacation Of
four years in the penitentiary.
Miss Kate Field recently bad dress
made in Paris by the famous Worth, Of
American silk, and Mrs Bonanza Mackey SO
admired it that she went and did likewise.
Worth says the Americans will soon beat the
world in making silks, as the French fabrics
are constantly deteriorating.
Gen. Grants house in Galena is in charge
OF an old soldier and his wife, who take pride
IN keeping it in perfect order. Many of the
presents bestowed upon the General and Mrs.
Grant during their sojourn in China and
Japan are to be seen in the parlor and library
There are now 1869 lager beer breweries
in the United States, and during the year end
lug May l, 1880, they turned out II, 500, 900
barrels of beer, or one barrel for every four
persons in the country. This is an increase
of 2,619, 742 barrels over the production of
1879.
Moody and Sankey have finished their
four-months' campaign in San Francisco. Al
though San Francisco has no great reputation
for piety the meetings of the evangelists have
been crowded and the number of converts is
placed at 1000. Moody visits the Yosemite
valley before returning East,
Big ocean steamships are now a necessity
to meet the demands of trade. The City Of
Berlin of the Inman Line is 4SS feet by 4l5
feet, and their new steamer, the City of Rome,
building at Barrow, England, will be still
larger, viz. Length of keel, SAG feet length
over all, $50 feet; breadth, 80 feet, and a
gross registered tonnage of 5000 tons.
"A white pine tree of remarkable dimen-
sions was felled recently at Crystal Spring,
Yates Co., N. Y. The tree was perfectly
sound and vigorous, 13 feet in circumference
at the ground, and nearly POO feet in height.
The "rings" on its stump indicate an age Of
3l5 years, and it is estimated that 1000 feet
of lumber will be cut from its trunk.
John and Michael Sullivan, laborers on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, discovered
a crooked rail on the track near McKeesport,
Pa. While they were endeaYoring 70 straight
en- it in order TO prevent a train from being
wrecked, passenger train came around the
curve They franticaly worked at a crowbar
to get the rail replaced to save the train, and
succeeded just in time, but both men were
struck by the engine and killed.
The famous insurance case of Col. Wal
ter Dwight of Binghampton, N. Y, is decid-
ed by the New York court of appeals against
the insurance companies. Dwight obtained
1925, 900 in various companies between Au-
gust IS and September II, 1878. He died in
November, 1873 and it was alleged that he
had purposely taken means to undermine his
health. and, again, that he had committed
suicide. Some Of tho companies, however,
paid the claims presented. In April, 1879,
the body of Col. Dwight was disinterred and
jury Of inquest found that death resulted
from natural causes. The litigation has gone
on, and has now reached decision as above,
An important discovery has been made
in connection with the telegraph systems Of
some parts of Europe. The wires have in