Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
I'm GENERAL.

The profits of the Western Union tele-
graph company for 1882 are estimated at So
800, 600.
The Rugby colonists are cheered by
favorable summer and good crops, and the
grumblers have gone to the rear for the pres
ent
Among the wickedness denounced by the
recent Free church assembly of Scotland was
the admiring of works Of nature on the Sab
bath"
The late Vermonter and British archmol-
ogist, Col Lemuel Chester, is to have tab
let IN Westminster abbey because of his edit
ing the Abbey Register.
The government of Victoria, Australia
has decided to expend Sl2, 900, 600 in build
ing additional lines of railway for the purpose
of opening up the agricultural districts.
An Iowa merchant turned savage mas
tif into back room of his store, where two
thieves had secreted themselves and, locking
the door, awaited results. The dog when re-
leased was unharmed, but the men were near
ly dead.
The Chicago humane society lately caught
two butchers putting out the eyes of animals
before slaughtering so as to handle them more
easily, and made them pay $13O in fines The
butchers said the practice was a common one.
The Northern Pacific has 1908 miles of
track laid and 1896 to come. 1t has sold about
$40, 900, 600 worth of its land, and will have
all told, territory worth 800, 600, 900 more
when the line is completed.
AT Warren, the new Pennsylvania oil
town, water for use has to be brought from a
spring at some distance and is worth more
than petroleum, selling for GO cents a barrel,
while oil is but sc cents
The New Mexican town of Albuquerque
is only two years old, but it has 20 miles of
telephone wire, two lines of street-cars, two
daily newspapers, gas works, union depot, and
lots vi other metropolitan fixings.
"A Nashville woman who had been SLAM
dered by young man attacked him in the
street with butcher knife, hacked away un-
til he ran, and, says local paper, conduct
ed herself like perfect lady throughout the
affair"
Georgia thinks it had the first prohibitory
law. In August, 1913, when the settlements
were less than year old, reports of drunken
ness led the trustees of the colony, living in
London, to ordain that ''The drink of rum in
Georgia be absolutely prohibited, and that all
rum which shall be brought there shall be
STAYED"
The secretary of the Harvard Annex
learns that at least two persons now prepar-
ing their wills have included in them gene
rous bequests to help the cause of the educa-
tion of women at Cambridge, and that offers
of money for immediate use have also been
made.
Members of the first Congress were paid
by the states. Massachusetts, paid So day
and expenses, New Hampshire guinea day,
servant and two horses, Rhode Island 40
| shillings day, North Carolina ESQ year,
South Carolina f30O year, and Georgia e1OO
month for actual service.
-Tha mannar of fha d.ofh oF 4Ia -
general, Skobeletf is the subject of conflict
ing reports. The official statement is that he
died suddenly while dining with friends, but
| one American correspondent tells the story of
quarrel ending an evening of dissipation in
which the general was stabbed, and it is also
reported that be was assassinated at the in
stance of the czar.
"A gentleman who called for the letters of
a lady at the post-ofice in Montreal, Canada,
during her absence from the city on a visit,
was surprised at being refused and informed
that she must call for them in person; that
the office was not allowed to deliver a lady's
letters even to her husband and, more than
that every child over nine years old NAV
claim his own letters, and even his father can
not demand them.
"A town in Westchester county, N Y,
tried to make man of so support his son,
aged 30, who had been utterly ruined by rum,
and received temperance lecture from the
court of practical sort. The old man had
| done his best to restrain the boy, is now poor
and overburdened without the care of him,
and the Judge said ''Hhe town licences the
| establishments where this old mans son buys
| his rum, so the town must take care Of the
| drunkard | cannot order man of SO to pro-
| vide for SON who, were it not for rum, could
and should now be caring for his father"
The design chosen by the city of San
| Francisco for it's Garfield monument consists
of a pedestal raised on base OF gently as
cending steps. At the foot of the pedestal In
seated a bronze figure of America leaning on
II sword and weeping. The sides of the ped
esial bear eagles watching and guarding the
emblems of war and commerce, and the ma
! tional flag and shield. Surmounting all Is the
statue of Garfield, in bronze. The only in
seription is: James Abram Garfeld-StTdR-
| gltIatus pro Repu5Acd." The artist is F.
Happersburger, young Californian of only
| % years.
1t seems as if Jumbo were in fair way
to be soon forgotten where his departure was
but so recently mourned with unexampled
demonstrations of popular regret. His stall
in the London geological gardens has been
| awarded to another elephant, and one upon
whom many high hopes are already builded.
| The new arrival is an African animal, young
in years, and by name lingo. He is said 10
have been captured about year and half
ago in Upper Nubia. His weight is now 700
pounds, but he is expected in time to reach
tho colossal size Of Jumbo himself, if. indeed,
he does not surpass it.
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