Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-02

A most remarkable practical proof of the
real value of the recent French invention
ON. Faure's) by which electricity may be
stored away for use, or transportation in
packages, occurred on board the steamship
Labrador, which arrived ct New York city
recently, having on board 145 packages
charged with electricity. These supplied
with electric lights the smoking-room, the
engine-room, and one state-room of the
steamer during the whole thirteen days of
the voyage, and only consumed one-sixtieth
part of the stored electricity.
The log cabin which Washington made
his headquarters when a surveyor in the Val
ley of Virginia still stands intact over the
spring at Soldiers Rest, Clarke county.
Soldiers Rest was built by General Daniel
Morgan of Revolutionary fame. When
bruised and bloody from the numerous fights
with which he was wont to celebrate court
day in the neighboring town of Berryville, he
would retire to the old spring house, where
his wife would bathe his head and bind uI
his wounds. The old cabin is now used as Q
dairy.
Major B. W. Bellamy, who owned severa
hundred slaves before the war, is now the
master of q thousand negroes, who cultivate
his farm of 16, 900 acres near Quitman, Ga
They live in neat, whitewashed cottages, ano
are provided with churches, schools, and, Il
the local newspaper is not mistaken, with
dancehouses. Every dwelling has its garden,
potato patch and orchard, and every tenant II
encouraged to save his money, buy land and
develop his individuality. 1t is said that al
the children over ten years of age can reaC
and write. At the plantation house thing
are done in the old style.
Dakota is said to be filling up rapidly will
| immigrants largely Germans. The advan
tages of locating there are summed up in fer
| tility of SOIL which makes O satisfactory pc
cuniary return almost a certainty. The tota
cost of going there, buying 160-acre sec
| ton of government land, breaking it up, cul
tivating it, and reaping the first crop is esti
mated at about $3.50. The value Of the frs
crop is fixed at 5000, and after that the ex
penses will be much smaller and grow small
er every year, while the return will constant
ly increase. The disadvantages are dehcien
wood supply, the bitter winds that blow owe
the exposed prairie land, the severe winters
and the complete isolation during that sea
son. Nevertheless, emigrants continue &c
ing there.
Preaching in Westminster Abbey on Dai
win, since his death, Canon Farrar said Nj
Darwin was under the influence of deeply rt
ligious impressions, as boy, and he though
there was evidence that he never lost theI
throughout his ''simple and noble life.
Later in his discourse he said that misguiC
ed zeal had forced science and religion int
unholy antagonism. But in this matter thei
had been mistakes on both sides. If clerg!
men had sometimes arrogated the name
religion on grounds born of false dogma an
mistaken system, physicists also had ofte
arroRated the name of science on prematul
conclusions based on insufficient facts. Bot
had reared on basis of sand and on pilla
of smoke their pretentious temples. true
! TO this childish antagonism. The fundamei