Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-22
HN GENERAL.

"A Montreal gentleman who lately gained
suit for the possession of an estate valued
at $50, 00O was so overcome with Joy that he
became deranged.
The New York police statistics show that
drunkenness IS the direct cause of nearly 30
600 arrests in that city yearly, besides being
indirectly the cause of a large portion of the
crimes which fill the jails.
The new pension office will be one of the
finest buildings in Washington, with frontage
of 400 and depth of 200 feet, the height of
the main cornice being 10 feet. 1t will have
lGG, COO square feet of flooring and space for
1900 clerks. Congress stipulated that the
cost should not exceed $780, OOO
President Washingtons grand nephew,
DIR. Lawrence Washington, who was a rebel
during the war, died recently in England,
leaving his family poor in money but rich in
relies of the great general. Among these
possessions are several letters and interesting
documents, the sabre he used in the Revolu-
tion and the silk rep suit he wore at his first
Inauguration.
Western newspapers contain the account
of wonderful hand at whist that was lately
dealt at Cincinnati. One man got all the
hearts, another all the spades, another all the
clubs, while the dealer got all the diamonds.
Diamonds were trumps. The name of the
dealer is withheld so that the public is at a
loss to know whether it is Mr. All Sin or Mr..
William Eye that is to be congratulated this
time.
A schooner rounded to at some distance
from its wharf at Bath, Me-, the other day,
and while the lockers. on were waiting for
boat to be lowered and rowed ashore with
hawser, according to the natural order of
things, they saw something very different.
A dog sprang from the schooner into the river,
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his mouth. and when the hawser to which the
line was attached had been hauled in and
made fast, swan back to the schooner, seized
rope that was flung to him and was drawn
on board.
Tho deepest coal mine in this country is
at POttsville, Pa. Through its shaft, 1916
feet in depth, 200 cars are lifted every day.
The machinery of the shaft works AS smooth
ly as hotel elevator, but the speed is SO terrif-
ic that one seems falling through the air
The knees, after a few seconds become weak
and tremulous, the ears ring as the drums of
these organs are forced inward by the air
! pressure, and the eyes shut nvoluntarily as
the beams of the shaft seem to dash upward
only foot or two away. 1t is not a trip for
person of weak nerves to undertake.
A suit by Indian heirs to recover proper
| ty in Pittsburg, Pa. valued at 81, 800, 900, is
on trial before the United States Circuit Court
in that city. A young haf-breed girl and
her mother, who respectively claim to be the
daughter and widow of Addison Mowry, are
the claimants for the greater portion of the
| property There are witnesses and a certit-
icate of the marriage, and the only question
is the legality of the marriage, which was
| performed by an Indian who is a magistrate
of Saginaw, Mich 1t is the prevailing opin-
ion at Pttsburg that if the jury do not yield
to race prejudices, the Indian girl will win
| the suit.
Mr.. John p Howard OF Burlington, who
has made such munfcent boquests to the
| diversity Of Vermont, is about to add an
other that will materially enhance its attract
iveness. Recently, while visiting Vanderbilt
! University, at Nashville, he was so much
pleased with it gymnasium that he at once
procured plans for it, and gave orders for a
duplicate Of it for the University, to be finish
ed next year. II is said that Mr.. Howard al
SO intends to build for the University a fine
fre-prOof building to contCin the library of
the late Hon George p Marsh, Minister to
Italy, which has lately been presented to the
institution by the Hon. Frederick Billings.
Mr.. Howard's other gifts to the University
amount to about Sll5, 600 The bronze statue
of Lafayette, for which he gave S25 900, is
nearing completion under the hands of Mr..
j. q, A. Ward, and will be set up in the col
lege grounds next summer.