Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-04-20
I'm GEN ERAL.

soldiers who were killed in the Egyptian cam
paign have been collected and buried there.
A young man died in Rome, Ga, few
days ago, after an illness of ~ hours, and
his physician said his death WAS due to con-
gestion Of the lungs caused by smoking cigar
cites.
1t is said that over 1900 paper Car
wheels were in service in this country on the
LIST of January last, with a report of only
three failures during the year, neither of
which caused any serious injury or harmed
a single passenger.
1t is claimed that when the Northern Pa
cific railroad is finished it will 30 shorten the
time of travel that Portland, Oregon, will be
only seven days ride from New York.
According to La Nature the railroad
bridge at Gevabit, France, is 1900 feet long
and 4l3 feet from the rails to the river below.
This puts entirely in the shade the new via
duct near Alton, Mexican county, Pa, which
is POSI- feet long and 3Ol feet maximum
height.
Minneapolis, Mimi, claims to have the
tallest electric mast in the country. 1t dis
plays eight lights, each Of 1000 candle power,
which illuminate a radius of one mile sufii.
GENTLY for a person to tell the time by his
watch at night.
William Burns and his wife of Lse
county, Ky, think they are a remarkable
couple. They were born on the same day,
have nine daughters whom they never saw
all at once, nine sonsin law aud just 90
grandchildren and there has never been a
death in the family
"A Lenoir (N o. despatch SAYS Smith
sonian institute ethnologists are searching
Indian mounds in that vicinity and have
made the richest finds there of any east
of the Mississippi valley. Forty five curious
carvings were found in one mound on the
banks of Yadkin river.
The bones of Christopher Columbus
have been made the subject of discussion
lately, some Investigators claiming that they
are buried in Havana, Cuba, and others that
they are still in the island Of San Domingo.
supporter of the latter theory claims that
the remains OF the son, Don Diego, we're re-
moved to Havana by the Spanish authorities,
but that the bones or dust of the great navi-
gator still rest in San Domingo, whence they
were brought from Spain in 1886.
An ingenious Colorado man DISCUSSES him
self for duck shooting by thrusting his body
into the skin of u tseer, which is mounted on
wire as if stuffed, with a big hole on the I'M
der side for the man to get in through and
two at tho shoulders for him to look out Of.
Thus equipped the hunter walks into the
midst of hocks unsupported takes good aim
through the portfolios and bags the quackers
by the dozen.
Free labor has done wonders for South
Carolina. Her production of cotton in lS49
was 800, 90l bales, and in lS59-the year be-
fore the war-353 4l2 In 1879 she raised
522, 54s bales, and in 1882, $50, 75S. The in.
crease in wheat, oats aud other crops is still
more remarkable The figures are; 1853
wheat, l2s5, G3l bushels oats 1856, ga.
lSS2-wbeat, 2,973, GOO; oats, S,O9i, 600.
Free labor, protected in its rights, improved
| transportation, better fertilization and culture,
aud the subdivision of the lands, are at the
bottom Of this wonderful growth.
A Kentuckian lost a field of wheat in a
/ curious manuer during the late floods. He
sides on the lowlauds near Paducah. The
wheat had come up nicely, when a heavy
storm Of slect fell aud covered his farm with
/ a thick coating of ice Before the ice melted
/ the river ovorhowed the field, the ice rose to
the surface Of the water and pulled up with
| it every wheat blade The last he saw of his
crop it was following his fence down the
Ohio on its road to the Gulf.
The remains of another mastodon were
discovered the other day in the salt mine at
. New IBERIA La. Several barrels Of bones
were found and also a mass supposed to be
the contents of the stomach in which were
fragments of reed cane, bushes and even the
curled tendrils of grape vines. The vicinity
has a buried cypress forest, not many feet
from the surface, with the wood perfectly
preserved, and many geological curiosities OF
the kind. The mastodon goes to the Smith
sonsn institution.
A suit which has attracted considerable
attention in the West was that of Mrs. Cougar,
who is an active temperance worker and edits
a paper in Lafayette, Ind. Just before the
1 F.1I a.. f. aha
ter was published, both to injure her and 6
Republican candidate Obtaining proof thai
the Chief Of Police, fellow named Mandler
had been engaged in the dirty business, Mrs
Cougar promptly sued him for defamation
Every trick and device known to the HoosleI
lawyer is said to have been called into service
TO protrAct the proceedings and weary Mrs
Cougar out but she is not the sort OF a
woman to be beaten by that kind of tactics
and jury has just given her $4,000 damages
The Oregon Astorian says the Chimes
gardens on the lower part of the peninsula
afford good example of what patient thrift
can accomplish. These industrious heather
have by care and toll transformed insight.
hillsides into fertile tracts OF soil, now sow
with every variety of vegetable and sure l.
bring them handsome return. They are a.
at work, digging, manurng and opening u
fresh ground everything is utilized; eve
the bones are pounded up and fed to tn
hens, and each little cabin has half doze
fat hogs, which at the present price OF por
represent q considerable AMOUNT
A rich widow living at Neuiny, nea
, Paris, had suffered such loss and annoyanc
from the mysterious disappearance of ne
iewelry that at last she asked her son, an of
: Ger in the French army, to make an invest
cation, not wishing to call in the police f.
fear that her old and faithful servants woul
be suspected The son accordingly kel
. watch one night with loaded revolver.
about midnight he heard the footsteps
> some one advancing stealthily. who go
there?" No reply The son fires and sprini
d upon the PROSTATE body of his mother III
widow was a somnambulist and had been u
l. consciously transferring her own jewels
/ an unused cabinet, where, after scare
q they we're all found She will recover fro
d her wound, and, it is to be hoped, from b
y somnAmbulism.
!. Thirty FIVE or forty years ago two YOU
a people at Montezuma, Ga, fell deeply In To-
/ with each other, yet for certain reasons d
n not marry, but both married into neighbC
ing families. The man removed to Sou
Carolina, where he became the father of a 81
% and daughter. The lady remained in h
childhood home likewise becoming the mot
- er OF Two CulluteAi lhaio ahu iShhles III "
10 course of time the son of the South Oarolil
., man went TO Georgia, fell ip love with a
IL married the daughter of his fathers first 10y
st His sister visited him aud married the broth
lie of his wife. In the meantime the wife of /
m South Carolina man and the husband of t
N Georgia lady died. Old time affection spra
up in the hearts of this man and woman, a.
n they have married. The family is badly M
g. ed up, but they are living happily on the
homestead.
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