Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-01-26
IN GENER

A large meeting of colored men was held
at Wilmington, N. c., last week, to inaugur-
ate railroad enter prise, the first ever under
taken exclusively by colored men. Who says
they are not getting ahead?
Boston parties have organized corpora
ton aud sent agents abroad with a view to
holding worlds fair" Of foreign arts and
products in the building of the Massachu-
sets charitable mechanics asso citation next
summer.
Mrs. Mcdonald of Mineral Point, Wis,
who lived alone, broke both legs so that
she could not move, and was likely to
starve to death, but after days suffering
succeeded in calling in neighbor's dog tied
note to his tail, and so called help.
Steel bars are usurping the place of bells
in some parts of Europe for church steeples
They produce very pure, distinct and melodi-
GUS sounds, and have several advantages
over bells. They are much lighter, are not
liable to crack, are easily operated and arc
much cheaper.
The village of Merais, in Switzerland
has been completely destroyed by an enor-
nous mass of earth, rocks and trees dislodGed
by recent snow storms. The movement up
on Marais was gradual and the inhabitants
were able to effect a hssty escape. The
movement of the mountain continues.
"A family of Madison, O., 10 years ago
purchased paper Of pins When pin was
needed it was taken from the paper, and aft
or it had served its purpose was replaced. II
pin was lost general search was made un-
Ill it was found In this way the one paper
of pins has kept the family supplied for 10
years.
Persons are sometimes stihed in burning
buildings by undertaking to walk out through
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possibly save themselves by crawling. The
air near the floor is less smoky than the air
| above it, the tendency of the smoke being to
rise Firemen, who take all the chances fire.
quently act upon this knowledge.
Statistics Just published show that South
Carolina has 81 Aourishing cotton mills with
4l2O looms and $50, 72O spindles. and that
the business yields an average net profit of
twelve per cent. In 1880 there were in the
state Is mills, with /, ,933 looms and %, 93S
spindles. These figures show an extraordin-
AIRY PROCESS in this important industry, and
! the fact that nine new mills were chartered
at the recent session of the legislature indi-
Gates striking growth of the business in the
future.
The product of the Leadville mines of
| gold and silver and lead for 1882 was S17,-
| l27 4O2. This is largely in excess of the
| yield of any previous year, even including
! the period of excitement attending the dis
coveries of the carbonate fields. Over S6G,-
600, 600 in precious minerals have been taken
! from these mines since their discovery in
1873. The total product of Colorado for
1882 is quoted at S2G, $50, S9S, which shows
that the Leadville region furnishes more than
two-thirds of the whole product of the state
Rebel to the end, Arab, just after the
Communication of his sentence, refused to sign
note prepared by his counsel for signature by
all the prisoners, thanking the khedive for
his clemency. II have declared according
! to Mosem law, said he, 'that Tewfk Pasha
has ceased to be khedive, and l cannot recog-
nize him as being SO now but l will thank
the Egyptian government" The wording of
the note was accordingly changed. This was
parallel to the conduct of the old Sheikh
Edai, who was asked by the court, during the
trial, if he had signed the deposition of Tew-
fix. "No," he said ''but if you bring it to
me now will do So"
There is town in Iowa which has a pop
ulation of 1,300 and twelve distinct and sep
arate church organizations which local pa
per says are not busy converting outsiders
but in trying to kill off each other. Life is
made miserable to the unfortunate stranger
! who comes 10 that town. He is pounced upon
by the emissaries of these organizations, and
If he should be weak enough to yield to the
| Establishments of one, he is promptly ostra-
cized by all the others. The aforesaid local
paper seriously states that the business of the
town is very much injured by this state of af-
fairs 1t would seem that if there was more
religion and a little less church, 1t would be
better all around,