Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
IN GENERAL.

-IIanlan, the oarsman, is worth Sj3 OOO
all made within the past six years.
Mr.. Burnett, husband Of the wel-known
novelist, is a clerk in the Surgeon Generals
Office, in Washington.
Prof. c. H. +. Peters of Clinton, N Y,
announces the discovery of a new asteroid Of
the ninth magnitude by him Sunday night.
As the local rate of postage governs, let
ters from the United States to Canada will go
for two cents after October l and from Cana
da to the United States for three cents.
AT the end of the year 1852 the deposits
in the English Post Oiiice Savings Bank were
nearly e4O,0OO 900. During the year over
quarter of million new depositors opened
accounts with the bank.
-Workmen have discovered a subterraneau
forest seven feet below the surface of the
ground near the mouth of Savage river in
Chazy, Clinton county, n. Y. Many of the
trees are declared to be in an admirable state
of preservation One of them is a large oak
over forty feet in length.
Brooklyn has one clergyman who won't
have any scandal in his Bishop McNa-
mara announced to his congregation on Sun
day that, among his epistles, he had received
some love letters, and then said "If l re-
ceive any more tender opistles, l will give
them to my wife and have her read them
from this stand" This would give piquancy
to the services.
A western paper with mo nonsense
about it, suggests that whipping upon the
bare back be substituted for expulsion as a
punishment for hazing at West Point The
cadets that do the hazlug,' it says, ''are not
gentlemen they are british boys, and should
be served out as such, with punishment be-
fitting their brutality, One whipping would
forever extnguish haziug in any college
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ing an open and stagnant sewer. The stations
on its banks are drained into its waters. 1t
is never flushed, there is no tide, and the
stencil is becoming ntolerable. Darrhoea and
sickness prevail in vessels detained in the ca
nal and as detentions are increasing in num-
Der and duration, the matter is becoming
rious.
Gen Grant recently went into the United
| States National bank in New York and asked
its vice. president to get for him twenty Eng
lish sovereigns. As the twenty En- glish gold
pieces were counted out to him, he took out
! a handsome new poeketbook, in which he de-
posted the gold, saying, as he did so, 81 have
a little niece who is going to Europe to-mor-
row She never had 800 of her own before,
so l am going to delight her heart with this"
| The use of lime in blasting COAL which
has been adopted in many English and Bel
| gian mines, has been successfully tried in
| mine at Wliamsport, Pa. The lime is form
ed by pressure into cartridges about four
inches long, which are placed in the hole
drilled in the coal. Water is then introduced
with force pump, and the steam generated
| by the action of the water on the lime causes
an expansion, which cracks away the coal.
During deer hunt at Scarboro', Ga,
doe with two fawns was beset by the dogs,
when the doe attacked her canine pursuers by
running up near them, leaping into the air
and coming down upon them with her sharp
hoofs, stamping them most violently, by
which means she succeeded in putting them
all to flight, and then taking the two fawns
in charge the three galloped leisurely away
without being further molested.
In the village of townsville, N. Y, live
a couple who have probably enjoyed longer
welded life than any other couple in the state,
if not in the Union. They are the venerable
Peter Bogart and his wife, who were married
in 1908. There is but few days difference
in their ages both being nearly ninety six.
Mrs. Bogart is in excellent health, and walks
a mile daily to minister to the wants of an in
valid daughter. The venerable couple re-
Gently celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary
of their marriage, when there were present
descendants to the fifth generation.
-Au English magazine writer says that in
the wealthiest nation in the world one in
| every lnlily Ouo IN phupSIi WituOub AhSluu-
ing any of that vast army who are maintained
by private benevolence that in one year, in
the richest city in the world, there were l0l
deaths from actual starvation in full sight of
well-stocked shops, while yearly there are
lSO 900 arrests for drunkenness, 800 600 sum
mary convictions before magistrates and over
IL, 600 persons charged with indictable crimes
that in London, Liverpool and all the large
towns of England there are extensive districts
in which the people live in a trihe more than
half the ground required for a corpse, and
, which they could claim if they were dead
and in tenements which are the graves of all
deoency and chastity.
, Penny postage has worked wonders in
England. In 1889, the year when it wal
adopted, 7G, 600, 600 letters passed through the
post office. The next year the number bound
/ ed up to nearly 1G9, 900, 900, and has eve
since increased rapidly. Last year the mum
. Der of letters delivered in the United King
dom was no less than /, ,2S0, 636, 200. In ad
dition to the letters there were IA, ,0l6, 20'
post cards 40, $50, 600 newspapers and 2ss,
= 206, 400 book packets and circulars The av
erage number of letters per head of the pop
ulation is larger than any country on tn
= Continent, and considerable higher even thai
b the average in the United States The aver
. age number of letters per head of tho popu
= lation in the United Kingdom is 3G, and il
: the United States 21. The highest average
on the Continent are in France and Germany
! Is and 13 respectively. In England ant
= Wales together the average reaches as hig
o as DO in Scotland 80, and in ireland l6'