Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-01-19
IN GENERAL.

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IN GENERAL.
The Casteton, N. Y, concern, which
makes our postal cards, turns out /, $50, 600 a
day, or one to every 40 of our people the year
round.
DR.. Samuel A. Mudd, 30, the physician
who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth,
died Wednesday at Bryantown, Charles coun-
ty, Md.
Three Of the Swiss cantons which a few
years ago abolished capital punishment have
restored it. They find that nothing but death
will deter mansayers from Staying,
A necromancing hen in Wisconsin laid
an egg with a silver dime in the middle, and
a guest in Milwaukee hotel found the coin
upon breaking the shell at breakfast.
Chicago receives "a carloads Of oysters
a day, and sends half OF them on to the west
ward unbroken. The western demand for
the natives constantly and rapidly increases.
Mrs. J. j. Astor of New York has spent,
first and last, $4,000 in sending homeless
boys and girls to homes at the West On New
Years day she deported hundred of these
waits
The quartermaster general has decided
upon a new drum for the army. It is Of
Prussian model very light and handsome,
gxteen inches in diameter and eight inches
in height.
Edward Tay, PC, despondent shirt-cgt-
ter, cut his throat with knife at New York
last Friday, stabbed himself about 70 times,
Jumped from q fourth story window, but land
ing in a snow-pile, failed to kill himself.
Three men we're captured by an Oregon
mob q few nights ago and hanged, An &C
count Of the affair says that the men were ao-
cused Of no specified crimes, but were known
to be bad men, and were hung on general
principles"
Cartridges of powdered quicklime,
strongly compressed, have been used with
good results for blasting in English coal mines.
Water is introduced into the cartridge through
a perforated iron tube, and the chemical 40
ton rends the solid mess without noise,
SNAKE, or dAnseF,
A canal has been opened for the drainage
of Lake Okeechobee, in Florida and water is
now flowing out. By lowering the level Of
the lake, some millions OF acres of the richest
lands will be uncovered, on which sugar cane
will grow to perfection.
South Carolina is making good progress
in temperance with but little stir about it.
The liquor traffic is confined to incorporated
towns something 10 dcue IN them under a
local option law, and the Legislature has i'm
| posed prohibition in turns upon many looali-
ties which asked for it,
The Ottawa Indians, thrifty and intel
| lipent tribe numbering Il souls and having
| II, 900 acres in common in the Indian Terri
tory, have asked the government to divide
their land to them in soveralty. The peti-
| ton contains the autograph signature of near
| " every member Of the tribe
Mrs. Garaeid has II nor Cleveland home
| a 'rellc.room, filled with tokens of respect
| aud sympathy sent the family during the
presidents sickness and after his death,
very large number OF letters and {eseAutIons
of coincidence froG I'll pass OF the world, are
framed and displayed on the walls.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards of Kentucky bort
| her husband Is children, and yet has been
widow for 80 years. She was born June 21
1882, has one child living 100 grandchildren
and over 200 great grandchildren, Is blind
but otherwise briSt' spa IN luA possession o
hef faculties, aud seems not unlikely TO live
for some time to come.
The growth of the western oities Ia lsS.
was wonderful In Minneapolis there wer
erected s9d stores and 9,054 houses, at cos
Ss,242, 825. In Chicago there were in linea
measure Of frontage, about fourteen miles
new buildings put up, at cost of 2O,OOO,
600. They include business blocks wort
| ~, OuU OhOut anu HAAfoeo AooAANh'Ne 1AN
ming as high as S2OO,0QN
-statis,iSa S,e published which show tbs
Brooklyn has lost prestige as the 'oity, q
ohurches"-iu fact. is no longer to be ranke
az aueh Several cities are ahead of her i
the relative number of churches to the inhat
itants. It is astonishing to hear that Cincr
natl heads the list, and that even Chicago tn
wicked city by The AK @ ahead OF Brool
lyp, -,
beavers are building across Feather Ri'
er, In California, a dam, in which they al
using large cottonwood-trees. All the dGn
that the miners have built fof prOtsctio
against spring tyeqhots nave been washe
away aad as i is said that beaver dams al
never thus destroyed, the miners are watcl
ing with deep interest the results of the lit
animals engineering.
The story is told that SERGEANT Ballantir
recently wrote a letter to Mark Twain aug
becoming exaspersted because the funny ms
from Hartford didn't answer, followed h
epistle with sheet Of paper and postal
I stamp Mark replied on q postal-card ;"P
I per and stamp received please sepd epy'
ope,"
, -Ex.Gov Stanford offers TO buy the who
I town of Vina, CAL, make certain improv
I ments and then sell it back to the preset
owners on the condition, however, that
intoxicating liquors shall ever be sold with
its limits. He will import 100 Germansto wo
! in the vineyards and orchards, and agree
= shut out John Chinaman.
: The latest Pennsylvania wonder is
: = iron house which George L. Huston has Pp
I at Parksdale. 1t stands upon . Foundation
solid rock, its floors are OF polished iron til
q in many shades, all the partitions and wa
. are of iron, and IN the library stands q cal
8 net of magnetized metal, which holds
q place many specimens of iron ore.
i The first shoe ever pegged by mach
Il has come into the possession of the Essex
> stitute of Salem, Mass. 1t is accompanied
n a letter from the late Samuel Preston, the
J. ventor and patentee of the machine, detaili
o its history and the story of its mLnufactu
o and also the original letters patent. The
ter is inscribed on parchment, and has
" signatures of Andrew Jackson, PFeadeI
h Edward Livingston, Secretary Of State, a
a Roger =. FRnuy, Attorney General, aud bel
10 date Match, 1893.
q The Presbyterian church in Nottingha
d Pa, is all in an uproaT about dancing.
Is some time the pastor hRs been scandalli
" because the juniors and some of the eld
n psrsisted in the amusement and on the
~ communion day he requested all offenders
r take back seats. No less than ~ obey
q. aud were denied communion. Since then
Of have capitulated, and the 60 are given N
c. March l TO repent and confess. The parse
,y pretty daughter is among the Outcasts, anc
80 reckoned the very best dancer in the lot.
er church is one of the Oldest in Western Pc
n. sylvania, has a memb2rahip Of 200, moi
be among well-to-do- farmers, and the aa
le ! makes good deal of noise