Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-01-04
IN GENERAL.

Eight hundred and fifty railroad trains
arrive at and depart from Chicago daily-more
than in any other city in the world.
The New York city government has notih-
cd the electric light companies that they must
put all their wires under ground within two
years.
There have been 1854 buildings put up
in Chicago the past season, costing S15, GAS,
900, and having frontage of 1877 feet
143 miles.
Over 10000 women are employed in the
shirt and collar manufactures Of Troy, N. Y.
The payroll Of one concern averages over
$1,000 per day.
The cost Of the French war with Germs.
NY ii is finally learned, was E341, 44O, 900, be-
sides the loss Of two rich provinces. This
was at the rate of e., 600, 600 a day.
"A young giant is Jack Shields of Hunt
county, Texas. He is 21 years old, feet 8
inches high, and weighs 29l pounds. He has
six brothers, all over seven feet tall
Holland has recovered 90,O acres Of
land from the sea by building dykes in the
last 300 years, and when work on the Zuyder
Zee is completed there will be 800, 900 more.
There are 2O0O miles of narrow gauge
railroad in operation in Colorado, 1870 in
Texas, and 100 in Mexico Arizona has 700
miles under construction, and Utah 1900 pro-
jected.
Victoria @. Woodruff is living quiet do
mestic life in England as the wife Of John Bid
dulph Martin, a wealthy banker, to whom she
was married four years ago.
Receiver Price of the defunct Pacific bank,
Boston, has sued the directors for 81, 600, 900
or more to meet the liabilities of the bank,
alleging that its losses were due to their mis-
management and unfaithfulness.
The gross income from the New York
Central for the year ending Sept. 80, 1888,
was S33, 40, 721S2, or more than SO, 600, 600
over the income of 1889. The total number
of passengers carried was 10, TAG, 925.
The annual auction sale of articles accu
mulated in the dead-l Office takes place
Jan. H. The articles are divided up into
300 lots, including jewelry, books, clothing,
and odds and ends of every description.
"A committee of New York senator's has
discovered that the state retains the owner
ship of only 200, 600 acres of the great Adj
rondack wilderness, over 8, 900, 900 acres hav-
ing in various ways passed into the control of
individuals and corporations.
The Modoc Indians of Lava Beds fame
have dwindled down to little over 100 souls.
They live on reservation of 1000 acres, and
are becoming agriculturists. They are losing
their wsrlike character, and are assisted by
the government.
Gen. Grant has taken pains to deny, on
the part of himself and wife, the report that
they have become converts to Spiritualism,
and expresses his contempt for its ordinary
manifestations as mainly the product of fraud
and juggling contrivsnce.
Gen. Longstreet carries bullet in his
throat which struck him in the battle of the
Wilderness. 1t always troubles him in pub
lie speaking, and frequently breaks him down.
This happened at Woodstock, ILL.,. recently,
and the reporters attributed it to "overpow-
ering emotion"
Miss Stematz YsmsgarVa, the Japanese girl
who was educated at Vassar college and re-
turned to Japan about year ago, was lately
married to the Japanese minister of war. He
was educated in Europe, and has taken his
bride TO a home replete with the Injuries of
European civilization.
Passenger rates on some railroads in this
country are undoubtedly exorbitant, but the
average rate for all the lines-$2. 33 for 100
miles-is much less than the average for sim
liar accommodations in Europe, where first
class fare ranges from 50 "a in Norway and
Belgium to 81 in Roumsnia.
The West Randolph Methodsts have
bought lot and will build church next sea-
son. There are now five churches in the viii
lage, with seating capacity Of about 20O0
and an average attendance of less than 600.
Washington Gladden's "Christian league" ev-
identity needs to get footing there
The cable sends the news that the gifted
actress, Mary Anderson, has won the heart of
the Duke Of Portland and their engagement
has been announced. The duke is reported
to be fine manly fellow of twenty. six. He
is one of the largest landed proprietors in
England and has an annual income of $2,-
600, 900.
The ugliest men in the world, says one
who has seen Patagonisns and Magyars. are
the inhabitants of AMMAN. The typical ma
tive is of about the same height as the China
man. His skin is of the hue of black mud
that has lain exposed to the sun until the
process of drying has fixed it of a peculiar
darkness. He has fiat Chinese face, with
fiat, flabby nose, fat, narrow forehead, and
fiat chin His occasional grin is incarnately
diabolic.
-Gothenburg the Swedish city of 10000
people which originated the Gothenburg sys'
tenn of liquor repression, in which the city
owns all the saloons and has reduced them to
20 in number, is in danger of having it brok'
en- down by the same expedient as has been
worked here the club A rich distiller known
as the brandy king has got about 20, 900 men
to unite in establishing shops and clubs and
in refusing to patronize the city taverns.
-Ex.Confederate soldiers in Georgia are
now drawing the pensions provided by the
state under the clause in the constitution per
mitting artificial limbs to be furnished. They
get $40 for an arm off below or $50 above
the elbow, and $75 for leg below or 800
above the knee, and the amount is paid once
= L., IL
cants in 1878, and the payments amounted to
$50, 900. Men disabled otherwise than by
loss of limb can get nothing.
of the 1926 members of the House of Rep
resentativss, 221 are lawyers, 10 Lanufaotur.
ers, IS farmers, 10 editors, 8 merchants,
bankers, 3 doctors, lumbermen, 2 railroad
presidents, railroad operators, one minister,
druggist, zo0logist, halter, railroad ticket
agent, cooper, printer, capitalist-with % not
classified as to occupation. OF these men,
ll9 served in the army or navy during the
war, IS on the Union side and 81 on the reb.
el all of the latter arc Democrats, while OF
the Union veterans so are Republicans and 10
Democrats. en-eighths Of the southern
representatives are lawyers.
There are about 81, 900, 900 of us, and
the number of stamped envelopes and postal
cards sold to the public last year was 1851
6s9, 500, or only 34t to each person. That
seems a small allowance, but the babies must
be counted out, and even then we have only
about one letter or postal card in Ave days for
the people of writing age When it is con-
sidered what vast number of letters, oircu-
lars and postal cards are sent by a compare
lively small number of business men, it will
appear that large proportion of the popula-
ton still makes no use of the postal facilities.
of the sS persons drowned in mid-ocean
Oct 80, when the French brig Rocaberg was
sunk in collision with the American ship
Thomas Dana, 60 belonged in the village OF
CAncale, near St. Malo, on the Breton coast.
The unfortunate men were Fishermen re-
turning from a fve-months cruise on the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland. When the
tidings of the disaster reached Oancale the
shops were all closed, the people wore mourn
ing emblems and the bells of the churches,
after prevailing custom in Brittany, were
tolled $40 times-nine strokes for each Of the
dead. Special services were held in the
/ churches.
There is now a mammoth locomotive In
process OF construction at the Central Pacific
shops at Sacramento. The total length OF
the engine aud tender is GO feet and incheg
driving wheel base 10 feet and inches y
pairs of drivers, 4 feet and inches in dit
eter, with four wheel truck in front; "
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