Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-07
NO. 10.
IN GENERAL.

rlvets, died at Plymouth, Mass, recently.
"A bronze statue Of the late William e.
Dodge is 10 be erected in New York city in
tho little park on Thirty y-second street.
Florida is filling up with settlers very
rapidly and II is claimed that the population
of the state has nearly doubled since 1880.
The Washington monument will be 555
feet high when completed or 40 feet higher
than any other structure in the world
Fifty young and good looking women
have sailed for New Caledonia to be married
to well.behaved convicts," says a recent Lon
don letter.
-Lutterworth, Eng, Is preparing to set
up monument to commemorate the 500th
anniversary Of the death Of John Wyclife
which occurs the last of this year.
"A Hartford, Conn man has taken out
patents TOR devices by which beautiful and
substantial carpets can be made Of paper at
prices much lower than the cost of common
cotton mating.
The Roman Catholics Of New Englrnd
have increased from 100, 900 in 1850 to moro
than 100000 at the present time. In the
former year there were 75 churches and there
are now nearly 700.
Abraham Lincolns tomb at Springfield,
Illinois, is going to ruin. Two of the sup
porting arches have collapsed, one corner
Of the monument has settled several inches,
and it is estimated that the restoration will
cost $1,000
"A sailing vessel has just brought six lit
tie stowaways from Liverpool to San Fran
cisco. The boys we're from to 10 years old,
said they "wanted to come to the states to
earn fortunes as bootblacks, and have start
cd in business.
"A singular accident happened lately at
n mill in AaubyflIa A
thrown toward the circular saw, and evident.
ly thinking he would strike it, died from
fright. When picked up he was dead, but
there was no sign of bruise on his body.
Mrs. Gaines, the famous litigant, denies
that she is rich During fifty years of effort
she has not recovered enough property TO
pay her lawyers, and she is now in straight
ened circumstances, supporting herself and
daughter on pension of $50 month.
"A negro girl at Marcus, Ca, has q curl
GUS deformity of the feet. Each leg has the
semblance of two feet, growing across each
other at right angles, with two sets of toes
and two distinct heels, and the shoes are
made in the form Of Greek CROSS.
"A peculiar turn to military education is
being given in Russia. The private soldiers
are now being supplied with handkerchiefs
whose borders depict and describe stirring
battle scenes, while the centres present accu-
rate drawings and minute explanations of all
kinds of rifles and guns.
For the guidance and warning of navigR.
tors, the government maintains 755 lighthouses
and beacons on the sea and lake coasts, be-
sides 972 beacons on the western rivers.
There are 30 lightships anchored or moored
at spots where it is impossible to lay the
foundations for brick or iron towers.
During the past thirty years the chill
dren's aid society of New York city has sent
| II, ,769 poor children to homes outside the
| city. Other organizations and private per-
sons Rave been engaged in the same benevo-
lent work and it is probable that a hundred
thousand Of these waiis lave been thus trans
planted
II once, says London Truth, "came across
an aged physician at New London in the Uni
ted States. 1 asked him why he lived there.
He said that he had visited graveyards in all
| parts of the world and noted the average age
of death. Having found that the average
was highest in New London, and being de-
sirous of inhabiting this planet as long as
possible, be had taken up his abode there"
An application for patent for an sd-
| Unstable dogs tail has been made to the Uni.
ted States patent Office. The applicant claims
that dogs who, either by nature or accident
are minus tail, encounter great difficulties
| III turning budEp COFutTs, hb lu6lE C6ulEe VI
gravity is thrown too near tho forelegs and
consequently they must go slow or lose their
balance. The adjustable dogs tail will re-
store the equilibrium.
One of the strangest sights of China is
witnessed in Canton. 1t is procession of
the "blind leading the blind" Each person
takes hold of the garment of the person in
front of him with the left hand, and with
the right keeps bamboo pole moving on
the ground. In this way a dozen persons
will make their way with wonderful ease, the
principal responsibility devolving upon the
| leader.
"A great struggle is going on in Georgia
to see whether they can hang one of the aris-
tocracy. Tobe Turner, a man of wealth and
influential connections, was convicted of
murder in December, 1882, and sentenced to
death The supreme court reafirmed the
verdict and sentence and he has been SEN
fenced to be hanged April 1S. His friends
are still fighting it.
"A bullfrog's fame as we'll as a prophets
is magnifed in foreign parts "The Jardin
des Pantes," says the Paris Galignani, "has
recently acquired specimens of the enormous
frogs indigenous to North America. These
creatures are about the size of fowl, and
are called 'bullfrogs, and their croaking, ac-
cording to one of our contemporaries, can be
| hChih iOA A4OAO NAah hLAOO AAASo o"oJ
AT Rome, Ca, Judge johnson has de-
cided that the wife of Sam Echols, Georg
ian, who has become a Mormon preacher
should retain custody of their three-years old
boy. The wife testified that although she
had not lived with her husband for two years
she was still devoted to him, but would new.
er consent to follow him wandering abou
the country as he did preaching Mormonism
The New Orleans Picayune says there Il
an aristocracy of crime in Louisiana. Nc
man of wealth, no man of position, no mar
of influence, has ever been hung In tina
state. Such men have been accused of the
vilest crimes such men have been proven
guilty over and over again. The result 4
lawlessness in society, in business, in poll
tics. The truth is that in Louisiana a maj
of power, of whatever sort, may do as h
will
Electric lightning is to be tried on rathel
q grand scale at Washington. Fifteen cleo
trio lights will be placed on the dome of the
Capitol, 3GO feet from the ground, 10 at
height of 410 feet on the Washington monu
ment, and FIVE 150 feet in the air ou the tow
or of the. Smithsonian institution. A larg
reflector on the monument will throw q fooC
of light toward the White House.
The Chinese are swarming into MeKic
along the trunk lines of railroads by hun
dreds. At present they are a necessity. N
hotel can be run without Chinese, for ther
are no Mexican cooks, and the hotels are to-
small to employ American cooks at the wagei
demanded. As yet they have not gone Il
work in railroad building nor into the grea
mining camps, except as restaurant keeper
and laundrymen. The working classes o.
the country have not yet felt their competi
tion, but there is likely to be bloodshed wheI
they do.
At San Antonio, Texas, recently, one
Klein induced one McCue TO drink three pint
of whisky on a wager The feat proved ia
tai. McCues widow sued Klein for dam
ages, and got a verdict of $4,000. On ap
[ peal the supreme court confirmed the jury
conclusion. The ruling was that, as tn
drnkor was so intoxicated as to be incapable
of consent at the time of swallowing th
third and killing pint, the man who mad
him do it was responsible.
The following from the Ploche (Nev.
! Record, indicates the manner in which ari
r districts in eastern Nevada store up supple
of water "The prospeotors high up in tn
mountains will now be able 10 pile up tn
snow in such quantities that they will &c
along all the coming season, and have plent
of water" By covering such piles Of sno'
r with sagebrush they slowly melt away durin
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