Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-01-18
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colorado claims settled population OF
10000, with S110, 900, 900 taxable and $780,
600, 900 actual valuation Of property and II
has 5000 miles of railroad in operation and
plans for 5000, 900 more.
Philadelphia sold 22O tons Of candy dur
ing Christmas week. and at some of the
stores buyers Of sugar. plums we're 80 numer-
GUS that they had to be formed in line TO
take their turns.
Judge Smith of Chicago has decided that
the Illinois law is unconstitutional which pro.
vides (as does a Massachusetts, law that loss
es at the gaming table may be recovered in
triplicate by a wife or other relative OF the
loser
Charles Darwin was in early life a mem
Der of the Free Christian church at Shrews-
bury, his native town. His old fellow -wor.
shippers clearly do not believe that 1.-THE Ori-
gin of Species was the work of an atheist,
aud they have Just erected a memorial tablet
to Darwin in their church.
George Case of Peotone, ILL.,. was shot
and killed by his dog Christmas day. He
was out hunting, stood with the butt of his
gnn on the ground and the muzze pointed at
his head, and the dog leaped up towards his
face to play, struck the gun-lock with his
foot, and so tired the piece.
Sergeant Bates is still promoting moral
and patriotic citizenship" in his peculiar way.
he is now tramping through Georgia with
an American flag in one hand and the hand of
his son in the other. It does not hurt the
flag any, and the people look on with care
less apathy.
"A novel suit for damages has been brought
by waiter in one Of the hotels on the Rhine.
He attempted some time ago to hang him
self, but guest of the holel cut him down in
fifua m hfa rbo f,,n 30 ~,
for undue interference and for damages sus.
tained by the unauthorized cutting of the
rope, which happened to be new one.
The number of lunatic asylums in
France amounts TO 1903, of which 81 are pub
lie and ~ private. OF those nine are excu-
sively for men and fourteen for women, the
rest are for both sexes. A considerable in
crease of lunacy has been noticed in France
for the last fifteen years. In 1868 the num-
Der of lunstics was "a, 900, to-day it is near
ly GOOOO
"A truly enterprising Chicago newspaper,
the Inter Ocean, has published what it calls
"a list of the eligible bachelors of the city,
for reference by ladies during leap-year."
The names of several hundred men are CIV
en-, with "a description of their personal ap-
pearance, their business and family connec.
tions, their social relations habits of life, in
COuebs prospects, huu Olu6t luIOEmhllOu OF
valued an interest"
-Anandibai Joshee, a Hindoo woman of
the highest Brahminical caste, is student in
the Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl-
vania. She is said to be the first Brahmin
woman who ever left India. In order to
keep her caste while here she must live by
herself, prepare her own food, wear the ma
tive costume and rigidly observe certain re-
ligious rites. She is said to be highly edu-
Gated aud remarkable linguist.
There are a great many people, and
among them men of practical experience,
who believe that there is large reservoir of
oil under Ohio, and that some day it will be
struck and yield great returns. The occs.
sional strikes in the Mecca field in Trumbull
county, the recent flow in Denver, below
youngstown, and the more recent develop
ments in Noble county tend in the direction
of this belief.
christmas cheer in England takes the
form of giving the postmen hot drinks when
they come around 1t is curious to learn
that the practice has become so common that
the postmaster general felt called upon last
month to issue circular begging people to
remember that this is a mistaken kindness,
which is calculated to bring the postman in
to trouble and disgrace"
perience is being made in the village of
Hampton Lacy in Wsrwickshire, Eng The
rector bought the one public house of the
village seven years ago, and hired a man to
manage it. Only beer has been sold and that
has been guaranteed pure. The result is that
drunkenness is practically unknown in the
village, while money enough has been made
to pay the salary of the church organist and
divide about $3.50 year among the local
charities.
Kate Shelby, the ffteen-yesr- old girl
who prevented disaster on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad near Moingons, Iowa,
last year, is to be handsomely rewarded for
her heroic act. Not only will the legislature
of that state present to her handsome me-
mortal in the shape of medal, but enough
money will be appropriated to defray the ex-
penses of liberal education for her until
she is 2l. Besides this, steps are being taken
to raise a popular subscription for her family,
which now relies wholly for support on her
widowed mother.
Facts are coming to light which indicate
that the mortality from cholera in Egypt has
been greatly underrated, and some authorities
think it was double that given in the official
reports. Our consul. general at Cairo puts
the deaths at from 65, 900 to 10000, In ma
ny of the interior villages, it is declared that
a majority of the laboring classes lost their
lives while in some cases nearly whole COM
munities were swept away, and not enough
men remain to cultivate aud harvest the
crops.
An odd elopement happened at Shensn-
doah, Pa, the other day. Mr.. NJ. H. Keh.
ler, one of the leading grocery merchants,
eloped with his former wife, the daughter of
j. W. johnson, well-to do citizen. Eight
or nine years ago, when hardly out of their
teens, the runaways we're married, but soon
separated, however, and Mr.. Keller paid his
wife $1,000 in settlement of all claims. She
retained her child, a beautiful little girl, and
returned her to parents, while Mr.. X. went to
his. Both parties lived next door to each
other, and though the divorced couple saw
each other nearly every day, they did not
speak for several years. OF late the old love
returned, and they went of together in a
sleigh and were remarked.
A branch of the Southern Pacific rail
road is partially ballRsted with salt There Is
a vast bed of salt in the Colorado desert near
Indio, and in laying a track to the salt mine
there, says the Los Angeles Herald, the build
ers were obliged to grade the road for 1900
feet with blocks of beautiful Jumps of crys-
tails. The sea, which once rolled over this
place, now 260 feet below the sea level, dried
up and left a vast bed of salt about 90 miles
IN length Inc quality Is superb ana the
supply inexhaustible. Grasshoppers of enor-
nous size and giant oentipedes have been
here picked in the chloride of sodium, and
are to-day, after the lapse of centuries, in
full size and perfection of shape. This vast
salt bed will be very valuable 10 the reducers
of ores in California, Arizona and New Mexi-
co, and can be supplied in boundless quanti-
ties
"A young Pole named Taleski ran of with
and married Miss Nelson of North Ohelms-
ford, Mass, the other night in decidedly
romantic way. Taleski was Nelson's hired
man. The girl was Nelson's daughter. They
met and loved. Nelson ordered Taleski out
of the house. The girl tried to run away
with him and got caught. The father put
her under lock and key at night and insisted
on her accepting the attentions OF young
neighboring farmer named johnson, who
was over ears in love with her. Thursday
night of last week the girl was taken with
violent spasms and her father started in hot
haste for a doctor, Then the fair one jump
ed into her lovers waiting sleigh and started
for Lowell and matTimony. But the sleigh
broke down, and, while Taleski was trying
TO mend it, the father, returning, met them.
Tableau and swear words and scuffie. the
young man coming out ahead and binding
Nelson with reins from his horse. After
wrapping him in buffalo robes aud leaving
him in the snow the lovers ooolly took pos
session of the old mans sleigh and continued