Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-04-03
IN GRNERAL.

New South Wales has district named
New England.
The enthusiastic miners Of Eagle City,
Arizona, presented $4,000 in gold dust to the
mother of the first child born there.
"A gentleman of Los Gatos, in Santa Clara
County, hunts California lions with grey
hounds, and captures and kills many of them.
A man was killed at Greenville, Ala,
while trying to win bet that he could walk
on the ends Of the crossties while train was
passing.
A jeweler at Batavia, ILL.,, discovered a
gold watch stolen from him in the possession
Of young lady on whom he called. Her
lover had stolen and presented it to her.
The Alta California says there are over
thirty Mormon churches in Colorado; in Ida
ho there are over sixty; in Arizona about
seventy.
The steamer Beaver, which was launched
In 1885, and was the first steam vessel ever
in the Pacific, was pronounced perfectly sound
by the inspector at Victoria, British Colum-
bia, Tuesday, Feb "a.
The new college game of tenpins is to set
up three pins in q row in line with the bow
ler, whose aim is to so curve the ball as to
knock out the center pin. Should he knock
down all three he is considered fit subject
for ridicule.
"A solid silver balustrade which had stood
in one of the Mexican churches since the time
of Cortez was torn down not long ago and
taken to the mint, producing over co. 900 sill
yer dollars.
Iowa people have had enough OF lynch
law. A Jury in Cas- county has Just convicted
q man Of murder in first degree, the first time
such a verdict has been rendered in the state
for years. II this convict is banged his will be
the first execution in the state for 20 years.
Cass county lies next to Audubon, where the
recent disgraoeful lynchings occurred.
An eighty. year-old farmer in Union coun-
ty, North Carolina, was attacked and killed
few days ago by one Of his boars. The old
man usually carried heavy stick, but on this
occasion he left it at home. The animal took
advantage of his defenceless condition, charg-
ed upon him, and in an instant felled him to
the ground and inflicted wounds which result
ed in his death within twenty -four hours.
-"Jugged (stewed) hare" has for some
months been prominent on the bills of fare of
English restaurants, and those who have free
ly partaken Of 1t In such resorts do not feel SO
much regret that hare will soon be out of
season when they read that in Ann Littles
house at Gateshead were found the skins OF
forty cats, and that Ann had sold them as
Scotch hares, and says "they taste very
like rabbit"
-Nottoway county, Virginia, the region
inhabited by the first settlers, and made in
teresting by "reminiscences of Capt John
Smith and Pocahontas, IL fast returning to its
primeval condition. "In twenty years 1t will
be wilderness" prophesies a visitor. The
residents are old and sad. The young have
gone to more promising regions. Deer browse
where cattle fed, and the oak and pine cover
great plantations where the negro once culti-
waited corn and tobacco.
A Baltimore oysterman the other day
fshed up q bottle TO which q large bunch Of
biValVes had grown. Inside the bottle was q
fish too large to get out Of Its mouth. 1t is
supposed that the fish went into the bottle and
either liked its quarters so well that 1t tarried
too long, or before 1t could find its way out
had grown 80 large as TO nearly ill the bottle
The bottled fish will be sent 10 the Smith
sonian Institution as q curiosity.
Mr.. Phelps, the new minister to England,
has only two children living, q son about 20
who is now learning the railroad business 10
Detroit, and married daughter who has been
spending the winter in the Adirondacks for
the benefit Of her husbands health Another
son died last year. New Haven paper says
of Mrs. Phslps: "She wins the hearts of all
who have the good fortune TO know her and
is equal in all respects to the duties that will
come to her as wife OF the American minister
at London"
A writer in the 81. Louis Medical Journal
advises young practitioners never to make fun
OF an old womans remedy. They will not
only give offence, but many miss a valuable
aid in practice. The writer adds: ''In 1880,
while practising In Madison county, Ill,
was induced, by the representations OF an old
woman, to make the trial, In dysentery and
diarrhoea, of tablespoonful doses of pure cider
vinegar, with the addition of sufficient salt TO
be noticeable, and 1t acted 80 oharmingly
that have never used anything else"
The projected bridge over the Straits of
Messina Is still engaging the attention OF
Italian engineers. The narrowest portion OF
the straits is two miles across, but the depth
there is some 52l feet, while the shalloweat
part, which Is 96l feet deep, runs between
| Cape del Pezzo and Frapzrri. Although the
distance across at the latter point is half q
| mile greater than at the nArroWest portion OF
the straits, Its greater shalloWness has caused
Il 10 be selected as the spot for the bridge.
In addition to the double row Of rails, 1t is
intended to have the bridge wide enough 10
include a road for ordinary carriage traffic.
The viaduct will be supported by two land
towers and three piers, each 3, 280 feet apart /;
the foundation Of these piers will be OF granite
ballast up to within seventy-hVe feet Of the
surface Of the water, and Of granite masonry,
the latter being carried up to 33 feet above
the water. The bridge will terminate on
either shore In tower-shAped piers constructed
also Of granite with the ordinary dry founda-
tions, aud the height OF the bridge above the
water will be 32s feet.