Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-12-18

There are said to be 1870 places in Wash
ington where a man can get drink.
Thirteen persons lost their lives in a ten
ement.house FIRE in Plymouth, Eng, last
Sunday.
A South Carolina legislator calls atten-
tion TO the fact that to pass a bill through
the legislature costs that state over 5000.
Arizona has newly discovered natural
bridge which is 200 feet long, 900 feet wide
aud 40 feet high. II is located in the Tonto
basin.
"A million dollars, il is said, will weigh
! tons in gold, 20 tons in subsidiary silver
coin, 2G} tons in standard silver coin, and 100
tons in nickel.
There are current az many pronunciations
Of the word cocaine as there are sylables, at
least The authentic pronunciation as given
by one who ought to know is co. cA-een.
A New York man bad his wife arrested
for carrying a concealed weapon In court II
was shown that she was in the habit of tax
ing of her wooden leg and beating him with
it.
The comet of 1912 Is coming back again.
1t is understood IL will put a claim on the
government for a pension with arrears, on
the ground of having been present during
the last war with England.
. 1t is predicted that moonshining, though
famous portions OF South Carolina, is so be-
set with dangers that the business will soon
be abandoned altogether.
Benjamin Gratz Brown, a candidate for
vice president on the Greeley ticket in 1872,
died Of pneumonia complicated with heart
disease last Sunday morning at his home in
Kirkwood, a suburb of st. Louis, aged 80
years.
"A son of Meissonier, the celebrated paint
er was terribly bitten last Sunday by Tabid
mastiG in his fathers garden in Paris. The
victim was Immediately sent TO Pasteur for
treatment. The latter declares that the pa
TENTS recovery is certain.
The dry-goods and grocery store of d.
W. Lewis at st. Clair, Pa, three miles from
Pottsvile, was blown up with dynamite last
Saturday at 3 A. NJ The outrage is supposed
to have been the outcome of the liquor war
recently carried on at St. Clair as Lewis
was a prominent member of the law and
order society.
Joe Parker, a negro said to be 1876 years
old, died at the poor farm in Dallas, Tex. on
the 1lth inst. His last words were: "Wake
up for the great jubilee has comel" Parker
had been slave in Alabama, Georgia and
Texas for exactly 100 years of his life. He
was the original of "old Black Joe, " in Mlt
Barlow's famous song bearing that title.
The funeral of King Alfonso Of Spain
was held last Saturday in the church of st.
Francis the Groat in Madrid All Europes
sovereigus were represented and the church
was filed with distinguished people. The
members Of the diplomatic corps we're also
present. The civil and military pageant was
imposing, aud was witnessed by great
crowd.
The great river Euphrates is in danger
OF disappearing altogether. OF late years the
banks below Babylon have been giving way
so that the stream spreads out into a marsh,
until steamers could not pass and only mar
row channel remained for native boats. Now
this passage is becoming obliterated, and
there is danger that the famous river will be
swallowed up by the desert.
A successful attempt has been made to
export petroleum in bulk, which has former
ly been done by barreling it here ready for
the market. A ship fitted with forty-five
cylindrical iron tanks, having a capacity of
III, 900 gallons, has just taken cargo to Eng
land, and If the experiment be commercially
successful it will materially change the pres
ent methods of ocean transportation of pc
troleum, turpentine and other liquids.
The general term of the New York city
court has just rendered an opinion holding
that wife has right to assume the respon-
sibility of paying her husbands as we'll AZ
her own board at hotel, and that she may
be held to it. The presumption IL that the
husband is liable for the bill But the hotel
keeper may show that the husband was i'm
pecunious aud that credit was given to the
wife, in which case her property may be de-
tained for non-payment
On the 231 of November an ocean race
of 5000 miles was begun between the steam
ships Alameda and Zealandia. They started
from San Francisco, bound for Auckland
New Zealand. 1t is the first trip of the Ala.
media. which belongs to Spreckels, the sugar
king, under his contract 10 carry the mails.
The Zealandia has carried the mails hitherto
San Francisco papers say there was heavy
betting on the race, the Soreckels family Of
fering two to one on the Alameda.
The famous Lorillard farm in New Jer-
sey contains 1000 acres. The barn has stalls
for 5G horses 40 hands and IL teams are
employed in the farm work. In one building
are 200 stalls for cattle. The pigpen is 4OS
feet long and holds 800 hogs. The corn crib
holds 10, 600 bushels of shelled corn. The
stable in which the yearlngs are housed con-
tains Gs box stalls, and the centre Of the three
sections of the building is covered with glass,
and affords dry place where the colts can
exercise in wet weather.
When the smallpox scouree at Montreal
was at its height the city of st. Paul decided
to have an ice palace and carnival" of it's
own this winter. Similar projects have been
entertained by two or three other cities on
this side of the border, rs we'll as by several
ambitious Canadian towns, but in the mean
time Montreal is making preparations to have
its winter festival the same as usual. Thus
diversion is in fair way of being made
business, subject to the unpleasant conse-
quences of overproduction.
Chicago falls heir by the death of the
NviA af ola
81, 500, 900 for a public library Mr. New
berry made money by the rise in land which
he owned before Chicago was. When he
died II years ago he left half his estate for
the purpose named, provided his daughters
should die without issue, an event which
seemed most unlikely, as the probabilities
were that the daughters, who were very
handsome, would marry. As it happened,
they both died Of consumption shortly after
their fathers death, and now Mrs. Newber-
rvs death releases the property for division
according to his will.
This, from the San Francisco Alta, looks
as though II could not be beat "a small boy
at Quincy, in this state, went up the noun
tain side full of pleasure ut the first fall of
snow. At the summit he slipped and rolled
down the hill, becoming the nucleus Of vast
snowfall which hopelessly imprisoned him.
He WAS missed after several hours, and the
searchers got on the track of the SNOWFALL
and trailed it to where it had leaped from a
cliff to a. canon. Looking down they could
see it lodged in the boughs of pine tree.
They finally got it, broke it open, and found
the boy inside, alive, but rather chilly. Upon
this incident we rest the reputation OF Cali
fornia for the season."
"A commendable degree of presence Of
mind was exhibited by young girl named
Millicent Porter at Haverstraw, N. Y, day
or so ago. In company with young man,
she made the ascent of High Tor, a mountain
700 feet in height and quite precipitous.
Darkness was approaching as they started TO
descend, and losing the path, Miss Porter's
companion fell over a cliff, crying, keep
back, Millie ~ as he disappeared. The girl
did not stop to faint, but, hearing a feeble
cry, she looked over the precipice, and saw
the young man hanging TO a scraggy tree
some distance below. Tearing her cloak aud
flannel skirt into lengths, she quickly impro.
yised rope, by the aid of which he was
shortly rescued from his dangerous position.
Miss Porter is regarded as heroine in Hav-
erstraw, and the gossips would not be sur
prised II there was wedding
-Remarking upon the apparent phenome-
non of the unusual large size Of the sun and
moon, in rising or setting, Stroobant points