Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-09

"Roped to Rest" is the way in which Kan
sas City paper r, Gently announced the execu-
ton of a murderer.
Tbs business OF exporting apples has
been very active this season, over 2OO, 900
barrels having been shipped from Boston
alone. The price OF choice fruit has advanced
OF late.
Nellie Lynch, daughter Of John Lynch,
Samuel j. Tilden's gardener at Greystone,
saw a runaway horse approaching her at full
speed last Friday, as she was crossing street
in Yonkers, N. Y. She succeeded in getting
out of the way, but she had received such a
shock from fright that she tainted and died
in few minutes.
One Of the wives of much married Nor
mon elder is arranging to come east to lecture
on the beauties OF polygamy, not 30 much to
convert the unenlightened as TO play smash
with statements of Kate Field and other mar
row minded folks who are trying TO inculcate
the pernicious doctrine that one woman has a
right to mouopolize whole man.-Neio York
Times.
On returning home in the absence of her
parents one day last week, little North Car
oina girl tried to enter the house through a
window. She pushed up the sash till it stuck
fast, but while her head was on the window
sill the sash fell on her neck. She was una
BILE to get her hands on the sill, and her feet
barely touched the ground, SO that she could
not raise the sash. When her parents return
ed, late in the afternoon, they found her
dead. In her struggles she had kicked pair
of new shoes to pieces.
Senator Vests endeavor to put stop to
undelivered speeches in the Congressional
Record, recalls the fact that in 1862 Congress
| men ''Bin" Allen and Nugen, both Ohio
Democrats, had printed in the Record the
very same speech, which, it proved, both
| had purchased from the same lobbyist. AL
len had agreed 10 pay the author S75 for it,
but afterward refused to give him but $50,
whereupon he sold it again to Nugen for $50.
| Nugen never read the undelivered speeches
in the Record, and was somewhat surprised
when told that "Bill" Allen printed thai
speech Just month before,
| The discovery of veins of gold on Fort
Mountain, in northern Georgia, has been sup
plemented, it is said, by the discovery of sill
| yer in wonderful yield, in consequence oil
which there is great excitement in that sec.
ton, and men are hocking there from all part
of the country. The most valuable deposl
yet found is seven miles from Spring Place
and 18 miles from Dalton, which is the near
est point to the railroad. Here ore has beer
found five feet from the surface, as rich a
| that ODthlneu NJ EoO Aoob III eAO AnuAou" ONN4
stock of Nevada, assaying from $50 to $2OO'
per ton. Fabulous prices are offered and re
fused for real estate at these mines.
The Washington monument, "tallest in tn
world" has cost 81, 1870, 600. Originally !
was intended to have some finish at the base
and Mr. Robert Mills's design, which was re
jected by Congress owing to the great cost o
carrying it out, included a sort of pantheon
100 feet high, with colossal statue over it
portico representing Washington in chario
with six horses driven by Victory. "As par
of Millss novel and thoroughly classical con
ception, says the American Architect, 18th
obeisk, rising from the stupendous colonnad
which supported it, was well proportione
and elegant; but without that support it
an ugly chimney and nothing more"