Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-03-26
IN GENERAL.

go ne CITY OF hlpOu, LuBlhuu IN huOub "
celebrate the thousandth anniversary Of its
incorporation.
-'If they want to find me-" says New
York alderman, they can find me at either
of my two saloons"
Mrs Hancock has received $40, 600 from
a Newark life insurance company in which
the Generals life was insured.
"A Burlington, Ia, man who died the
other day left 800 to the reporter who should
write the best obituary Of him.
Walter Brownlow, son of the famous
'Parson, is candidate for republican
congressional nomination in Tennessee.
Three persons lately tried on the same
day in the criminal court of Blair county, Pa,
had but three legs among them-one apiece
A man was committed to jail at Houtz.
dale, Pa, a few days ago because he refused
TO pay GG cents a week toward supporting his
mother.
Mrs. Garfield has decided to leave Ceve-
land and make her home at Mentor hereaf-
ter. Her residence Rt Cleveland will be
rented.
A memorial for the late Helen Hunt
jackson at Santa Fe will be in the appropri-
ate form of "Ramona School for Indian
Girls"
Archer and Wood, the two noted English
jockeys, according to the income tax assess-
ment, made last year respectively $50, 900
aud S4j, 900.
-Bondin, the rope walker, is now living
in London, aud is G2 years of age. He re-
Gently lost the greater part Of his fortune by
poor Investments.
The executors OF the late Mary Jane Nor.
Rans estate find that the heirs get over ST.
200, 900 from the sale of her art collections,
above all expenses
The bills for Princess Beatrices wed
ding, amounting to over $2j. 900, were paid
by Q1een Victoria, who will not ask Parlia-
ment for a reimbursement
Another hero OF the war is gone in the
death at Richmond, Va, few days ago, of
"Old SoIrel," the horse that bore Stonewall
jackson through his battles.
. The average price Of orange groves in
California is $1,000 per aero. There are sew
enty-hve trees to the acre and each one pro.
duces about ten box of fruit
F fteen thousand workman are engaged
in the production of petroleum in Pennsyl
vania, and about ten thousand in refining it.
The wages average from 81 10 to 50 80 per
day.
Grace Hubbard, graduate Of the Iowa
university, has adopted the profession Of civil
engineer, and is employed by the United
States government survey in Montana to make
maps.
Hot water is good for clocks IA well as
human beings. An East Saginaw woman
boiled the works OF a refractory clock for two
hours the other day, and since then the time.
piece has done good service.
President Holden Of the California state
university receives a salary Of $1,000 S5OOO
"a president and $4,000 AZ director of the Lick
Il. a 4 g..
this country receives 80 much.
David Tyson, Clay county Georgian,
wishing to move and having no means but a
two-ox wagon and one steer, yoked himself
alongside of the steer and did his part 10
pulling a load of l 900 pounds over miles
of country road.
The victims of the lottery habit ought
to get au eye-opener from the fact brought
out by the death At New Orleans of an eight.
millionaire who owned $500, 600 Of the stock
Of the Louisiana lottery, which paid him
$50 600 annually.
The fearful mortality among the labor.
ers on De Lesseps's canal is indicated by the
statement that no less than five cemeteries
are open, and that in one of them, opened less
than two years ago, upwards of 1000 inter
ments have taken place.
Canadians are beginning to worry over
their loss of forests. In the more thickly
settled part of Ontario only ten per cent. OF
woodland remains and wells must be dug to
the depth OF 40 or 30 feet where formerly wa
ter could be reached at six.
Among the cards recently left at the
White House WAS the following ~. T.
Newman. have been voting for Democratic
presidents for forty-eight years l would like
to see one before die" He was accorded the
privilege at half past one o'clock.
"A X ntuckey fat woman with great diff
Guilty squeezed herself into room that bad
narrow door and vainly tried to get out
There was no choice but to cut the door
away or keep her without food till she could
get out She chose the latter, and four days
fasting let her out
1t is now claimed that the climate OF Cal
iforDia is especially favorable for the manu-.
facture of vioins. 1t has an effect on reso-
nant woods that enhances the value Of the
instruments into which it enters A leading
violin maker is so convinced Of the truth OF
this theory that he has permanently located
in San Francisco.
The utter disappearance OF the paper
money issued by Gordon in the Soudan is
explained on the theory that the bonds fell
into the Mahd's hands, and the NJ tdhi's men
not being educated in the greenback theory
-innocently imagined that they could do the
English no worse turn than by the dsstruc-
tion o: their paper promises.
Joseph Pultzer, editor of the New York
World, has sent to the governors of the New
York hospital a check for $5OO0 the amount
of his first years salary as representative in
Congress from the 9th district This gift is
to be used in endOwing a permanent bed in
the hospital for the benefit Of sick and dis
abled newspaper workers of every kind.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mr.,
James Russell Lowell intend to spend the
spring and summer in England, and we're to
make the passage in the Oregon on her hrst
trip from Boston. As it is, they will proba-
bly, sail on the Catalonia early in April. DIR.
Holmes has been abroad but once, and that
was 81 years ago, when the study Of medicine
seemed more vital 10 his interests than the
pursuit of literature.
"A vivid notion OF the march of the sci
enee of war since the rebellion may be gain
ed by the statement recently made that i've
regiments properly entrenohed aud armed
with Calling guns and other atrocities of
fire arms would now be able to keep back
the whole Union army as weaponed in 1864.
In the navy, as is more generally known, the
scientific advance in attack aud defence has
been more remarkable still.
Denver Colo, prides itself on it's police,
anu kulh IN buo AhhNnuoo BNoh VI hhph NAAA-
cheney At twenty minutes of ten the other
evening a man began beating his wife, more
than a mile from the police station. At six
teen minutes of ten the sergeant in the station
| heard of il at ten minutes of ten the man
and his wife were bundled into the police
wagon, and at five minutes past ten he was
behind the bars of a cell.
The lobster business of Prince Edward
Island is a pretty extensive industry. Last
season more than u, 900 cases, or about 81
million cans OF Holsters we're put up. Tue
Holsters averaged about g to the can, so that
| the whole catch will amount to over % 750,
OOO6sh. Nova Scotia put up about 1000, 900
cans last season. 1t is estimated that II, 900
people are engaged in the fishing aud pack
| ing of lobsters on Prince Edward Island.
The reports of the Roman Catholic Pro
| pagand state that up to the first of Novem-
Der, 1885, there had been murdered in the
vicariste of East Cochin, China, to which
there belong nine French missionaries, sixty
cateohetes 270 native nuns aud -, 600 Chris
tians POO parishes are entirely destroyed,
and 225 churches have been burned. as also
| II orphans homes, ten nunneTies. two agTi-
cultural colonies, and two seminariss. in
Northern Cochin China 1000 Christians vera
killed-among them nine native priests and
sixty parishes were destroyed.
Explorers are now busily employed in