Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-10-19

IN GENERAL.

large bed of fine potter'- clay has been
discovered at Parsons Kansas 10 is said
To- be the only deposit known west of the
Allegheny Mountains
An angry Briigewater father who tried
10 overtake an clipping daughter. cousoled
himself with the remark. she only follow
ed her mothers example when she married
me
/ Most people regard an elevator as more
deadly than flight Of stairs yet during
/ the year eighteen Boston people died from
falling down stairs. while but ten were kill
ed from elevator accidents
/ Mr. Moody the evangelist has decided to
/ spend his entire winter on the Pacific coast.
and will begin series Of meetings in san
/ Francisco on January ! He has gone to
/ Portland. Ore. first
/ A house built of stone in Rowan county.
Va, erected la ! ,GG, is an good preservation
and is still owned and teuanted bv descend
ants Jf the builder. The fire place is feet
wide. feet high and feet deep.
According 70 DR. Erasmus Wilson. the
great authority on the hair, any one who is
threatened with badness. If il has not made
much headway can check the tendency bv
rubbing a little mixed vaseline and sulphur
at night and soak it with quinine every
morning.
At the Sovereign Grand Lodge which re-
Gently closed an annual session at Los An.
geles, Cal. the grand sire reported 1881
lodges in the grand jurisdiction, and jjj.-
122 Members gain for the year of 223
lodges and %. AZ members, one of the larg-
est yearly gains ever made.
Men who are in the campaign outtitting
trade. uniforms, torches. etc. estimate that
-, $4,000 will be expended during the
present campaign for campaign outfits Of
this amount, New York state is credited
with 81 900, 900 and Massachusetts. with
$3.50, 900, Boston being put down for 5000
600, and the rest Of the state for jODOO
DR.. Alfred Williams. colored. pastor Of
Antioch colored church in Edgewood. NC.
formed cooperative store among his pa
rishioners and acted as storekeeper Dis
sensions arose and the store was put in the
hands Of receivers. One dav last week
the preacher was found in the woods with
100 buckshot wounds IN his body. inflicted
by members Of his congregation
Joe Patrick OF Delevan Wis. married
his mother in law. Mrs Casperwich. the
other day and brought about a very com
pleX state Of things. He thus becomes
stepfather TO his former wife He was
formerly the son Of his present wife being
the son, he becomes the brother of the old
lady's daughter his former Wife, and also
a father-in-law to himself
China mail received at san Francisco by
the steamer City Of Pekin from Hong
Kong and Yokohama, SAYS a disastrous
Hood has taken place near Fang Shan Haien
in the vicinity of Pekin On the night Of
August l3 = inches of rain fell in Pekin
and immense volumes of water collected i'm
the ravines about Lien THO. and suddenly
broke in upon 20 villages More than
10000 people We're drowned.
The annual report of the commissioner
Of pensions shows some interesting facts
concerning Vermont in the war The to-
tai number of men furnished by this state
was 33. 9SS and of these 3 $50 were volun-
teers The proportion Of white soldiers to
the white population in 1850 was one I to
and that of colored troops TO the colored
population 1 10 8. There were 1861 sub
stltutes sent to the front. The vote for
President in 1860 was T. SO. so that a very
large percentage Of the voting population
must have gone to the front. July l. 1855.
these were 6519 pensioners in Vermont.
The cables have given meagre account
Of the appalling calamity which overlook
Motomiya, Japan. in the eruptlons Of Mt.
Bandai last July In a Tribune letter from
Toxic a graphic story is told. Almost
without warning hamlets were submerged
under the sutfocating volcanic discharge
for miles around the mountain until a mud
stream from thirty to one hundred feet in
depth had been deposited over 20, 900 acres
Of territory. demolishing 200 houses. de
stroying 500 human lives and involving
untold suffering to thousands more. This
is one of the worst of modern volcanic
eruptions.
Mrs John A. Logan is having her Wash
ington house extensively remodelled
gallery is being built in which she will place
her collection of articles connected with the
public life Of her husband. The upper part
Of the wall will be covered with paintings
representing the military events in which
he participated There will be cases for
relics and the whole place will be a mem.
orial to the general 1t is Mrs. Logans in
tention to have her husband remains re-
moved to the memorial chapel being built for
him in the Soldiers Home cemetry.
All the schools of California are now
supplied with textbooks published by the
state. Eight books have been thus far is
sued, and in a few years no books publish
ed by private concerns will be in use The
best talent among the local educators is
employed in writing these books. and no
array Of middlemen is allowed TO increase
the retail prices. The state grammar is
sold for 30 cents, a reduction of % cents
on the grammars formerly in use The
price Of the general history is 50 cents in
stead of ST. p under the old system The
other books are proportionally reduced A
small per cent Of the money received for
these books is invested in a sinking fund.
and it is estimated that in II years the pub
lication department will have paid for its
plant and will then be self-supporting.
From Brownsburg, Ind, comes the story
true Of coursel, that a young lady sent a
note to a discarded lover requesting the re-
turn Of lock Of hair which, in the while
some hours Of courtship. he had, lover like,
clipped from her dainty tresses. His reply
was brief al d TO the point. Rummaging his
trunk he collected a number Of tresses, cul-
led from various best girls during his
love making career, and forwarded them in
a bundle TO the girl, iuclosing a note to the
effect that he had really forgotten which
was hers but she might select it from those
forwarded and return the rest at her con
yeuience They don't speak now they
pass by.
Herr w, Meissel, second officer of the
North German Lloyd steamer 'Werra has
devised a means Of calming the sea by the
use Of oil. from on board a vessel over a
greater distance than has hitherto been pos
sIble. He employs rockets filled with OIL
which are shot off in such way that the
oil itself is made to fall ike rain on the trou-
bed waters, and smooth path for the yes
sci. The rocket consists of an oil-cylinder
Of tin, together, with a chamber filled with
tn .,f
ments with the invention have been very
satisfactory, demonstrating the PRACTICABLE
ity Of calming surface of fifteen hundred
to two thousand square feet in extent. The
inventor intends to extend his idea and pre-
| pare oil-hombs ON the same principle.
The working of the ore in the Martin
/ White river at Word, Nevada, develops a
singular phenomenon, according to the
/ Virginia Enterprise. The ore is very base,
and il is necessary TO roast the whole of it,
During the roasting process no deleterious
or dlsagreeabe fumes are observable, yet
the hair and boards Of all the men engaged
about the works are soon dyed a bright and
permanent green. Even the eyebrows of
the workmen are as green as grass The
smelters say this change is not caused by
arsenic, but Is due 10 some mysterious ele-
ment IN the metal The hair is not injured,
but retains its original softness and strength.
over a bushel of partly y-destroyed letters
addressed 10 business firms Of Buffalo n.
. Y, was found ON the street one morning
last week. They had been ritled of all
their contents that could be turned into
money. One New York draft of $3.50 was
found in the middle Of the street torn in
two. Many Of the letters We're scorched
showing that the thief tried 10 burn them,
hut was frustrated by the rainstorm The
perpetrator Of the thefts was arrested. He
proved TO he a night clerk in the post-otiice
named John Shields He was appointed
ON Sept. / under the civil service law.
The people Of the Azores and Madeira
islands report that their shores are lined
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