Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-09-07
IN GENE ERAL.

Uncle Remus' Harris has two hand
some boys who 20 by the names of "Brer
Fox and "Brer Rabbit" among their play
mates.
1t is proposed to supply Paris with water
from Lake NeuiChatel. 3l9 miles away.
OF this distance - miles would be tunnel
The estimated cost is nearly 500, 900, 600
The lawyers in Halifax are puzzlimg over
a word in will and are unable to tell wheth-
cr it is two or ten The SS, 900 difference
will probably get into the legal pockets just
the same.
The richest mine in Australia and perhaps
in the world is the Mt. Morgan, in Queens
land 1t is variously estimated as worth
from tl2, 600, ,OOOto goo OOOOOO An offer
of tl9, 600, 600 for it was refused.
An enlightened newspaper of Florence,
Italy, informs its constituents that during
President Bane's European visit Congress
man Cleveland has been in charge of the
White House "
A schooner was caught in the great cy-
clone that swept through the Gulf Of Mex
leo on the 2lst inst. and was driven mile
inland, where it now lies in "A marsh. One
of the crew was drowned.
During a fortnight recently the farmers
within "A radius of three miles of Perham,
Mimi, caught and killed 5000 bushels of
grasshoppers, for which the county paid
a bounty of 81 per bushel,
A Kansas ranchman predicts that the
cheap beef and mutton of the future will
come from the immense grassy plains of
Brazil and the Argentine Republic
General Sherman is now the last survivor
of the great generals of the Union. Grant,
Sheridan, Thomas Hancock, Meade, Me
Clellan, Burnside Hooker, Custer-nen
whose name and fame were household words
twenty-five years ago-have all gone over
to the great majority,
\ Guilford, Ct, man put up jO0, 600 cans
| of tomatoes last year, and intends to in
crease the number by several hundred thou
sand this year. large quantity of the
tomatoes are grown by himself, and the
rest of his supply is grown by the farmers
in and about GuIlford
The Great Eastern will, in few days,
he no more She has been beached at
| Tranmere, Eng, and will he broken up
and sold piece-meal. This leviathan of the
deep is now 20 years old, and its launching
alone, which took several months, cost
| $500, 900.
Benjamin Herr, a wealthy farmer of
! Strasburg township, Lancaster county, Pa,
and member of the oldest family in that
] county, has tdllltt llllp tllttl u lbllE tuti
| ished plan of his. lie distributed, all told,
600 acres of valuable farm lands among his
immediate relatives and still has several
farms left The monetary values Of these
! properties is placed at $780, 600
Miss Martha A. Mcconnell was elected
| deacon in the McKeesport, Penn, Reform
ed Presbyterian church, but the preshytery
| refused to Ordain her, as there was no prec-
edent for such action, and referred the
matter to the synod. The synod turned
the question over to the committee on dis
ciplne, which has just reported in favor Of
urdaining women as deacons.
Emperor William H. has directed that
| 80, 100, 900 marks more of gold coin be
struck with the portrait Of his father, 20,
900, 900 marks in double crowns and TO-
OOO, 900 marks in single crowns. There is
already premium of three marks on the
2O-mark pieces.
Great Britain, after hardly 20 days of
decent weather, has suffered terribly from
gales of wind, fearful downpour of rain
! and the widest sort of hurricane devasta-
ton of whatever the cold aud wet summer
had allowed 10 appear in the fields of the
English farmer Wheat and breadstulTs of
all Kinds have advanced in price on ac-
count of the gloomy outlook.
All hIntlNtl was Hthlh 10 Itlllhik NltlN
that the women who write ON etiquette and
dlate upon the ethics of society in general
are pretty sure to be of country birth and
early training. They have of course, "A
natural craving for the things they set
set themselves 10 50 profoundly study, and
may even have n genius for exceling in
them, but they have scarcely ever grown
into them in that nsensiblc way that one
does who is to the manner born, aud who
accepts them as a matter Of course.
\ dysentery epidemic in Iowa aud I.afay-
ette counties, Wisconsin, is spreading the
physicians being totally unable to cope with
It, The disease is malignant dysentery
followed 10y cerebral troubles producing
death According 10 recent reports, -
fresh cases were reported at Darlington up
10 Sunday evening, and many of the sick
were not expected 30 live. The cause of
the epidemic battles the physicians skill