Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-10-18
IN GENERAL.

a Cape Cod fisherman has sailed away to
the Cape of Good Hope after mackerel,
About half a million pounds of tobacco
have been destroyed by frost in Kentucky.
The Car of Russia reached Berlin last
Friday on a visit to Emperor William of
Germany.
The aggregate vote cast in the French
elections was, Republican, 4,Ol2, ,353 con
servative, J, 2,340 GS6 Boulangist ,O31 ,GG6
Axtell, the wonderful three years old
stallion, beat all records at Terre Haute,
Ind, last Friday, trotting a mile in 2:l2
and was sold to a syndicate for SOS, 600.
A national base ball league has been
formed in London for the promotion of
base ball in Great Britain. Many promi-
nent gentlemen are members and officers.
The California vintage is partial failure
this season. Much of the wine will be con
verted into brandy and the balance is est-
mated at 10, 900, 900 gallons The produc-
tion of raisins is estimated at over / 2j0, 600
boxes.
The visitors to the Paris exposition on
Sept. 30 numbered 3O1 900, the highest
record of the season The total of admis-
sions to the great show up to the end of
September was 10000 900.
The largest gun yet has just been made
at the krupp works in Germany for the
Russian government. The caliber is 49,
inches and the barrel measures 40 feet. 1t
will fire two shots a minute aud send pro
jectile weighing 1900 pounds / miles.
The railroad Gazette states that Bill
miles of new railroad were built in the
United States during the year 1883, up to
October Including Canada and Mexico,
the total is $3.50 miles. There are now un
der construction $500 miles, one fourth Of
which probably will be completed this year.
Mr.. Miller, the Canadian government
agent in the Northwest territory, says the
people are preparing for hard winter.
IAN along the banks of the Assinaboine
river the muskrat houses are higher this
year than | have seen them for ten years,
and nearly twice as high and big as they
were last year. The sign never fails
The state board of health of Pennsylva
MIA has issued a proclamation declaring
diphtheria to be epidemic in the city Of
Carbondale, and the mayor has issued an
order upon the citizens to at once place
their properties in a sanitary condition
Some of the undertakers have refused 10
further endanger the lives of their families
by handling the bodies of the dead
w like 0Olllnh ltll "a lbIlNut hl ulNhlil
of 500, 900, including the estimated value
of his small but very choice collection Of
pictures and old furniture aud IA splendid
/ library, all of which will probably be sold
| in the course of the next few months.
| Edmund Yates, the novest's intimate
! friend, says he was accustomed to taking
more laudanum than would have suhiced
to kin a ships crew or a company of sol
diers.
The dynamite cruiser Nesuvius is loom
| ing up as a craft destined 10 revolutiunle
modern naval warfare. In the final official
trial 5000 pounds of dynamite were thrown
/ the distance of mile in seventeen min
utes This was a satisfactory test for range
and rapidity of firing Additional trials
will be required before the efficiency of the
cruiser can he demonstrated as vessel of
war and the construction of fleet of SIM
lar craft authorized
The giant diamond lately discovered in
Cape Colony and now at the Paris exposi-
ton, weighs lS0 carats aud is worth 81 900,
600. IL is kept in IA case by itself, and
guardians stand round it all day. At night
it is placed in big safe, which is similarly
guarded all night II Is said to be of the
first water aud as pure AS the famous Re
gent in the French crown diamonds 1t is
for sale, aud it is confidently expected that
some American in homespun clothes aud IA
slouch hat will come along some day aud
buy it for pocket piece.