Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-08-23
IN GENERAL.

On the last Sunday in July there were
25O, 900 visitors to the Paris exposition.
The Hartford friends of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe say she is greatly improved
in health, and more vigorous than she has
been for years.
Two Venetian engineers are the project
ors of ship canal across Italy from Venice
to SpezZia, TO connect the Adriatic Sea and
the Gulf of Genoa.
Max Strakosch, the well ll-known impress
sario, who has been paralytic at his home
in New York for two years past, suffered
another shock recently and the doctors
have no hope of his recovery.
A farmer near Cory, Pa, who had many
sheep killed by dogs, built around the bodies
an enclosure of rails twelve feet high, the
rails being sloped SO that dogs could easily
climb in and exit was impossible. In three
nights he captured 46 dogs.
The Duke of Sparta and Princess Sophia
of Prussia, who are to be married soon are
industriously studying each others native
language. The duke has got on so well
that he recently wrote the German emperor
a letter in German, and the princess can
now talk Greek little.
The pope's i'll health is causing uneasiness
in Europe He has been suffering with a
complication of disorders for some time
past, and the announcement from Rome
that, owing to his continued i'll health, all
receptions at the Vatican have been discon-
tinued, excites the gravest fears.
Oklahoma City now has population of
5000. Fourteen hundred frame houses
have been built since the rush, and four
brick yards are now in full blast. The
Cherokees are still firm about their tract
Chief Mayes is ahead, and has put off all
| consideration of the cession until after 1891.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves only son,
Rev. G. f, Stowe of Hartford, is taking a
bicycle trip through Maine. Mr. Stowe is
great believer in this kind of exercise,
and enjoys it as much at home as he does
while trundling over Maine roads The life
of Mrs Stowe, prepared by her son and
Kirk Munroe, is now in the press of Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co.
The scaffold on which John Brown was
hanged on December ,, 1859, has Just been
taken from Charleston, West Virginia, to
Washington. After the execution the coun-
ty authorities Of Virginia sold the lumber
of the scaifold 10 a carpenter, who made a
house porch with it. The porch has now
been taken down and the wood has been
| placed in its original shape of a scaffod.
1t is proposed by the Chickamauga memo
rial association that the ground on which
the celebrated battle of Chickamauga was
fought be bought by the association and
converted for all time into a National park.
This project will be pushed at the annual
reunion of the Army of the Cumberland,
when it is held at Chattanooga on Sept 10.
Efforts are being made to secure the at
tendance at this reunion of the Confeder.
ate army who fought in the battle of Chick.
amauga.
A syndicate of capitalists, including "A
dozen or more millionaire residents of Bis
marck, Grand Forks and jamestown, Oak
has been organized TO develop a new canal
scheme that will reclaim upward of 900,
600 acres of arid and now useless land in
North Dakota. 1t is proposed to construct
canal from the Missouri river at Bismarck
/ 1868 feet above the level of the sea, 10 axe
Traverse and Big Stone lake, 800 feet above
the sea level
The Robert Morris Land company of New
York has filed its formal bill Of complaint
IN It's great land ejectment suit against the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad company
The nearly 5000 acres of coal lands which
the suit involves and the contingent dam
ages demanded for unlawful possession,
bring the total amount at issue up tO the
fabulous sum Of SEQ, 600, 900, the largest
amount ever at stake in suit in this coun-
try,