Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-01-09

IN GENERAL.

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per ton
There is a tract Of forest trees in South
ern Oregon embracing about lG 600 square
miles, which If cut and sold at $40 per 1860
feet would pay our national debt twice
over. 1t is estimated that the amo mt Of
merchantable timber standing amounts to
four hundred billion feet
A floating church, the marine counterpait
Of Bishop Walkers church on wheels. built
by the Pullmans for his use on the railroad
lines Of the Northwest, has Just been launch
ed at st. Louis The vessel was built bv
the Free viii Baptists, aud is intended to
AIRY the gospel from st Paul TO New Or.
leans along the Mississippi
In Chicago the Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance Union has foundlings' home that
owns Sl2j, 900 worth Of property dav nur-
series and kindergartens that have cared
for lj,02O children during the past year an
Anchorage Mission for homeless women
that sheltered 1000 girls last year. a Beth
esda Inn, Il cheap lodging house for men
that accommodated ", $40 men last year.
free medical dispensaries, etc.
The Yellowstone Journal SAYS that if the
white men who sell whisky to the Indians
were in the penitentiary few uprisings and
little lawlessness would be reported among
the red men, and the Helena Mont Jour
nal remarks "ln Montana there has never
been an Indian outbreak which could not be
traced directly to liquor among the Indians,
and strange as it may be. not three Of the
whisky sellers have been punished in the
past ten years
News comes from the city Of Mexico
that bull fighting has been prohibited there
The main plaza de tDrOS has disappeared
and the lesser arenas have been cut up into
building lots. II was the Moors who intro
duced this ancient sport into Spain, and it
was the Spaniards who introduced it into
Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest
Its suppression in the city of Mexico is ev-
dence of the growth Of refinement in the
Mexican republic.
Russell b. Harrison, the Presidents son,
has become president Of the Arausas har-
Dor company of Texas, and is engaged in
booming that new town. There is thirty
feet Of water at Arkansas harbor, cut off
from the ocean by a bar which the com
pany has been permitted by act Of Con
gress TO dredge away at its own expense.
The place was a wilderness, but i, being
made railroad terminus, with docks, hu-
tells, stores and various business enterprises
after the most approved style of town
booming in the Southwest
At that famous ball at Brussels on the
evening of the battle of Waterloo were
James Lord Hay and young daughter of
Sir Thomas Hislop. The Young man went
forth to die at Quatre Bras The girl died
only the other day as Mrs Van Baerle. the
widow of an English officer aged ~ years
Her grave is near that Of the youth who
died - years before 1t is thought that
Lady de Kos, another nonogenarian, Is now
the sole feminine survivor ot that historic
dancing party
smokeless powder is being manufact
ured at the United States torpedo station
at Newport, r. l., several chemists having
been engaged in the work for some weeks
The formula is a new one, by Prof c. h.
Monroe, the government chemist at the
station. number Of experiments al
ready made show that it is not only smoke
less but also of higher explosive power
than the ordinary powder, ten grains he.
ing sufficient to drive bullet into a pine
board TO a depth of 20 inches. while 20
grains of service powder can make it pene-
trate but II inches.
A singular discovery has been made
about many of the mortgaged farms of Kan
sas MANY of these were never brought
under cultivation. hut taken I'M by specu-
lators who, after perfecting title mortgaged
them for considerably more than every
thing was worth. The hardship in the
foreclosure of such property falls most
heavily on the unsuspecting but credulous
eastern capitalist, who has sent his money
out West to be divided between the parties
to this bunco scheme, whereby, as always
has been and always will be, the fool and
his money are quickly parted.
The supreme court of Michigan has de
cided that a negro who goes into a restaur.
ant cannot be seated in a particular place
merely because he is black. even if that
place is lust as good as any other in the
room. The opinion declares that in that stat,
mo line can be drawn in the streets. pub
/ lie parks or public buildings. ON one side Of
which the black man must stop and STAY.
while the white man NAV enioy the Other
| side or both sides at his will and his pleas
ure nor can such line OF separation be-
drawn IN any oi the public places. III"
case Is interesting emery because the low
er court gave contrary decision holding
that restaurant Keeper might reserve Ger
tam tables Tor women and others Tor men,
and might IN the same way divide whites
ana Olacks' always providing that similar
accommodations and service were given To
both
A western railroad engineer says that
when the Kansas Pacific railroad WIS
| opened the Indians were very hostile to it
and endeavored to wreck the trains. On
one occasion, as a train approached large
patch of suntlowers which grew on both
sides of the track, over 100 Indians rose up,
stretched a strong rope across the track,
braced themselves and prepared to receive
the shock of the locomotive. As was after
ward learned, they had taken rawhidc
strips, braided them together, and, with "a
lorce oi ~ at each END OF the rope, thought
ehey "ouIu De aoIe 10 stop the traln' Inc
instant the locomotive struck the rope the
AR was tull OF Indians. They were thrown
IN all directions some were lerked clear
across the tram, and more than dozen
were killed OF seriously injured. Ihis was
the last attempt made Tor years to stop the
Trains
Rev. DR.. Cyrus Hamin. President of
Middlebury college, and a native Of Water
ford Me. said in a recent address that his
life depended upon the making of screw
When at Bowdoin college in 1899 he made
brass screw for Prof Smiths theodolite.
and that led 10 his making a steam engine.
the first one built in Maine He had never
seen one in all his life. but he asked Ill,
Professor if he thought he could sell an Ell.
gne, if he could make one, for AS much a,
he could earn by teaching in the vacation
! The prOfessor Thought he poull he ha 4
made the screw so perfectly. So he went
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