Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-09
IN GEN ERAL.

south, amounting TO the enormous tOJal OF
1865, 900 bales, nearly double the highest
yield known before the war.
After looking over the statue of Jeffer-
son Davis, which was to form feature of
the Confederate monument at jackson,
Miss, the committee in charge have re-
solved not to accept, as it is not good
likeness.
The largest dog in the world has just
been imported from England for the Men
thon kennels of Phunixville, Pa. The an
imal, which is st. Bernard, and which is
called Lord Butte, stands 36 inches high |
and weighs PAT pounds.
A farmer at Halls Stream, n. H., hav-
ing discovered bear and two cubs on the |
Canadian side of the line, where there is
no bounty, drove them over to the New |
Hampshire side and killed them, winning |
$50 from the state by his thrift.
George f. Root, who wrote "The Battle
Cry of Freedom" TRAMP, Tramp,
Tramp! and "The Vacant Chair" is liv-
| ing at an advanced age in Chicago. What
ever other reward life may have brought
him, he has the pleasant consciousness
that his melodies have taken deep root in
the peoples affections.
Captain Mary Miller, the woman who
managed a steamboat on the Mississippi
for seven years and then secured govern
ment license as pilot, has applied for the
place of ighthouse-keeper on the Gulf
coast. She is an intelligent and rather pre-
possessing woman. Her husband is still an
active navigator, and is running a steam
boat in the Gulf
The largest oil well struck in this coun-
try has been opened in the McCurdy field,
Is miles west of Pttsburg, Pa. The well
a.. E Il.
hour and is now estimated to be doing TO-
600 barrels day. An exact measurement
cannot be taken as more than half the
product is going to waste on account Of
the insufficient tankage.
What the Detroit Free Press thinks must
be the shortest speech on record-and that,
too, made by woman-is heard of in In
diana A woman walked 20 miles to hear
a sermon, and the pastor was so pleased at
this appreciation that he called upon her
to tell the congregation how she came
there. Rising slowly, she looked them
over with great solemnity and said: 81
hoOfed it, Then she sat down again.
The Presidents salary is paid to him in
monthly installments of 81, 1867. The
warrant is brought to the White House by
a special messenger from the treasury de-
partment, and after the President has in
, dOrsed it, as he would an ordinary draft,
his private secretary deposits it at the Col
umba bank. When the President is out
/ of town the draft is mailed to him. The
) same method is pursued in paying the jus
tees of the supreme court.
The house which Benedict Arnold occu-
, pied when young man in New Haven,
2 Conn, is still standing. He compounded
t drugs at the time, and the sign which
l. nj
Y the New Haven Historical society 1t
1 bears, beside the usual announcement, the
= words "from London which show that
the apOthecary was not averse to practicing
A the tricks of his business.
n The bureau of American republics is in
i formed that near Bucaramanga, in the
= United States of Colombia, there has re-
i Gently been discovered mineral substance
a not unlike asbestos, which a distinguished
9 geologist has given the name of bucara-
a manquina. Ii is the color of amber, is
e perfectly transparent and incombustible.
Experiments now being made in Bogota
It with this material indicate that it will be
If invaluable for the manufacture of bank
= note paper and other uses.
If The corn yield is placed by the Cincin
L natl Price-Current at l,990,OGO,OOO bush
a els, or 0O,0O0,00O bushels above the yielC
lie of 1890 and 123, 600, 600 bushels below tn,
ID officially-repOrted yield of 1889 For tn,
lie past 10 years the corn crop has average,
,e $50 O00, 900 bushels annually, and yearl,
exports have averaged $4,000, 600 bushels
r. Ii is estimated that about ,S25, 000, 00t
IS bushels will be needed for the usual hOm
4 requirements. This would leave 165 900,
10 600 for export and enlarging reserves
Sc which last, however, are unusually low.
l. The Queen of Italy is a remarkable pc
e. destran and mountain climber She re
to Gently passed the night in tent on tn
er Hochicht and at dawn set out for the Ly
er Glacier. The cold was intense and a blind
G. ing snow storm compelled some of her at
III tendants to turn back, but she persevered
81 and at five in the afternoon took dinner i
a hut on the mountain at an elevation G
IL II 900 feet. The Queen passed a secon
er night on the mountain and returned t
of Gressoney not a bit the worse for her at
as venture.
N. Willard Fillmore's sister, Mrs. Julia
re, Harris, who died lately in San Francisco
as thus addresses her son in her will: II sha
ar be no less your mother on the spirit side {
he life than now. My love will bring me nea
)r- YOU to suggest, impress and encourage 70
in the fultilment of every honest obligatio
and duty, and rely on you to reward II
OF fOndeSt expectations ny a ldlIuluI ulScHdl :
Or of all the trusts have put in your hands.
I'd. Mrs. Harris lived with her brother in Il
tie, White House at one time.
a A company is being formed in Ohio
IN pipe Lake Erie water through central al
tly southwestern Ohio to Cincinnati, tai
OF ing in the most important cities and tow
err along the route. The counties throus
lr which the great pipe line is to pass a
M Sandusky, Erie, Seneca, Wyandott, Mario
led Delaware and Franklin, and from the
ON through the southwest to Hamilton coun
me and Cincinnati. The company is col
ace posed of prominent capitalists. The pu
ere pose of the company is to supply the l
BOD land cities and towns with pure lake wat'
the The point from which it is to be piped
Sandusky.
A correspondent of the New York Rt
ter, order. writing of the affairs of Guatema
on saws that one of the most outrageous re
the berries ever perpetrated by any goyernme
cen was the recently enforced circulation
rice a. OOO, 900 in paper in that country. The
lsh- hills were printed in New York, taken
on, the country and forced upon the Peep
pit mere fiat money, with nothing but the
cree of the government behind them, a
. any one that refused to receive them We
to prison. The attempt to force this cir
lation created a tremendous uproar, aim
: revolution, and the government
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