Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-12-18
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE,

CoHREsrONDENCE-No portion Of a country news
paper is valuable for immediate utility or future
reference the department of local intelligence
Foreign and con ress!Onn news and other matters Of
cry general interest, publ shed earlier and fuller
IL city dailics han they be in the country news
ppors and j, to such sources that every well in
formed man will look Ton their details But there arc
matters of home intcre,, Of greater less importance
to neatly all the inhabitants Of IL county. which must
Of necessity be sought for in the local press little
assistance from one well informed individuals
i every t1~l will do vast deal to make this depart
mcnt Of II Newspaper interesting and profitable. To
this end ynn invite every man in the county, ,yla
knows Of anmpoiiani fact or incident, to commune
cate the same for publication The usual objection
that the ind'idual in possession Of this knowledge
does not feel osmpeen, to write for newspaper need
not be entertained for single moment Give II, the
facts aud We will endcayor to present them in a rcad.
able shape, md will thank You for your trouble \
LITTLE effort in this line would materially enhance the
value Of the paper 20 every subscriber.
Ia relation to contributions Of original poetry we
will not repeat what hyc heretofore ,aid but will
re-; the case Will the following quotation from the
"Au'ocrat Of the Breakfast Table," who ha, been
similarly afflicted.
~ I, @i Is. n chcnpiy -got-up youth, with narrow
jaws, and broad, long, cold red hands having leem
laughed nt by the girls IN lis village, and got the
milten' pronounced nitiu) two or three time, fil..
10 Souling and controlling and youthng and truihnr
IA the newspapers Sends me some strings of verses,
candidates for the Oriiiopclic ufunary, all NJ them
N cl learn for the millionih inc one Of the fol
lowing tucts: either that something about chime j.
sublime or that something about chime Is consider
al with time, that something about n RHYMES "
sublime or concerned with time or with n chime
Wishes my opinion of the same with advice Il, 10 his
future course.
what shall do about Il? Tell lin the whole
truth and send him ticket Of admission n the Insti
tuition for Idiots aud Predetermined Youth? One
d.es nj Ike TO be erne and vet one hae. +. lie
I'm NJ s' ,iis NV ttle ugly ''ih ne, 81
that writing we're should lee incidental occupn-
ton only, not interfering with the hoe, the needle the
apsonr or the lcdgcr,-and, above all, there should
he no hurry in printing what's written. Not tie least
u,c IN all this The poc:a,cr who has tasted type j.
done for. lie ], Ike the who las once been a
ctni date for the Presidency lie feed. on the mad
der Of his deln.ion all his days, ami his very bones
grow red with the glow OF hs foolish fancy. Ono Of
these young brains is like a bunch Of Indian crackers
once touch fire TO it and It j. best 10 keep hand, on
until It has done poppiug,-if it ever stops have
TWO letters on file; one !, pattern Of nlultion the
other OF imperiinonce. My reply 10 the first contain
ing the best advice could give, conveyed in courteous
language had brought ont tie second. There was
some sport in this, but DulUess is not commonly a
game fish. and only ulks after he /, struck You may
Sc; down n truth which admit, of irw exceptions
that those who ask your opinion really want YOUR
prdisc, and will be conicuted with nothing less"