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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10
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Noveet. by Miss Hosmer, &C.
The post also gives the gems of the English
magazines.
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10

Boston has a wandering street mcrchat,
who sells Holsters and war maps.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10

Maltese cats, in Indiana. are trained to
fight black snakes and like it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10

1t is reported that the fall fashions iol
ladies' hats will be a funnel arrangement
with the small end behind. The idea, w
understand, is brought from China.
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Fonr good habits--punctuality accuracy,
steadiness and dispatch.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

track. She drove round i'm circle for an
hour or more and at last came to the con-
clusion it was no use, and held council of
war within herself She was very cold, 1t
was dark, the sn6w was falling in great
flakes and blowing hard in her face, and
what to do was the question. She was not
long in reaching conclusion. Wrapping
the child up in two buffalo robes which she
fortunately had, Embarrassed the horse
and turned him loose. She then tipped the
pung up and made temporary shelter be-
meath it, and wrapping the drapery of her
couch about her, she laid down for the
night. She made pillow of her arm for
the little child, and with one robe beneath
them and one above them, and the sheets
Of snow over and under all, they entered
on long, cold and desolate winter night.
The snow drifted against the pung, which
with shrewdness she had so put as to shield
her from the wind, and thus the very tenn
pests drifts only made her shelter warm
or. As may well be supposed her sleep
was not unbroAen with dreams, for il was
a Wild night, but Mrs. moody shower nor
self a heroine with heroino's self-posses-
sion. At o'clock the next morning she
found herself safe and tho babe sleeping as
sweetly on feathers of snow, as on feathers
of geese. a part of her arm had become
exposed beyond where the childs face rest
ed, and had frozen-otherwise she was
warm. About the time she awoke the
horse she had turned loose appeared at the
farm house across the pond, ,.neighing. He
told the story. Aid was at once brought
into requisition. and Mrs Moody and the
child promptly rescued.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

Good English is one thing, and the re-
porter's dialect another 1t is not enough
to tell thing in plain, round Saxon, "easy
to be understood of the people'-any man
can do that the Unabridged" must be
thumbed and sifted for sesquipedalian and
quaint epithets. Bones are no longer put
out of joint; they are "dislocated." Death
is read of in old books; "demise" is the
newspaper word. Men no more go about
their work or business; they pursue their
"avocations." Workmen have given place
to "employes." An angry man threw a
coal scuttle at another's head the other day !;
the local editor talked about its "impul-
sion." If Smith gets Brown to lecture,
then Brown lectures "under the auspices"
of Smith. Men used to be hanged some
times nowadays they are "launched into
eternity" Instead of putting halter about
the culprits neck, they "adjust the fatal
moose about tho neck of the unfortunate
victim of unbridled passions" Houses
are never burned, but "edifces are con-
sumed." A man fell in the street today,
but tomorrow mornings paper will be
likely to have it, that an individual "was
precipitatcd while perambulating the city
pavement" The mayor of the city is the
"chief magistrate (or the highest function
ary) of the metropolis" Should he welcome
any one in short speech, the world will
be Informed that he "tendered the hospi-
talities in well-chosen and eloquent Ian
guage." A Chicago morning paper chron-
icles a slight fire in this way: "Aurora
I Al.
and Milwaukee avenue, ran a risk last
evening of gliding from the present into
the past, through the chemical action of ex-
cessive caloric."
To the above, which we find in the Bur
lington Free Press, we add the following
from Vermont paper of recent date, re-
ferring to Washington's birthday: mot
even so much as an American flag loated
in the - breezes, on the anniversary of
the genesis of our nations progenitor."
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.uOR.sL TuOUGHTFUL.vESS

To learn to put ourselves in the condition
of others by imagining what would be our
expectations and what our ceilings were we
in their place, not only disciplines and
guides to that common justice which the
laws enjoin, and to that unselfsh morality
which the golden rule prescribes, but it is
the secret of that considerate sympathy and
refined courtesy which invest with pecu
liar attractiveness a few superior natures.
1t is by this process that we learn to clothe
the severe form of heroic allegiance to duty,
with the graceful role Of unseltsh, sympa-
thetic and divine charity.
DR.. Thomas Arnold was accustomed 10
make much of what he called "moral
thoughtlulness, as the trait of character
which he desired most of all to perfect in
his pupils, and which he defined as "the
inquiring love Of truth going along with
the divine love of goodness" This "inoral
thoughtfulness" is fostered by self-acquan-
tance, when prosecuted with the honest
purpose of seli-mprovement. This self
knowledge makes man to be just to 9TH
ers, because he is severe to himself; to be
modest, because he compares himself with
others to be candid, because he views their
merits and defects as IL they were his own /;
to be sympathizing, because he feels their
joys and sorrows as experienced by himself;
to be courteous, because he would express
by word and act, by look and tone, his ac-
acknowledgement of their rights and his sym
pathy with their feelings; to be indignant
at wrong, because, in the evil intended for
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

THE GIRLS PLANTING AND WATERINa.
While Boston is still talking, New York
has acted in the matter of a practical school
of horticulture for women. Miss Mardwell,
a lady of practical intelligence and high en-
thusiasm, has set such school in operation
upon the estate of Robert W. Pearsall, on
the line of the Long Island railroad, 80
miles from the city, with German from n
school in Europe for horticultural manager
and with course of study in pomology,
geology, agricultural chemistry, landscape
gardening, bookkeeping and drawing. The
Massachusetts girls, whose fingers ache to
get into the dirt and raise cabbages and po-
sizes, should hurry off to Long Island; per-
haps they can get back in time to do tho
teaching i'm the Boston school.-iSpr Rep.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

was to ascertain the whereabouts of tho
stolen property. The amount must be, all
agreed, very great, to have enabled the con-
spirators to keep up SO good style. This
difficulty was easily solved. One of the
policemen on watch had seen the young
men issue from house few doors distant
from the one occupied by Vaughan and his
sister. On repairing thither startling reve-
lations took place. II was found that Mrs.
Wilson had been the manageress of a baby
institution, and derived large profit there
from. How she obtained the children is
and ever will be mystery. Certain it is
that the police when they searched the
house discovered several infants, and all
the necessary appliances for many more
The nurse in charge tfor the babies were
well tended) implied that a great number
had been sent away at various times, and
the only probable solution Of this strange
matter was that there existed in New York
class of people who were willing and
able to pay heavy premiums to any person
cha ritable enough TO relieve them from the
tro.i.7ls -f rrrrfrg their offspring. In the
lower apartments valuables of all kinds
were Drought 10 ngnt, such as silks, Jewell
ry, gold ornaments, etc, and for many of
them owners were found. The three young
thieves are all undergoing long sentences,
but the implication of Mrs. Wilson (who
was really well born, and the widow of a
colonel) was no easy matter, with such con-
summate tact had she acted her part. She
did not, however, escape scot-iree, as Mr..
johnson, to his own chagrin, learned that
the fair widow had availed herself of his
kind offer few days previously, and had
succeeded in obtaining quantity of goods
on credit, that were lost to him forever.
For obvious reasons we have suppressed
the real names of the chief actors in this
little comedy; but our readers may rest as
sured that in every other respect the tale is
strictly true.-N Y. Evening Post.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

A SUBTERRANEAN POND AT WORCESTER.
The Spy says there is an underground
pond of considerable extent in South Wor-
cester. The latest reminder of it was the
sinking of a piece Of land several rods
square on Wednesday night, near South
bridge street, which was being filed up for
house lots. Earth had been hauled on till
the surface was two or three feet higher
than the surrounding territory, but the
whole is now as many feet under water.
1t was found that by probing the soil,
which is not many feet thick, pole could
be easily thrust down to the depth of thir-
ty feet in many places. 1t is here that sew
eral rods of Southbridge sunk some nine
or ten feet under water a few years ago, af-
ter having been used several years and it
was at an enormous expense that the Nor
wich railroad, which crosses the marsh
few rods to the west, was built at this point.
The most probable theory of this covered
lax (Which is thought to be about eight
acres in eXtent-is, that years ago there eX-
listed body of water there which gradual
ly became covered with leaves, moss and
earth, so that grasses and brushwood took
root and grew thereon, making sort of
soil that ny overloadingis is broken through.
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PoetW.
TIE JOLLr OLD PEDaGOGUE.

Twas jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was bent and his gate was slow,
His long thin hair was white as snow,
But q wonderful twinkle shone in bis eye;
And he sang every night as he went to bed,
''Let us be happy down here below;
The living should live though the dead be dead"
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
lie taught his sch GLARS the rule Of three,
Writing and reading and history too;
He took the little ones upon his knee,
For kind old heart in his breast had he,
And the wants Of the lttlest child be knew.
LEARN when you're young" he often said,
-''Theres much to enjoy down here below;
L ife for the living and rest for the dead"
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
with the stupidest boy he was Kind and cool
Speaking only in the gentlest tones;
The rod was hardly known in his school
whipping, to him, was barbarous rule,
And too hard work for his poor old bones;
Beside, It Was painful, he somttimes said,
1--WE must make life pleasant here below, -'
The living need charity more than the dead"
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He lived in the house by the hawthorn lane,
with the roses and woodbne over the door;
His room was quiet, and neat and plain,
But a spirit Of comfort there held reign,
And made him forget he was old and poor;
81 need go little" he often said,
"And my friends and relatives here below
Won't litigate over me when I'm dead
Said the Jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
Then the jolly old pedAgoguc's wrinkled face
Mplte Il all oyer in sunehiny fmileB.
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NO. 10.
C0rYeSb0naeHce.
Written for the Vermont Phanir.
RE.uI.yTsCE.N'CB or .E.vDRR-
SO.tBILLE.


We were visited to-day by one of the most
terrific thunder storms l ever witnessed.
1t commenced at p. NJ. and continued till
10 at night. Three hours of that time was
one continued peal of thunder accompanied
by most vivid lightning. Two gigantic
pines standing a few rods from the stock
ade were rent in twain by the force of cleo
trcity and laid PROSTATE. This was wit
messed by hundreds of houseless prisoners,
upon whose heads the rain was pouring in
torrents. So powerful was the fall OF wa
ter that some 100 yards of the LOFTY wall of
pine" on the west, and smaller section on
the east side, were undermined and fell.
This aroused the guard-thrco guns fired
in quick succession from the battery near
est Wirtz's heedquutters. ,he signal of
alarm, turned out tue whole rebel force in
double quick time to oppose, perhaps, es-
Gaping prisoners, or, what seemed more
probable, elements enraged at the inhuman
treatment which had been shown The inhab-
itants Of that horrid pen. In less lime than
is required to write these lines, the whole
rebel guard stood with fixed bayonots in
the breaches of the stockade. Cannon were
also brought to bear upon them, pitch fires
were lighted ON the outside Of the ontiro
enclosure, the sentries doubled, thus rend-
ering the escape Of u single prisoner i'm
possible. Previous to this time the prison
had been poorly supplied with water. In
some instances it was purchased by one
prisoner from another with tobacco. The
prisoners had dug a well on the west side
near the (accursed) dead line, from which
small quantity Of water was obtained. Dur
ing the height of this storm, lin which
many of the exposed sick dicd,) this well
was filled to overnowing, much Of tho
ground was washed away, and on the abate-
ment Of the storm a phenomenon strange
as providential appeared,-the scanty well
was a gushing, overlooking, living spring
Of pure water, and so remained during our
/ captiVitv
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THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF FA-
THEIR HYACINTHE.-Father Hyacinthe is
in every sense, and to the fullest meaning
of the word an orator. He is not a great
hinker-sometimes hardly logical even in
the sequence of his thought, and far from
re remarkable for any power of generaiza-
ton. Much of his power lies in that subtle,
curio us influence men call animal magnet
ism. In the graces of elocution he is an
adept. and more at home with them than
with the flowers ofrhetoric. The construc-
ton of his thought, if the phrase may be
allowed, is graceful, but with shade more
of fancy about it than is usually found in
men of his depth and power. For while
he is not great thinker, he is more than
a man of fine and fervid Imagination skill
ed in the tricks of voice and manner that
make oratory powerful with the masses.
There is something for every man to learn
from the lips of the great priest. Every
now and then sentence, clear cut as crys-
tai, and holding in its crypt the thought
that it illumnates without obscuring,
flashes across the thread of his sppech,
never disturbing the hearer, because new
er out of place ITSELF yet serving to light
up and mark for his future study some
transitional point in the argument, whore
other men would have lef. a gap. Every
now and then thought came like an in
spiration to close the gaping inconsistent
cies between two seemingly discordant
doctrines which the utmost ingenuity of
ordinary thinkers could not so much as
temporarily bridge. To his eloquence and
oratory Father Hyacintho adds II delicate
and poetic conception of life, acute and ac-
tive perceptions, and a power of realism,
of throwing himself into close, earnest
sy ympathy with other thoughts and systems
than his own, which are both rare and Won
derful.-From q revieV Of Father Hyd-
cinthe'S DiScourSeS, IN tie February num-
Der Of LippincOttS Md1dzine
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25
VOU WILL FIND AT
4 HOLDINGS,

American aud National watches Of all grades, swss
Watches, Clocks Fine Gold, Plated, Shell and Horn
Jewelry, Masonic, odd Fellows, and G. A. r. Pins,
Rings Seals and Charms-Gold and Seal Rings in
and Plated Ware spectacles and Eye Glasses, vasOs
Combs and Brushes Of all kinds Wax, Basket Seed and
String Beads, scoteh-wood Goods Nursery, Toilet,
Block, Hair and common Pins,-Knitting, Netting
Crochet, Sewing and Sewing Machine Needles Per-
fumories, Tea and Call Bells, Hand Mirrors, Dog Col
lars, kc., &c.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

APPEARING IN PRINT.-At the Woman
Suffrage Convention in Washington, Mrs.
II. b. Stanton said, with great force, that
many Of the ladies who profess such hor-
ror at seeing their names in the papers go
necessarily to balls and public places, and
are sadly disappointed if they do not see
their names in the newspapers the next
day, "as wearing the most distinguished
costumes and waltzing with some import
ed count" Is it, then, more discroditable
to be reported as having said or done a wise
thing than as having worn n crimson vel
vet with diamonds 2-Harper'S Weekly
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25
VALUABLE TRrrs.-A pitch pine tree is

VALUABLE TREEs.-A pitch pine tree is
likely to be valuable property in North
Carolina, under a new mode of treatment.
Pine wood is charred in a retort, and the
production from cord of wood is said to
be ten gallons of turpentine, worth 81;
eighty gallons of oil, $751; fifteen gallons of
black varnish, s7.2O; one hundred gallons
of wood acid, So and forty-two bushels of
charcoal, besides considerable inflammable
gas but besides this, the product has a
market value of $3.50; all Of which is OBJ
tanned at a cost of wood and labor Of $40.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

A WOMAN ALL NIGHT IN THE SNow.-
Heroism shrewdness and smartness are
well illustrated by the following incident,
narrated by the Lewiston (Me.) Journal;
In the great snow storm of Tuesday, Feb.
18th, Mrs Nathaniel Moody, who lives on
the westerly side of Taylor Pond in Au-
burn, started from this city to go home, in
a pung with horse attached. She had in
her arms child of years Of age. She
drove on till she reached the pond, taking
a short cut homeward across the pond on
the ice. She had not got far on the pond
before she discovered that she had lost the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25
Repairing.

Our facilities for REPAIRING Watches Clocks, Jew
ery and Fancy Articles are second to We guar
antee work to be done promptly and satisfactorily
We are General Agents for the
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At Savannah awaiting transportation pur-
posed to avoid Sherman, were about 1000
prisoners crowded into box (frcght) cars,
and few plying citizens were throwing
bread and tobacco into the cars. Among
others a colorod woman distributed bask-
ct Of bread passing from car TO car, and as
the last loaf left her hands she was roughly
seized by police officer and dragged tow
ards the station-house, followed by the hiss
es and groans Of every prisoner who wit
messed il. ANDERsoNvlLLIAN
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September I'D.

To-day the rations issued consisted of
shelled corn. Many of the prisoners, in the
intensity Of their hunger sat down TO crush
with their teeth what they could, and swal-
lowed the remainder whole, as issued. 9th
ers, who could wait long enough, roasted
or parched it in the ashes. At this time
"Cornfed" could have been appropriately
applied to the prisoners as well as to those
who guarded them. Tho well, sick and
dying received alike the same fare.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-03-25

neglected cold and consequent cough, which the
timely use Of some proper and safe remedy might
heve aud cure, when allowed TO continue result in
obstinate disease Of the lungs which battles the aid Of
human skill
WEEKS MAGIC COMPOUND has been submitted
to the Heyeres tests in the twelve years Of its exist
ence and has for itself the high esteem In which
II ia held for the Of diseases Of the throat and
lungs 1t Possesses special virtue in the Of
colds, common at this season. No other remedy
equals 1t for all such II truly acts like magic
thousands in Vermont and New Hampshire testify.
VIM. JOSLYN SONS Barton Vt, Proprietors.
GEO. @. GOODWIN co. and BURR PERRY,
Boston, General Agents
Sold by all druggists. 3m9
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THE BEST FAMILY SEWING MACHINE EVER
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IT TOOK THREE GOLD MEDALS in 1868 AND
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