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LIT ri BE REMEMBERED.
first of ALL that HOOFLAND'S GERMA.
BI1vTERS is not a rum beverage

hrst OF all, That HOOFLANDS GEKNAN
BITTERS Is not rum beverage.
They are not alcoholic in any sense Of the
term, They are composed wholly OF the pure
juice or vital principle Of roots. This Is not
mere assertion. The extracts from which
they are compounded are prepared by one oil
the ablest of German chemists. Unlike any
other Bitters in the market, they are wholly
free from spirituous ingredients. The objec.
ton which hold with SO much force against
preparations of this class, nameiy-that de.
sire for intoxicating drinks Is stimulated by
their use, are not valid In the case Of the Ger.
man Bitters. So far from encouraging or In.
cnlcating taste or desire for inebriating
beverages, IL may he confidently asserted that
their tendency Is in a Numerically opposite
directiol. Their effect can be
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-18
.N'RuV'SP.EPBR GOSSIP.

The journal OF Commerce is valued at
100000.
The Daily and Weekly News arc valued
at $500, 900.
The Evening Telegram is valued at $500
0O0 and is not for sale.
The Tribune is valued r. S2,OO0,O 900, and
could not be purchased for that amount.
Tho New York sun is valued at 81 l,5OO,-
600, and pays per cent on larger amount.
Tho New York Times is valued at ST.
500, 900. 81 100000 has been offered for it and
refused
The New York Star, Mr.. Joseph How
ards paper, is valued at $500, 900, but il not
for sale.
The Commercial Advertiser is valued at
S250, 200, but it would take larger sum TO
purchase it,
The New York standard is valued at 3d.
900, and has won success. The Bowen- are
interested in it.
The Evening Mail was valued by John J.
Cisco and two other referees, some months
since, at 81, ,250,OOO
The New York Herald is valued at S5,-
600, 900, and is owned by Com. James Cor
don Bennett, Jr., having been presented to
him by his father.
The New York World is valued at ST.
200, 900. Moro capital was sunk to make it
than any other newspaper over started in
this or any other country; but "pluck"
won.-Americdn Society.
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n PROSE POEM.

The following poem from the San Fran
cisco Golden Era, is not only Homeric in
style, but complete in itself, for il ends with
a total annhilation Of the combatanls:
On a pine woodshed, in a dark alley,
where scattered moonbeams, shifting thro
a row Of tottering chimneys, and awnings
torn and dropping fell, strodc back and
forth, with stiff and tense drawn muscles
and peculiar tread, cat.
His name was Norval; on yondcr neigh
boring shed his father caught the rats that
came in squads from the streets beyond Du-
pont, in search Of food and strange adven-
ture.
Grim war he courted, and his twisted tail,
and spine upheaying in fantastic curves,
and claws distonded and fatly pressed
against head thrown back, defantly told
Of impending strife.
with eyes agrim and scrceching blasts of
war, and steps as silent as the falling dew,
young Noryal crept along the splintored
edge, and razed moment through the
darkness down, with tail awag triumph.
antly.
Then, with an imprecation and a growl-
perhaps an oath in direst vengence hssed-
he started back, and like letter S. or rath-
er like Z, inverted, stood in fierce expec-
fancy.
Twas well. With eyeballs glaring and
ears aslant, and open mouth, in which two
rows of iangs stood forth in sharp and
dreadful conformity, sly up post from out
the dark below a head appeared.
4 dreadful tocsin of Internal strife young
Norval uttered and then with face un-
blanched and moustache standing straight
before his nose, and tail slung widely to the
passing breeze, stepped back in cautions in
vitation.
Approaching each other, and with prcpa-
rations dire, each cat surveyed the vantage
of the field. Around they walked with
tails uplifted and backs high in the air,
while from mouths ia accents Kissing with
consuming rage dropped brief hut awful
sentences of hate.
Twice around the roof they went in cir
Gle each eye upon the foe iutently bcut,
then sideways moving, rs is wont with cats.
gave one long drawn. terrific. savage yeow,
and buckled in.
The fur; mist of hair hung over the
battlefield. High above the din Of passing
wagons rose the tumult Of the struggling
cats. So cleaned their eyes in frenzy that
to me, who saw the conflict from the win
dow near, nought else was plain but glory
stars that moved in orbs most eccentric.
An hour they struggled in tempestuous
fight, when faint and fainter grew the squat
Of war, until the sound was hushed Then
went forth with lantern and the field sur
veyod-what saw I?
six claws, one ear; of teeth perhaps
handful; naught else, except n solitary tail.
That tail was Norval's; by ring knew
it. The ear was-but well let the matter
pass. The tail will do without the ear.
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E.V,S.T.vITI' THE RRSTLT OF n
PHx-SIC.SL DISEASE.

DR.. John p. Gray, superintendent OF the
New York State lunatc asplum, in a paper
read before the medical society of the state
of New York, at its annual meeting in Feb
ruary, lS7l, takes positive ground that in
sanity is in general the result of physical
disease. No one can dispute the authorita-
tive character of this proposition, coming
as it does from man of such learning and
vast experience as Dir. Gray, and though it
conflicts with old superstitons, as well as
many modern theories, it is worthy of most
careful consideration. DIR. Gray expresses
the opinion that very large proportion of
those sent to the Asylum too late for sue
ceSsful treat ment, might be saved from the
dreadful doom of insanity for life were the
faculty in general to accept his proposition
as fundamental, and iamiliarizc themselves
with the pathology aud treatment of those
morbid conditions leading to insanity. Re-
ligious anxiety, jealousy, fear, and the en-
tire catalogue of So-called moral causes
would never shake the mind 50 lar as to
deprive it of reason. were the body healthy.
II is true that these moral causes may react
as disturbing forces upon the functions of
the body; may produce parchcd tongues,
loss ., appetite, sleeplessness. and many
other Ills which, in their turn, react upon
the mind; but what we understand from
DR.. G1y's exposition is this: that until the
body So far yields as to become diseased
tho reason will retain its seat. Persons
who are in state Of great mental de-
preston, unduly excited by the passions of
Jealousy, HNarcc, or revenge, ETC., are so
because their physical condition renders
these deprcssiouS and oxcitements possible
Veal know how speedily eNuberant health
rises superior to sorrow, and the burden of
business anXieteS, and we venture to say
that no one ever saw profound melancholy
coupled with a splendidap our bod
les are of little value, unless us covering
for that higher indehnable something, of
which ", are all conscious, and by which
we all identity ourselves; The mind the
soul, or whatever we may call il, which
wills aud rules, or should rule, over the
flesh, at the same time that il is dependent
upon, and to some extent IN ruled by, the
flesh. The king is greater than the palace,
yet the palace confines, and in n certain de-
gree, controls the king. So the mind, which
ruleth the body, is in certain sense sub
iect to the body. Nothing seems to us so
encouraging in the tendencies of the times
as the gradual growth in the belief that
bodily health underlies mental and moral
sanity; not that bodily well man may not
be mentally corrupt man; but that no
man can be both mentally and morally
sound and strong who is in poor bodily
health. The sick man is irritable, impa-
tient, depressed in spirits. There will al
ways be found some moral or mental indi-
cation of his bodily ailing. The mental in
dication may vary from want OF normal
mental power to the widest maniacal raw
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-18

THE SILVER IsLANDo OF FLAKESUPERIoR
correspondent the Republican, who has
visited the famous Silver Island in Lake
superior, gives an interesting account there
of The island is a spur of rock about 20
feet square, of irregular surface, one-quar-
Ter of a mile from the north shore of the
lake, directly under the shadow of Thunder
Cape, on Canadian territory, % miles east
of Fort William. The silver was first dis.
covered in 1865, by the engineer of the
Montreal Mining Co., whose attention was
attracted 10y rich vein Of silver under the
water, as he was passing close by the rock
in a boat. Tho island was for long time
the property of the Montreal Co.. the stock
holders of which, having lost large sums
in mining enterprises, We're unwilling TO
provide the funds for working ii. Under
these circumstances the company sold lU7,-
900 acres of land including Silver Island,
to some American capitalists for s235, 600, of
which sl50,00 was paid at the time of pur-
chase. \ company was then formed which
expended 81, 600, 600 in erecting Golfer dams,
wharves, and furnishing the paraphernalia
needed in mining operations. 1t is called
the Silver Islet Mining Co., and of its 1000
shares l.. h. Ward of Detroit, the President,
owns 3S4, Edward Larned of Pittstield,
Mass, the Treasurer, $50, A. II. Sibley of
New York, the Superintendent, 100 for him
self and l54 in trust for other parties, Civ
ing these three gentlemen the control Of the
property. The company began operations
in 1869, but did little till the spring of 1870,
when the island was inclosed with a Golfer
dam, TO protect mining operations. These
were begun in September of that year, and
in % days ore was extracted which yielded
$4,000 worth of silver. The product of
the first years work, ending Sept. !, 1871,
will, it is estimated, be more than 81 ,OOO, 900.
The mine is as yet only 90 feet deep, but
explorations made lead the owners to be-
lioye that the vein, which is from 8 to l2
feet in width, extends to the mainland, and
thence forward indefinitely. The rock in
which the ore is found partakes largely of
the nature of carbonate of lime, and is ca
silly reduced.
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CO.vDE.v'SED HgSTORy. Of
STB.f.n.

About go years Il. C., Hero OF Aexan-
dria formed a toy which exhibited some Of
the powers Of steam. and was moved by its
power.
a. u. 400, Anthemius, an architect. ar
ranged several caldrons Of water, each COW
cred with the wide hottom Of leather tube,
which rose to a narrow top, which pipes e1-
tended to the ralters of the adjoining build
ing. \ fire was kindled beneath the cal
drons, and the house was shaken by efforts
Of the steam ascending the tubes. This in
the first notice of the power of stean. rec
ordcd.
In l-4J, June II, Blasco ID. Garoy tried
steamboat Of POO tons with tolerable success
at Barcelona, Spain. 1t consisted of cal
drou ot boiling water, and movable wheel
on each side of the ship. 1t was laid aside
rs impracticabe. \ present, however, was
made to Garoy.
In 1870 the first railroad was constructed
at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The first idea of steam engine in Eng
land was in the famous Marquis of Worces-
tor'S "History of Inventions" \. ID. 1868.
In l7l0, Newcomer made the first steam
engine in England.
In l7ls, patents were granted TO Savoy
for the first application of the steam-en-
ginc.
In 1914, James Watt made the first perfect
stcam-engine in England
In 1886, Jonathan Hulls set forth the idea
of steam navigation.
In l77s, Thomas Paine first proposed this
aDplisation in America
In 1881, Marquis Jouffrov constructed one
in Saone.
In l7S5 two Americans published work
on it.
In 1859, William Tymington made a voy-
age in one on the Forth and Clyde canal
In 1902 this experiment was repeated.
In 1872, Ramsey propelled boat bv steam
to New York.
In l7sS, John Fitch, of Philadelphia, nav
gated boat by a steam-engine on the Del
aware.
In 1893, Robert Fulton first began to sp-
ply his attention to steam
In l793, Oliver Evans, a native of Phila-
delphia, constructed locomotive steam
engine to travel on turnpike road.
The first steam vessel that crossed the
Atlantic was the Savannah, in the month of
June, lSla, from Charleston to Liverpool.
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cision, and dwell in peace and harmony to-
gether. For her sake you will not object
60 come here, one by one, and take an oath
which / shall dictate. 1t is that you rcitcr-
ate your promise with hand on this sac-
rud book.
We advanced and received il as solomnly
as though it was to be the last of our lives.
Theu he told us that Miss Browning was
very much attached to us all, but of course
could not marry but one, and we must
bear our disappointment like men.
She went and stood beside him. I
thought she would faint, but she did not.
We all arose when the minister said, Let
us pray When he was part through, the
Judge sat down, completely overcome by
bis feelings. 1 am free TO say that this was
the longest prayer ! ever heard. It the
minister had been suspended between
heaven and the other place, as VIC were, he
would have made fewer words, I am sure.
when it was over he said Il am hero
70 solemnizc a marriage between Catharine
j. browning (he must have felt an inward
cl Jelslc over the tortu re he was inflictng,
FOR We paused, WELL may be only min
~, but it seemed an houV), and Jomoa 4.
Woodruff. If any of you know cause or
just impediment why these two persons
should not be joined in holy matrimony
you arc 10 declare it now, or else forever
hold your peace
Jim had not stirred step. The minis
ter look his hand and placed him beside
the bride. He walked up then, and guess
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NO. 33.
PRBT'B.rTIOyv ~. CURE.


Sir Ashley Cooper, Magendie, DIR. o. w.
Holmes, and Dr. A. l.. Carroll, Of the Med
zeal Gazette, are among those physicians
who have testified that after thousands of
years Of effort almost nothing has been set
Tied as to means Of curing disease. Yet
the labors of the medical profession have
been in the highest degree useful. In
seeking to cure they have learned very
much Of the causes and conditions Of ILL
ness, and have gathered q vast mass of
knowledge Of Divine laws, the spread Of
which has worked wonders in removing
inc roots of misery, and enabling mankind
to lead happy, because healthy lives. The
Almghty's penalty for violating his laws
seems unavoidable, despite human skill.
All that can commonly be done is to ward
OIL the worst results by a tardy conformity
to those laws. Thus again appears the
truth Of the homely saying, that "An ounce
ofpreyention is worth pound of cure"
But is there not in these facts a grander
significance? DO they not teach a deeper
lesson? All through the recorded past,
society has been blessed with self-styled
doctors, who have in every age sought and
offered to cure its various evils by aid OF
their vaunted skill-almost always in con-
sideration Of fees of some kind, proper
tion to their talent, more frequently in pro-
portion to the ability Of the patient to pay.
Their nostrums, always consisting of sun.
dry efforts to force nature from her course,
have uniformly failed, aud have reacted to
harm the patient and destroy the physi-
clans reputation. 1t seems as true Of COM
munities as Of persons, that disease once
incurred can rarely be cured, but can only
be alleviated and outgrown by returning
TO the observance Of those natural Ohat is,
Divine) laws, disobeving which has made
tho trouble.
But in the effort to cure, mass of knowl-
edge has been gathered These natural
laws, as far as yet learned, and just as fast
as they shall become known and oheved,
will advance social prosperity.
Yet in medicine there have always been
a few who, seeing the futiltv of most Elf
orts ri cure, have given the greater part of
their time to compiling the experience Of
thousands, and from such compilation dis
covering such laws, and making them
known. These are the men who have
helped mankind most. \ thousand times
more helpful have they hecn who have
shown how to keep health, than they who
have toiled to restore it. The same is true
of society. While sentimental charities
and violent reformers have sought To- cure
society, economists have sought to learu
aud point out the causc of'tII our ills. one
class has thoughtlcssly taken its own wis
dom for granted, and laborcd TO compel
society to follow its views the other has
modestly tried to find out what the world
is, and to live accordingly. The few who
have operated by this latter method have
done more.for humanity than all who have
followed the more common mode.-lfer-
cdDtic JoUIp0l.
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CHARLES DYKE, who recently died, at
the age OF So years, in New York state, wss
the engineer of Fulton's little trial steamer
the Claremout, when she made her first
trip from New York to Albany on the 7th
of August, 1907. What immense aud Won
derful changes this gentleman saw, in the
"a years of his life, after that day. lie lived
to see orr rivers covered with steamers he
may have read the words of L.ardner, who
offered if a steamship should safely cross
the Atlantic, to eat her boilers aud he saw
a daily steam ferry established across the
ocean. He was man almost ia middle
life when the first railroad was laid, and the
first locomotive run over ii, in the United
States and he lived to see railroad built
across the continent, and his fellow citizens
making pleasure tour of few enjoyable
days across the great desert which appalled,
Lewis and Clarke, and on which so many
thousands have perished, in later days, of
starvation. Having managed Fullon's first
rude steam engine, he lived to see great
war carried on by the help of steam, and
tives controlling its issues. He lived in
fact, to see steam, which he helped Fulton
to utilize, control and change our civiliza-
tion, annihilate distance, and bring the
ends of the earth together. How strangely
it reads to us, who have been so long accus-
toned TO the use of the wonderful inyen-
tion, that the first engineer of the first
steamboat has but just died.-N. y. Times.
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Tobacco tobacco thou beautiful thlngl
Tho charms Of thy loveliness gladly sing;
Whenever thou contest what Joy dost thou bring!
Thy presence can cheer like the coming Of spring.
What visions Of pleasure We sec in thy leaf
What power to drive from us all sorrow and grief
Thou curest diseases, and achings and rheums-
o, where is contentment II not in thy fumos2
Rye, corn and potatoes are nothing but food,
But thou, o, tobacco, art everything good;
Thy sweetness with honey would not compare,
Thy odors, how grateful, exquisite and rare!
For smoking and chewing and snufing there grows
No plant like tobacco, every one knows;
Thou art health to the body and peace to the mind,
o, glorious tobacco, thou friend to mankind!
Thou dealest thy favors to each and to all,
From the laboring serf to the lord In his hall;
The lawyers, the DOCTORS from near and from far,
And clergmcn, too use the quid and cigar.
The ladies' they praise thee and bow at thy shrine
And some love thee better, far better than wine;
Thou adorncst their mouths and noses with snuG,
To be stepped in tobacco is pleasure enough
We wonder the poets have not oftener sung
OF that sweetest Of morsels rod under the tongue;
De Quincy has told us how opium kills.
Who shall tell us how tobacco's delightsomeness
thrills?
Long, long may thy perfumes ascend to the skies
And long may tobacco plants gladden. our eyes
II bad luck should attend thee, may it neer come
about
That like poor freshman thou art fairly smoked out.
And now, all ye farmers, word Of ADVICE
Would ye furnish your houses with everything nice
wouli you help those dear women who labor and
pGnt7
Then give your broad acres to raising the plant.
None call it "yie weed" now that money is in it;
If you've not tried your luck yet, you'd better begin
it;
You may make your fortune, and when you are thro'
May leave TO some object million or two.
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ing. The sooner we recognize the fact that
sound public morals are inseparablo from
"sound minds in healthy bodies" the soon
er we shall be able to solve the problems Of
the prevention of insanity, crime and pau
perism. In this view Dr. Gray's paper IL
an important contribution to social science.
--Mcrcdnttie Journal.
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VOL. XXXVIII.

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Poetyy.
WRITTEN ron The VERMONT pHnNIx.
aHI.u.y TO THE TOB.sCCO
PLtf.rT.

THE following lines are respectfully dedicated to Gail
Putney, who, having taken mp the defense Of tobacco
in tho public prints has awakened in the mind Of the
writer desire to render assistance in noble work.
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One hundred millions of dollars in gold
are annually spent by Americans in Eu-
rope.
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AuRivAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
SOUTHERN MAILS.
Close. Open.
AN AZ P.M.
sew YarkanI Southern states, sI5 245 ii $50 5l5
albany and Western States, S:15 2A6 II $50 5:15
stations bet. Bratto N York, S:15 2a5 IL 80 5l6
Nshuelot R.R., 1916 2:46 516
sew London Northern R.R., 2a5 II 80
EASTERN MAILS.
Buston. Rhode Island, Eastern
Mass, Me. s. L. New Hamp., s:l5 las IL 80 515
and 2:45
Vt. N Mass. R.R., S:l5 1916 100
and 6:l5
; ston, Clinton FitehburgR R.R. 1I5 1900
NORTHERN MAILS.
termont, Western New Hamp-
shire Northern MY. 1918 JAj g:15 400
Oummcrston, W. Chesterfield
n. H., Putney, Cornton, Bel
lows Falls, ,CharlestOwn, Nh
Springfield, Caremont,N Nh,
windsor, Woodstock, North
hcld, Montpelier, Dethel,w.
June. towns on WestNt. R.R. 4;OO O;l5
Keene, n. H., lO;lo 2:4o 4:O0
STAGE MAILs. and 5l5
". BrIttlebOrn, lO:3p 1900 S45
fuwushend, Williamsville, Fay
cttcyille and Jamaica, 400 s3j
Wardsboro CLOSE Tu., Tn. Sat,
open Mon, Wed. Fri,,) 400 sa5
Ooyer, Tu., Th. 4 Sat, 400 SA5
Bennington way, 400 SAo
North Adams way, 400 S4S
chesterfield x G. Factory, Mon,
We'd. Fri, lAo s:4o
California, overland daily, 235 $40
Foreign mails close as I'm day previous to sailing OF
steamer from New York. Il. W. CLABKE, Z. NJ.
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DrauIeboro Post Omcc.

DrattIeboro Post Omcc.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, 1871.
May to Nov. l.
'en from 200 a, NJ. to p. NJ. Holidays from Sto
II $50 A. NJ. aud to 6 r. NJ.
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Busi,less @ards.

oregn mails close as I'm day previous to sailing Of
steamer from New York. Il. W. CLARKE, p. NJ.
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Drugs, Pa
Street, Pet
TIlt Nss wAIIy< E'U~
BY =. Il A. TEL. LINE.

OFFICE OF
PETROLEyN CENTRE DAILY RECORD
uf. 81. Dec 80 1871 {.
OTbs p.ttoleum market is quiet and dull
to-day. We quote At $500. We hear Of
10 sales.
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ARRIVAL AND DEtARTuRE OF
TRAINs:ON q. C.. = A. r. r.
On and after Sunday, nov. leth, 1871.
trains will run as follows:
NORTH 80. 6. NOS. NO. l.
Leave IRVINE. l2.l0rx. 6,l0Px
Leavs OIL City GOO \ =. c.43 Pm. 1928
Pet. Ger $50 " S,25 $40
g. Ti,usy, ITO 4,O7 1855 "
Arrive CORY, sos $40 lO,SO
oorrH. No. 2. NO. !. NO. 6.
Lesye CORY, 1885 A NJ. clio A 4. 800 P \
I" Ti.usv. l2,25P n. 7.SO " 1925 "
u p. Cen. 1925 u $50 L" $50 "
Arrive o. City 2,06 9,06 $40 "
".H Irvine. 4,46 Z" ll.60
tH No. 8 and G run on Sunday.