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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
THE sHTTRSBERI. .nURDE1.

The murder of Calvin Carter at Shutes-
bury, Mass, on Sunday, the nth inst. by
Joseph White, was most shocking
ana cold blooded affair. 1t appears that a
gfudge had existed between them a long
llihe' ana on Sunday they were together at
the house of Reuben Bacon. where they
apparently made up the score and shook
hahds over it, This was in the evening
ana White afterwards left the house In
about half an hour he came back caIIod
out carter and told him he was going IN
shoot MN. Carter said "You won't shoot
me- White damned him, and as he came
Wlthln SIX feet raised his gun to his shoulder
carter sprang toward him TO turn away the
gun, put received the whole charge through
inc pody' Carter lived only few minutes
after being shot. He was 80 wears old and
leaves wife and seven children. four of
"hom are quite young. White is about so
years Old, and cousin TO Carter. His wife
deserted him about twenty wears 400 IN
account of his ugly disposition, and since
That time he has lived alone, spending most
Oh MS time in hunting and fishing White
was undoubtedly drunk at the time he
hred the fatal shot, but when told that Car
Ter was dead, declared with an oath that he
intended to kill him, and was glad that he
succeeued' White was arrested at Shutes
bury on Wednesday and placed in Green
held Jail. At the examination ON Satur-
day before Justice Davis, he was committed
to Jail to await trial before the Grand Jury
at the August term Of the Superior Court,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

CROPS AT THE SoUTHwEsT.-The Trib-
une prints letter from Mr.. Greeley dated
ut New Orleans, in which he says his OBJ
servations have tended to dissipate the i'm
preston of promised abundance in South
ern crops. Briefly, the growing wheat in
the South looks badly while cotton and
corn are very backward and not likely to
reach an average yield. Soon after cross
ing the Ohio the growing wheat began TO
look yellow and sickly; complaints of rust
were frequent, and, AS we came through
southern Tennessee into Mississippi, we
saw field after field that would be dear pur-
chase at five bushels per acre, even If they
be found worth harvesting. They tell me
that cotton and corn were never before so
backward al this season. In the absence
of drainage much seed has rotted in the
ground, while the sDdden condition of the
soil has rendered working that which has
come up and replanting that which has
failed alike difhcult and often impossible,
You can barely see the rows of corn Ia
most of the fields We passed you oftener
cannot see at all the rows of cotton. 1 did
not note a Sinele field oil cotton that |
judged three inches high"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
EDJy.gRD III. RTLOFF.
THE SAD TERMINATION OF a TERRIBLE CA.
REER,

The execution OF Edward II. Rulofl at
Binghampton, n. y, on Thursday, May
18th, for the murder Of Frederick A. Mer-
rick on the 18th of August, 1870, brought
TO its close n career which has few parallels
in the annals Of crime. From the New
York Tribune of Friday last we CLEAN
some Of the more striking features of his
life.
lie was born in 1919 at Hammond River,
in New Brunswick. His parents were
Germans, who were respected in the COM
munity where they resided. During his
youth he was only remarkable for pas
sion for desu1tory reading; but II does not
appear that at this time Of life he acquired
any special branches of knowledge in this
way, or hat any were taught him. As he
grew older, however, he achieved a local
celebrity for the variety of accomplish
ments which he developed.
The lad studied pharmacy in drug
shop at st. Johns but the misfortune of
his employer obliged both 10 relinauish
that business, and Rulon turned his alten-
lion 10 the study of law, with somewhat
noted Canadian barrister, Duncan Robert
son. With an almost incredible rapidity
lac mastered the details of common law,
and qualified himself for the highest
practice at the Canadian bar. In the be-
ginning of his success Ruloif gave the first
indication of his lack of moral restraint.
With all things possible TO him, having the
most brilliant prospects before him, he de-
libertely turned aside to do the meanest
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

\ san Francisco dispatch says papers
were drawn up in that city last week, Sc
curing the most extensive and powerful
railroad combination ever attempted in the
world. II includes the Pennsylvania Cen
trail and connections from the sea board to
the Union Pacific terminus at Ogden, Utah,
and on this side the California Pacific, not
the Central Pacific but the Vallejo opposi-
lion line, which will be extended north to
Goose Lake, Oregon, and connecting with
the Oregon railroad TO Portland, possibly
also to Puget Sound, thence TO Christmas
Lakes, thence eastward along the south
side Of the Snake river in southern Idaho
toa point in connection with the Union
Pacific, eastward of Ogden. This route
will avoid the heavy grade across the Sier-
ia Nevada, and complete a continuous line
from the Atlantic To the Pacific. II will be
constructed Immediately, all the capital
having been secured in Europe for the en-
Tire work, No subsidies will be asked.
and the work will be commenced within
two months, with all the force which can
he placed on the line.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

THE New MoToR.-The movements of
cars by compressed air upon city RAILWAYS,
both those of the present construction and
the elevated roads soon to be built, is to
have presently thorough demonstration.
Cars are now building to carry fifty per
sons, driven by compressed air carried In
iron cylinders beneath the floor. They are
designed to run five miles upon the sup
ply OF air carried In the cylinder. The ex-
haust of air is effected, without noise. The
air is designed to be compressed to 40 times
the density of the earth's atmosphere.
The resulting expansion, conducted nv
suitable devices to the running gear of The
ears, supplies sufficient power for speed
with heavy loads and power for up grades.
This invention will be applied to street
cars in this city, il is expected within nine
ty days. Mr.. Horace II. Day has charge of
the arrangements, under various patents
from the United States. Mr.. Mcdonough
c. f., whose father, Commodore Medic.
nough, drove a considerable business one
hot day ON Lake Champlain, years ago, is
one of the engineers employed in the pres
ent work.-N Y, Stakeholder.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
.uisoefFansoNs Ifes,s.

Two American ladies have Just made a
7OO0mile sledge trip across Siberia.
TELL me- angelic hosts We messengers
of love, shall swindled printers here be-
low have no redress above2" The shining
angel band replied, "To us is knowledge
given; deinquents on the printers books
can never enter Heaven"
"A new and strange animal known as
the potato mole, from causing considera-
BILE destruction to that vegetable, has made
its appearance in Indiana. 1t is about two
inches long, and shaped like silk worm,
with hard shell, a beak the thickness of a
knitting needle, which bends under its
body, and tail composed of joints and
sharp at the point.
"A good joke Is told of little four
year old fellow who, having disobeyed his
father, was about to incur the penalty-a
switching The father deliberately pre-
pared rod while his son stood a sad and
silent spectator. As the parent approached
to.the unpleasant duty, the boy started at
brisk run toward neighboring hill. The
father pursued, and for time the young
ster increased the distance between them (,
but gradually his strength began to fail,
and when he reached the hill and began to
ascend he soon lost his vantage ground.
Nearer and nearer the irate father APP
preached, and just as he reached the top of
the hill, and was within arms length of
the little fugitive, who was ready to fall
from exhaustion, the boy quickly faced a.
bout, dropped upon the ground, aud with
an Understandable cast OF oountenan0e OK,
claimed; Papa, that-makes u fellow
blow-don't itf" This "changlng Of the
subject was so extremely ludcrous that
tho father laughed heartily over the strategy
which his hopeful son exhibited, and the
rod was not used
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
.fNI.u.sLs .srD TIE E.sCULTI.

So many facts have been recorded i'm va
rious works showing that animals possess
some degree of reason, that l will here
give only two or three instances, authenti-
Gated by Rengger, and relating to Ameri-
can monkeys, which stand low in their or
der. He states that when he first gave
eggs to his monkeys they smashed them
and thus lost much of their contents; af-
terward they gently hit one end against
so Inc hard body, and picked off the bits of
shell with their fingers. After cutting
themselves only once with any sharp tool
they would not touch ii again, or would
handle it with the greatest care. Lumps of
sugar were often given them wrapped up :.
paper, and Rengger sometimes put a live
wasp in the paper, so that in hastily uh-
folding 1t they got stung; AFTER this hsd
once happened they always first beld the
packet to their ears to detect any move
ment within. Any one who is not con-
WINGED by such facts as these, and what he
may observe with his own dogs, that ami
mails can reason, would not be convinced
by anything that could add. Neverthe-
less l will give one case with respect TO
dogs, as it rests on two distinct observers.
and can hardly depend on the modification
of any instinct Mr.. Colquhoun winged
two ducks, which fell on the opposite side
of he stream; his retriever tried to bring
over both at once, but could not succeed !;
she then, though never before known to
ruffle feather, deliberately killed one,
brought over the other, and returned for
the dead bird. Colonel Hutchinson re-
lates that two partridges were shot Mt once,
one being killed, the other wounded the
latter ran away and was caught by the re-
triever, who on her return came across the
the dead bird; "she stopped, evidently
greatly puzzled, and after one or two trials,
fin din g she could not take it up without
permitting the escape of the winged bird,
she considered moment then deliberate
ly murdered it by giving it severe
crunch, and aiterward brought both away
ogether. This was the only known in
stance of her ever having wlfully injured
any game" Here we have reason, though
not quite perfect, for the retriever might
have brought the wounded bird first, and
then returned for the dead one, as in the
case of the two wild ducks. The mulet-
GERS in South America say, 81 will give
you the mule whose step is easiest, but Ia
mas rdcionai, the one that reasons best;
and Humboldt adds, 'this popular expres-
sion, dictated by long experience. combats
the system of animated machines better,
perhaps, than all the arguments of specula-
tive philosophy. Tile Descent Of Nan, By
q. Dd11Cin.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

the deposits in South America. The whole
daily product of crude petroleum cannot
be far from $4,000 barrels, OF 40 gallons
each. Some of the wells have produced
enormously, even over 1000 barrels per
day. The oil is sold as low as 20 cents a
barrel, and as high as $40. tits transport
ed to the railroad in pipes laid under
ground, and put into guaged tanks 10 gal
Ions is barrel. In the carly days IL was
iloated down Oil creek and It's tributaries
In flat boats. The custom was TO pond M
the water, and when all the boats were
ready, cut away the dams, thus floating
them on the freshct TO the mouth of OH
creek. As may be imagined, there were
frequent accidents and tie widest excite
ment. As much as $4,000 barrels OF petro-
leum have been known To be thrown ont
Of the waters of the creeks and rivers from
the bursting barrels and crushed up flats
in Gam" AgricuIt,uist
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

The following is copied from the New
York Tribune, May II, 1871 :-"Our CORE
spondonts have been so long in the disturb
ed districts of the South, that we can form
from their letters a distinct idea of the state
of society in that unfortunate part Of the
MON. 1t is melancholy picture that they
draw for MS. The most intelligent, the in
huential, the educated, the really useful
men of the South, deprived of all political
power have come to look upon themselves
as the outraged subjects of despotic con-
queror. Taxed and swinded by horde
of Iascally foreign adventures, and by the
Ignorant class, which only yesterday hood
the fields and served in the kitchen, they
care nothing for politics except to throw
OH the oppressors' yollei they have no in
to'eSt in national affairs they would call
themselves of either party, provided their
rulers were only Of the other. The refuse
of Northern cities, who went southwark
after the war out-at-elbows and destitute
Of character and education, now roll in
splendid carriages, drink rare wines. gilt
Ter with diamonds and steal taxes. 1t is
no wonder that the impoverished planter,
growing poorer every day, the ex-Confed-
crate officer who fought so bravely for
cause in which he honestly believed the
professional men, accustomed all their
lives to hold Office and lead the public mt
iment of their communities, look on these
things with rancorous hearts. They might
submit to be ruled by soldiers who had
beaten them in battle; but here they are
plundered by suffers and camp-iollowers.
We have often warned our party in Con-
gress of the inevitable result of the yindic-
tive method of Reconstruction. We have
told them, and we tell them again, that
there is only one way to restore the Union
Universal Amnesty and Impartial Suf-
frapen
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

At the annual meeting of the Baptist
Historical Society, of Chicago, ILL.,, on
Thursday, Rev. Or. Bailey, of that city,
read n paper reviewing the condition ofthe
denomination In England, Ireland and
Wales. In these countries there are 256S
churches. with an aggregate congregation
Of $1,000, and churches are being erected
at the rate of one every three days. In
sweden there are 2s3 churches with a con-
uregaton of s2,4S2. In Rome, one church
already exists. Baptist churches also ex-
list in Denmark, Switzerland, Holland and
Russia. In this country there are l7,4i5
Baptist churches, and the church member
ship averages one to every tweuiy-seven
inhabitants.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

Hon. Caleb Gushing is out in an elabo-
rate article strongly lavoring the new
treaty of Washington. He rejoices in the
conclusion of treaty which is satsfacto-
~ to the honor and conducive to the inter-
es.S of the United States" If ratified, it
history of the two nations be the harbin
ger of long, almost perpetual peace be-
tween the two great English speaking ma
tons be suspicious of long career of
prosperity, ms well to the United States as
to Great Britain and 1t will serve az an
example of self-command amid grave in
;ernational complications, and a standard
Of dignified and elevated negation for Eu-
rope and America"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
FLOUR.

There are eleven Touring mills at Nee
nah and four at Menasha. Messrs Clement
* stevens run four sets Of stones, and can
make 200 barrels of flour daily-that is, in
"a hours. In 1869 they made Il 600 barrels.
The capacity of all the mills in this place
cannot be less than 600, 600 barrels annually.
During the war this amount was perhaps
reached, but it has not been since. The
wheat crop of Wisconsin for two years past
has been very light. The mills cannot
therefore be supplied. This is the dull sea-
son of the year in flour, and but little is
now done in it. The Neenah mills draw
their stock from Fond du Lac county and
the country west of this.
The Touring machinery o: the firm nam
ed above is very perfect, especially that for
clearing the wheat of foreign substances
oats, cookie, sand, and even the imperfect
kernels of wheat are carefully silIed out.
Nothing but solid, healthy wheat goes into
their best barrels, They are also brushing
by cunning machine, all the bran they
Misunderstanding Off the flour that adheres
to it,-by which process they get some two
or three bushels of good -four from every
ton of bran. So small is the margin of
profit in milling -four now, that the ut
most economy is necessary to make the
business pay.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

joel Lyman of this place had narrow
escape from death on Thursday, the lltb
INST, while driving through the village.
His horse, which was pretty high spirited,
became unmanageable, and backed direct
~ of the bank Of tho stream, which is
mere some 30 or 40 feet high, falling
upon the rocks below. BY great presence
OF mind, Mr.. Lyman sprang from the
wagon Just IN time to save himself. The
horse lived but short time and the wagon
was Of course utterly demolished.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
The YELLOW FEVER IN BuENos Avn

The YELLOW FEVER IN BuENos AyRgs
Letters ffom Montovideo to April IL, ia
the New York Herald, paint terrible pic
ture of the ravages of the plague in Buenos
Ayres. Up to that date the deaths had
been fully 1900, and about 100, 900 citizens
had fed the infested spot, some to up-the-
river towns, some to Monlevideo, but most
to the fields, where many aristocratic fam
lilies are glad 10 pay enormous rents for
the mud walls and straw roofs of gduchO
huts. new cemetery, to receive the fe-
Yer victims, has been opened IN the campo
south of the city, toward the Riachuela-
the old pantheons being inadequate. A
train railroad has also been laid from the
city to this new metropolis, and the bodies
are carried out on the trucks like so much
packed freight. There is no time to con-
struct collins or burial cases. The stock
on hand was long since exhausted, and the
undertakes have in some instances He'd
from the terrible harvest of business that
has sprung up. The blame for the terrible
visitation is clearly traceable to the neglect
for 200 years of the plainest rules of health.
The city has no drainage, and all filth has
been buried in cesspools under the houses,
the mouths of which are closed when they
are full, and new ones dug. The whole
city is honeycombed with these plague
breeders, and their removal would be i'm
possible. The desperate remedies of burn
ing the city and of removing it to new
site are talked of, but of course, neither
will be adopted.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

The following is n list of the teachers
In @uiiford, the present term District No.
!, Emma NJ. Chase, Guilford; 2. Jennie
NJ. Tan, Montague, Mass. 3, Bell Rudd,
Guiliord 4, Mary S. Gallup, Halifax; ..
Alice l. Wellman, Guillord; 6, Eva Stowe,
Dover; :, no school <, Clara Tolman.
Marlboro, n. H.. 0, Bercia Moore, Bern
ardston, Mass. 10, Mary Jones, Guilford :;
H. Clara johnson, Brattleboro; II, Hattie
f. Barney, Guilford; 10, lisa Marble, Gill.
Mass; IA, Annis +. Henry, Guilford.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
10! THE POOR INDIAN.

Some dozen Indians, including women
and children, were in town last week. They
were Menomonees from Wapun, in Fond
du Lac county, and were on their way, with
the approach of summer, to the north. In
physique, facial expression, and in customs
they cannot differ much from the aborigi-
mes the Jesuit fathers found here two CEN
turtles and half ago. In dress there is no
attempt, as with the negro, to initiate the
white. That of the women is primitive,
simply a gown and blanket, the latter
thrown over the shoulders, answering also
for hood or bonnet. Tho men use our
woolleps for clothing, but cut them after
the style of their fathers. \ little boy of
five years was sporting his culver, after the
manner Of his seniors, as well as his bow
and arrows. One woInan's ears were each
perforated several times, and In each was Il
number of coarse rings. The ''dusky" In
dian is dirty as well. The woman whose
ears were decorated so highly had been in
accent of soap and water probably for
twelve month, and her pappoose looked rs
IL he had never known water as n cleaning
agent. The whlskey appetite rules all of
them, males and females, and drunk is a
usual sequence of their visit to one of our
villages. 1t Is perhaps well that these chill
dren of the forest are disappearing with the
forests. They are indigenous, but still
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
TUBS AND PALS.

1t may interest the older readers of the
PHOENIX to learn that Mr.. l. ID. Smith, a
former resident of Brattleboro in company
with Mr.. Morey, is doing large business
in the manufacture of a variety of wooden
wares. Mr. smith came to Menasha over
twenty years ago, and has seen the town
grow from infancy TO its present proper
tons, and to its prosperity he has contrib
uted no little share. Messrs Morey & Smith
are making yearly 5000 pals, 10, 900 wash
tubs, 1900 churns, $4,000 measures, 20, 900
keelers, $1,000 fish kits, 5000 butter tubs,
5000 sugar buckets, 100000 broom-han-
dies, aud 10000 boxes of clothes pins. In
this work they use between four and five
million feet Of lumber, mostly pine, and
l2O tons of hoop iron and 20 tons of wire.
Their business is so extensive that they sell
their goods at their own house in Chicago.
Their wares | saw are of superior make
and finish.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

"A cat owned in Rochester, N, H., now
IN her I'D year. has this spring given birth
to her fortieth litter of kittens
-lll-natured acquaintance of certain
hoston militia officer assert that his sword
was never drawn but onee-and then Ia a
rattle. Wv" +"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26
To .FDI'BR TEsERS.

THE VERMONT PHOENIX HAS LARGER CIR.
cULATIoN THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IN
SOUTHERN VERMONT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

Next Tuesday, May 3Oth, Is the day APP
propriately set apart by the Grand Army
OF the Republic on which to pay special
tribute to those of their comrades who sac
rlGced their lives in the cause of their coun-
try during the war of the rebellion; and the
peculiar fitness of the tribute, no less than
the memories which hover over the graves
of our departed heroes, have served to rem
der the occasion one of almost national rec
ignition. Should the weather on the COM
ing anniversary prove favorable, we doubt
not the services will be generally attended
by our citizens. Col. G. IL. Joyce of Rut-
land will deliver the Grafton at this place.
The program, as arranged by the officers of
the Grand Army, is as follows:-Qrder of
procession-Marshal with aids, music:
Brattleboro band, thirty-seyen young la
dies representing the States knights Tenn
par, Post Sedgwlck, No. &, @. A. r.,
speakers and committee of arrangements,
Wantastiquet Lodge, No ., l. o. o. r., CO.
lumbar Lodge, No. 30, +. Il A, NJ, Sun
day schools The procession will form in
Main street, with right resting on High
street, ready To move at 2 o'clock p. NJ, pre-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-04-01

John Adams, the second Presi-
dent of the United States, was a
practical business man and a
careful husbander OF time. The
following entry appears in his di.
AIRY, recently publisIied.-
"Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Monday, all spent in absolute idle
ness, or, which is Worse, gallant.
ing girls"